WHITE, Julius, soldier, born in Cazenovia, Madison County, New York, 29 September, 1816. He removed to Illinois in 1836, and has resided in that state and in Wisconsin, where he has engaged in commercial pursuits. In 1849 he was a member of the Wisconsin legislature. He was made collector of customs at Chicago, Illinois, in the spring of 1861, but resigned that office on his appointment as colonel of the 37th Illinois volunteers, then known as the Fremont rifle regiment. He commanded it during General John C. Fremont's expedition to southwest Missouri in the autumn of 1861, and was afterward placed at the head of a brigade, accompanying General Samuel R. Curtis into Arkansas during the succeeding winter. He participated in the battle of Pea Ridge, and his appointment of brigadier-general of volunteers dated from that battle, 9 June, 1862. He was then assigned to the Department of the Shenandoah, and was subsequently ordered to report to General John E. Wool. He was at, Martinsburg in September, 1862, and, when that town became untenable, retired to Harper's Ferry, where he volunteered to serve as second in command under his inferior officer, Colonel Dixon S. Miles, who was in charge of that post. When Harper's Ferry was surrendered, on 15 September, 18t12, to General Ambrose P. Hill, he became a prisoner of war, but was released on parole, lie was then placed under arrest by the United States government, and, at his own request, a court of inquiry was called, which found that he acted with capability and courage, lie resigned in 1864, and on 13 March, 1865, was brevetted major-general of volunteers. He has since been in business in Illinois.