American soldier, born in Wallingford, CT, on the 2nd of March 1824. In 1845 he graduated from Yale, and for the three following years taught in Irving Institute, New York, then studied law at New Haven and again engaged in teaching, being an instructor in the Ladies’ Collegiate Institute of New Haven. He removed to Columbus, OH, practiced law, engaged in the antislavery movement, and helped to organize the state militia. When President Lincoln issued the first call for troops, Carrington, who was adjutant-general of the state, placed nine regiments of militia in western Virginia. During the war he was for most of the time engaged in raising and drilling troops, and he was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers. He was mustered out of this service in 1865, and until 1870 served on military expeditions in Nebraska, Montana and Colorado, and became instructor of military science in Wabash College. The rest of his life has been given to literary pursuits. Among his publications are Russia as a Nation; American Classics; or, Incidents of Revolutionary Suffering (1849); Ab-sa-ra-ka; or, Land of Massacre, relating the adventures of his life on the plains (1868); Crisis Thoughts (1878); and Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution (1881).
