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he commanded the 3d brigade, 2d division, 20th 

 corps. 



Sept. 2. WEST, Rev. NATHANIEL, D. D. (See 

 WEST, NATHANIEL.) 



Sept. 3. McGiLVERY, Col. FREEMAN, an offi- 

 cer of U. S. volunteers from Maine, died while 

 under the influence of chloroform, undergoing 

 an operation made necessary by a wound re- 

 ceived at the battle of Chaffin's Farm. He was 

 a skilful artillerist, and at the battle of Gettys- 

 burg, on the 2d of July, as chief of artillery in 

 Sedgwick's corps, turned the fortunes of the 

 day by the skill and promptness with which he 

 planted his batteries, and the tenacity with 

 which he held them to their work. At the 

 time of his death he was chief of artillery in 

 the 10th corps, Army of the James. 



Sept. 3. MORGAN, Brig.-Gen. JOHN H., an 

 officer in the Confederate service, was shot 

 while trying to make his escape from a com- 

 pany of Union cavalry who had surrounded 

 and seized him at Greenville, Tenn. ; aged 

 38 years. He was a native of Huntsville, Ala- 

 bama. His military training was acquired in 

 the war with Mexico, and subsequently as a 

 captain of Kentucky volunteers, with whom he 

 entered the service of the Confederate States. 

 During the winter of 1862-'3 he commanded a 

 cavalry force in Gen. Bragg's army, and greatly 

 annoyed Gen. Rosecrans' outposts and com- 

 munications. In the summer of 1863 he headed 

 an extensive raid through Indiana and Ohio, in 

 which he was captured, with a large number 

 of his command, and imprisoned in the Ohio 

 Penitentiary ; but a few months after he, in 

 company with six of his officers, made his 

 escape. He subsequently made several raids 

 into Kentucky and Tennessee, distinguishing 

 himself by his brutality and his adroitness in 

 avoiding a collision with the Union troops. 



Sept. 3. SANDERS, Major REID, an officer 

 in the Confederate service, a son of the Con- 

 federate Agent, George N". Sanders, died at 

 Fort Warren, Boston, aged 27 years. He was 

 sent as bearer of despatches from the Confeder- 

 ate Government to Europe, on a blockade-run- 

 ner, but was captured and confined in Fort 

 Warren as a prisoner of state. 



Sept. 3. WHITTIER, Miss ELIZABETH H., an 

 American poetess, died at her residence at 

 Amesbury, Mass. She was a sister of the poet 

 John G. Whittier, a member of the Society of 

 Friends, and a lifelong advocate of liberty. 



Sept. 4. COOK, Rev. RUSSELL S. (See COOK, 

 RUSSELL S.) 



Sept. 4. FRENCH, Hon. A. C., ex-Gov- 

 ernor of the State of Illinois, died at his resi- 

 dence in Lebanon, 111. He was a native of 

 New Hampshire, educated at Harvard Uni- 

 versity, emigrated to Illinois, and entered 

 the public service of that State not far from 

 1835. He was a lawyer by profession, and was 

 made President of the Board of Trustees of 

 McKendree College, and for some years was in 

 charge of the law department of that Institu- 

 tion. 



Sept. 4. HASCALL, Brig.-Gen. MILO S., an 

 officer of U. S. volunteers from Indiana, who 

 entered the service as colonel of one of the 

 Indiana regiments, but was promoted to a 

 brigadier-generalship in 1862. He handled hia 

 brigade with great skill and bravery in the 

 battle of Stone River, where he was wounded, 

 but returned to his command and participated 

 in the battles of Chickamauga and Mission 

 Ridge, and was active -as division commander 

 in the early battles of the Atlantic campaign. 

 He was killed in an engagement near Frank- 

 lin, Tenn. 



Sept. 4. JOHNSON, Hon. HENRY, ex-Gov- 

 ernor of Louisiana ; died in the parish of 

 Pointe Coupee, La., in the 90th year of his 

 age. He was a native of Mississippi, was edu- 

 cated for the law, and in 1809 was appointed 

 clerk of the Second Superior Court of the 

 Territory of New Orleans, and two years 

 after Judge of the Parish Court of St. Mary. 

 He was a member of the convention which 

 framed the State Constitution of 1812, and in 

 1818 was elected to the State Legislature; 

 was Governor from 1824 to 1828, and a senator 

 from 1835 to 1830, and again from 1844 to 

 1849, soon after which he retired to private 

 life. 



Sept. 4. WHITE, Hon. ALBERT S., died at 

 his residence, near Stock well, Ind., aged 61 

 years. He was a native of New York, gradu- 

 ated at Union College in 1822, studied law at 

 Newburgh, and removed to Indiana, where, for 

 several years, he was Clerk in the House of 

 Representatives. He was a Representative in 

 Congress from 1837 to 1839 ; Senator from 

 1839 to 1845; and again a Representative in 

 the 37th Congress. At the close of his term 

 he was elected one of the three Commissioners 

 on Indian depredations. On the death of 

 Judge Caleb B. Smith he was appointed Judge 

 of the U. S. Court for the District of Indiana, 

 a position which he held at the time of his 

 death. Judge White was also President suc- 

 cessively of the Lafayette and Indianapolis 

 Railroad and the Toledo and Wabash Valley 

 Railroad, and was at all times a zealous sup- 

 porter of public improvements. 



Sept. 5. CLARK, Col. JAMES C., an officer 

 of U. S. volunteers ; died in Troy, from illness 

 contracted during service in Louisiana, aged 

 49 years. He served in the Peninsular cam- 

 paign, and distinguished himself by his gal- 

 lantry at Port Hudson. He was colonel of 

 the 79th colored regiment, and at the time of 

 his death was acting as brigadier-general. 



Sept. 6. BARTOW, EDGAR J., a prominent 

 citizen of Brooklyn, died at Morristown, N . J. 

 He was a man of great enterprise and liberality, 

 and was the principal contributor to the erec- 

 tion of the magnificent church of the Holy 

 Trinity in Brooklyn. He also held several 

 civil positions of distinction. 



Sept. 6. SMITH, Rev. THOMAS MATHEE, D.D. 

 (See SMITH, THOMAS MATHER.) 



Sept. 9. CHAMBERS, Rev. R. D., a clergy 



