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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



in that year, minister resident at the Court of 

 Sardinia; but his ignorance of the Italian lan- 

 guage, and his affectation, rendered him very 

 unpopular as a minister, and in 1858 he resign- 

 ed and returned to the United States. Soon 

 after his return he became again connected 

 with the Richmond press, and was noted for 

 the violence of his language as a political con- 

 troversialist, and his readiness to resort to the 

 duello as a means of settling personal difficulties. 

 He was very bitter toward John Brown in 

 1859, and insisted strenuously upon his execu- 

 tion. At the commencement of the war he 

 avowed himself a secessionist from conviction, 

 and advocated to the best of his ability the 

 claims of John B. Floyd and Henry A. "Wise 

 upon the gratitude and support of the Con- 

 federacy. He was for a time on the staff of 

 one of the corps commanders (Jackson, we be- 

 lieve) of the Army of Northern Virginia, but 

 returned soon to Richmond and to the editor- 

 ship of the " Richmond Examiner," in which, 

 while zealously advocating the prosecution of 

 the war, he was unremitting in his attacks on 

 Mr. Davis, the President of the Confederacy. 

 After the death of "Stonewall" Jackson he 

 wrote a memoir of him which was republished 

 in England. 



March . LORINT, Madame VIRGINIA WHI- 

 TING, a distinguished opera singer, and prima 

 donna in the Royal Opera House at Havana, 

 died at Santiago de Cuba, 



March 31. MILLS, Brevet Major CHARLES 

 JAMBS, U. S. volunteers, was killed at the bat- 

 tle of Hatcher's Run, aged 24 years. He was a 

 native of Boston, Mass., graduated at Harvard 

 College in 1860, and subsequently entered the 

 Lawrence Scientific School in Cambridge, when 

 he left to accept *Jhe commission of lieutenant 

 in the 2d Massachusetts volunteers. He join- 

 ed the regiment in August, 1861, and was badly 

 wounded in both legs at the battle of Antietam 

 while acting as adjutant of the regiment. He 

 never recovered from the lameness produced 

 by these wounds, and being unable to join his 

 regiment in six months, was mustered out of 

 service. As soon as he was able to mount a 

 horse he again sought a commission, and was 

 appointed in October, 1863, the adjutant of the 

 Massachusetts 56th volunteers. He went with 

 his regiment to Virginia in March, 1864. As 

 soon as the active movements of the campaign 

 began, he was appointed by Brig.-Gen. Stone- 

 man on the staff of his division, and subse- 

 quently served successively on the staffs of 

 Maj.-Gen. Crittenden and Brig.-Gens. Ledlie 

 and White. In August he was promoted to be 

 captain and assistant adjutant-general of the 9th 

 corps, on the staff of Gen. Wilcox. In October 

 ho was transferred to the 2d corps, on the staff 

 of Maj.-Gen. Hancock. He was soon after 

 promoted to be brevet-major " for gallant and 

 meritorious conduct in the field," and remained 

 in the 2d corps when he was killed. 



April 1. WINTHROP, Brevet Brig.-Gen. 

 FREDERICK (colonel of the 5th New York vol- 



unteers and captain 12th infantry U. S. army), 

 killed at the battle of Five Forks, Va., while 

 leading the 1st brigade, 2d division, 5th corps. 

 He was born in New York in 1840, joined the 

 71st regiment New York State militia in its 

 three months' service at the beginning of the 

 war as a private, and fought at Bull Run. In 

 October, 1861, he was appointed captain in the 

 12th U. S. infantry (regular army), and con- 

 tinued in service until the battles of the Wilder- 

 ness in 1864, when he was appointed colonel 

 of the 5th New York regiment, and shortly 

 afterwards brevetted brigadier-general for gal- 

 lantry in the field. He was a cousin of the 

 late Major Theodore Winthrop and of Robert 

 C. Winthrop, of Boston. 



April 2. WILDER, SAMSON VRYLING STOD- 

 DARD, an eminent philanthropist of New Jersey, 

 died at Elizabeth, aged 85 years. He was a 

 native of Bolton, Mass., and descended from a 

 Huguenot family. He commenced his mercan- 

 tile life in Boston, from which place in the in- 

 urest of his business he went to Paris. In 

 1813 he went to London, where he soon form- 

 ed the acquaintance of Rev. Roland Hill and 

 other celebrities of that era. He very early 

 enlisted in the Bible and Tract Societies, and in 

 1823, on the organization of the Tract Society, 

 was prevailed upon after much solicitation to 

 accept the presidency. He retired from the 

 office in 1842, having presided over it for more 

 than sixteen years. Removing to New York in 

 1830, he became a prominent banker in connec- 

 tion with the house of Hottinguer, in Paris, and 

 later with the Bank of the United States. At 

 the time he resigned his position over the Tract 

 Society he was connected with a number of 

 other organizations, all of which he retired 

 from. He was the author of a number of re- 

 ligious tracts that obtained a large and world- 

 wide notoriety. 



April 3. HYDE, Rev. LAVIUS, a Congrega- 

 tional clergyman and author, died at Vernon, 

 Conn., aged 76 years. He was a native of 

 Franklin, Conn., and when six years of ago be- 

 came for a time a member of the family of his 

 brother, Rev. Alvan Hyde, D. D., of Lee, Mass., 

 by whom, after the death of his father, in 1802, 

 he was fitted for Williams College, from which 

 he graduated in 1813. He studied theology at 

 Andover, and in 1818 was ordained pastor of 

 the church in Salisbury, Conn. In 1823 he was 

 settled in Bolton, Conn., and subsequently at 

 Ellington, Wayland, and Becket, Mass., return- 

 ing again to Bolton. When threescore and ten 

 years of age he retired from the pastoral office, 

 passing the remainder of his days at Vernon, 

 Conn. Mr. Hyde was a man of rare attain- 

 ments. His reading was extensive and thorough, 

 and through his fondness for books he had 

 gathered a large and valuable library, lie w:ix 

 the author of several books, among which was 

 a biography of his brother, Rev. Dr. Hyde, pub- 

 lished in 1834. He also edited a new edition 

 of Dr. Nettleton's Village Hymns. 



April 4. GRACIE, ARCHIBALD, an eminent 



