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OBITUARIES. 



more and Ohio railroad, and at Carnifex Ferry, 

 the skill, bravery, and daring of the command- 

 er, and the invincibility of the troops, were 

 fully tested. Early in the winter Col. Mc- 

 Cook was ordered with his command to 

 Kentucky, and at Mill Springs the impet- 

 uosity of his regiment in their charge upon 

 the enemy carried the day. Col. McCook was 

 wounded in the engagement, but only remained 

 away from his regiment long enough to re- 

 cover sufficient strength to ride on horseback. 

 For his gallant conduct at Mill Springs he was 

 promoted to a brigadier-generalship, the Senate 

 unanimously confirming the nomination, but 

 he was so strongly attached to his " bully 

 Dutchmen," and they were so unwilling to 

 have any other commander, that he never ac- 

 cepted the commission. He joined Gen. Buell's 

 command after the evacuation of Bowling 

 Green, but was not in any of the subsequent 

 battles. At the time of the attack on him he 

 was very sick, and was carried in an am- 

 bulance, one regiment and part of another 

 of his brigade being in advance, and the 

 remainder some distance in the rear. The 

 guerillas, who were partly residents of the vi- 

 cinity, had been informed that he was to 

 pass, and knowing his helpless condition, had 

 lain ]fi ambush for him while the regiments in 

 advance passed. They came upon his escort 

 in large force, overturned the ambulance, and 

 shot him down in cold blood. His faithful 

 driver and attendant bore him to the nearest 

 house. He survived, though in terrible suffer- 

 ing, about 24 hours. His regiment, learning 

 of the death of their commander, visited the 

 scene, and seizing some of the guerillas, hung 

 them at once, and destroyed their houses. The 

 McCook family have contributed more men to 

 the war, probably, than any other in the United 

 States. Maj.-Gen. Alexander McDowell Mc- 

 Cook was a brother of the murdered general, 

 and sixteen members of the family have been 

 either in the army or navy. 



Aug. 5. WILLIAMS, Brig.-Gen. THOMAS, an 

 officer of the U. S. army, killed in the battle 

 of Baton Rouge, La. He was a native of New 

 York, born in 1818, was appointed a cadet at 

 West Point from Michigan iu 1833, and gradu- 

 ated in 1837; received the appointment of brevet 

 second lieutenant in the Fourth Artillery dur- 

 ing the same year; in 1840-'41 was acting as- 

 sistant professor of mathematics at West Point, 

 in 1844 was appointed an aide-de-camp on Gen. 

 Scott's staff, and in the Mexican war won the 

 brevets of captain and major for gallantry and 

 meritorious conduct. He was promoted to a 

 captaincy in 1850, and commissioned major 

 in the 5th artillery in May, 1861, and in 

 September of the same year appointed briga- 

 dier-general of volunteers. During the au- 

 tumn of 1861 he commanded the forts at Hat- 

 teras Inlet, and when the Ship Island expedi- 

 tion was sent out was assigned to the command 

 of one of the brigades. He commanded the 

 forces in the first unsuccessful attack upon 



Vicksburg, projected and superintended the 

 cutting of the canal intended to turn the course 

 of the Mississippi away from Vicksburg ; on the 

 failure of this enterprise he was placed in com- 

 mand at Baton Rouge. He repelled with vigor 

 and success the attack of the Confederate gen- 

 eral Breckinridge on that place, but just at the 

 close of the engagement, while bringing up a 

 Michigan regiment to charge upon the enemy 

 he was slain. He was an able and skilful officer, 

 and a very rigid disciplinarian. 



Aug. 5. ROBERTS, Col. GEOEGE T., an officer 

 in the Union service, and commander of the 

 7th regiment Vermont volunteers, killed at 

 the battle of Baton Rouge, La. He was a na- 

 tive of Rutland, Vt., and the regiment which 

 he commanded was one raised to form part of 

 Gen. Butler's command on the Ship Island ex- 

 pedition. He was commissioned Feb. 12, 1862, 

 and sailed for Ship Island on the 10th of the 

 following month. Col. Roberts participated in 

 the capture of New Orleans, and his regiment 

 suffered severely in the battle of Baton Rouge 

 in which he lost his life. 



Aug. 8. GREW, Rev. HENKY, an American 

 clergyman, died in Philadelphia. He was born 

 in England in 1781, but emigrated to this coun- 

 try with his parents at the age of 14, subse- 

 quently graduated at Brown University, be- 

 came a Baptist minister, and for some years 

 was pastor of the First Baptist church in Hart- 

 ford, Ct. Having adopted views differing from 

 those of that denomination, he resigned the 

 pastorate, and after a time removed to Phila- 

 delphia, where he resided the remainder of his 

 life. He was an active friend and promoter of 

 foreign missions, and one of his daughters, Mrs. 

 Eliza Grew Jones, devoted herself to foreign 

 missionary work, and died at Bangkok, Siam, 

 after several years of zealous labor as a mis- 

 sionary. Mr. Grew published several works 

 in defence of the doctrines of the Adventists, 

 whose views he had adopted. He was a man 

 of great benevolence and charity, and few citi- 

 zens in private life have been more sincerely 

 and generally regretted. 



Aug. 9. CRANE, Lieut.-Col. L. H. D., an 

 officer in the Union service, at the time of his 

 death acting colonel of the 3d regiment, 

 Wisconsin volunteers, killed at the battle of 

 Cedar or Slaughter Mountain. He was a citi- 

 zen of Ripon, Wisconsin, and had been for 

 several years chief clerk of the Assembly of 

 that State. He joined the regiment as major, 

 but was soon promoted to the lieutenant-colo- 

 nelcy, and at the time of the battle, owing to 

 the illness of the colonel, was in actual com- 

 mand of the regiment. He was a genial, intel- 

 ligent, and amiable man, beloved in his own 

 neighborhood and State. 



Aug. 9. SEWELL, WILLIAM GRANT, a promi- 

 nent litterateur, died in Quebec, Lower Cana- 

 da, of pulmonary consumption. He was born 

 in Quebec in 1829, and was a grandson of the 

 late Jonathan Sewell, chief justice of Lower 

 Canada. Young Sewell was educated for the 



