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e went to Europe and remained until Septem- 

 ber, 1855, spending about six months of the 

 time in Paris, studying in the French hospitals. 

 On his return to this country he resumed his 

 studies with his father, and graduated at the 

 Medical School in 1856, when he began the 

 practice of his profession in Boston. In July, 

 1857, he was appointed one of the district phy- 

 sicians of the Boston Dispensary. He was re- 

 markably successful in his practice, which in- 

 creased rapidly, as his father was intending to 

 relinquish the profession to his son. On the 

 breaking out of the war he was one of the first 

 physicians to enter into the service of the 

 anitary Commission, in which he continued 

 until the close of the peninsular campaign in 

 Virginia. Throwing his whole soul into the 

 work of ministering to the wounded and dying, 

 he spared himself neither night nor day. He 

 was subsequently appointed surgeon of the 44th 

 Massachusetts regiment, with which he left for 

 the seat of war. On his arrival in North Caro- 

 lina his arduous labors and exposures to the 

 unhealthy climate brought on a fever, which 

 speedily terminated his valuable life. In the 

 eloquent language of one of the officers of the 

 Sanitary Commission, he was "one who, 

 through months of death and darkness, lived 

 and worked in self-abnegation ; lived in and for 

 the sufferings of others, and finally gave him- 

 self a sacrifice for them." 



April . MYEKS, Mrs. ELIZABETH, died in 

 Antes, Blair county, Pa., aged 109 years. 



April . REID, DAVID BOSWELL, LL.D. died 

 at Washington D. C. 



April 12. KIMBALL, Lieut.-Col. EDGAR A., 

 killed at Suffolk, Va. He was born in Concord, 

 N. H., in 1821, was educated as a printer, re- 

 moved to Vermont, and became editor and pro- 

 prietor of the Woodstock (Vt.) "Age," a liberal 

 democratic newspaper. He distinguished him- 

 self in the Mexican campaign, and for his gal- 

 lantry at Contreras, Churubusco, and Chapulte- 

 pec, received the brevet of major. He was 

 subsequently for a time in the office of the New 

 York " Herald." Upon the breaking out of the 

 war he again took the field, and received the 

 commission of major of the 9th New York 

 olunteers (Zouaves), May 13th, 1861, and the 

 following August participated in a reconnois- 

 sance up the peninsula. At the battle of Ro- 

 anoke Island, N. C., February 7th, 1862, Major 

 Kimball led his Zouaves along a narrow cause- 

 way commanded by the enemy's cannon, and at 

 great peril carried the work and planted the 

 Federal flag over it. On the 14th of February, 

 1862, he was promoted to the position of 

 lieutenant-colonel, and soon after was placed 

 in command of the regiment, which formed a 

 portion of the ninth army corps. He parti- 

 cipated in the reduction of Fort Macon, and 

 was also engaged in the battles of South 

 Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. The 

 regiment was next transferred to Newport 

 News, thence to Suffolk, Va. Here he un- 

 fortunately met his death, on the 12th of April, 



by a shot from General Michael Corcoran. 

 Gen. Corcoran had occasion to pass Col. Kim- 

 ball's camp on important duties connected with 

 his command, before dawn of that day, and 

 his right to pass being challenged by Col. Kim- 

 ball, he announced his rank and position, and 

 the urgency of his journey. By some strange 

 perversity, Col. Kimball refused to accept his 

 statement, and persisting in his determination 

 not to allow him to pass, Gen. Corcoran, after 

 giving him notice, fired upon him with fatal 

 effect. 



April 14. SPEAE, Rev. CHARLES T., died at 

 Washington, aged about 50. He was a man of 

 very philanthropic disposition, and had devoted 

 many years to prison reform, visiting the pris- 

 ons, urging before the directors and legisla- 

 tures the adoption of measures for the amelior- 

 ation of the condition of convicts, and for fa- 

 cilitating their reformation. He published for 

 a number of years a monthly periodical called 

 "The Prisoner's Friend," and had published 

 two or three volumes of extracts and original 

 articles for the encouragement of those in 

 durance. His death, at Washington, was from 

 disease contracted in his labors in behalf of the 

 prisoners of war. 



April 14. WELCH, BEXJAMIX, late commis- 

 sary general of the State of New York, died at 

 Clifton Springs, aged 45 years. He studied law 

 with the late Judge Mann, of Utica, N. Y., and 

 was subsequently editor of the Utica "Demo-' 

 crat " and of the Buffalo " Republican." He was 

 at one time State treasurer, and for four years 

 commissary general of the State. In the spring 

 of 1862 he accepted a position on General Pope's 

 staff, and during the campaign of the following 

 summer contracted the disease which subse- 

 quently proved fatal. 



April 17. STANSBUEY, Major HOWAED, an 

 officer of the corps of topographical engineers, 

 died in Madison, Wisconsin. He was born in 

 New York city, February 8th, 1806, and in early 

 manhood entered the service of the corps of 

 civil engineers. In October, 1828, he was 

 placed in charge of the survey of the eastern 

 section of a proposed canal to unite Lake Erie 

 with the Wabash river ; a survey to ascertain 

 the practicability of uniting by a canal the 

 waters of Lake Michigan with the Wabash 

 river ; a survey of the obstructions in Wabash 

 river, and surveys on the White Water. In 

 1832 he surveyed the route of the Mad river 

 and Lake Erie railroad. He also made surveys 

 of the mouth of the Vermillion, Chagrin, and 

 Cumberland rivers. In 1835 he had charge of 

 a number of ptfblic works in Indiana, and the 

 following year made a survey of the James 

 river, with a view -to the improvement of the 

 harbor of Richmond. In 1837 he made a sur- 

 vey of the Illinois river, from its mouth to the 

 termination of the canal, and of the Kaskaskia 

 river, from its mouth to Vandalia. In 1838 he 

 was engaged upon the survey for a railroad 

 from Milwaukee to Dubuque, and charged with 

 the construction of a road from Milwaukee, via 



