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It is not an easy thing to march a hostile army through the phiins of 

 North Germany, or the rolhng region of Eastern France, where the 

 guns may go two abreast in the roads, and the columns can take through 

 the fields on either side, and where men and horses can live in plenty 

 off the country. Much more dithcult was it to direct the advance of 

 a hundred thousand men, and a train of supply-wagons forty miles 

 long, thi'ough a country like Virginia, whose roads were half obliterated 

 cart-tracks, and whose war-trampled soil had long since ceased to furnish 

 food for man or beast. This ill-reputed fighting ground, which had 

 proved the ruin of many of his comrades, was for him a stage on which 

 to show liis ability. 



General Meade was only fifty-six years old, but had already done 

 the full work of a long life, and there remained nothing to add to the 

 roundness of his character. His was truly a high type, — a gentleman 

 in thought and deed, scorning trickery or meanness ; full of the disci- 

 plined courage that neither seeks nor avoids danger ; firm in purj^ose, 

 but never boasting or over-hopeful. He was scrupulous in exacting and 

 in rendering obedience ; fiery in temperament, but most forgiving and 

 kindly. Especially he had that high trait, the love of children. He 

 would give money to poor families that were in the route of the army, 

 saying, " Those little things make me think of my children at home." 

 So long as it shall be honorable to be a valiant soldier, a firm patriot, 

 and a Christian gentleman, so long will his aame be held in honor. 



James Hadley, who died at New Haven on the 14th of Novem- 

 ber, 1872, was born at Fairfield, N.Y., March 30, 1821. His father, 

 who was himself a remarkable man and an eminent teacher, was Pro- 

 fessor of Chemistry at that place in the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons of the Western District, and afterwards at Hobart College, 

 Geneva, N.Y., to which he removed about the time that his third son, 

 the subject of this notice, was old enough to enter college. 



His early education was directed by Dr. Chassel, a Scotch clergyman, 

 whose influence in developing the scholarly tastes of his pupil seems to 

 have been great and well directed. Accounts of the early precocity of 

 great scholars often rest on very uncertain tradition, and are justly sus- 

 pected of being fabulous. In the case of Professor Hadley, however, 

 we have fortunately a memorandum of his early studies, made by his 

 own hand when he was nineteen years old. In the first entry, referring 

 to a time before he was seven years old, he speaks of having already 

 gone over Adams's Latin Grammar under his brothe;''s instruction. 

 In 1828 and 1829 (when seven to eight years old), although " out 



