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OBITUAKIES, UNITED STATES. 



August, 1868, he was made first lieutenant. 

 He was still serving in this capacity when, by 

 the acts of the late Gen. Twiggs and some of 

 his officers, the United States troops in Texas 

 were handed over to the secession authorities, 

 and was one of the officers who participated in 

 the movement. He succeeded in raising a regi- 

 ment mainly of Kentuckians for the Confed- 

 erate service, and was soon after appointed 

 brigadier-general, and commanded a brigade 

 throughout most of the year 1862 in Gen. John- 

 ston's, afterward Gen. Bragg's army. In the 

 spring of 1868 he joined the army of Virginia, 

 and when Gen. Stuart was placed in command 

 of Stonewall Jackson's corps, he was promoted 

 to tbe command of the cavalry corps, and made 

 a major-general. At the battle of Gettysburg 

 he commanded the largest division in Gen. 

 Longstreet's corps, and was severely wounded ; 

 but recovering, returned to his division, which 

 at this time had been ordered with the rest of 

 Gen. Longstreet's corps to Georgia, and fell in 

 the battle of Chickamauga. 



Sept. 20. JONES, Lieut.-Col. WILLIAM G., 

 an officer of the U. S. volunteers, died at Chat- 

 tanooga, from wounds received at the battle of 

 Chickamauga, aged 28 years. He graduated 

 at West Point in 1860, and, after the usual res- 

 pite, was ordered to join his company of the 

 8th infantry to which he was attached as 

 brevet second lieutenant then serving in Tex- 

 as. He participated in several Indian skir- 

 mishes ; and at San Antonio was taken prison- 

 er. In the fall of 1860 he became second lieu- 

 tenant in the 10th infantry, and in the follow- 

 ing spring was promoted to first lieutenant. 

 In March, 1862, he was selected as aide-de- 

 camp to Gen. Andrew Porter, then provost 

 marshal general of the army of the Potomac, 

 which post he filled, with ability, until he 

 was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 71st 



* Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, and, the col- 

 onel being absent, took command of the 

 regiment. In the battles of Peach Orchard, 

 Glendale, White Oak Swamp, and Allen's 

 Field, the regiment under his command won 

 itself much honor; and for his conduct on 

 these occasions he was rewarded with the 

 brevets of captain and major. He was subse- 

 quently aid upon the staff of Major-General 

 ouraner, in which capacity he distinguished 

 himself at South Mountain and at Antietam. 

 After the death of General Sumner he was ap- 



. pointed to the colonelcy of the 89th Ohio 

 infantry , and it was, while ably command- 

 ing this regiment of Crook's brigade, that he 

 fell fighting nobly at the head of his men. 



Sept. 20. LYTLE, Brig.-Gen. WM. HAINKS, 

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

 Chickamauga, Ga. He was born in Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, Nov. 2d, 1826, and his ancestors, for sev- 

 eral generations, were noted as military men. 

 He graduated with distinction at Cincinnati 

 College ; studied law, and, during the Mexican 

 war, entered the military service of his country 

 as a lieutenant of an independent company of 



foot soldiers. On the 21st of December, 1847, 

 he was promoted to the captaincy, retaining 

 his command until the regiment was disband- 

 ed, July, 1848. At the conclusion of the Mexi- 

 can war he resumed the practice of his pro- 

 fession, and was soon after elected to the Ohio 

 Legislature. Subsequently he was chosen ma- 

 jor-general of the first division of Ohio militia, 

 a position previously held by both his father 

 and his grandfather. At the outbreak of the 

 present war he accepted the colonelcy of the 

 10th Ohio volunteers, which, by its despera- 

 tion in the fight, won the title of the " Bloody 

 Tenth." He participated in the battle of Rich 

 Mountain, where he won much honor. At Car- 

 nifex Ferry he commanded a brigade, and large- 

 ly contributed to drive Gens. Floyd and "Wise 

 from that part of Virginia; and here he was 

 severely wounded. When scarcely recovered, 

 he returned to the field and first took the com- 

 mand of the Bardstown Camp of Instruction, and 

 then of the 17th brigade under General O. M. 

 Mitchel, participating in the brilliant opera- 

 tions along the Memphis and Chattanooga rail- 

 road. At the battle of Perry ville he was again 

 wounded, and fell into the hands of the enemy, 

 but, after a week's captivity, was exchanged. 

 For his gallant conduct he was made brigadier- 

 general of volunteers, in the spring of 1863 ; 

 and from that time to his death served under 

 Gen. Rosecrans. In addition to his talents 

 as a soldier, he was a poet of much merit, 

 though from his extreme modesty few of his 

 productions have found their way into print. 

 He fell at the battle of Chickamauga, by a bul- 

 let which pierced his brain, as he was gallant- 

 ly leading a charge. 



Sept. 29. GKUND, FRANCIS J., a well known 

 author of Philadelphia, died suddenly in that 

 city, of apoplexy, aged about 60 years. He was 

 a native of Germany, but since arriving at the 

 age of manhood, had resided almost entirely in 

 the United States. He was a frequent contribu- 

 tor to some of the public papers of the day. In 

 1837 he published a work called " The Ameri- 

 cans in their Moral, Social, and Political Re- 

 lations." In 1839, appeared a work called 

 " Aristocracy in America, from the Sketch 

 Book of a German Nobleman," which he was 

 understood to have written. He had a foreign 

 appointment under President Buchanan, and 

 when the war broke out, was consul at Havre. 

 Soon after, he returned to this country and be- 

 came editor of a new paper entitled " The 

 Age, " published in Philadelphia. A short 

 time previous to his death, he withdrew from 

 that establishment, as his views differed from 

 those of his associates and the line of policy 

 marked out for the paper. The evening pre- 

 vious to his death he made an able speech at 

 the Union League in Philadelphia. His death 

 was induced by his excitement from the sup- 

 posed danger of an assault by a mob. He had 

 gone to a police station to obtain protection 

 when his alarm brought on an apoplectic at- 

 tack, from which he died in about ten minutes. 



