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OBITUAEIES. 



a position in the Boston custom house. 

 "When the call was made for troops in the 

 spring of 1861, he was among the first to raise 

 a regiment for the war, and was in active ser- 

 vice till his death. He was shot through the 

 lungs, and died of hemorrhage in a few hours. 

 He was the last member of his family, a 

 brother and sister having previously deceased. 



Aug. 28. MEANS, Ool. ISAAC H., ex-governor 

 of South Carolina, killed at the second battle 

 of Bull Eun. He was a colonel in the Confed- 

 erate service. 



Aug. 30. CULL, Eev. HUGH, an aged and 

 eminent clergyman of the Methodist Church, 

 died near Eichmond, Indiana, in the 105th year 

 of his age. He had been for nearly sixty years 

 a local preacher. 



Aug. 30. PRATT, Col. GEORGE W., an officer 

 of the Union service, and at the time of his 

 death colonel of the 20th regiment N. Y. 

 State volunteers, was killed at the battle near 

 Gainesville, Va. He was the son of Col. Zadock 

 Pratt, formerly M. C. from Greene county, and 

 had entered the volunteer service in the sum- 

 mer of 1861. He was an excellent officer and 

 highly esteemed in private life. He was killed 

 while leading his men in a charge. 



Aug. 30. KOLTES, Col. JOHN A., an officer 

 in the Union service, and at the time of his 

 death acting brigadier-general in Gen. Stein- 

 wehr's division, killed at the battle of Gaines- 

 "ville, Va. He was a native of Ehenish Prus-. 

 sia, born in 1823, and came to this country in 

 1846. In Prussia, he had been a professor in 

 one of the gymnasia, or colleges. Shortly after 

 his arrival here he joined a regiment from 

 Pennsylvania, which had volunteered for the 

 Mexican War, and served throughout that war 

 as orderly sergeant. After the close of the 

 war he was for a time an officer of the Marine 

 Corps, and was subsequently employed in the 

 U. S. mint at Philadelphia. At the commence- 

 ment of the present war, he appealed to his coun- 

 trymen to join him in defence of the Union, and 

 succeeded in raising a regiment of Germans, 

 whom he led to the field. He had been for 

 four months acting brigadier-general in Stein- 

 wehr's division, and his friends had secured 

 his promotion to that rank and were carrying 

 his commission to him when they met his dead 

 body, as it was borne from the field. 



Aug. 30. CANTWELL, Col. JAMES, an officer 

 of the Union service, and at the time of his 

 death colonel of the 82d Ohio regiment, killed 

 at the battle near Gainesville, while rallying 

 the left wing of his regiment, which had given 

 way under the attack of an overwhelming 

 force of the Confederates. He was a citizen of 

 Kenton, Hardin county, Ohio, and volunteered 

 in the service at the commencement of the 

 war, having been lieutenant-colonel of the 4th 

 Ohio regiment of three months' troops ; when 

 they were disbanded he raised the 82d regi- 

 ment for the Avar, and received his commission 

 as colonel Dec. 31, 1861. 



Aug. 31. BBODHEAD, Col. THOBNTON F., an 



officer of the Union army, and at the time 

 of his death commander of the 1st Michigan 

 cavalry regiment, died at Alexandria, Va., of 

 wounds received the preceding day at the 

 second battle of Bull Eun. He was a native 

 of New Hampshire, born in 1822, and was a 

 son of Eev. John Brodhead, formerly a member 

 of Congress from that State. He studied law 

 at the Harvard Law School, and settled in his 

 profession at Detroit, Mich. He served Avith 

 distinction in the Mexican War as an officer in 

 the 15th U. S. infantry, and was twice brevet- 

 ted for gallant conduct in battle. At the 

 close of the war he returned to the practice 

 of his profession, and was soon after elected a 

 member of the State Senate. In 1852 Presi- 

 dent Pierce appointed him postmaster of 

 Detroit. At the commencement of the war he 

 raised a cavalry regiment, at the head of which 

 he served under Gens. Banks, Fremont and 

 Pope. 



Aug. . AUDUBON, JOHN W., the last of 

 the sons of the celebrated naturalist, died in 

 New York city. He inherited much of his 

 father's taste and talents, and had occupied 

 himself with zoological studies. When taken 

 ill, he was preparing for the press a new and re- 

 vised edition of his father's " Birds of America." 



Sept. 1. STEVENS, Gen. ISAAC ING ALLS. 

 (See STEVENS, I. I.) 



Sept. 1. REABNEY, Gen. PHILIP. (See KEAB- 



NEY, P.) 



Sept. 1. WILLABD, Hon. JOHN, a member of 

 the State Senate of New York, and formerly 

 one of the justices of the supreme court of the 

 State, died at Saratoga, N. Y., of paralysis. He 

 was born in 1792, and in early life identified 

 himself with the democratic party. In 1836 

 Gov. Marcy appointed him judge and vice 

 chancellor of the fourth circuit court of the 

 State, a position which he held till the adop- 

 tion of the constitution of 1846. At the judi- 

 cial election of 1847, he was chosen one of the 

 justices of the supreme court for eight years. 

 At the expiration of his term he resumed the 

 practice of his profession. In the autumn of 

 1861 he was put in nomination for the State 

 Senate, and received the votes of all parties. 

 He was appointed a member of the Judiciary 

 Committee, and in that capacity prepared the 

 act of 1862 restoring the death penalty, and 

 repealing the former statutes on that subject. 



Sept. 1. TAYLOR, Gen. GEORGE B., an officer 

 of the Union army, died in Alexandria of 

 wounds received at the second battle of Bull 

 Eun. He was a native of Clinton, Hunterdon 

 county, New Jersey, and was born in 1808. At 

 the age of 19 he entered the navy as a midship- 

 man, but after a three years' cruise settled in 

 New Jersey as a farmer. In the Mexican war 

 he served first as lieutenant, and afterward as 

 captain in the 10th infantry. After the close 

 of that war he resided for three years in Cali- 

 fornia, and then returned to his native State, 

 where he engaged in mining and manufacturing. 

 At the commencement of the present war he 



