OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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1847. He was aide-de-camp to Gen. Pillow in 

 1847 and 1848 ; was brevetted captain for gal- 

 lantry at Cerro Gordo, and major for gallantry 

 at Ohapultepec. In 1853 he resigned his com- 

 mission and retired to private life. At the out- 

 break of the war he entered into the service of 

 the Southern Confederacy; took a prominent 

 part in the siege of Fort Sumter, and was wound- 

 ed at the battle of Antietam. He was the author 

 of " The War in Mexico " (2 vols., New York, 

 1849). 



Sept. 4. GREELEY, Col. JOSEPH, died at his 

 residence in Nashua, N. H., in the 80th year 

 of his age. He was a native of Hudson, N. H., 

 entered into trade in Nashua in 1813, and re- 

 tired in 1826. He was a man of much public 

 enterprise, was one of the projectors of the 

 Nashua cotton mills ; the Nashua, Lowell, and 

 Wilton railroads; the Taylor's Falls Bridge; 

 president of the Indian Head Bank, and a hold- 

 er of many civil offices. He was also a founder 

 and active member of the Unitarian church in 

 Nashua. 



Sept. 5. UNDERWOOD, Major EDMUND, an 

 officer in the U. S. service, died in Utica, N. Y., 

 aged about 37 years. He served with distinc- 

 tion in the Mexican war ; and, on the 3d of 

 March, 1848, received a commission of second 

 lieutenant in the 4th regular infantry. Since 

 the close of that war he has been most of the 

 time on duty in California and Oregon. In 

 May, 1862, he was promoted from a captaincy 

 to a majority in the 18th United States in- 

 fantry. At the time of his death he was mus- 

 tering and disbursing officer for the northern 

 district of New York. 



Sept. 9. PURPLE, Hon. NOBMAN H., former- 

 ly Judge of the Supreme Court of Illinois, died 

 of dropsy at Chicago. He was one of the 

 leading lawyers of the West, and was remark- 

 able for the profound nature and extent of his 

 judicial learning. In politics he was of the 

 Douglas school of the democracy, and was at 

 one time a prominent candidate for the posi- 

 tion of United States senator. 



Sept. 13. SEYMOUR, ISAAC, president of the 

 Bank of North America, died suddenly, while 

 attending divine service at Trinity church, 

 New York. He was a valuable citizen, distin- 

 guished alike for his generous liberality, his 

 spirit of public enterprise, and his lofty patriot- 

 ism. He was a prominent vestryman of Trin- 

 ity church, as well as of St. Peter's church, in 

 Peekskill, his summer residence. He was also 

 treasurer of the Board of Missions of the Prot- 

 estant Episcopal Church, and was at one time 

 president of the Westchester County Bank. 



Sept. 17. BBODHEAD, Hon. RicHARD, ex- 

 United States senator, died in Pennsylvania. 

 He was born in Pike co., Pa. He was a mem- 

 ber of the State Legislature in 1837; was a 

 representative in Congress from 1843 to 1849, 

 and senator from 1851 to 1857, where he occu- 

 pied a prominent position. 



Sept. 17. PEASE, CALVIN, D.D. (See PEASE, 

 CALVIN.) 



Sept. 19. HEG, Ool. HANS C., acting brig.- 

 gen. of United States volunteers, was killed 

 at Chickamauga, aged 34 years. He was a 

 Norwegian by birth, and came with his father 

 to the United States, when but 11 years of age, 

 and settled in Wisconsin. In 1849, during 

 the gold excitement, he went to California by 

 the overland route, and after a stay of two 

 years returned, and, purchasing a piece of land 

 near Milwaukee, engaged in farming and mer- 

 cantile pursuits until 1859, when he was elect- 

 ed by the Republican State Convention of Wis- 

 consin to the office of commissioner of State 

 Prisons. In 1861 he entered into the military 

 service of his country, as major of the 4th Wis- 

 consin militia, and, on the 30th of September 

 of the same year, was commissioned colonel 

 of the 15th regiment of Wisconsin volun- 

 teer infantry, composed mostly of Scandina- 

 vians. This regiment formed part of the forces 

 under Gen. Pope in the reduction of Island No. 

 10 ; and was afterward attached to Col. Bu- 

 ford's brigade, with which it participated in 

 the surprise and capture of Union City, Term. ; 

 it also took a prominent part in the battle of 

 Chaplin Hills, near Perry ville, Oct. 8th, 1862. 

 With Gen. Buell's army, Col. Heg joined in the 

 pursuit of Gen. Bragg's forces out of the State 

 of Kentucky, and when the former was super- 

 seded by Gen. Kosecrans, he continued his 

 command, and participated in the contests at 

 Stone river and Murfreesboro. On the 29th 

 of April he was placed in command of the 

 third brigade of Davis's division, M'Cook's 

 (twentieth) army corps, of the army of the 

 Cumberland. With this brigade he took part in 

 all the movements of the twentieth corps, re- 

 sulting in the evacuation of Shelbyville, Tulla- 

 homa and Chattanooga, and at Chickamauga, 

 where he fell at the head of his forces, on the 

 second day of the fight. 



Sept. 20. HELM, Brig.-Gen. BEN. HARDIN, an 

 officer in the Confederate service, was killed 

 at Chickamauga. He was a native of Ken- 

 tucky, and was appointed from that State to 

 West Point in 1849. In 1851 he was brevetted 

 second lieutenant 2d dragoons, and resigned 

 October, 1852. In 1861 he joined the State 

 guards under Gen. Buckner, and afterward 

 went over with him to the Confederate service. 

 He served in Gen. Bragg's army as colonel at 

 Shiloh, and was soon after promoted to the 

 command of a brigade. He was in the battles 

 of Perryville and Stone river, commanding a 

 division in the latter, as he did also at Chicka- 

 mauga. 



Sept. 20. HOOD, Major-Gen. JOHN B., an of- 

 ficer in the Confederate service, reported killed 

 at Chickamauga. He was a native of Ken- 

 tucky; was born not far from 1830; graduated 

 at West Point in 1849, and was appointed 

 brevet second lieutenant 4th infantry in 1853, 

 and second lieutenant 2d cavalry in 1855. He 

 commanded a detachment in conflict with the 

 Comanches and Lipans near the head of San 

 Pedro river, Txas, and was wounded, lu 



