OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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the 3d regiment of Massachusetts volunteers, 

 and afterward in the 19th regiment Massachu- 

 setts volunteers, serving in the Peninsular 

 and other campaigns of the Army of the Poto- 

 mac. "Was wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks 

 and again at Fredericksburg, and upon the ex- 

 piration of his term of three years, reenlisted 

 for another three years service. 



May 13. CALVEET, Hon. CHARLES B., died 

 near Bladensburg, Md., of paralysis. He was 

 a representative in the late Congress. 



May 13. FARRAR, SAMUEL, died in Andover, 

 Mass., aged 90 years. He was a native of Lin- 

 coln, Mass., graduated at Harvard College in 

 1797, and in 1800 was appointed tutor in that 

 college, which office he held one year. He 

 then entered upon the study of law, and soon 

 after commenced the practice of his profession 

 in Andover. He was one of the chief founders 

 of the Theological Seminary, and for thirty- 

 eight years was treasurer of that institution and 

 the academy, for much of that period devoting 

 a large share of his salary to their support. 

 He was the first President of the Andover Bank, 

 and held the office thirty years. 



May 14. LLOTD, Lieut.-Col. , was 



killed at Resaca. He -was an officer of the 

 119th regiment of Xew York volunteers, and 

 fell while leading a desperate charge upon the 

 enemy. 



May 14. TTLEB, HUGH, died at "Washington, 

 D. C. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and 

 resided at Athens in that State. He was well 

 known as a prominent Government contractor. 



May 16. SPEXCEB, PLATT R., died at his 

 residence in Geneva, Ohio, aged 63 years. He 

 was a native of Greene County, X. Y., but re- 

 moved to Ohio in his boyhood, and soon after 

 devoted himself to teaching. He was the author 

 of the well-known "Spencerian" system of Pen- 

 manship. 



May 19. HAWTHOEXE, XATHAXIEL. (See 

 HAWTHOEXE XATHAXIEL.) 



May 20. SHAW, PETEE B., a Revolutionary 

 pensioner, died near XashviLe, Tenn., aged 101 

 years. He was present at the surrender of 

 Cornwallis. 



May 22. FISKE, Rev. SAMUEL, a Captain of 

 United States volunteers, died at Fredericks- 

 burg of wounds received at the battle of the 

 "Wilderness. He graduated at Amherst College 

 in the class of 1848. He was the author of a 

 series of Letters from Europe written some years 

 since for the Springfield ''Republican," signed 

 by "Dunn Browne," and also a well-known 

 college test-book, a translation of Eschenberg's 

 "Manual of Greek and Roman Antiquities." 

 "When the war broke out he was pastor of a 

 church in Madison, Conn., but from a patriotic 

 }ove of his country entered the army, and after 

 fighting bravely in several battles, was taken 

 prisoner by the enemy, and detained for some 

 time in Richmond. He was promoted to a 

 captaincy previous to the battle of the "Wilder- 

 ness, in which he lost his lite. 



May 24. HALL, Col. GEORGE B., an officer 



of United States volunteers, died at his resi- 

 dence in Brooklyn, from disease contracted in 

 the service-, aged 38 years. He was a son of 

 ex-Mayor Hall of Brooklyn, entered upon his 

 military career at the early age of 19 years as 

 a private in the 265th regiment X. Y. S. M., 

 rapidly rising through the several grades of 

 promotion, until the commencement of the 

 Mexican war, when he was offered and accept- 

 ed the position of first lieutenant in the 1st 

 regiment of New York volunteers. He dis- 

 tinguished himself at Yera Cruz, Cerrc Gordo, 

 Contreras, and particularly at Cherubusco, and 

 for his gallantry on several occasions was re- 

 membered by Gen. Scott, who, in 1863, recom- 

 mended him to the Secretary of War as worthy 

 of promotion to the rank of Brigadier-General. 

 In April, 1850, he was commissioned as Major 

 of the 13th regiment N. Y. S. M., and the fol- 

 lowing September was made Lieutenant-Colonel 

 in the same regiment. "While occupying a po- 

 sition in the City Inspector's Department, Xew 

 York, the rebellion broke out, when he at once 

 resigned and entered into the work of raising 

 troops for the defence of the Union, was made 

 Colonel of the " Jackson Light Infantry," or 

 71st regiment X. Y. S. V., and was with it in 

 every battle and skirmish in which it was en- 

 gaged, from the Stafford Court House raid of 

 1862, to the battle of Fredericksburg. 



y 24. LYXDALL, JOSEPH, died at "Wash- 

 ington, D. C., of typhoid fever. He was a na- 

 tive of London, and at the breaking out of the 

 war was Superintendent of the Cape Town and 

 "Wellington Railroad, Cape of Good Hope, and 

 feeling a deep interest in the welfare of this 

 country, resigned his position, and hastened 

 home to England to obtain letters to come 

 hither. Arriving in London he was induced 

 by the state of feeling then to connect himself 

 with the London Emancipation Society, with 

 which he was actively engaged for a year and 

 a half; he then obtained letters from the London 

 Young Men's Christian Association, to the As- 

 sociation in New York City, where he was 

 warmly welcomed, and through whom he was 

 assigned a place in the "War Department, but 

 soon after reaching Washington was attacked 

 with the fever which resulted in death. 



May 24. MAFFIT, SAMUEL S., late Control- 

 ler of the Treasury of Maryland, died at his res- 

 idence in Elkton, aged 45 years. 



May 27. GIDDIXGS, Hon. JOSHUA R. (See 

 GIDDLXGS, JOSHUA R.) 



June 1. HINOEXEY, Z. R., an American po- 

 mologist, died in Xew York. He was known 

 as a successful cultivator of the grape, and his 

 writings on the subject were numerous and of 

 standard authority. During the last two years 

 of his life he was one of the editors of tho 

 "Practical Farmer." 



June 2 DOLES, Brig.-Gen. GEOKGE E., an 

 officer of the rebel army from Georgia, com- 

 manding a division in Swell's corps, was killed 

 at Cold Harbor, Va.. aged 34 years. He en- 

 tered the rebel service captain in the 4tb 



