INGALLS
INQERSOLL
General McClellan with the rank of lieutenant-
colonel of staff. On Jan, 13, 1862, he was as-
signed to the quartermaster's department with
the rank of major of staff, and he served as chief
quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac, 1862-
65, being promoted brigadier-general of volun-
teers, May 23, 1863. He was present at the sur-
render of Lee at Appomattox, and there renewed
his acquaintance with many of the officers who
had joined the Confederacy in 1861 whom he had
known at West Point and in Mexico, He
was promoted, in the regular service, lieut-
enant-colonel and deputy quartermaster-general,
July 28, 1866, and colonel and assistant-quarter-
master-general, July 29, 1866, Of his services
General Grant said : "If he could have been
spared to any of the other departments he would
have made his mark as a fighter," He was
brevetted lieutenant-colonel, colonel and briga-
dier-general, U.S. army, for meritorious and
distinguished services, and major-general of vol-
unteers and U.S. army in March, 1865, for faithful
and meritorious services. After the war he was on
duty in Washington, D.C., to May 4, 1866, when
he crossed the continent to Oregon ; was chief
quartermaster in New York, 1867-76, and subse-
quently at Chicago and Washington ; and on Feb,
23, 1882, was promoted brigadier-general and
quartermaster-general of the army. He was
retired, at his own request, July 1, 1883, and
made his home in Oregon, He removed to New
York city in 1891, where he died, Jan. 15, 1893,
INQALLS, Thomas Russell, educator, was
born in Salem, N,Y,, Nov. 22, 1798; son of
Charles and Cynthia (Russell) Ingalls, His
father was a native of IMethuen, Mass,, who
settled in Washington county, N.Y., after gradu-
ating from Dartmouth, A.B., 1790, A.M., 1783;
and his motlier was a daughter of the Rev,
Tliomas Russell, D,D., of Piermont, N.H. He
was graduated at the U.S. Military academy
in 1822. and resigned from the U.S. army in 1833,
He was president of Jefferson college. La,,
183.3-40 ; travelled in Europe, 1840-42 ; returned
to Washington county, N.Y., and resided in
Greenwich, w-here he died, July 26, 1864.
INGE, Samuel W., representative, was born in North Carolina. He early removed to Greene county, Ala., and became a lawyer in Living- ston. He was a Democratic representative in the state legislature, 1844-45 ; and in the 30th and 31st congresses, 1847-51. While in congress, he fought a duel with Representative Edward Stanly, of North Carolina, at the celebrated duelling ground at Bladensburg, near Washing- ton, neither receiving serious injury. He was appointed by President Pierce U.S. attorney for the district of California in 1853. He died in San Francisco, Cal., in 1867.
INQERSOLL, Charles Jared, representative,
was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 3, 1782 ; son
of Jared and Elizabeth (Pettit) IngersoU, and
grandson of Jared IngersoU, tlie loyalist stamp-
agent. He was liberally educated, studied law in
his father's office in
Philadeli^hia, and was
admitted to the bar
in 1802, He travelled
in Europe with Rufus
King, who was at the
time U.S. minister to
England. He was a
representative from
Philadelphia in the
13th congress, 1813-
15 ; district attorney
of the United States
for the eastern dis-
trict of Pennsylva-
na 1815-29 ; a repre-
sentative in the state
legislature ; a member of the state internal
improvement convention of 1825, and of the
Pennsylvania constitutional convention of 1837 ;
and was a representative in the 27th, 28th,
29th and 30th congresses, 1841-49, being chair-
man of the foreign affairs committee and one
of the Democratic leaders. He was appointed
in 1847 U.S. minister to France, by President
Polk, but the nomination was rejected by the
senate. He was a member of the American
Philosophical society. He published a few poems
and translations from the French, and numer-
ous essays, orations and controversial writings.
Among the more important of his early publi-
cations are; A View of the RigJits and Wrongs,
Poicer and Policy of the United States of America
(1808) , and Inchiquin the JesuiVs Letters, dur-
ing a late residence in the United States of
America (1810), in both of which he insisted
upon American rights and defended the Ameri-
can character against the scurrilous attacks of
English writers. In later life he published a
Historical Sketch of the Second War between the
United States and Great Britain (4 vols. 1845-
52), and a volume of his Recollections was issued
some years after his death. He had also been
engaged upon a History of the Territorial Acqui-
sitions of the United States, but left it too incom-
plete for publication, A life of him was pub-
lished by his grandson, William M, Meigs (1897).
He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 14, 1862.
INQERSOLL, Charles Lee, scientist, was born at Perry, N.Y., Nov. 1, 1844; son of Francis and Frances (Armstrong) IngersoU ; grandson of Samuel and Mary (Nelson) IngersoU ; and a de- scendant of Francis IngersoU, a Revolutionary soldier. He enlisted as a private in the 9th
