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Berks, Lehigh, and Bucks counties, was organiz- 

 ed soon after, and he was appointed its colonel. 

 After a few weeks' service in camps of instruc- 

 tion near "Washington, the emergencies of the 

 " invasion of Maryland required the services of 

 Col. Croasdale's regiment in the field, and it 

 marched with the grand army from Washing- 

 ton. At Antietam, though a new regiment, it 

 was assigned an important position, and Col. 

 Croasdale was leading it forward through a 

 tempest of shot and shell when a musket ball 

 passing through his brain killed him instantly. 



Sept. IS. KINGSBUKY, Col. HENRY W., an offi- 

 cer of the U. S. army, commanding, at the time 

 of his death, the llth regiment Connecticut 

 volunteers, died of wounds received the pre- 

 vious day at the battle of Antietam. He was 

 a son of the late Major Julius J. B. Ivingsbury, 

 and'was born in Connecticut in 1837. He en- 

 tered West Point in 1856 and graduated in 

 1861, second in his class. Soon after his grad- 

 uation he was assigned to the duty of drilling 

 the volunteers at Washington, and after a short 

 time put in command of a battery with the 

 rank of captain. His thorough military knowl- 

 edge and skill as an officer recommended him 

 to the authorities of his native State, and he 

 was offered the command of the llth regiment. 

 He acquitted himself nobly in his new position, 

 and was regarded as an officer of great promise. 

 In the battle of Antietam. he was four times 

 seriously wounded. 



Sept. 18. CCETIS, HARVEY, D. D., a Presby- 

 terian clergyman, and at the time of his death 

 E'esident of Knox College, died at Galesburg, 

 linois. ^He was a native of Adams, Jefferson 

 county, New York, and was born in 1806. He 

 graduated at Middlebury College, Vermont, in 

 1831, with the highest honors of his class, 

 studied theology for the next three yenrs at 

 Princeton, N. J., and in 1835 was ordained 

 pastor of the Congregational church in Bran- 

 don, Vermont. In 1841 he accepted an ap- 

 pointment from the American Home Mission- 

 ary Society as their agent for Ohio and Indiana, 

 and in 1843 received and accepted a call to the 

 pastorate of the 2d Presbyterian church in 

 Madison, Ind. After seven years of pastoral 

 labor there he removed to Chicago, Illinois, to 

 take the pastorate of the 1st Presbyterian 

 church in that city. On the resignation of 

 Rev. Dr. Blanchard he was elected president 

 of Knox College, at Galesburg, in 1858. 



Sept. 19. LITTLE, Gen. HENRY, an officer in 

 the Confederate service, killed at the battle of 

 luka. He was a native of Mississippi, born 

 about 1818, graduated at West Point in 1839, 

 appointed 2d lieutenant in the 5th infantry, and 

 distinguished himself at Monterey and Cerro 

 Gordo. He had been promoted in 1858 to a 

 captaincy in the 7th infantry, and at the com- 

 mencement of the war was in command of the 

 pogt of Albuquerque in New Mexico. He re- 

 signed, and was appointed a brigadier-general 

 in the Confederate service, in the army of the 

 Southwest. 



Sept. 19. DWIGTIT, Lieut. -Col. WILDER, an 

 officer of the Union service, lieutenant-colonel, 

 at the time of his death, of the 2d Massachu- 

 setts volunteers, died in the hospit.-; 

 boro\ Md., of wounds received in the battle 

 of Antietam. He was a son of William I hvight, 

 of Boston, and was born about 1832, and 

 uated at Harvard University in 1853. He join- 

 ed the 2d regiment at its formation, and had 

 won the reputation of a brave and skilful offi- 

 cer. In the retreat of Gen. Banks down the 

 Shenandoah Valley in May, 1862, he w,- 

 tinguished for his daring and the solicitude 

 which he manifested for the safety of his men ; 

 and was taken prisoner during this retreat. At 

 Antietam he was twice wounded. Three of 

 his brothers are in the army. 



Sept. 29. TABER, ISAAC CONGDON, a promi- 

 nent merchant of New Bedford, Mass., and at 

 the time of his death mayor of that city, died 

 at his residence in New Bedford. He was 

 elected mayor in 1859, and continued in office 

 by successive reflections till his death. 



Sept. 29. NELSON, Major-Gen. WILLIAM. (See 

 NELSON, W.) 



Sept. 29. RODMAN, GEN. ISAAC PEACE, a 

 brigadier-general in the Union service, died 

 near Hagerstown, Md., of wounds received in 

 the battle of Antietam. He was a native of 

 South Kingston, R. I., born Aug. 28, 1822. He 

 received a good early education, and engaged 

 while yet a youth in the woollen manufacture, 

 and had attained a high reputation for the 

 character of the goods manufactured by his 

 firm, which were sold in all parts of the coun- 

 try. At the commencement of the war he was 

 a member of the State Senate ; but at once re- 

 signed his seat, recruited a compnny for the 2d 

 Rhode Island regiment (Col. Slocum's), and 

 went to the war as its captain. His company 

 were the first to fire upon the enemy at the bat- 

 tle of Bull Run, and fought bravely throughout 

 that battle. He was appointed lieutenant-colo- 

 nel of the 4th Rhode Island regiment at its or- 

 ganization, and soon after promoted to the 

 colonelcy of that regiment, which was detailed 

 to the Burnside expedition. At Roanoke Island 

 Colonel Rodman took an active part, and at 

 Newbern his regiment made the brilliant charge 

 which won the day. His regiment also parti- 

 cipated in the investment and reduction of Fort 

 Macon, but before that was accomplished, Col. 

 Rodman had received his commission as briga- 

 dier-general. An attack of typhoid fever in- 

 duced by overexertion and exposure rendered 

 it necessary for him to come home on sick leave, 

 and he only recovered in time to join Gen. 

 Burnside at Fredericksburg. Here he found 

 himself, though only a brigadier-general, in 

 command of Gen. Parke's division. In the 

 month of battles which followed. Gen. Rod- 

 man did his full shnre, quietly and unostenta- 

 tiously. At South Mountain and Antietam he 

 displayed military genius of a high order, and 

 in the terrible conflict by which the stone bridge 

 was carried and held, he was stricken down. 



