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several of their periodicals. He was a man of 

 exquisite taste, and the "Rose of Sharon," a 

 gift book or annual published by him, was 

 long regarded as a model of artistic beauty in 

 its typography and illustrations. He was much 

 esteemed both in his public and social life. 



April 7. PEGRAM, Col. WILLIAM, was killed 

 at the battle of Shiloh, Tenn. He was born in 

 Virginia, but had resided for many years in 

 Kentucky. Though a brother of Robert Pe- 

 gram, commander of the Confederate steamer 

 Nashville, he was a staunch loyalist, and raised 

 a regiment of cavalry which was in the engage- 

 ment at Pittsburg Landing. At the time of his 

 death he was acting brigadier-general. 



April 8. FLETCHER, Prof. MILES J., of the 

 Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., 

 and State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 was killed while on his way to aid the wound- 

 ed, after the battle of Shiloh. He was a man 

 of superior attainments, and of earnest loyalty 

 and patriotism. During a part of the previous 

 year he had added to his other duties that of 

 assistant adjutant-general. In his Message of 

 Jan. 1863, Gov. Morton paid a tribute to his 

 many virtues and excellencies. 



April 10. WALLACE, Gen. WM. HAUVEY 

 LAMB, died at Savannah, Tenn., from a wound 

 received at the battle of Shiloh. He was born 

 in Urbana, Ohio, July 8, 1821, was educated 

 for the law, served in the Mexican War, and in 

 1853 was elected State attorney for the ninth 

 judicial circuit of Illinois. He held command 

 of the llth regiment of Illinois volunteers, and 

 joined the depot at Cairo during the early stages 

 of the war. He held a command in the troops 

 sent to attack Fort Henry, and distinguished 

 himself in the siege of Fort Donelson, where 

 he commanded a brigade in Gen. McClernand's 

 division of Gen. Grant's army. For his gal- 

 lantry upon that occasion he was made by 

 Congress, on the 21st of March, a full brigadier- 

 general, and with that rank went with the ex- 

 pedition up the Tennessee river. 



April 12. Fp.ELrxGnrYSEx, Hon. THEODORE, 

 LL.D. (Sec FRELIXGHUYSEX.) 



April 16. WHEELER, JOHN, D.D., President 

 of the University of Vermont, died in Burling- 

 ton. Vt. He was born in 1798 at Oxford, N. 

 H.. and graduated at Dartmouth College in 

 18i6. He was twice elected president of the 

 University of Vermont, and officiated in that 

 capacity from 1842 to 1855. 



April 18. PEET, DUDLEY, M.D.. died in 

 New York city. He was born in Hartford, 

 Conn., July 9, 1830. graduated at Yale College 

 in 1852, studied medicine in the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons in New York, and for 

 a short time pursued the practice of his profes- 

 sion in the city. In 1857 he removed to Bur- 

 lington. Iowa, and after two years' practice re- 

 turnedffand became associated with his brothers 

 as an instructor in the New York Institution 

 for the Deaf and Dumb, under the superintend- 

 ence of his father. Dr. Harvey P. Peet. He 

 was well fitted for this work, and during the 



three years previous to his death was eminently 

 successful. 



April 19. HARVEY, Lous P., governor of 

 Wisconsin, was drowned at Savannah, Tenn., 

 while on his way to Pittsburg with si.: 

 for the wounded after the battle of Shiloh. 

 was born at East Haddam, Conn., July 22, 1820, 

 in 1828 removed with his parents to Ohio, and 

 was educated at the Western Reserve College. 

 In 1840 he became a resident of Kenosha, "Wis.. 

 where he engaged as a teacher in the academy. 

 and later assumed the editorship of the Whig 

 newspaper, published in that city. In 1850 he 

 removed to Shopiere, Rock county, where he en- 

 gaged in the manufacturing Lusine>>. lie was 

 a member of the first Constitutional Conven- 

 tion, and represented Rock county in the Sen- 

 ate from 1855 to 1857, when he was elected 

 secretary of State, and in Nov. 1861, governor. 



April 25. SMITH, Gen. CHABLES FEEGUSOX. 

 (See SMITH, Gen. C. F.) 



April 26. PALMER, ROBERT M., United States 

 Minister to the Argentine Confederation, died 

 at sea aged 41 years. He was born at Mount 

 Holly, New Jersey, in 1820, and was a son of 

 the Hon. Strange N. Palmer, of Pennsylvania. 

 In 1830 he removed with his father's family to 

 Pottsville, Schuylkill county, where he was 

 educated as a printer. He subsequently be- 

 came an editor, studied law, and in 1845 was 

 admitted to the bar. In 1850 he was elected 

 district attorney in Schuylkill county, and sub- 

 sequently was speaker in the State Senate. 

 In May, 1861, he left home to enter upon his 

 duties as minister at Buenos Ayres, but his 

 health, which had for some time been failing, 

 compelled him to resign his office, and he died 

 on his return homeward. 



April 27. BETHUXE, GEORGE W.. D.D. (&e 

 BETHUXE, G. W.) 



April 29. ALLEY, JOHX BURROUGHS, M.D., 

 died in Boston, aged 41 years. He graduated 

 at Yale College in 1 840, and at the Medical 

 School of Harvard University in 1844, after 

 which he spent two years in Europe, pursuing 

 his medical studies. Upon his return he set- 

 tled in Boston, and until his death was an ac- 

 tive and useful member of his profession. He 

 was for several years superintendent of the 

 Boston Dispensary, and, for a time, one of the 

 councillors of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 



April 30. CAMBRELEXG, Hon. CHURCHILL C.. 

 died at his residence near Huntington, Long 

 Island. He was born in North Carolina in 1 7S6, 

 and was educated at Newbern. In 1S02 he came 

 to New York, and subsequently went to Provi- 

 dence, R. I., where he was employed as a clerk. 

 He was next employed by John Jacob Astor, 

 and while in his service travelled extensively. 

 He was a member of Congress from New York, 

 from 1821 to 1839, during which time he acted 

 as chairman of Committees of Commerce, Ways 

 and Means, and Foreign Affairs. In 1839 

 he was appointed Minister to Russia by Presi- 

 dent Van Buren, and in 1846 was a member 

 of the State Constitutional Convention. 



