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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



the army of the Cumherland, and in the storm- 

 ing of Lookout Mountain, his regiment held 

 the right of Geary's division in Gen. Hooker's 

 first line of battle. During the hottest part of 

 the engagement Major Elliott leaped upon a 

 rock, either to cheer his men or for purposes 

 of observation, and immediately received a ball 

 from a sharpshooter, causing speedy death. 



Nov. 25 X SANDERS, Brig.-Gen. WILLIAM P., 

 an officer of U. S. volunteers, died at Knox- 

 ville, Tenn , of wounds received in the bat- 

 tle at Campbell's Station. He was a native 

 of Kentucky; graduated at West Point in 

 1856 ; and entered the service as brevet second 

 lieutenant 1st dragoons, and was transferred 

 to the 2d dragoons in May, 1857. Soon after the 

 cormneucement of the war, he was made cap- 

 tain of a company in the 6th regular cavalry 

 and took an active part in the peninsular cam- 

 paign. He subsequently accepted the office of 

 colonel of a volunteer regiment in Kentucky, 

 and performed many valuable services in the 

 West A few months previous to his death, 

 he was appointed brigadier general of volun- 

 teers, and was assigned to the command of the 

 first division of cavalry in East Tennessee. 

 He was a brilliant officer, a true patriot, and a 

 thorough gentleman. 



Nor. 26. SHOBT, LEVI, inventor of the cele- 

 brated Greek Fire, died in Philadelphia. Since 

 the outbreak of the war he had been actively 

 engaged in perfecting his invention and bring- 

 ing it into practical use. 



Nov. 26. WELLES, CORNELIUS M., died at 

 Big Meadow Mining district, Los Angeles co., 

 California. He was born in Wethersfield, 

 Conn., in 1828, and in his boyhood was a clerk 

 in a bookstore in Hartford, Conn., and subse- 

 quently for a short time engaged in the book- 

 Belling and publishing business. In 1851 he 

 became interested in the establishment of Rag- 

 ged or Mission Schools in Hartford, and in 

 1852 visited California, where he acted for 

 some time as a lay missionary in some of the 

 mining districts. He subsequently visited Aus- 

 tralia, and in 1855 returned to Hartford. He 

 there soon organized a city mission school, 

 and exerted himself with great success for the 

 benefit of the poor, ignorant, and vicious pop- 

 ulation of that city for several years. His 

 health failing, he made a voyage to South 

 America, and at Buenos Ayres and Rio Janei- 

 ro organized mission schools, which he subse- 

 quently handed over to missionaries who came 

 to those parts, and in December, 1859, returned, 

 by way of England, to New York. Here, with- 

 in two weeks after landing, he had organized 

 a mission school among the ignorant and vi- 

 cious poor of the Seventeenth Ward ; and this 

 organization, which, in a few months, under 

 the name of the Beulah Mission, grew into a 

 Sunday school, a free-day school, a regularly 

 maintained religious service three times a 

 week, and a charity for the honest but unfor- 

 tunate poor, accomplished a large amount of 

 good. In tlie summer of 1862 he was com- 



pelled by impaired health to seek a warmer 

 climate, and accepting an appointment as mis- 

 sionary to the freedmen in Washington, D. C., 

 he established several schools for .their instruc- 

 tion, and while directing these, gave every mo- 

 ment of leisure he could command to the work 

 of visiting and ministering to the sick and 

 wounded soldiers. In the battle of Cedar 

 mountain, in those before Washington during 

 Gen. Pope's campaign, at South mountain and 

 Antietam, at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, 

 and Gettysburg, he was always on the field, 

 one of the first to care for the wounded soldier, 

 to staunch his wounds and administer cordials 

 and food, as well as to give spiritual solace to 

 those who were destined to speedy death. In 

 September, 1863, he sailed for California, and 

 was on his way to Arizona, when he died after 

 a very brief illness. 



Nov. 27. DEMPSTER, JOHN, D. D., a clergy- 

 man of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died 

 at Evanston, 111. He was born in the town of 

 Florida, N. Y., Jan. 2d, 1794. He began life in 

 an humble sphere, but after his conversion 

 in 1812, he gave himself to study with great 

 diligence. In 1816 he became an itinerant 

 preacher by joining the Genesee Conference, 

 and soon distinguished himself by the earn- 

 est power and ability of his preaching, and 

 his sound judgment. After laboring several 

 years in Western New York he went to Buenos 

 Ayres as a missionary, where he was engaged 

 for six years. On his return he was stationed 

 in the city of New York, and in 1847 removed 

 to Concord, N. H., where he became one of 

 the founders and professors of the Biblical In- 

 stitute. In 1854 he removed to Evanston, 111., 

 to inaugurate a Biblical Institute at that place, 

 and was senior professor of the latter institu- 

 tion at the time of his death. He was a mem- 

 ber of seven general conferences, was a hard 

 student, a superior preacher, and a successful 

 educator of young men. 



Nov. 28. ROTCH, Col. FRANCIS M., died at his 

 residence in Morris, Otsego co., N. Y., aged 

 41 years. He received a thorough education 

 in his youth, and, upon arriving at maturity, 

 combined with his fondness for the quiet pur- 

 suits of agriculture a lively and intelligent in- 

 terest in public affairs. He served in the Sen- 

 ate of 1860 and 1861 with distinction, and at 

 the close of his senatorial term, received an 

 appointment upon Gov. Morgan's staft'. The 

 dnties imposed upon him were arduous, and in 

 their prosecution he was often obliged to visit 

 the regiments in the field, and while thus em- 

 ployed was seized with an illness, from which 

 be never fully recovered, and which finally ter- 

 minated in an attack of congestion of the 

 brain. 



Nov. . RAND, EDWARD SPRAGUE, a promi- 

 nent citizen of Newburyport, Mass., died in that 

 city, aged about 81 years. He was born in 

 Newburyport, and was educated at the Dum- 

 mer Academy, after leaving which he entered 

 his father's store as a clerk. When about 18 



