OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



a juncture no doubt had its effect on the final 

 triumph of the day. While gallantly inspiring 

 his men to action he received the fatal bullet 

 which ended his brave career. 



Dec. 31. RAINS, Brig.-Gen. JAMES E., an 

 officer in the Confederate service, killed at the 

 battle of Stone river. He was a native of North 

 Carolina, graduated at West Point in 1827, and 

 was appointed to the 7th infantry. He took 

 part in the Seminole war in Florida, and was 

 brevetted major for gallant and meritorious 

 conduct in an action with the Indians near Fort 

 King, April 28th, 1840, on which occasion he 

 commanded the troops, and was wounded. In 

 1855 he was with his regiment in Washington 

 Territory, and was appointed brigadier-general 

 of the Washington Territory volunteers. When 

 the war broke out he was a lieutenant-colonel 

 of the 5th infantry, but his sympathies being 

 with the Confederate cause, he resigned his com- 

 mission, July 81st, 1861, and, according to Gen. 

 Sterling Price's official report of the battle of 

 Wilson's Creek, was acting as brigadier-general 

 of the advance guard of the army which fought 

 the battle, August 10th. He distinguished 

 himself at the battle of Shiloh and Perry- 

 ville, and at the battle of Stone river, where 

 he lost his life, won much credit by his skill 

 and daring. 



Dec. 31. HANSON, Brig.-Gen. ROGER, an 

 officer in the Confederate service, killed at the 

 battle of Stone fiver. Gen. Bragg, in his of- 

 ficial report of that battle, speaks of him in high 

 terms. 



Dec. 31. ScnAEFFEE, J. W., acting brigadier- 

 general of the U. S. volunteer service, killed at 

 the battle of Stone river. He was a native of 

 Pennsylvania, but was appointed to the service 

 from Illinois. In the official report of the bat- 

 tle of Stone river, Gen. Rosecrans mentions his 

 name with honor. 



Dec. 31. TURNER, ROYAL, died in Randolph, 

 Mass., aged 70 years. He graduated at Har- 

 vard College in 1813, and soon after engaged in 

 niercantile .pursuits. In early life he was a prac- 

 tical surveyor, and assisted in locating the first 

 railroad built in this country, that leading from 

 the stone quarries in Quincy to Neponset river. 

 In 1815 ho received a lieutenant's commission 

 in the army, and rapidly passed through all the 

 grades of promotion until ho reached the col- 

 onelcy in 1823. In 1825 he was honorably dis- 

 charged. In 1818 he was elected one of the se- 

 lectmen of the town, and from 1823 to 1828 he 

 was clerk and treasurer. In 1826 he was commis- 

 sioned justice of the peace, and of the quorum 

 in 1823, continuing in the office until his death. 

 On the incorporation of the Randolph Bank in 

 1886, he was appointed cashier, and held the 

 office until 1842, when he was elected its pres- 

 ident, which position he occupied at the time 

 of his death. He was director in the Bridge- 

 water and Middleborough and Falls River rail- 

 roads until their union witli the Old Colony in 

 one corporation. In all his business relations 

 he was highly respected, not only for his en- 



ergy and executive ability, but his strict in- 

 tegrity of character. 



Dec. 31. Rues, HORACE P., inventor of the 

 Russ pavement, died in Halifax, N. S., aged 42 

 years. He had been for some time engaged 

 in gold mining in Nova Scotia. 



Jan. 1, 1863. RENSHAW, WILLIAMS., acting 

 commodore of the naval squadron engaged in 

 blockading Galveston, Texas, was killed upon 

 his flagship, the Westfield. He was a native 

 of New York, from which State he was 

 appointed to the navy as a midshipman, Dec. 

 22d, 1831. In 1837, he passed the Examining 

 Board, and received his warrant as a passed 

 midshipman, and was attached to the North 

 Carolina, at the New York Navy Yard. In 

 1841 he was promoted to a lieutenancy, and in 

 1861 became commander, and was ordered to 

 the Ordnance Bureau, at Washington, on spe- 

 cial service. He was next transferred to the 

 command of the United States steamer West- 

 field, under Admiral Farragut, and was by him 

 assigned to the command of that portion of the 

 squadron which blockaded Galveston. During 

 the recapture of Galveston, the Westfield got 

 hopelessly aground, and having a large supply 

 of ammunition and two magazines of powder 

 on board, Commodore Renshaw determined to 

 destroy her rather than let her fall into the 

 hands of the enemy. Having made due ar- 

 rangements, and secured the safety of his men, 

 he staid behind to light the train before leav- 

 ing ; but a drunken man had, it is said, prema- 

 turely lighted the match, and the commodore, 

 together with those in the small boats awaiting 

 him, were involved in the general destruction. 

 He was a faithful officer, and had spent thirty- 

 one years in the service of his country. 



Jan. 1. WAINWRIGHT, Commander JONA- 

 THAN M., an officer in the U. S. navy, was kill- 

 ed upon the Harriet Lane during the attack 

 \ipon Galveston, Texas. He was a native of 

 New York, but a citizen of Massachusetts, from 

 which State he was appointed to the United 

 States navy as a midshipman, June 13th, 1837. 

 He passed the Examining Board, June, 1843, and 

 received his warrant as a passed midshipman on 

 that date. He was then engaged at the naval 

 rendezvous in New York. On the 17th of Sep- 

 tember, 1850, he was promoted to a lieutenancy, 

 and upon the commencement of the Avar was 

 advanced to be a commander, and ordered to 

 the Harriet Lane. He was a son of the late 

 Bishop Wainwright, and had been twenty-five 

 years in the United States service. 



Jan. 2. LEA, Lieut. EDWARD, of the U. S. 

 navy, was killed upon the Harriet Lane in the 

 engagement before Galveston, Texas. He was 

 a native of Maryland, but a resident of Tennes- 

 see, from which State ho was appointed to the 

 Naval Academy in 1851. After graduating ho 

 received an appointment to the Home squadron, 

 and subsequently to the East India squadron. 

 At the commencement of the war, being him- 

 self truly Union, notwithstanding his ties of re- 

 lationship in the South, he was assigned to the 





