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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



of State Attorney under Governor Bullock. 

 General Grant appointed him United States 

 District Attorney for Georgia. AVhen he ten- 

 dered him a position in his Cabinet it was a 

 surprise both North and South. He held it, 

 however, without incurring much odium, re- 

 signed it in December, 1871, and was succeed- 

 ed by ex-Senator George H. Williams, of Ore- 

 gon. In 1873 Mr. Akerman received the votes 

 of the Republican members of the Georgia 

 Legislature for United States Senator. He 

 died at Cartersville, Georgia, December 21st. 



ALBERT, JOHN S., Chief -Engineer United 

 States Navy, was born in 1835, and died in 

 Philadelphia July 3d. He entered the navy in 

 1855, from New York. He was appointed 

 Chief -Engineer in 1861, and served meritori- 

 ously throughout the war. 



AUDENRIED, JOSEPH CRAIN, Colonel United 

 States Army, was born at Pottsville, Pennsyl- 

 vania, November 6, 1839. He entered West 

 Point Academy in 1857, and graduated in 1861. 

 Brevetted second-lieutenant Fourth Cavalry, he 

 assisted in organizing and drilling the troops 

 tben assembled in Washington. He took 

 part in the first campaign as aide-de-camp to 

 General Daniel Tyler. He served with the 

 Second Artillery to March, 1862. During the 

 Peninsular campaign he was acting assistant 

 adjutant-general to General Emory's cavalry 

 command. In July, 1862, he became aide-de- 

 camp to General Sumner, commanding Second 

 Army Corps, and acted in this capacity until 

 the death of General Sumner in March, 1863. 

 He was wounded at Antietam and bre vetted 

 captain. He reported as aide-de-camp to Gen- 

 eral U. S. Grant in June, 1863, and witnessed 

 the surrender of Vieksburg on July 4th. He 

 joined the staff of General Sherman at Mem- 

 phis on October 1, 1863. He shared every bat- 

 tle and campaign of this General after that 

 period, embracing the Chattanooga and Knox- 

 ville campaign, that to Meridian, the Atlanta 

 campaign, the march to the sea, and that of 

 the Carolinas. He accompanied General Sher- 

 man during his several tours through the Great 

 West, among the Indians, and through Europe. 

 He continued to discharge the duties of aide- 

 de camp to the General of the Army until his 

 death, which occurred in Washington, on June 

 3d. 



BALL, Dr. IRWINER W., was born in Livings- 

 ton Parish, Louisiana, in 1828. He studied 

 medicine and practiced his profession in Pointe 

 Coupee before the war. He owned a planta- 

 tion in West Feliciana, on which he carried out 

 scientific methods of planting. He was deeply 

 interested in silk-culture ; he was successful 

 in raising mulberry-trees and in growing silk- 

 worms. He believed that Louisiana was adapt- 

 ed to this branch of industry. To carry a bill 

 through the Legislature organizing a silk com- 

 pany, he accepted a nomination as member. 

 While superintending its passage through the 

 Legislature he died in New Orleans, January 

 29th. 



BARRETT, Commodore, was born in New Or- 

 leans, in 1828. He entered the navy at the age 

 of thirteen, and was on the Macedonian under 

 Commodore Nicholson. After some years' 

 service in the West Indies, the Mediterranean, 

 and the Brazilian waters, he was ordered to the 

 United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 

 February, 1846, and graduated thence in the 

 succeeding August. He was assigned to duty 

 with the Gulf Squadron. During the siege of 

 Vera Cruz he was on the blockading-ship John 

 Adams. He relieved Passed-Midshipman Nel- 

 son in command of the Ambulance Corps op- 

 erating with the naval battery in 1847, and 

 participated in the battle of Alvarado. He 

 commanded the bark Coosa, and brought her 

 to New Orleans. She was the best prize taken 

 during the Mexican War. In 1848 he was sent 

 to the African coast in command of the James- 

 town. In 1854 he was appointed flag-lieu- 

 tenant to Commodore Breese. After his return 

 to the United States in 1858, he was again 

 ordered to the African coast, and subsequently 

 to the East Indies. In 1861 he was appointed 

 instructor of gunnery, and he organized the 

 school-ship Savannah. In 1862 he was tried by 

 court-martial for disloyalty, but was fully ac- 

 quitted, and complimented on his patriotic and 

 professional services. He commanded the Mas- 

 sasoit in 1863. In 1864, while in command of 

 the ironclad Catskill, off Charleston, South 

 Carolina, the advance of the picket of monitors, 

 he captured the Deer, the only prize taken by a 

 monitor, and the last taken off Charleston. He 

 was in the first expedition that ascended the 

 Yang-tse-Kiang as far as Hankow. He com- 

 manded the Government ship at the close of 

 the International Exhibition. His was the 

 first naval ship to test and pass the jetties at 

 the South Pass of the Mississippi. lie died in 

 March, at the age of fifty-two. 



BEDFORD, Dr. HENRY MOORE, died at Rich- 

 field Springs, on August 20th. He was the 

 eldest son of Dr. Gunning Bedford, who was 

 the nephew and namesake of one of the fram- 

 ers and signers of the Constitution of the 

 United States. Like his eminent father, Dr. 

 Henry Bedford was a zealous student of med- 

 ical science. He was chief of staff to him 

 when he was Professor of Obstetrics in the 

 New York University Medical College. The ob- 

 stetrical clinic was first established by them in 

 spite of determined opposition. From first to 

 last over thirty thousand cases passed through 

 the hands of father and son, and afforded an 

 incomparable field of study to the profession. 



BENNET, Captain ORLANDO, son of the invent- 

 or Phineas Bennet, died on Long Island, on 

 July 10th, aged sixty -two. He was remarka- 

 bly successful in the recovery of indestructible 

 goods from wrecks. He raised two steamers 

 sunk in sixty feet of water in the North River, 

 and recovered a cargo of quicksilver from a 

 wreck covered by many feet of sand. He was 

 employed by the Government to clear the har- 

 bors of Charleston and Savannah from moni- 





