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OBITUAEIES, UNITED STATES. 



Dec. 12. PASCHALL, NATHANIEL, an editor 

 of St. Louis, died in that city, aged 64 years. 

 He entered the printing-office of the "Mis- 

 souri Republican " in 1814, and had been con- 

 nected with that paper for fifty-two years. 



Dee. 14. CHAUNCEY, Rev. PETER S., D. D., 

 an Episcopal clergyman, Rector of St. James's 

 Church, New York, died in that city aged 56 

 years. 



Dec. 16. HOLLIDAT, Rev. WILLIAM A., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman and professor, died at 

 Indianapolis, aged 64 years. He was a native 

 of Kentucky, but removed to Indiana in his 

 youth.' He was educated at Hamilton Academy, 

 Hamilton, Ohio, and at Princeton Theological 

 Seminary. He Avas for a long time pastor of 

 the First Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, 

 ^nd subsequently a home missionary. From 

 '1863 to 1866 he was professor of the Latin lan- 

 guage and literature in Hanover College, Ind. 

 He commenced the study of German at sixty 

 years of age. 



Dec. 16. HOTT, Rev. JAMES, a Presbyterian 

 clergyman, and a poet of some merit, died at 

 Orange, N. J. The earlier part of his life was 

 devoted to teaching. He was a man of exten- 

 sive scholarship, and had been for eleven years 

 pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at 

 Orange. 



Dec. 16. VETHAKE, HENRY, LL. D., Profes- 

 sor in the Polytechnic College', Pennsylvania, 

 and an able author, died in Philadelphia, aged 75 

 years. He was born and educated in Europe. 

 Soon after coming to the United States, he was 

 chosen Professor of Mathematics in Princeton 

 College, N. J., and afterward in Dickinson Col- 

 lege, Pa. For many years he was provost of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, He was the 

 author of a valuable work on political econ- 

 omy, published in 1838, and was editor of the 

 supplementary volume of the u Encyclopaedia 

 Americana." 



Dec. 21. BROWN, Capt. FREDERICK H., Eigh- 

 teenth U. S. Infantry, was killed at Fort Philip 

 Kearny. He was a native of New York, and 

 was appointed an officer from the ranks of the 

 Army. He enlisted in the Eighteenth Infantry 

 in July, 1861, was at once made quartermaster- 

 sergeant of the first battalion Eighteenth In- 

 fantry, and on the 30th October, 1861, ap- 

 pointed second lieutenant in the Eighteenth 

 Infantry; March 24, 1862, he was promoted to 

 a first lieutenancy, and May 31, 1866, to a cap- 

 taincy. He was appointed regimental quarter- 

 master November 4, 1861, and stationed at 

 headquarters of the regiment, at Camp Thomas, 

 Columbus, Ohio, until November, 1863, during 

 which time, in addition to his regular duties, he 

 assisted in the organization of several companies 

 which he afterward commanded. He was or- 

 dered to the field in November, 1863, and joined 

 the second battalion of the Eighteenth Infan- 

 try the following month. From that time 

 until February, 1864, he was in charge of 

 the National Cemetery, then in progress at 

 Chattanooga. Tenn. During the war be parti- 



cipated in several important actions as company 

 commander; was at Buzzards' Roost, Tunnel 

 Hill, Resaca, New Hope Church, and Kenesaw 

 Mountain ; and as detachment quartermaster at 

 Peach-Tree Creek, the siege of Atlanta, and 

 near Utoy Creek. Lieut. Brown was ordered 

 to regimental headquarters at Camp Thomas, 

 Ohio, May 20, 1865, where he performed the 

 duties of regimental quartermaster from June 

 1, 1865, until shortly before the time of hia 

 death. From September 55 until October 

 26, 1865, he was on regimental recruiting ser- 

 vice. In November, '1865, he went with the 

 regimental headquarters to Fort Kearny, Ne- 

 braska Territory. In April, 1866, he was ap- 

 B minted chief quartermaster of the Mountain 

 istrict, Department of the Platte, and accom- 

 panied the headquarters of that district and of 

 his regiment to Fort Philip Kearny, Dakota 

 Territory, near which place he is reported to 

 have been killed by Indians. Lieut..Brown was 

 brevetted captain after the war, for great gal- 

 lantry and good conduct during the Atlanta 

 campaign. 



Dec. 21. FETTERMAN, Brevet Lieutenant- 

 Colonel WM. J., U. S. A., was a victim of the 

 massacre at Fort Philip Kearny, Dakota Ter. 

 He was a native of Connecticut; entered the 

 service May 14, 1861, as first lieutenant, Eigh- 

 teenth U. S. Infantry, and in October following 

 was promoted to a captaincy. Upon the re- 

 organization of the Army his battalion became 

 the Twenty-seventh U. S. Infantry, and with it 

 he participated in many of the most important 

 actions of the war. He was at the siege of 

 Corinth, Miss. ; battle of Stone River, Tenn. ; 

 Resaca, Ga. ; New Hope Church, Ga. ; Kenesaw 

 Mountain, Ga. ; Smyrna Church, Peach-Tree 

 Creek, siege of Atlanta, and at the battle of 

 Jonesboro' ; was also active in several minor 

 engagements. In July, 1864, he was detailed 

 as acting assistant adjutant-general of the 

 regular brigade, serving in the Fourteenth 

 Corps, remaining on that duty until June, 1865, 

 when he was again ordered on regimental, and 

 later on general recruiting service, and stationed 

 for a time at Camp Thomas, Columbus, Ohio, 

 and subsequently at Cleveland, Ohio. The cap- 

 tain was relieved from general recruiting ser- 

 vice in September, 1866, and ordered to join 

 his company at Fort Philip Kearny, Dakota 

 Territory, near which place he is reported to 

 have been killed by Indians on the 21st of 

 December, 1866, a short time after his arri- 

 val at that post. Captain Fetterman was at 

 the end of the war brevetted major for great 

 gallantry and good conduct at the battle of 

 Stone River, Tenn., and lieutenant-colonel for 

 great gallantry and good conduct displayed 

 during the Atlanta campaign. 



Dec. 21. GRUMMOND, Lieut. GEORGE W., 

 Eighteenth U. S. Infantry, was killed at Fort 

 Philip Kearny. When the war broke out he 

 went to the field as sergeant in the old First 

 Infantry (three months troops), and when that 

 regiment was reorganized he was commissioned 



