GIBBON, Jour; (1827-96). An American sol dier. He was born in Holmesburg, Pa.; gradu ated at West Point in 1847, served in the Mexi can War, at the City of Mexico and Toluca, in 1847-48, and was assistant instructor of artil lery at West Point from 1854 to 1857, and quartermaster there from 1856 to 1859. During the Civil War he was chief of artillery in General McDowell's division from October, 1861, to May, 1862; was promoted from the rank of captain in the Regular Army to that of brigadier-general of volunteers on May 2, 1862; participated in the second battle of Bull Run and in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam; commanded a di vision in the Army of the Potomac during the Rappahannock campaign, from November, 1862, to June, 1863, being wounded at Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862; commanded the Second Army Corps in the battle of Gettysburg, where he was seriously wounded, and subsequently served for part of the time as commander of the Twenty fourth Corps, in the final campaign of General Grant, which ended with the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. On June 7,
1864, he became major-general of volunteers, and on March 13, 1865, was brevetted brigadier-gen eral and major-general in the Regular Army. Mustered out of the volunteer service in Janu ary, 1866, he reentered the Regular Army as colonel in July, commanded successively several estern posts, was wounded in the engagement of Big Hole Pass, Mont., with the Nez Perces Indians on August 9, 1877, and commanded suc cessively the departments of Dakota, of the Platte. of the Columbia, and of California. On July 10, 1885, he was. promoted to the regu lar rank of brigadier-general, and in 1891 he was retired from active service. Besides a number of magazine articles, he published The Artillerist's Manual (1859).