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protection, Gen. Van Dorn called for volun- 

 teers to carrv the battery by storm. Col. Rog- 

 ers at once volunteered, and 2,000 men stepped 

 from the ranks to accompany him. After ad- 

 dressing them a few words of encouragement 

 he gave the order to march, and they moved 

 forward at a quick step, in solid column eight 

 deep, directly in face of the battery. Before 

 they reached it nearly one half their number 

 had" fallen ; but there was no faltering, the rear 

 ranks stepped to the front and filled the gaps ; 

 they reached the outworks, and though twice 

 driven back, succeeded the third time in plant- 

 ing their flag upon the parapet, when a volley 

 from the guns of the inner works, at short 

 range, killed a large number, among whom 

 was the rashly brave Rogers. Gen. Rosecrans, 

 in his general order after the battle, rendered 

 the homage due from a chivalric foe to the 

 brave man who led this attack, where death 

 was so inevitable. 



Oct. 4. HAOKLEMAX, Gen. PLEASANT ADAM, 

 a brigadier-general in the Union army, killed 

 at the battle of Corinth. He was a native of 

 Franklin county, Indiana, born about 1817, 

 was educated for the legal profession, and was 

 prominent as a lawyer in the State. He be- 

 came editor of the ' Rushville Republican," 

 about 1840, and continued as its editor till the 

 conirnencement of the war. In 1841 he was a 

 member of the Legislature of Indiana, and for 

 several years afterward clerk of Rush county. 

 In 1847 and 1858 he was a candidate for Con- 

 gress, but was defeated on both occasions. In 

 he was a member of the Republican Na- 

 tional Convention at Chicago, and in 1861 of 

 the Peace Conference at "Washington. In 1661 

 he was appointed colonel of the 10th Indiana 

 regiment, and served in Gen. Banks's corps in 

 Virginia; his gallant and meritorious conduct 

 there occasioned his promotion to the rank of 

 brigadier-general, April 28, 1862, and in June, 

 he was ordered to report to Gen. Grant, in the 

 army of the Southwest. He took an active 

 part" in the battle of luka, and in the battle of 

 Corinth was killed on the second day of the 

 fight. He was a man of dignified and upright 

 character and of superior abilities. 



Oct. 6. COLMAX, WILLIAM DEAX, a captain 

 and assistant adjutant-general in the U. S. vol- 

 unteers, and one of the staff of Brig.-Gen. 

 Stanley. 2d division, army of the Mississippi, 

 born in Salem. Ma., Sept. 15, 1827, the eldest 

 son of Samuel Colman, publisher. On the 

 breaking out of the war with Mexico he enlist- 

 ed as a private in "Walker's Mounted Rifles, and 

 took an active part in the principal battles 

 fought under Lieut.-Gen. Scott. "When the first 

 gun was fired by the Confederates at Fort 

 Sumter he was assistant postmaster at New 

 Orleans, but without stopping to count the cost, 

 he abandoned all and hastened north to join 

 the Union army. In the summer of 1861 he 

 was appointed assistant quarter master, and in 

 December a major in the Missouri State Militia, 

 where he was actively occupied in the most 



hazardous parts of that State till February, 1 862, 

 when he was ordered by Major-Gen. Ualleck 

 to the staff of Brig.-Gen. Stutter. On t ! 

 July, he accepted from the president a co: 

 sion as captain, and assistant adjutant-general 

 of U. S. volunteers. He wns in all the battles 

 and skirmishes, with Gen. Stanley, from New 

 Madrid and Island No. Ten to the most memor- 

 able and sanguinary battle of Corinth on the 

 3d and 4th October, where he received a mor- 

 tal wound, and died on the 6th after two days 

 of severe suffering. He was buried with mili- 

 tary honors, being much beloved and esteemed 

 by Gens. Rosecrans, Stanley, and all on the 

 staff, for his bravery, patriotism, and strict ad- 

 herence to duty. 



Oct. 6. SI.AMM. LEVI P., a purser in the 

 navy, died at Mamaroneck. "Westchester county, 

 N. Y., from the effects of a fall while going on 

 board ship at Montevideo, in 1860. He was 

 born in New York in 1812, and was for some 

 years a leading democratic politician of the 

 "hard money" school, and edited for a consid- 

 erable time a democratic newspaper in the 

 city. In 1846 he was appointed a purser in 

 the navy, which office he held till his death. 



Oct. 8. TEERILL. Gen. WILLIAM R., a briga- 

 dier-general of the Union army, killed at the 

 battle of Perryville. He was a native of Vir- 

 ginia, born about 1832, and appointed from 

 that State a cadet at the Military Academy, 

 where he graduated in 1853, and was immedi- 

 ately appointed brevet second lieutenant of the 

 3d artillery, from which he was transferred 

 to the 4th artillery in November following 

 as second lieutenant. In 1855 he was appoint- 

 ed assistant professor of mathematics at West 

 Point. In 1856 he was promoted to a first 

 lieutenancy, and in May. 1861, was appointed 

 captain in the 5th artillery, and assigned to 

 duty on the coast survey. He scon after 

 raised a regiment of volunteers. w;.s sent to 

 Kentucky, where he commanded a battery in 

 Gen. McCook's division, was transferred to the 

 command of a brigade, and for his gallant and 

 meritorious conduct at the battle of Shiloh, was 

 appointed brigadier-general of volunteers, his 

 commission bearing date Sept. 9, 1862. At 

 Perryville, he was killed while urging forward 

 his brigade against the enemy. 



Oct. 8. JACKSON, Gen. JAMES S., a brigadier- 

 general in the Union service, killed at the I at- 

 tle of Perryville. He was a native of Ken- 

 tucky, born about 1822, and educated for the 

 bar. " He had been some years in the practice 

 of his profession, when at the commencement 

 of the Mexican war he raised a regiment of 

 volunteers, and served during the war. Dur- 

 ing his service in Mexico he had a difficulty 

 with Col. Thomas F. Marshall, which resulted 

 in a duel. On his return to Kentucky he re- 

 sumed his practice first at Greenupsburg, and 

 afterward at Hopkinsville, Ky., and in 1860 

 was elected to Congress from the 2d congres- 

 sional district of that State. In the autumn of 

 1861 he resigned his seat in Congress, and took 



