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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



quence of the breaking out of the war, and the 

 need of officers, being examined in advance of 

 the usual time, he was ordered at once to the 

 field, and was in the battle of Bull Run : from 

 that time he was on duty with the Army of the 

 Potomac, until severe disease, contracted in the 

 service of his country, so prostrated his physical 

 powers, that he was no longer capable of active 

 service. After the battle of Malvern Hill he 

 was ordered to West Point, and there, though 

 constantly suffering from illness, he faithfully 

 and skilfully performed the double duty of As- 

 sistant Professor of Drawing and Ethics, until 

 it was impossible for him to continue his efforts 

 to be useful. He was a native of the State of 

 Maryland, but never hesitated about his duty 

 to his flag and to his country. The remem- 

 brance of his modesty, his worth, and his talents, 

 will be cherished by those to whom these qual- 

 ities so much endeared him. He was a brave 

 officer, and his short career in the army was 

 useful to his country, and honorable to himself 

 and to his family. He had been promoted to 

 the captaincy of the Sixth regiment of Regular 

 Infantry, and, at the time of his death, was 

 attached to Gen. Augur's staff. 



'Nov. 11. McCoRMicK, JAMES, one of the 

 oldest men in the United States, died in New- 

 burg, N. Y., in his 115th year. He was a na- 

 tive of the county of Cavan, Ireland, and his 

 age was accurately fixed by the fact, that in the 

 Irish Rebellion of 1798, when ages were a mat- 

 ter of importance, he was 47 years old. He 

 was a rebel .in that war, and was wounded. In 

 his youth he was not especially remarkable save 

 for health and strength. On one occasion he 

 lifted a stone weighing seven hundred pounds, 

 and upon another, walked fifty-two miles in 

 one day, returning the same distance the next 

 day. He was not married until he was forty- 

 five years old, and subsequently had a family 

 of fourteen children. In 1846 he came to this 

 country. His habits were temperate, acd all 

 of his senses continued perfect except that of 

 sight, which was fast failing at the time of his 

 death. 



Nov. 13. MORRISON, WILLIAM W., major and 

 commissary of subsistence in the Confederate 

 army, died in North Carolina. He was for- 

 merly a clerk in the Construction and Equip- 

 ment Bureau of the Navy Department at Wash- 

 ington. He subsequently had charge of tho 

 Impressment Bureau of the rebel Commissary 

 Department in North Carolina, and at one time 

 was the chief dependence of Lee for subsist- 

 ence. 



Nov. 13. PARSONS, WEARE DRAKE, a mer- 

 chant and editor, died suddenly in New York 

 city, aged 59 years. He was a native of Maine. 

 Early in life he went to New Orleans, where 

 he was for some time engaged in mercantile 

 pursuits. He also had business connections in 

 Texas. Subsequently, and about twelve years 

 since, he took up his residence in New York, 

 and finally started the " Daily News," with 

 Gideon J. Tucker as editor, and Jacob Thompson 



and other men of ability as contributors. Later, 

 he transferred the establishment to its present 

 proprietors, since which time Mr. Parsons, up . 

 to the date of his demise, had not engaged in 

 any active occupation. He had many friends, 

 was a Freemason, and always bore the reputa- 

 tion of being an honorable man. A member 

 of the Mozart Hall branch of the Democracy, 

 from the hour of its organization, he held tho 

 position of a member of its General Committee, 

 but never was an incumbent of any political 

 office. He enjoyed excellent and robust health 

 until the attack of paralysis which struck him 

 down at his own threshold, and from the effects 

 of which he died after lingering a few days. 



Nov. 14. LANE, WASHINGTON, editor of the 

 " Public Ledger " for twenty-five years, died in 

 Philadelphia, aged 52 years. Although holding 

 a very important position, his retiring nature 

 caused him to be little known beyond his ap- 

 propriate sphere. He was, however, admirably 

 fitted for the duties of his profession, and was 

 particularly noted for his industry and integrity 

 of character. 



Nov. 15. ADAMS, Capt. JULIUS W., U. S. A., 

 died in Brooklyn, L. I., aged 25 years. He was 

 born in Massachusetts, of Revolutionary stock. 

 Selecting the profession of arras from bis earli- 

 est youth, he was appointed from Kentucky to 

 the Military Academy at West Point at the age 

 of seventeen, and graduated in 1861, with the 

 privilege of selecting either the ordnance, ar- 

 tillery, infantry, cavalry or dragoon arm of 

 the service. He selected the infantry, and was 

 commissioned a second lieutenant, lie was 

 retained as an Assistant Instructor in Tactics 

 until June, 1862, when he joined his regiment 

 in the Army of the Potomac. He was severely 

 wounded at the battle of Gaines' Mills, and left 

 in the hands of the enemy at Savage Station in 

 the retreat of the " Seven Days ; " neglected by 

 the Con federate surgeons, and left in an open shed 

 exposed to the weather to dress his own wounds, 

 he was finally paroled for exchange; but he 

 contracted disease from his exposure, from the 

 effects of which he never entirely recovered. 

 Upon the recovery from his wounds, he re- 

 joined his regiment, and participated in the 

 campaigns which followed under Generals 

 Hooker, Burnside, and Meade, and although 

 but a captain, commanded his regiment, the 

 old 4th U. S. Infantry, in the battles of Fred- 

 ericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, 

 but the hist campaign under Gen. Grant proved 

 too much for his enfeebled body, and despite 

 his efforts to bear up, he was, a short time after 

 the battle of Cold Harbor, prostrated by pneu- 

 monia and compelled to quit the field. From 

 this attack he never fully recovered, and grad- 

 ally sank until relieved by death. 



Nov. 16. STEPHENSON, GEORGE, one of the 

 survivors of the Kane Expedition, died in New 

 York city, aged 38 years. He was a native of 

 Dublin, Ireland, and early took to the sea. 

 While in the Arctic expedition he contracted a 

 disease of the heart, and since that period had 



