WEED, Stephen Hinsdale, soldier, born in New York city in 1834; died near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 2 July, 1863. He was graduated at the New York free academy in 1851, and at the United States military academy in 1854, and assigned to the artillery. After frontier duty in Texas, and service against the Seminoles in 1856-'7, he was engaged in quelling the Kansas disturbances in 1858, and then on the Utah expedition, participating in skirmishes with hostile Indians at Egan Cation, 11 August, 1860, and Deep Creek on 6 September he was promoted captain on 14 May, 1861, and served in the peninsular, northern Virginia, and Maryland campaigns, in command of a battery. From 3 December, 1862, till 23 January, 1863, he was chief of the artillery corps at Pal-mouth, Virginia After a short leave of absence he took part in the battle of Chancellorsville, and on 6 June, 1863, was made brigadier-general of volunteers for gallant conduct there. After 10 May, 1863, he commanded an artillery brigade in the 5th army corps. At Gettysburg, while holding the position on Little Round Top, he was mortally wounded, exclaiming as he fell: "I would rather die here than that the rebels should gain an inch of this ground." The point was essentially important to retain, and it is historically marked as " Weed's Hill."