OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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usefulness. When the war broke out he felt it 

 his duty to devote his energies to the service 

 of his country. In August, 1862, he received 

 a commission, and at once entered upon his 

 duties. He was taken prisoner at Brentwood, 

 Tennessee, March 25th, 1863, was rapidly 

 marched to Richmond, where he was imprisoned 

 four weeks, and died immediately after being 

 exchanged. 



May 8. VAN DORK, Maj.-Gen. EARL, an offi- 

 cer in the Confederate service, was killed by Dr. 

 Peters, of Maury county, Tennessee. He was 

 born in Mississippi about 1823, graduated at West 

 Point in 1842, and was appointed brevet second 

 lieutenant United States 9th infantry ; became 

 second lieutenant in 1844, and first lieutenant 

 in 1847, was brevetted captain for gallantry 

 at Cerro Gordo, and major for gallantry at 

 Contreras and Churubusco ; distinguished him- 

 self at Ohapultepec, and was wounded when en- 

 tering the city of Mexico. From January, 1852, 

 to June, 1855, he was treasurer of the Military 

 Asylum at Pascagoula, Miss. He distinguished 

 himself in three different expeditions against 

 the Comanches in Texas, in one of which he 

 was dangerously wounded. On the breaking 

 out of the war he resigned his commission in 

 the United States army, and accepting the po- 

 sition of colonel in the Confederate army, took 

 command of a body of Texan volunteers and 

 entered into an engagement to get possession 

 of the vast amount of military stores and equip- 

 ments which the United States Government 

 had collected in Texas. In the spring of 1861, 

 he captured the steamship Star of the West 

 at Indianola, and a few days after, at the head 

 of eight hundred men, at Saluria he received 

 the surrender of Major C. C. Sibley and seven 

 companies of United States infantry, and the 

 following month, that of Lieut.-Col. Reeve and 

 six companies of the 8th infantry. He was 

 made brigadier-general and subsequently major- 

 general, and took command of the trans-Missis- 

 sippi district, January 19th, 1862; commanded 

 at the battle of Pea Ridge, and was superseded 

 by Gen. Holmes. Since the battle of Corinth, 

 where he was unsuccessful, he had remained 

 in comparative obscurity, but had been engaged 

 in several attacks upon the outlying divisions 

 of the army of the Cumberland. He had made 

 his head-quarters for some months in Maury 

 county, Tennessee, and while there injured the 

 family of- Dr. Peters, who, after attempting 

 in vain to secure from him such reparation as 

 it was in his power to make, at last took his life. 



May 10. JACKSON, Maj.-Gen. THOMAS J. 

 (See JACKSON, T. J.) 



9Iay 11, CUTTS, Hon. JAMES MADISON, sec- 

 ond comptroller of the treasury, died at Wash- 

 ington. He was the father of Mrs. Senator 

 Douglas, and for many years resided in Wash- 

 ington, where he was esteemed as an amiable 

 and worthy citizen. 



May 11. LUTHER, SETH, died in the Insane 

 Hospital, Brattleborough, Vt. He was one of 

 the leaders of the " Dorr Rebellion," as it was 



called, which occurred in Rhode Island in 1842, 

 which agitation resulted in the adoption of a 

 constitution by that State, a year or two later. 



May 12. SCHMUCKER, SAMUEL MOBHEIM, 

 LL.D. (See SOHMTTCKEH, S. M.) 



May 17. TILGHMAN, Brig.-Gen. LLOYD, an 

 officer in the Confederate service, was killed at 

 Champion Hill, Miss. He was a native of Mary- 

 land, graduated at West Point in July, 1836, 

 and was appointed second lieutenant of the 1st 

 dragoons; resigned September, 1836. He then 

 became a division engineer of the Baltimore and 

 Susquehanna railroad, and subsequently survey- 

 or of the Norfolk and Wilmington canal, and the 

 Eastern Shore railroad. During the Mexican 

 war he was a volunteer aid to Col. Twiggs in the 

 battle of Palo Alto andResaca de la Palma, and 

 commanded a volunteer partisan party in Mex- 

 ico, October, 1846. He was superintendent of 

 defences at Matamoras, January, 1847 ; captain 

 of volunteer artillery in Hughes's regiment for 

 the Mexican war from August, 1847, to July, 

 1848, and the principal assistant engineer of the 

 Panama division of the Isthmus railroad in 

 1847. At the commencement of the war he 

 went into the Confederate service. 



May 22. BOOMER, Acting Brig.-Gen., an 

 officer of the U. S. volunteers, was killed at 

 Vicksburg. He was colonel of the 25th Mis- 

 souri, and commanded the second brigade of 

 Gen. Quinby's division, Gen. McPherson's 

 corps. While leading his brigade in the as- 

 sault upon the fort, on the east side of the 

 city, he fell by a bullet from one of the sharp- 

 shooters. 



May 23. CRIPPEN, WILLIAM G., editor of 

 the " Cincinnati Times," died in Cincinnati, 

 aged 43 years. At the age of sixteen he en- 

 tered an apprenticeship as a printer. His first 

 efforts as a reporter were made in a series of 

 letters to the New York " Spirit of the Times," 

 which were received by the public with much 

 favor. Soon after he became connected with 

 the establishment where he spent most of his 

 life. As a writer, whether as a correspondent 

 over his well-kno\vn nom de plume of " Invisi- 

 ble Green," in a reportorial capacity, or in the 

 indicting of articles, he was forcible, logical, 

 and entertaining ; and as a journalist, he was 

 ever animated by a desire to render strict jus- 

 tice to all men. 



May 23. JONES, Col. J. RICHTER, an officer 

 of U. S. volunteers, was killed near New- 

 bern, N. 0. He was born in 1804 ; received 

 his academical education at the Germantown 

 Academy, and graduated with high honors at 

 the University of Pennsylvania in 1821. Hav- 

 ing studied law, he was admitted to the Phila- 

 delphia bar in 1827 and continued to practise 

 until 1836, when he was appointed a judge of 

 the Court of Common Pleas for the county 

 of Philadelphia, and held the office until his 

 term expired by limitation under the new Con- 

 stitution in 1847. When the war broke out he 

 was residing near Laporte, Sullivan co., Pa. 

 He promptly offered his services to the War De- 



