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Van Wyck, Charles Henry

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Van Wyck, Charles Henry væn ˈwīk; ˈwik (1824–1895) U.S. army officer and politician. Charles Henry Van Wyck was born in Poughkeepsie, New York to a distinguished Dutch family. He graduated from Rutgers in 1843 and beagan a law career. He served two terms representing his New York 11th district in Congress before the outbreak of the Civil War. He raised and commanded the Fifty-sixth New York Volunteer Regiment, which served under George B. McClellan in the Peninsular campaign (1862) and later under Rufus Saxton in the Department of the South. Van Wyck stayed in service a year after the war ended as commander of the District of Western South Carolina. He then returned to his political career in New York, serving two more terms in Congress before moving to Nebraska. He was elected to the U.S. Senate from his new state in 1881.

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Webb, Charles Henry

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Webb, Charles Henry (1834–1905), New York‐born humorist, after writing for Harper's Weekly and The New York Times went to California (1863–66), where he founded The Californian, a journal to which his friends Harte and Twain contributed. His works include Liffith Lank (1866) and St. Twel'mo (1866), respectively parodies of Reade's Griffith Gaunt and of Augusta Jane Evans's St. Elmo; John Paul's Book (1874), humorous sketches; and Parodies: Prose and Verse (1876).

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