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OBITUAKEES, UNITED STATES. 



everything calculated to make life pleasant, he 

 at once volunteered his services in behalf of his 

 country, and accepting the commission of major 

 in the 20th regiment of volunteers, went to 

 the seat of war. At the disastrous battle of 

 Ball's Bluff his regiment behaved nobly, but 

 lost heavily ; he was taken prisoner and, with 

 his colonel, was confined in a felon's cell as 

 a hostage for the privateersmen whom the 

 United States Court had convicted as pirates. 

 After his exchange he participated in the cam- 

 paign on the James river, and at Antietain was 

 on General Sumner's staff, when he was com- 

 plimented for his gallantry, having received a 

 severe wound, which gave him a long winter of 

 pain and seclusion. Upon his recovery he was 

 promoted as colonel of the 20th regiment, and 

 received his death wound in the first success- 

 ful battle of the campaign. 



July 8. KENBIOK, FRANCIS PATRICK, Arch- 

 bishop of Baltimore. (See KENBICK, F. P.) 



July 9. HENSHAW, DANIEL, a prominent 

 lawyer in Massachusetts, died in Boston, aged 

 81 years. He was born in Leicester, Mass., 

 May 9th, 1782, graduated at Harvard College 

 in the class of 1806, studied law, and practised 

 his profession twenty-one years in Winchendon, 

 Mass. In 1830 he practised in Worcester, and 

 afterward for several years in Lynn, where he 

 edited the "Lynn Record" until its discon- 

 tinuance in 1842. On becoming an editor he 

 gave up his professional business and continued 

 for fourteen years in the arduous and respon- 

 sible position of leading editor of a paper. He 

 had a taste for genealogy, and read many enter- 

 taining papers before the Historic-Genealogical 

 Society, several of which were published in 

 Boston papers. After giving up his editorial 

 labors he removed to Boston, where he was 

 residing at the time of his death. 



July 12. RBAD, Commander ABNER, an of- 

 ficer of the United States navy, died from a 

 wound received upon the Monongahela, at the 

 batteries above Donaldsonville. He was a na- 

 tive of Ohio and about 42 years of age at the 

 time of his death ; was educated at the Ohio 

 University at Athens, which institution he left 

 in his senior year in 1839, having received a 

 midshipman's warrant. His first voyage was 

 on the schooner Enterprise to the South Amer- 

 ican coast, having been detached from a ship- 

 of-war destined to the Mediterranean, on ac- 

 count of some little difficulty with the captain 

 previous to the sailing of the vessel. Prior to 

 his examination, he spent a year in reviewing 

 his studies at the Naval School in Philadelphia 

 and stood fifth in a class of forty-eight. He 

 was at once detailed to the duty of acting sail- 

 ing master, in which capacity he made several 

 voyages and soon acquired the reputation of 

 being one of the most skilful navigators in the 

 service. At the breaking out of the Mexican 

 war he was on the coast of Africa, but re- 

 turned in time to make a cruise in the Gulf and 

 participate in some naval operations near the 

 close of the war. The progress of naval pro- 



motion being slow, he did not reach the rank 

 of lieutenant until 1853, and in 1855 the 

 Navy Retiring Board consigned him to the 

 list of retired officers, but he was not long 

 after reinstated by the Examining Board. Soon 

 after the commencement of the war he was 

 ordered for service to the Wyandotte, the 

 command of which soon devolved upon him, 

 and it was this vessel which performed such 

 important service in saving Fort Pickens from 

 falling into the hands of the enemy. In May, 

 1862, the health of Lieutenant Read was so 

 much impaired that he was relieved of his com- 

 mand for a time in order to place himself under 

 medical treatment. A severe fit of sickness pros- 

 trated him for some weeks, and before fully re- 

 covering his strength, he asked sailing orders 

 and was assigned to the command of the gunboat 

 New London. Proceeding at once to Ship Island 

 he commenced cruising in the Mississippi Sound, 

 and in eight days captured four valuable prizes. 

 The exploits of this vessel won for it from the 

 enemy the appellation of the " Black Devil," 

 and it soon succeeded in breaking up the trade 

 between New Orleans and Mobile. The New 

 London captured nearly thirty prizes, took a 

 battery at Biloxi, and had several engagements 

 with Confederate steamers on the sound. A 

 short time previous to his death he lost his left 

 eye in an engagement at Sabine Pass. In June 

 of 1863 he was placed in command of the 

 steam sloop-of-war Monongahela. He was a 

 skilful officer and a universal favorite through- 

 out the navy. 



July 14. GOUGE, WILLIAM M., late editor 

 of the Philadelphia " Gazette," died in Trenton, 

 N. J., in the 67th year of his age. He was 

 the author of a work on Banking, and for 

 thirty years was connected with the Treasury 

 Department at Washington. 



July 14. O'BEIEN, Col. HENKY T., was killed 

 by the rioters in New York city. He was a 

 native of Ireland, but had resided for many 

 years in New York city. Previous to the riot 

 he had been for some time engaged in raising 

 a three years' regiment (the llth New York 

 volunteers, or James T. Brady Light Infantry). 

 Early on Monday, July 13th, he volunteered 

 his service and those of his regiment to aid 

 in suppressing the riot. (See RIOTS IN NEW 

 YORK.) 



July 15. HALE, BENJAMIN, D. D., an emi- 

 nent teacher and author, died at Newburyport, 

 Mass. He was born in that town, November 

 23d, 1797, graduated at Bowdoin College in 

 1818, and soon after became principal of an 

 academy at Saco, Me. The following year he 

 entered the Andover Theological Seminary, and 

 in 1822 was licensed to preach. In 1823 he 

 became tutor in Bowdoin College, and subse- 

 quently established the institution known as 

 the Gardiner Lyceum, of which he became 

 principal. In 1827 he was chosen professor of 

 chemistry and mineralogy in Dartmouth Col- 

 lege, which position he held eight years, and 

 while here received orders in the Protestant 



