[Christopher Columbus]. American lawyer, born in Hillsboro, NH, on the 27th of October 1829. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1850, and followed his profession in Newtown for two years. He went to Washington, served in the Treasury Department two years, and later settled at St. Cloud, MN, where he was elected to the state senate. At the beginning of the war he enlisted as a private, but was commissioned captain in the Third Minnesota Infantry. He was made prisoner in a fight near Murfreesboro, TN, July 1862; was exchanged four months later and appointed lieutenant-colonel of his regiment. During the war he served in numerous important battles, and finally attained the rank of major-general. In 1869 he was appointed United States minister to Sweden and Norway, and served until 1877. He was supervisor of the United States census in the third district of Minnesota in 1880, and for three years from 1882 was consul-general to Brazil. General Andrews has published Minnesota and Dakota (1856); Practical Treatise on the Revenue Laws of the United States (1858); Hints to Company Officers on their Military Duties (1863); History of the Campaign of Mobile (1867); and Digest of the Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States (1867).
