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Benson John Lossing (1813–1891)
Lossing, Benson John. An American historian; born in Beekman, Dutchess County, NY, 1813; died near Dover Plains, NY, June 3, 1891. His most useful works were his great ‘Pictorial Field-Books’ of the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War,—the first published in illustrated numbers 1850–52 (2 vols.), the second in 1868, the third 1866–69 (3 vols.). He was a wood engraver, and himself made the engravings for the works, the scenic ones largely from sketches on the spots. He wrote also: ‘Outline History of the Fine Arts’ (1841); ‘Lives of the Presidents of the United States’ (1847); ‘Biographies of Eminent Americans’ (1855); ‘A History of England’ for schools (1871); etc.