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partment, was commissioned colonel of a regi- 

 ment he had raised, and located his camp in 

 Roxborough. On the 8th of March, 1862, he 

 left with his regiment, the 58th Pennsyl- 

 vania volunteers, for Fortress Monroe, and was 

 in the advance when the attack was made on 

 Norfolk. He also performed some bold move- 

 ments on the Blackwater. Subsequently he 

 was transferred to the Department of North 

 Carolina, and in January, 1863, his regiment 

 was stationed near Newbern. A short time 

 previous to his death he was in command of a 

 brigade, in which position he evinced much 

 ability as a military chieftain. 



May 26. BICKEL, JOHN, died in Jonestown, 

 Lebanon county, Peun., aged 87 years. He was 

 appointed postmaster in Jonestown under the 

 administration of Thomas Jefferson in 1802, 

 which position he held, through every change 

 of administration, until 1859, a period of 57 

 years, when the infirmities of age compelled 

 him to resign. 



May 26. EMEBSON, RALPH, D.D., died at 

 Rockford, Illinois, aged nearly 76 years. He 

 was a native of New Hampshire ; graduated at 

 Yale College hi 1811 ; studied theology at An- 

 dover, and from 1814 to 1816 held the office 

 of tutor in Yale College. At the close of his 

 services he was ordained and installed as pas- 

 tor of the Congregational church in Norwalk, 

 Conn., where he remained till 1829, when he 

 was appointed professor of ecclesiastical his- 

 tory and pastoral theology, in the Andover 

 Theological Seminary an office which he re- 

 tained through a period of twenty-five years. 

 He then resided five years in Newburyport, 

 Mass., after which he removed to Rockford, 

 Illinois, in order to be near his children. He 

 was a contributor to the "Bibliotheca Sacra," 

 the " Christian Spectator," and other religious 

 periodicals. He also published a life of his 

 brother, Rev. Joseph Emerson, and a transla- 

 tion, with notes, of a work on " Augustinism 

 and Pelagianism," by C. F. Wiggins. 



May 26. GBEEN, Rev. L. W., D.D. (See 

 GREEN, L. W.) 



May 27. COWLES, Col. DANIEL S., an officer 

 of the U. S. volunteers, was killed in the assault 

 at Port Hudson. At the commencement of the 

 war he was engaged in the practice of law in 

 Columbia county. He accepted the command 

 of the 128th regiment of New York volunteers, 

 made up, for the most part, of men of wealth 

 and high social position. He was cool in coun- 

 cil, brave in battle, and fell by a bayonet thrust 

 while leading his men to the enemy's works. 



May 27. RODMAN, Lieut.-Col. WM. LOGAN, 

 was killed in the attack on Port Hudson, Miss. 

 He was bora in New Bedford, Mass., March 7th, 

 1823 ; graduated at Harvard College in 1842, 

 and soon after entered into mercantile business. 

 He visited California during the gold excite- 

 ment, and was absent two years, returning by 

 way of Calcutta and the overland route through 

 Europe. He was a member of the Common 

 Council of New Bedford in 1852, and in 1860 



and 1862 was in the Legislature. He enlisted 

 in the service of the country, raised a company 

 of volunteers, with whom, as their captain, ho 

 proceeded to the seat of war. His skill and 

 bravery rapidly promoted him to the position, 

 first, of major, and then of lieutenant-colonel, 

 and in the assault, during which he lost his 

 life, he bore a gallant part. 



May 28. TEMPLE, Hon. WILLIAM, died in 

 Smyrna, Del., aged 52 years. He was governor 

 of Delaware nearly four years, having succeed- 

 ed to that office by reason of his position as 

 speaker of the House of Representatives, on the 

 death of Gov. Hall, who, being speaker of the 

 senate, had become governor on the death of 

 Gov. Stockton, and lived but a few months af- 

 ter. He had also acquired a high reputation as 

 a merchant in Smyrna, and had recently been 

 elected to the 38th Congress. 



May . GOODETOE, Rev. JOSIAH F., died in 

 Whitewater, Wisconsin. He was born in West- 

 minster, Vt., in 1791 ; graduated at Middlebury 

 College in 1821 ; studied theology at Andover, 

 Mass., and accepted the pastorate of a church 

 in Williston, Vt., in 1824, where he remained 

 until 1834. He then accepted a call to the Con- 

 gregational church in Shoreham, Vt., where he 

 spent twenty-four years. His published writ- 

 ings are : " A Sermon on the Character of Rev. 

 Thomas A. Merrill, D.D., of Middlebury, Vt.," 

 and "A History of the Town of Shoreham," 

 the scene of his last labors. 



June 1. MASSETT, Major, an officer in the 

 U. S. volunteers, died at Memphis, Tenn. He 

 was an Englishman by birth, but had been for 

 the last twenty years a citizen of the United 

 States. After the loss of a son, Col. Massett, 

 killed at the battle of Fair Oaks, he abandoned 

 a life of ease and comfort, and entered the 

 army, with the rank of major of cavalry. As 

 an officer, he was brave and active, and spared 

 neither body nor mind in the faithful perform- 

 ance of his duties. 



June I. KIEBT, Brig.-Gen. EDMTIND, an offi- 

 cer of U. S. volunteers, died in Washington, 

 from wounds received at the battle of Chancel- 

 lorsville. He was born in Brownsville, Jeffer- 

 son county, New York, graduated at West Point, 

 and joined the army in May, 1861. He was as- 

 signed to Ricketts' battery as second lieutenant, 

 and upon the imprisonment of Gen. Ricketts by 

 the enemy, assumed command of the battery, 

 which position he retained until his death. He 

 took a prominent and active part in all the bat- 

 tles in which the Army of the Potomac was 

 engaged, and was promoted to a brigadier-gen- 

 eralship for his bravery at Chancellorsville. 



June 9. DAVIS, Col. BENJAMIN F., of the 8th 

 N. Y. cavalry, was killed while leading a bri- 

 gade to the charge. He was a native of Missis- 

 sippi, but was appointed a cadet at West Point 

 from the State of Alabama, in the year 1850; 

 graduated in 1854, and was appointed brevet 

 second lieutenant of the 5th infantry, and, in 

 1855, was transferred to the 1st dragoons, with 

 the full rank. He distinguished himself in the 



