WILSON, .LUTES IlAnaIsON (1S37—). An American soldier, born near Shawneetown, He graduated at West Point in 1860 and entered the topographical engineers. During the Civil War he acted as aide-de-camp to General 3k Clellan in the Maryland campaign; was chief topographical engineer of the Army of the Ten nessee from October, 1862. until iMareb, 1863: was assistant engineer and inspector-general of the Army of the Tennessee at Vicksburg and took part in the operations about Chattanooga. Ile was made brigadier-general of volunteers in October. 1863. In February, 1S64, he was put in charge of the cavalry bureau at Washington; then commanded the Third Cav alry Division under General Sheridan; was brevetted major-general of volunteers on Oc tober 5, 1864, for "gallant and meritorious services" during the Nra r: and on October 24, 1864, was put in command of the cavalry corps of the Military Division of the Mississippi. He
participated in the battles of Franklin and Nash ville, and, in March, 1865, was sent on a cavalry expedition into Georgia and Alabama, and in twenty-eight days captured Selma. Montgomery, Columbus. Macon. and other places, with 288 gnus and 6820 prisoners, including Jefferson Davis. As a reward for these services he was on April 20, 1865, made a major-general of volun teers. lie resigned from the army in 1870. and engaged in large railroad and engineering opera tions at home and abroad. In May, 1898, he was appointed major-general of volunteers. and com manded the First Division of the First At-my Corps in the campaign in Porto Rico. Ile took part in the China relief expedition of 1900. He published: Life of General U. S. Grant (1868). with Charles A. Dana ; and China: Travels and Investigations in the diddle kingdom (1887).