iv OBITUARY NOTICES. 



chance Mr. Rosengarten witnessed the first outbreak against slavery, 

 the famous raid of John Brown. He happened to be traveUing as a 

 guest with the Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad (of which 

 his father w'as one) on a tour of inspection. The train stopped at 

 Harper's Ferry and there Mr. Rosengarten saw the attack made by 

 the soldiery on the engine house in which John Brown had taken 

 refuge. He saw John Brown lying wounded and he gave a descrip- 

 tion of the hero in a vivid article contributed by him to the Atlantic 

 Monthly in 1865. May we not assume that the incident made an 

 impression upon his youthful spirit which intensified the fervor 

 with which he threw himself into the Union cause? 



Upon the outbreak of the war, he first joined a company of vol- 

 unteers, Co. A of the Pennsylvania Artiller}% which was made up 

 largely of lawyers. It included men like Chief Justice Mitchell, 

 Judges Penrose and Hanna, Mr.. R. C. MclMurtrie, John G. Johnson, 

 Charles Godfrey Leland, Geo. W. Biddle, Wm. Henry Rawle, and 

 among the survivors of this company are Judge Wilson, Mr. C. 

 Stuart Patterson and j\Ir. Frank Rosengarten. Later he became en- 

 rolled in the 12 1st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, of the Corps 

 of the Army of the Potomac. His regiment was assigned to guard 

 the city of Washington and subsequently passed further south. In 

 the engagement at Fredericksburg he distinguished himself for brav- 

 ery, picking up the colors after four sergeants had been disabled and 

 carrying them successfully through the engagement. The attention 

 of Major General John F. Reynolds was called to the act of the 

 young officer and he was offered the post of Ordnance Officer and a 

 member of General Reynolds' staft". He remained with General 

 Reynolds until the battle of Gettysburg in which General Reynolds 

 fell. To IMajor Rosengarten was assigned the honor of bringing 

 the body of the fallen hero to Lancaster. His association with 

 General Reynolds was intimate and he was the natural selection 

 deputed to deliver the address at the dedication of the monument to 

 Reynolds at Gettysburg in 1889. 



After the war Major Rosengarten returned to Philadelphia and 

 resumed the practice of law in an office in which he was associated 

 with the late George Junkin and INIr. Henry S. Hagert, both men 

 who rose to eminence. A great part of his time was taken up with 



