. Des officiers de l'armée et de la marine (volontaires) qui ont servi dans la guerre civile . ed ses collègues et les patrons chaque fois que les affaires le permettent. À l'âge de dix-neuf ans, il rejoint les forces bénévoles de l'Unionarmée, et est allé au front comme deuxième lieutenant de la trente-cinquième infanterie du Massachusetts, août 22, [862.sa promotion au premier lieutenant, le 23 mars 1863, et tocaptain, le 1er avril 1864, sont des preuves de sa capacité andvalor. Il a été employé sur d'importants ser-vices détachés, et a agi comme commandant de son régiment à maintes reprises lorsque le colonel était absent ou handicapé. Il a organisé l'esprit

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. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . ed his fellow-clerks and thebosses whenever business would permit. At nineteenyears of age he joined the volunteer forces of the Unionarmy, and went to the front as second lieutenant of theThirty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry, August 22, [862.His promotion to first lieutenant, March 23, 1863, and tocaptain, April I, 1864, are evidences of his ability andvalor. He was employed upon important detached ser-vices, and acted as commander of his regiment on manyoccasions when the colonel was absent or disabled. He-organized within twenty-four hours a provisional regimentof artillery from the Convalescent Camp at Alexandria, and with this force he advanced to the defence of Wash-ington, assuming command of Fort Slocum and FortStevens, with forty-seven pieces of artillery. This was amove which called for great ability in managing men, andit was accomplished with such skill that Captain Pope-was highly complimented by his superior officers. He-served in the principal Virginia campaigns; was with. Burnside in Tennessee, with Grant at Vicksburg, anil withSherman at Jackson, Mississippi. Me commanded FortHell before Petersburg, and in the last attack led his regi-ment into the city, —at the age of twenty-one years. Hewas brevetted major for gallant conduct at the battleof Fredericksburg, Virginia, and lieutenant-colonel forgallant conduct in the battles of Knoxville, Poplar SpringsChurch, and front of Petersburg, March 13, 1865. Soonafter the war Colonel Pope went into business for himselfin slipper decorations and shoe-manufacturers supplies.In 1 877 he became enthusiastic over the bicycle, and, withhis rare foresight, determined to go into their manufacture.This was ilone under the name of the Pope ManufacturingCompany, a corporation for which he furnished the capi-tal, and of which he became, and has ever since continued, the president and active manager. Through the influenceand encouragement of the Pop

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