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Who Is This Virginian? Can you name the famous Virginian described below? He was a naval officer_,>nd
'scientist; _ ^ He was born near Fredericks- , burg; He was educated at Harpeth Academy; "* In the war between the states he served the Southern Confederacy ; He invented an electric torpedo ; After peace was declared, he went to Mexico, where he was Commissioner of Emigration for Emperor Maximilian; ’ He circumnavigated the globe on a four vears’ journey; In 1841 he was placed in charge o’f the Navy Department’s division of Charts and Instruments;
He went to England after the war between the states, but in 1868, he returned to America, and served until his death as professor of meterology in the Virginia Military Institute. The name of this famous Virginian will be in next week’s paper.
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