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times he had more than -10,000 sick men to care 

 for. His work was not only arduous in the ex- 

 treme, but incessant ; and his health at length 

 broke down under the overwhelming task. 

 In the winter of 1865, when the war was over, 

 he was taken sick, but remained on duty until 

 November, 1866. He then accepted a six 

 months' sick leave, and went to his home in 

 Santa Cruz, West Indies, returning but a slfort 

 time previous to his death. His character 

 of spotless integrity, his high professional skill 

 and untiring energy, combined with his rare 

 administrative ability, fully merited the honora- 

 ble distinction he had acquired. 



June 19. DODGE, General HENEY, First Ter- 

 ritorial Governor of Wisconsin, died at Bur- 

 lington, Iowa. He was born at Vincennes, 

 Ind., in 1782. In 1812 he entered the regular 

 army, and was appointed a brigadier-general in 

 command of troops raised for the defence of 

 Missouri. He distinguished himself especially 

 in the Black Hawk War, and as an Indian 

 lighter was thought to have no superior. In 

 1834 he was successfully employed by General 

 Jackson to makepeace with the red men of the 

 frontier, and in the ensuing year commanded 

 an important expedition to the Eocky Mount- 

 ains. For these services he received from Con- 

 gress a sword, and the thanks of the nation. 

 General Dodge served the territory uninter- 

 ruptedly, as governor or delegate in Congress, 

 from the date of the territorial organization 

 until the admission of Wisconsin as a State a 

 period of twelve years. 



June 19. NEWTON, Hon. ISAAC, Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture, died at Washington, 

 D. 0. He was born in Burlington County, a. J., 

 in 1800, passed his early years on a farm, and 

 had the education of a farmer's boy. After his 

 marriage he settled on a farm in Delaware 

 County, Pa., which was celebrated for its 

 neatness, order, and productiveness ; and he 

 eventually took place in the front rank of the 

 model farmers of the State. At an early period 

 lie was a member of the State Agricultural 

 Society, and was among those who urged upon 

 Congress the importance of establishing an 

 agricultural bureau. On the election of Mr. 

 Lincoln the measure was adopted, and Mr. 

 Newton received an appointment to preside 

 over the new department, as its commis- 

 sioner. 



June 20. POMEEOY, Eev. MEDAD, an emi- 

 nent Presbyterian clergyman, died at Auburn, 

 N. Y. He was born in Southampton, Mass., 

 April 6, 1792 ; graduated at Williams College 

 in 1817, and after spending two years in 

 teaching, during which he pursued the study 

 of theology, .he entered the ministry. He 

 preached twelve years in Cayuga County, and 

 in 1833 was settled in Elbridge, N. Y., where 

 he remained until 1840, and returning to 

 Cayuga labored another twelve years. Subse- 

 quently he preached at Wellsburg, Chemung 

 County, and at Otisco, Onondaga County, and 

 in 1861 removed to Auburn, to spend the re- 



mainder of his days in rest. During forty-two 

 years of active service in the Church, Mr. 

 Pomeroy took but one vacation. If absent, 

 he supplied his pulpit by exchange. He was 

 a vigorous thinker and writer, and his minis- 

 trations were greatly blessed. 



June 21. ALVORD, EDWAED L., a printer, 

 and soldier of the Union army, died in New 

 York. He was born in Franklin, Penn., in 

 1828, and removed to New York not far from 

 1850. For some years he was one of the com- 

 positors in the office of the Tribune. He early 

 enlisted in the war, leaving his case in 1861 to 

 take a place in the Fifth Ehode Island Volun- 

 teers. He was discharged from the service on 

 account of sickness, but becoming thoroughly 

 convalescent he at once reenlisted in 1863 in 

 the Ninth New Jersey regiment, and with that 

 regiment was with Sherman in the march to 

 the sea. At one time he took possession of 

 a press and types at Goldsboro', N. C., imd 

 printed a Union newspaper. ' While serving as 

 a. member of the Fifth Ehode Island regiment, 

 he participated in the attack on and capture of 

 Eoanoke Island, and afterward did good ser- 

 vice at the battle of Newbern. He remained 

 in the war till the end of all the final closing 

 up at Appomattox Court-House. 



JuneZL EITOHIE, Hon. DAVID, died at Pitts- 

 burg, Pa. He was born in Canonsburg, Pa., 

 August 19, 1812; graduated at Jefferson Col- 

 lege in 1829, was admitted to the bar, at Pitts- 

 burgh in 1835, and subsequently studied at 

 Heidelberg University, Germany, where in 1837 

 he took the degree of J. U. D. He was a 

 Eepresentative in Congress from Pittsburg, 

 from 1852 to 1858, serving on the Committee 

 on Foreign Affairs. Subsequently he was ap- 

 pointed judge of Alleghany County court at 

 Pittsburg. 



June 27. DENISON, Hon. CHAELES, died in 

 Wilkesbarre, Pa. He was born in Wyoming 

 Valley, Pa., January 23, 1818; graduated at 

 Dickinson College in 1839, and practised law 

 more than twenty years, when in 1862 he was 

 elected a Representative to Congress, and in 1864 

 was reflected, serving on the Committee on 

 Indian Affairs, and Expenditures in the Navy 

 Department. At the time of his death he was 

 a member of the Fortieth Congress. 



June 30. DEWEY, Lieut. OEVILLE SMITH, U. S. 

 A., died of yellow fover at New Orleans. He was 

 born at Doncastcr, Erie County, N. Y., April 2, 

 1841, and early evinced a taste for military life. 

 In 1861, upon the first call by President Lincoln 

 for volunteers, he enlisted in the Twenty-first 

 Now York Volunteers, serving faithfully until 

 the spring of 18G2, when he was made second 

 lieutenant of the Forty-ninth New York Volun- 

 teers. He distinguished himself in the 1 Penin- 

 sular campaign, and at Antietam, where he com- 

 manded his company and was slightly wounded. 

 Shortly after General Burnside assumed com- 

 mand of the army, Lieutenant Dewey resigned 

 his commission in the Forty-ninth, and soon after 

 accepted a second lieutenancy in the Twenty- 



