GILMOR, gillmOr, HARRY (1838-83). An American soldier, born in Baltimore County, Md. lie entered the Confederate Army at the outbreak 'of the Civil War, was commissioned captain in 1862, in 1862-63 was imprisoned for five months fat Fort McHenry, and in 1863 raised a cavalry battalion, of which he was made major. Subse quently he commanded the First Confederate Regiment of Maryland, and in 1864 headed the advance of the forces of Gen. J. A. Early into Maryland. In 1874 he became police commis sioner of Baltimore. He wrote Four Years in the Saddle (1866).
g,11/m6r, JAMES ROBERTS (1822-). An American writer and editor, born in Boston, Mass. He entered a counting-room in 1836, met with considerable success in business, and in 1847 established in New York City a cotton and ship ping firm which did a leading business in sev eral Southern States, and of which he acted as president until 1857, when he retired from com mercial life. Ile early began to write for peri odicals, and in 1862, in conjunction with Robert J. Walker, ex-Secretary of the United States Treasury, and Charles G. Leland Mans Breit mann'), founded in New York the Continental Monthly, a magazine devoted chiefly to the cause of emancipation, his interest in which, however, he relinquished to Walker in the following year, while he himself became an occasional editorial writer on the staff of the New York Tribune. In the summer of 1864 he and Col. James F. Jaquess, acting as the unofficial agents of President Lin coln, entered the Confederate lines and proceeded to Richmond, where they laid before President Jefferson Davis various peace proposals, which were immediately rejected on the ground that the South would accept no terms which did not involve the recognition of the independence of the Confederacy. The published account of this
mission, which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, undoubtedly did much to break the ranks of the peace party in the North, and to influence many, who had previously been wavering between Lin coln and McClellan, to cast their votes for the former in the ensuing Presidential election. Gil more engaged in business again in 1873, but re tired ten years later to devote himself wholly to literature. His writings have attained consider able popularity, though his historical works have been much criticised by special students of the subjects treated. His earlier books were pub lished under the nom-de-plume of `Edmund Kirke.' His writings include: Among the Pines (1862) ; My Southern Friends (1862) ; Down in Tennes sce (1863) ; Adrift in Dixie (1863) ; Among the Guerrillas (1863) ; On the Border (1864) ; Pa triot Boys (1864) ; A Campaign Life of Garfield (1880) ; The Rear Guard of the Revolution (1886) ; John Sevier as a Commonwealth Builder (MR) ; Advance Guard of Western Civilization (1888) ; A Mountain White Heroine (1889); The Last of the Thorndikes (1889) ; and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War (1898).