omiTAKIKS, 



M 





seven \iir_' with it until 



I to bo 



CH-M ' ' I" the Thirty- 



tl,ii-,! ;hc winter 



ljutant nf the post at 

 Harry, tin- immense artillery camp near 

 ' /irly in the -|triiiL r of isill, the 

 Thim -third was attached to tlio Army of the. 

 ! T (Jeiicral I Sutler, (lieu organizing 

 id campaign :i"ainst Richmond. 

 :>erations of the year Ic- - 

 with his battery, but was soon detached from 

 to Artillery Headquarters, doiu-,' 

 duty for a short time as aide, and subsequently 

 it adjutant-general. In this rapa- 

 \ed with his accustomed gallantry 

 :i:irrowly escaping death on several 

 This was his last field service. In 

 autumn of 1864 he resigned his connnis- 

 ::id marrying a beautiful and accomplished 

 ! lid a--ide the sword to engage in more 

 al pursuits. The attraction of a soldier's 

 life proved. however, too strong to b 

 and, upon the reorganization and increase of 

 the army during the past winter, he sought 

 :ed an appointment in the regular ser- 

 vice, receiving a second lieutenant's commission 

 i:i (be Fourth United States Cavalry. Report- 



the commanding officer of his regiment 



Ant niio, Texas, lie was ordered to New 

 Orleans f,,r duty with his company, and a 



::fter his arrival fell a victim to the 

 ':ing fever. 



June -^ RIDDLE, Brevet Lieut.-Col. "WiL- 

 U. S. Volunteers, was killed in Philadel- 

 Soon after the commencement of the 

 war ho enrolled himself in the Fifth Regi- 

 ylvaiiia Reserves, and was oommis- 

 ! second lieutenant, October 23, 1801. 

 During the 1'eninsular campaign he became con- 

 Mis for his gallantry. Though wounded 

 in the head at Meehanirsvillo, he would not 

 the field, but continued to take part in 

 of the following days until captured. 

 . ug with two young companions from 

 IVisoii, he was next a major on the staff 

 of General Reynolds. During the Antietam 

 ign. Reynolds went to Harrisburg to 

 organi/.. 1 the militia, and General Meade took 

 command of the division of Pennsylvania Re- 

 }. Colonel Riddle remained with General 

 Meadc, serving as a statf otfieer. He was at 

 South Mountain, was wounded in the hand at 

 am, and gave there striking evidences of 

 his gallantry and worth as a soldier. He was 

 with the lamented Reynolds in the first day's 

 'irg, and at his side when ho 

 fell, shot dead from his horse. Colonel Kiddle 

 was | indent iu all tho operations of the Army 

 of the Potomac up to the latter part of Decem- 

 -iiit, when, forced by ill-health, he reluct- 

 antly iv-Vned and went home. During thy 

 winter tiie army lay before Petersburg. Colonel 

 Riddle was offered the lieutenant-colonelcy of 

 tho OIK- Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment 

 Pennsylvania Reserves, and General Meade. in 



writi :-nordirtin recommendim; him. 



paid the following tribuU- to hi- w>r 

 Riddle is an ollicer of (listiii^iii-ln-.| J.MJ; 

 xe doiH aid . and one whose nppoint- 



e'lnnot fail to I. ' and disti:. 



to the State of P nia and the regiment 



: b- was hrvvctt.-d a 



tenant-colonel for t!i i from th- 



dan to IVt.-r-bMr:.'. Colonel Kiddle <;. 



at the hands of a gang 

 of rutlians. 



./'"' Ber. WII.MAM RM-! 



Congregational clorg ' town, 



Me was born in Sharon, ( 'onn.. May 27, 

 1789; graduated at ! _'0 in 181 ! 



at tho Andover Theological Seminary JM 



r, 1814, and the followii.g month was 

 ordained at Enfield, Conn., as an evangelist to 

 labor in Ohio under tho direction of th. 

 necticut Missionary Society. Before a 

 passed, ho was invited to settle permanen 

 (Jallipolis, Ohio. The neighhohood had 

 colonized by French Catholic-, who were then 

 without a priest; and the result was, that Mr. 

 Could became the founder of Protestant 

 ship over a wide region. After a ministry of 

 twelve years, ho returned to Connecticut, and 

 became pastor of the Congregational Church 

 in Torrington, in his native county, where he 

 remained from February, 1827, to February, 

 1832. From September, 1832, to 1838, ho was 

 a pastor in Barkhamstead, also in Litchfield 

 County. In 1839 he was recalled and re-install- 

 ed over the church which he had organized at 

 Gallipolis. In 1846 Mr. Gould left Ohi. 

 since then held no pastoral charge, but r<- 

 niainly with his son-in-law, Rev. Matthew 

 Meigs, at Pottstown,- where he died. 



July 4. BAKER. Hon. I, WAYIES, died in 

 Tallahassee, Florida. He was Judge of the 

 Circuit Court for the Middle District of Florida 

 for nearly twenty years, having been three times 

 reflected. His last term expired Januarv 1. 

 1696. 



July 4. M\\v, Wrr.r.iAM, 1). D., a Methodist 

 clergyman and teacher, died in Philadelphia, 

 aged 83 years. He was born in Burlington 

 County, N. Y., and having been left an orphan 

 at five years () f age, was taken to Rensselaer 

 County, N. Y. When quite young ho was placed 

 in a printing-office, where he remained until 

 his fourteenth year. From this humble begin- 

 ning he rose, without being permitted to attend 

 school for even a single day, to be a thorough 

 scholar. Perhaps as a linguist he had tew 

 superiors. When in his twenty-third year he 

 was converted, and shortly after became a local 

 preacher, though the principal part of his life 

 was devoted to teaching. lie was for some 

 years principal of Mount Holly Academy in his 

 native State. Subsequently he taught in Phila- 

 delphia, where he maintained a high reputation 

 for his success in teaching the classics. The 

 <le ; reo of D. D. was conferred upon .him by 

 Dickinson College. 



July 6. CHAFFEE, OZEMEXT C., Jr., Com- 



