STEWART
STEWART
1849-50 and 1854-55. He joined the Confederate
army in 1861, as major of the corps of artillery
in the provisional Army of Tennessee, May 17,
1861; was promoted brigadier-general, Nov. 8,
1861, and upon the disablement of Gen. Charles
Clark at Shiloh, he succeeded to the command
of the 1st division, 1st army corps, Army of
Mississippi. April 7, 1862. He commanded the
2d brigade, Cheatham's division. Army of the
Mississippi, at Perry ville, Ky., Oct. 8, 1862, and
at Stone's river. Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862. He was
promoted major-general, June 2, 1863, com-
manded a division of Buckner's corps. Army of
Tennesseee, at Chickamauga. Va., Sept. 19-20,
1863, and a division of Breckinridge's corps during
the Chattanooga campaign. He was promoted
lieutenant-general. June 2, 1864. to succeed Gen.
Leonidas Polk in command of the Army of Mis-
sissippi, then operating with the Army of Ten-
nessee under the commau'l of Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston. The Army of Mississippi subsequently
became known as Stewart's corps. He was in
the Atlanta campaign in north Georgia in 1864,
in the battle of Peach Tree Creek, July 20th,
and in that of Mount Ezra church, July 28, 1864;
was with Gen. John B. Hood in his campaign
into Tennessee, and commanded his corps in the
battles of Franklin and Nashville. After the re-
treat from Nashville and retirement of General
Hood, General Stewart commanded the Army
of Tennessee, which was transferred to North
Carolina, and united with other troops under Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston, and fought the battle of
Cole's Farm. General Stewart was chancellor of
the University of Mississippi, 1874-86, and was
made a fellow of the Royal Historical society.
The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred
upon him V^y Cumberland university. He was
appointed a member of the Chickamauga Na-
tional Park commission in September, 1890.
STEWART, Alexander Turney, merchant, was born in Lisburn, Ireland, Oct. 12, 1803. His father, a farmer, died while Alexander was a boy at school, and he resided with his grandfather, an affluent linen and lace merchant. He studied theology, but abandoned it, and emigrated to the United States in 1823, settling in New York city, where he taught in a private school. He returned to Ireland on the death of his grand- father, and with the small fortune left him pur- chased a stock of fine laces and linens, and re- turned to New York. He established liimself in business at Broadway and Chambers street, and was married to Cornelia, daughter of Jacob Clinch, of New York. In 1848 his business had so increased, that he erected a large store, built of marble, on the same site, and in 1862 removed his business uptown on Broadway between Ninth and Tenth streets, at a cost of $3,000,000, and de-
voted his Chambers street store to his wholesale
trade. He was reputed to have the largest an-
nual income in the United States. He was
chairman of the honorary commission sent to the
Paris exposition by the U.S. government in 1867,
and in 1869 was appointed secretary of the treas-
ury by President Grant, but a law forbidding any
importer from holding the office prevented his
acceptance, and although he offered to deed all
his business in trust and to give his profits to
charity, the senate refused to change, the law.
He was active in charitable works in 1846, send-
ing a ship-load of provisions to the sufferers from
the famine in Ireland; a vessel loaded with flour
to the French sufferers from the Franco-German
war, and gave $50,000, for the relief of the suf-
ferers from the Chicago fire. He was one of the
contributors to the suin of $100,000 presented to
General Grant by the merchants in New York
city, for his services during the civil war, and
planned to provide an inexpensive home for
working women, to which end he erectetl a large
hotel at Park avenue and Thirty-third street, but
died before it was completed. His other great
benevolent enterprise was Garden City, Long
Island, intended for homes for industrious me-
chanics of a higher class. Both of these enter-
prises failed, as he left no one able to fulfil his
intentions regarding their arrangement. His
wealth was estimated at $40,000,000. of which the
bulk reverted to his wife. His marble mansion on
Fifth avenue was supposed to be the finest pri-
vate dwelling in America, and his extensive art
gallery, which was sold at auction in 1887, was
the most valuable in the country. His widow
erected at Garden City, the Cathedral of the Incar-
nation as a memorial of lier husband, and trans-
ferred the building with an endowment of
$15,000 per annum, to the diocese of Long Island.
He died in New York city, April 10, 1870, and two
weeks later his bodj-, interred in St. Mark's grave-
yard, was stolen. His widow, after many
months of anxious search, made a large payment
for its return, and placed it in the crypt of the
cathedral at Garden City.
STEWART, Andl-ew, representative, was born in Fayette count}-, Pa., in June, 1792. He was admitted to the bar in 1815, and became U.S. at- torney for the western district of Pennsylvania. He was a representative in the Pennsylvania legislature, and was a Democratic represen- tative in the 17th-20th, 22d and 23d, and 28th- 30th congresses, 1821-29, 1831-35 and 1843-49. He died at Uniontoum, Pa., July 16, 1872.
STEWART, Charles, naval officer, was born in Pliiladelphia, Pa.. July 28, 1778. Ho entered the merchant-marine service in 1791, and in 1793 com- manded a vessel in the Indian trade. lie was commissioned lieutenant, U.S. navy; assigned to
