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the legislature before the opening of the war. 

 He volunteered early in the war, and soon after 

 received an appointment as captain in the 12th 

 U. S. infantry, in which position his gallantry 

 iu the peninsular and other campaigns, attracted 

 the attention of his superiors. He was sub- 

 sequently called to the command of the 210th 

 Pennsylvania volunteers, and in the duties of 

 his new post was as remarkable for his personal 

 bravery as for the military talent which he had 

 developed. He was gentle, open-hearted, and 

 generous to a fault. 



April 17. TYLER, CHARLES H., a brigadier- 

 general in the rebel army, killed at West Point, 

 Ga., in the battle at that point with Major-Gen- 

 eral Wilson's cavalry. He was a native of the 

 South, and at the breaking out of the war a 

 captain of dragoons in the U. S. army. His 

 promotion was not rapid, and he had not ap- 

 parently distinguished himself in the war. 



April 21. COOK, Gen. WILLIAM, Chief En- 

 gineer of the Camden and Amboy Eailroad, and 

 a leading citizen of New Jersey, died at Hobo- 

 ken, N. J., in the 64th year of his age. He was 

 a native of New Jersey, and a graduate of the 

 U. S. Military Academy at West Point. Im- 

 mediately upon graduating, he entered the En- 

 gineer corps of the army, and served for some 

 years, being employed principally upon Gov- 

 ernment explorations and surveys. In 1830, 

 he left the army to accept the position of Civil 

 Engineer of the Camden and Amboy Railroad 

 Company, in which position he remained until 

 his death. 



April 21. MURPHY, MATTHEW, Col. 69th 

 regiment N. Y. volunteers, died in New York, 

 from wounds received at the battle of Hatcher's 

 Run, Feb. 4, 1865. He was a native of Ireland, 

 born Dec. 26, 1840, but had come to the United 

 States in childhood. At the commencement 

 of the war he was a teacher in Public School 

 No. 24, and from patriotic impulses entered as 

 a private in the 69th, but soon rose from the 

 ranks by his merit, and on the return of tha 

 regiment to this city was elected its colonel, 

 reorganized and filled up the regiment, and led 

 it again to the field. He had taken part in 

 most of the prominent battles, and had won 

 the reputation of a brave and gallant officer. 



April 22. MCKEAN, WILLIAM W., U. S. N., 

 a commodore in the naval service of the United 

 States, died near Binghamton, N. Y., after a 

 brief illness. He was born in Pennsylvania in 

 1801, being the son of Judge McKean and a 

 nephew of Governor McKean. He entered the 

 navy from Pennsylvania in November 1814, and 

 had consequently been over fifty years in the 

 service, twenty-five of them afloat. His last 

 cruise was completed in June, 1862. In 1823- 

 '24 he commanded a schooner in Porter's squad- 

 ron, and was very active in suppressing piracy 

 along the coast of Cuba, and among the islands 

 of the West Indies. In 1860 he was sent on 

 the special service of conveying the Japanese 

 embassy home, and on his return was the first 

 commander of the West Gulf blockading squad- 



ron. He received his commission as commodore 

 July 16, 1862. Like Rear- Admiral Foote, he 

 was as eminent for his piety as for his skill and 

 daring, and won the esteem of all who were 

 under his command for his consistent and prac- 

 tical Christian character. 



April 23. CREIGHTON, Rev. WILLIAM, D. D., 

 an American Episcopal clergyman, died at Tar- 

 rytown, N. Y., aged 73 years. He was a na- 

 tive of New York city, graduated at Columbia 

 College, and during a great part of his earlier 

 ministry was rector of St. Mark's Church. Dur- 

 ing the suspension of Bishop Onderdonk, he 

 was elected Provisional Bishop of the Diocese 

 of New York, but declined to accept the posi- 

 tion, which was afterwards filled by the elec- 

 tion of Dr. Wainwright. He presided in the 

 Diocesan Convention for many years previous 

 to this, and also presided in the Lower House 

 of the General Convention of the Protestant 

 Episcopal Church during its sessions of 1853, 

 1856, and 1859. At the time of his death, and 

 for many years previously, he had been rector 

 of Christ Church, Tarrytown. 



April 24. GREENLEAF, Rev. JONATHAN, 

 D. D., an American Presbyterian clergyman, 

 died in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 80 years. He 

 was a native of Newburyport, Mass., was li- 

 censed to preach in 1814, and commenced his 

 first ministry in Wells, Me., where he continued 

 until 1828, when he removed to Boston and be- 

 came agent of the American Seamen's Friend 

 Society. In 1833 he became corresponding 

 secretary of the same society, which position 

 he retained until 1841, when he resigned. Soon 

 after he accepted the pastorate of the Franklin 

 Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn (then 

 known as the Wallabout Presbyterian Church), 

 and continued in that position until his death. 



April 26. BOOTH, JOHN WILKES, the assassin 

 of President Lincoln, died in Caroline County, 

 Va., from a gunshot wound in the base of 

 the brain, inflicted by Sergeant Boston Corbett. 

 He was the third son of the celebrated but ec- 

 centric actor, Junius Brutus Booth, and was 

 born in Harford County, Md., about thirty miles 

 from Baltimore, in 1839. His early education 

 was irregular and deficient in moral training, 

 and in 1856 he adopted the stage as a profes- 

 sion. He attained some reputation as an actor, 

 mainly in those parts requiring extravagant and 

 violent displays of passion. His habits were 

 dissipated in the last degree, but he possessed 

 those traits which made him popular with his 

 fellow-actors, who overlooked his vices in their 

 liking for his traits of good fellowship. In per- 

 son, he was a man of remarkable beauty, grace- 

 fulness, and physical strength. At the very 

 commencement of the war he avowed himself 

 a Secessionist, and had been throughout the 

 war prone to the most violent language and 

 action whenever the subject was discussed. 

 Indeed, his conduct in this respect had latterly 

 been so outrageous, that his elder brother, Ed- 

 win Booth, the tragedian, who was thoroughly 

 loyal, felt constrained to forbid him. his house. 



