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ment of the National Guard. He was honorably 

 discharged on May 8 of the same year, and ac- 

 cepted a commission as captain in the 5th Regi- 

 ment, New York Volunteers. He was mustered 

 out, Sept. 8, 1801, having been appointed captain 

 in the 12th Regular Infantry. He served with 

 this regiment until appointed lieutenant-colonel 

 of the 150th New York Volunteers, Sept. 29, 1802. 

 He became colonel of the 119th United States 

 Colored Infantry, May 10, 1805, having been bre- 

 vetted major (May 14, 1804) and lieutenant-colo- 

 nel (March 13, 1805) in the regular army for gal- 

 lant and meritorious service in the battle of Resa- 

 ca, Ga., and brigadier-general (March 13, 1805) for 

 efficient service throughout the war. In the regu- 

 lar army he was transferred as captain to the 

 30th Infantry, Sept. 21, 1800, and to the 4th In- 

 fantry, March 23, 1809. He was made major of 

 the llth Infantry, Jan. 10, 1870; lieutenant-colo- 

 nel of the 1st Infantry, March 10, 1883; and 

 colonel of the 9th Infantry, April 23, 1890. He 

 was retired, at his own request, May 1, 1890. He 

 served as librarian in the district-attorney's office 

 in New York city in 1898-1901. Gen. Bartlett 

 was drowned in the sinking of the Staten Island 

 ferry-boat Northfield in collision with another 

 ferry-boat off her pier at South Ferry. 



Batchelder, Richard Napoleon, soldier, born 

 in Meredith (now Lakeport), N. H., July 27, 

 1832; died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 4, 1901. In 

 early life he showed an uncommon aptitude for 

 business. He was director in a State bank and 

 a trustee of savings-banks, and was largely inter- 

 .ested in railroad construction. In politics he 

 was a Republican, and for two years he held the 

 most important financial office in the State, and 

 for two terms served in the Legislature. In April, 

 1801, he enlisted in the 1st New Hampshire In- 

 fantry, and on May 2 he was made lieutenant and 

 quartermaster. In June, 1801, he was appointed 

 quartermaster of the 7th Brigade, Army of the 

 Shenandoah. In March, 1802, he became chief 

 quartermaster, 2d Division of the 2d Corps, and 

 he was present at the battles of Fair Oaks, Sav- 

 age Station, White Oak Swamp, Glendale, Mal- 

 vern Hill, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. In Au- 

 gust, 1801, he had been made captain of volun- 

 teers, and Jan. 1, 1803, lieutenant-colonel and 

 quartermaster of Ihe 2d Corps. While in this 

 corps he took part in the battles of Chancellors- 

 ville and Gettysburg, the operations at Mine Run, 

 and the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, 

 North Anna, and Cold Harbor, and he was espe- 

 cially commended in the reports of Gens. Hancock, 

 Couch, Sedgwick, Meigs, Ingalls, Meade, and 

 Grant. When Gen. Grant assumed the direction 

 of the army in 1804, Batchelder was 'made chief 

 quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac, then 

 under Meade. He was brevetted, March 13, 1805, 

 major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier- 

 general of volunteers, and major, lieutenant- 

 colonel, and colonel United States army, and at 

 the close of the war he was attached to the regu- 

 lar army as a quartermaster on the request of 

 Grant. His advance in the regular establishment 

 was: Captain, Feb. 10, 1805; major, Jan. 18, 1807; 

 lieutenant-colonel, March 10, 1882. On June 20, 

 1890, he was appointed brigadier-general and 

 quartermaster-general of the army, and served in 

 that capacity till his retirement, July 27, 1890, 

 on reaching the age limit of active service. Dur- 

 ing the years that he was quartermaster-general 

 at Washington he effected many improvements in 

 the service. Change of boots and shoes was pro- 

 vided for the privates in the army; the new style 

 of rubber blanket was adopted ; a canvas legging 

 for the mounted trooper in the Southwest was put 



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replenished; and the national cemeteries 



beautified and laid out in the proper order. 



Belknap, Charles, naval officer, bom it, .]. 

 City, N. J., Aug. 25, 1840; died in Baltimore. . 

 June 15, 1901. He was appointed to the N; 

 Academy in 1804, and received his commission ;i s 

 ensign, Dec. 18, 1808. His subsequent advance- 

 ment was as follows: Master, March 21, 1870; 

 lieutenant, March 21, 1871; lieutenant-comand- 

 er, Feb. 12, 1889; and commander, Dec. 0, 1890. 

 He was one of the most efficient officers of the 

 navy, and saw much sea service on the old line 

 ships. He was three times instructor in physics 

 and chemistry, and later torpedo instructor in 

 the Naval Academy. He was assigned to the 

 command of the training-ship Dixie, Dec. 4, 1899. 



Benedict, Charles L., jurist, born in Newburg, 

 N. Y., March 2, 1824; died in New York city, Jan. 

 8, 1901. He was graduated at the University of 

 Vermont in 1844, studied law, and became a part- 

 ner in the firm of Benedict, Burr & Benedict. 

 In 1801 and 1802 he was a Republican member 

 of the New York Assembly, and while in Albany 

 he met and formed a lasting friendship with Gen. 

 Benjamin F. Tracy, with whom he afterward prac- 

 tised law under the firm name of Benedict, Tracy 

 & Benedict. In March, 1805, President Lincoln 

 appointed Mr. Benedict to be judge of the East- 

 ern District of New York. Judge Benedict served 

 for thirty-two years on the bench, resigning in 

 June, 1897. He achieved a high reputation for his 

 decisions in admiralty and for his fairness in 

 criminal cases. 



Bergholz, William B., engineer, born in Han- 

 over, Germany, April 14, 1832; died in New Ro- 

 chelle, N. Y., Jan. 10, 1901. He was graduated at 

 the Polytechnical School in Hanover and at the 

 Royal Academy of Engineers in Munich. At 

 the age of twenty-one he came to America, and 

 lived for a while at the home of the German con- 

 sul in Montreal. Then he went to Burlington, 

 Vt., and laid out the gardens of Le Grand B. Can- 

 non. When the civil war began Mr. Bergholz was 

 in the South, and he was one of the few en- 

 gineers familiar with the railroads of the South- 

 ern States who were willing to serve with the Na- 

 tional troops, and Gen. Sherman put him on his 

 staff with the rank of major. He served with 

 Sherman till the close of the war, and afterward 

 devoted himself chiefly to railroad-building. He 

 laid the Southern Pacific Railroad through Texas, 

 the Alliance and Lake Erie Railroad in Ohio, the 

 Pittsburg and Buffalo Railroad, and several other 

 lines and extensions. One of his greatest achieve- 

 ments in the railroad business was obtaining the 

 right of way from the United States Govern- 

 ment for the West Shore Railway to go through 

 West Point. In 1878 Major Bergholz was one of 

 the engineers employed by the Russian Govern- 

 ment in dredging the mouth of the Neva. He was 

 interested in many of the lines that he had built, 

 and accumulated a fortune from these interests. 

 In 1870 he laid out the large country property at 

 New Rochelle, known as Highwood, covering hun- 

 dreds of acres, and abounding in lakes, shrubbery, 

 and rare scenery. 



Bishop, Joel Prentiss, author, born in Vol- 

 ney, N. Y., March 10, 1814; died in Cambridge, 

 Mass., Nov. 4, 1901. He was educated at White- 

 stone Seminary, Oneida Institute, and Stockbridge 

 Academy. At the age of twenty he left his 



