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The Daily Dispatch: July 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
years of age, and was born in Weston, Oneida county, N. Y., where his grand-father--one hundred years old, and hale and hearty — lately resided. General Halleck's father was the Hon. Joseph Halleck, who died about three years since. General Halleck entered the Military Academy as a West Point cadet in 1835, stood third in the class, and was brevetted second lieutenant of engineers July 1, 1839. He was Acting Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Military Academy from July, 1839, to June, 1840. In 1811 he was the author of a military work on "Bitumen and it's Uses," &c. In January, 1845, he was appointed first lieutenant, and during the year he was selected by the Committee of the Lowell Institute, at Boston, to deliver one of the regular course of lectures, the subject being "Military Science and Art." These lectures he compiled in a neat volume during the following year, adding thereto a lengthy introduction on the "Justifiableness of War." The work contains much valuable elem