The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

DESCENDANTS IN AMERICAN WARS. 381
their impoverished condition; and by energychap^v.
and frugal industry they soon found themselves
on rising ground again. Some of the
descendants who lived in the West were on the
Federal side. In these wars many of them
held honorable positions, as officers in the
ranks, on the staifs of Generals, and a few of
them became generals of forces.
In the late Spanish-American War, a liberal Spanishnumber
of the younger descendants volun-'^'^^"^*"
teered, and remained in the U. S. A., until
they were honorably discharged with their
commands; some of them reached Cuba and
the Philippine Islands, and were engaged in
battles.
Like the Huguenots of France, the descendants
of Bartholomew Dupuy have been com- sociai
posed mostly of the better classes of society .^*^°^^°s.
Wherever they have gone, they have maintained
the respect and esteem of the commun-
ity in which they lived, and have moved in the
upper grade of society. Great changes take
place in a people in one century, but in the
ease of these descendants, more than three
centuries have not availed to change the high
and noble character, which from the first
marked their ancestors. The explanation
may be found both in their family government
and in the principles which they have
inherited.
Education has been one of their chief char- Educaacteristics.
In many successive tion.
generations,
on different lines of descent, the men have
been College bred, and the women have been
educated at the best female schools of their
day. All professions and avocations of life,—
law, medicine, preaching, professorships and