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WILLIAM WING, an American military officer; born in Wilmington, N. C., Dec. 4, 1818; participated in the Seminole War, the war for Texan independence, the Mexican War, Indian wars, etc. In May, 1861, he resigned his commission; became a Brigadier-General in the Confederate army and later Major- General. He went to Egypt in 1869 and reorganized the army of the Khedive.
In 1879 he returned to the United States and published "A Confederate Soldier in Egypt" (1883). He died Dec. 30, 1886.
LORRAINE. See ALSACE-LORRAINE.