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OBITUARIES. 



command of the 3d regiment Kentucky cavalry, 

 was an active participant in most of the battles 

 of the winter and spring of 1861, and on the 

 16th of July was commissioned a brigadier-gen- 

 eral. In the battle of Perry ville he command- 

 ed a division of McCook's corps, of the army 

 of the Ohio. 



Oct. 9. WEBSTER, GEOEGE, colonel of the 

 98th Ohio volunteer infantry, died of wounds 

 received the preceding day in the battle of Per- 

 ryville. He was born in Butler county, Ohio, 

 in 1822. He volunteered in the Mexican war 

 as a private soldier, but was promoted to be 

 sergeant-major. After his return from Mexico 

 he commenced the practice of law in Jefferson 

 county, Ohio. In June, 1861, he volunteered 

 as major of the 25th Ohio, and was promoted 

 to a lieutenant-colonelcy in that regiment, 

 and on the organization of the 98th regiment, 

 in the summer of 1862, was appointed colonel. 

 This regiment was ordered to join Gen. Bnell's 

 army, and at the battle of Perry ville, Col. Web- 

 ster was put in command of one the brigades of 

 Jackson's division of McCook's corps. 



Oct. 11. TALLMADGE, Capt. GREEK, quarter- 

 master-general at Fortress Monroe, died of dis- 

 ease of the liver, at his quarters in that for- 

 tress. He was born in Dutchess county, New 

 York, in 1826. He was the son of Hon. N. P. 

 Tallmadge, late U. S. Senator from New York. 

 He graduated at West Point in 1848, and was ap- 

 pointed brevet second lieutenant in the 1st artil- 

 lery ; early the following year he sailed with 

 a detachment of United States troops for Fort 

 Vancouver, Oregon Territory, where he was 

 stationed for a year ; returning in 1850 he was 

 appointed aid to Gen. Wool, and after three 

 years' service on his staff was ordered to Fort 

 Niagara, and subsequently to Fort Ontario. 

 In 1853 he was promoted to a first lieutenancy 

 in the 4th artillery, and 1857 accompanied the 

 expedition to Utah, as an officer of Capt. (now 

 General) Phelps's battery. In 1858 he was or- 

 dered to Fortress Monroe, and in May, 1861, 

 promoted to the rank of captain in the quar- 

 termaster's department. The great labor of 

 organizing the quartermaster's department for 

 BO large a force as was congregated in the mil- 

 itary department of Fortress Monroe, and the 

 added duties of assistant adjutant-general, 

 which he discharged for a time, made his posi- 

 tion one of great toil and responsibility, but 

 they were admirably performed. The " contra- 

 band " idea put in practice by Gen. Butler, orig- 

 inated with him. 



Oct. 11. CHEESEMAN, Jons C., M. D., an em- 

 inent physician and surgeon, died in New York 

 city, aged 75. 



Oct. 13. COOPER, EDWARD S., M. D., an em- 

 inent surgeon, died in San Francisco, Cal. He 

 was a ntitive of Somerville county, Ohio, and 

 was born in 1821. After receiving a very 

 thorough medical education at Cincinnati and 

 St. Louis, he commenced practice in Peoria, 

 111., but in 1855 removed to San Francisco, 

 where his eminent abilities and remarkable 



skill as an operating surgeon, soon placed him 

 at the head of the profession, and gained him 

 a high reputation among his professional breth- 

 ren in the Eastern States, and in Europe. He 

 took an active part in the organization of the 

 medical department of the University of the 

 Pacific, and at the time of his death, was its 

 professor of surgery and president of its faculty. 



Oct. 15. HUDSON, Captain WILLIAM L., U. S. 

 navy, died of apoplexy in Brooklyn, N. Y. He 

 was born in New York, May 11, 1794, entered 

 the navy in 1816, and had worked his way 

 up from a midshipman to a captaincy. He was 

 second in command in Commodore Wilkes's ex- 

 ploring expedition, and was commander of the 

 Peacock sloop of war when she was lost by her 

 pilot's carelessness, on the rocks at the mouth 

 of Columbia river. He was for several years 

 commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard, in' 

 1855 was promoted to a captaincy, and in 1857 

 was assigned to the command of the Niagara, 

 on her first Atlantic cable expedition. This 

 proving unsuccessful, the effort to lay the cable 

 was repeated in the following year, and for his 

 services to science on that occasion, Capt. Hud- 

 Bon was honored with an ovation by his fellow 

 citizens of New York, and received from the 

 governments of Great Britain and Russia sev- 

 eral valuable gifts and other marks of distinc- 

 tion. On his return he was assigned to the 

 command of the Charlestown navy yard. In 

 August, 1862, he was put on the retired list, 

 and appointed one of the board of lighthouse 

 inspectors, which office he held at the time of 

 his death. 



Oct. 16. ANDERSON, Gen. GEORGE B., an offi- 

 cer in the Confederate army, died in Raleigh, 

 N. C. He was born in Wilmington, N. C., in 

 1827, entered West Point from that State in 

 1848, graduated in 1852, and was appointed 

 brevet 2d lieutenant in the 2d dragoons, pro- 

 moted to be 1st lieutenant in 1855, and in 1858 

 appointed adjutant of his regiment with the 

 rank of captain. He resigned in April, 1861, 

 entered the Confederate army, where he was 

 soon appointed brigadier-general, and at the 

 battle of Antietam received a wound in the 

 foot, which eventually proved fatal. 



Oct. 17. JAMES, Gen. CHARLES T., an Ameri- 

 can inventor and ex-U. S. Senator, died at Sag 

 Harbor, L. I., from wounds received by the ex- 

 plosion of a shell the previous day. He was 

 born in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, in 1804, 

 and having a remarkable aptitude for mechani- 

 cal pursuits he early learned the trade of a car- 

 penter, and at the age of 19 began to study the 

 science of mechanics, with a view to master the 

 business of the cotton manufacture, proceeding 

 at the same time as a workman, step by step, 

 through every department of the machine shops 

 where the machinery for the cotton mills was 

 manufactured. This accomplished, he removed 

 to Providence, and became superintendent of 

 Slater's steam cotton mills, and while in this 

 position, was chosen major-general of the Rhode 

 Island militia. In 1838, Brown University con- 



