CORSE
CORSE
bishop Corrigan consented to reinstate Father
McGlynn and place him in charge of a parish.
Archbishop Corrigan's greatest work was the
■erection of parishes and schools and the intro-
duction of new religious communities. In 1891
it jostpn's 5tMfA(*nY,
he decided to build the Seminary of St. Joseph at
Dunwoodie, near Yonkers, N.Y., and from that|
time to September, 1896, when the seminary was
opened for the reception of students, he collected
over §700,000 for the erection of the building.
The sum was largely made up from contributions
from poor but zealous Catholics. He also donated
the sum of §100,000 from his own private for-
tune, for the construction of a chapel for the
seminary, and completed the spires of the grand
St. Patrick's cathedral, on 5th avenue, New York
city. In 1895 he applied to Rome for a coadjutor
M'hen the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Farley was appointed
assistant bishop of New York. In May, 1898, he
celebrated with great ceremony the twenty-fifth
anniversary of his consecration as a bishop. He
died in New York city, May 5, 1903.
CORSE, John Murray, soldier, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., April 27, 1835, while his father's family was en route to Burlington, Iowa, where they settled and where the son was educated.
He was graduated from the U.S. mili- tary academy in 1854 but did not enter the service. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1859 ; was the unsuc- cessful Democratic candidate for gov- ernor of Iowa in 1860, and in 1861 en- tered the Federal army as major of the 6th Iowa regiment. He served with Fre- mont in Missouri, was on Gen. John Pope's staff at the siege of New Madrid, in the battle of Farmington, and in the Corinth campaign. He was then transferred to the divi-
sion of Gen. W. T. Shierman, promoted lieutenant-
colonel, and acted as colonel in the Memphis and
Holly Springs campaign, and with Grant at
Vicksburg. He was promoted brigadier-general
Aug. 11, 1863, and commanded the 4th division
loth army corps at Collinsville, Tenn. , where he
rescued Sherman's division which was surrounded
by the Confederate cavalry under General Chal-
mers. He made a night attack across Lookout
mountain and returned to command Sherman's
assaulting column at Missionary Ridge, Novem-
ber 25, when he was carried from the field with
a broken leg. In the spring of 1864 he was ap-
pointed inspector-general on the staff of General
Sherman and served through the Atlanta cam-
paign. When Logan succeeded McPherson, Corse
was made commander of the 2d division, 16th
army corps. During the siege of Atlanta while
Corse, though severely wounded, was holding
Allatoona Pass against fearful 'odds, Sherman
signalled to him the historic message, " Hold the
fort for I am coming." General Corse had been
able to bring up from Rome but a portion of one
brigade and with only 1500 men he defended the
pass against the repeated assaults of the Confed-
erates and drove them back, capturing 500 prison-
ers besides the wounded left upon the field, while
he lost of his garrison over 700. This exploit,
which won for him the rank of major-general of
volunteers, was made the subject of a genera]
order from Sherman, showing particularly the
importance of defending a fortified post to the
last, without regard to the strength of the at-
tacking force. He continued in command of the
4th division, 15th army corps, on the march to the
sea and at the close of the war was placed in
command of the northwest, with headquarters at
St. Paul, where he conducted a successful cam-
paign against the Indians. He declined promo-
tion as lieutenant-colonel of the 27th U.S. infantry
and retired from the service, engaging in railroad
building in Chicago. He was made collector of
the i^ort by President Johnson and in 1869 -was
removed by President Grant. He then spent
several years in Europe, located in Boston in
1877, and was appointed postmaster of the city
by President Cleveland, Oct. 9, 1886. He was
removed by President Harrison in March, 1891.
He was married in 1857 to Ellen Edwards Prince,
and their son Edwards Corse became a railroad
manager in the west, and died in 1893. By his sec-
ond wife Frances McNeil, a niece of Franklin
Pierce, he had one son, Murray Pichot. General
Corse died in Winchester, Mass., April 27, 1893.
CORSE, Montgomery Dent, soldier, was born in Alexandria, Va., March 14, 1816. At the be- ginning of the war with Mexico, he joined a local company as captain and served with distin- guished bravery until the close of the war. He
