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Webb (ALEXANDER STEWART an American)

ALEXANDER STEWART, an American educator; born in New York City, Feb. 15, 1835; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1855; commissioned 2d lieutenant in the 4th Artillery; entered the Civil War WEBB was major of the 1st Rhode Island Infantry, Sept. 14, 1861; served with distinction and was wounded at Gettysburg; was in the Rapidan and Wilderness campaigns; promoted lieutenantcolonel 49th Infantry, July 26, 1866; transferred to the 5th Infantry, March 15, 1869; brevetted Major-General, U.

S. V. and U. S. A.; was discharged at his own request, Dec. 3, 1870. He was president of the College of the City of New York from 1869 to 1903, and wrote: "The Peninsula: McClellan's Campaign of 1862." He died in 1911.