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stores she was unremitting in her visits in the 

 hospitals in the neighborhood of "Washington, 

 and to the remoter fields of action. At Fred- 

 ericksburg, on the Peninsula, and elsewhere, 

 her presence was a ministry of practical sym- 

 pathy to thousands of the brave and suffering, 

 and, wherever she appeared, the brightness of 

 her smile and the cheerful tone of her voice at 

 once dispelled the gloom of the scene. In the 

 yard of her own house she early pitched a large 

 hospital tent, into which she gathered the sick 

 and disabled soldiers, and there ministered to 

 their needs, until means could be provided to 

 send them to their homes. For a considerable 

 period Mrs. Fales was charged by the Govern- 

 ment with the superintendence of sick and 

 wounded soldiers sent from the hospitals in 

 and around Washington, to the hospitals in 

 New York and elsewhere. Amid all this activ- 

 ity she found time to correspond extensively, 

 for the purpose of obtaining pecuniary and 

 other contributions to carry on her benevolent 

 work. 



Nov. 9. REED, General HENBY E., an officer 

 of the southern Army, a politician and lawyer 

 of Louisville, Ky., committed suicide in that 

 city, aged 44 years. He was born in Larue 

 County, Ky. ; was a blacksmith by trade, but 

 studied law, and practised mostly in his native 

 State. "When the Mexican War broke out, he 

 enlisted, and as ensign of a regiment of Ken- 

 tucky Voltigeurs distinguished himself at Buena 

 Vista, Chapultepec, and in other hard-fought 

 battles. He it was who first planted the flag 

 upon the heights of Chapultepec, but, in the 

 moment of victory, he was struck down, se- 

 verely wounded in several places. For this 

 act, the General Assembly of Kentucky present- 

 ed a sword and passed complimentary resolu- 

 tions. On his return from the Mexican War, he 

 was commissioned by Governor Powell a brig- 

 adier-general of militia. When the late war 

 broke out, he went South, taking with him from 

 Hardin County a considerable body of men for 

 the Confederate army. He was elected a mem- 

 ber of the Confederate Congress, representing 

 the Provisional Government of Kentucky. He 

 figured in several of the contests in Virginia, 

 and, after the close of the rebellion, returned to 

 the practice of his profession in Louisville. 



Nov. 11. WOLF, FEEDEEBDK, M. D., late Sur- 

 geon U. S. A., died at St. Louis, Mo. He began 

 his military career on the battle-fields of Italy, 

 and was connected for eight years with the 

 Austrian service, where he won the reputation 

 of an able physician. Being an excellent lin- 

 guist, he entered, after the battle of Bull Run, 

 the Garibaldi Legion, served throughout the 

 war, was once paroled, and became twice an 

 inmate of Libby Prison. 



Nov. 13. STOWE, Rev. PHINEAS, pastor of 

 the Boston Baptist Seamen's Bethel, died there, 

 aged 56 years. He entered the ministry rather 

 late, and without the advantages of a collegiate 

 education ; but he possessed considerable tal- 

 ent, and exercised great tact in the position 



which he had chosen. He had much natural 

 poetical ability, and his volume of hymns and 

 spiritual songs was highly prized. He had also 

 published two or three other small volumes. He 

 was a great favorite with the seamen, and his 

 influence over them was powerful for good. 



Nov. 19. DOVE, Captain BENJAMIN MOEE, 

 U. S. N., Inspector of the Light-house Depart- 

 ment, died at Key West, Fla. "He was a resi- 

 dent of the District of Columbia, and was re- 

 tired as a commander, October 1, 1864. 



Nov. 19. MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY, an artist 

 of much merit, died at his residence in Setauket, 

 L. L, aged 61 years. He was a native of Se- 

 tauket, and passed his youth on a farm, but 

 afterward removed to New York and engaged 

 in sign and house painting, which soon devel- 

 oped into a capacity for a higher order of art. 

 In 1829, having spent two years in the Academy 

 of Design, he established himself as a portrait- 

 painter. He subsequently achieved consider- 

 able reputation, both at home and abroad, 

 through the engravings and colored lithographs 

 of his pictures published by Goupil and others. 

 Among the more renowned of his portraits are 

 those of Bishop Onderdonk in his ecclesiastical 

 robes, and of General Jeremiah Johnson, while 

 Mayor of Brooklyn. Of his other pictures, 

 "Farmers Mowing," "Raining for a Goose," 

 "Mutual Respect," "The Power of Music," 

 "The Banjo-Player," and some others, are 

 well-known examples. He excelled in the de- 

 lineation of rural and humorous scenes, and 

 was particularly happy in representing scenes 

 from negro life. 



Nov. 19. PENDLETON, JOHN S., M. 0. from 

 Virginia, died at Culpepper, Va. He was a na- 

 tive of that State, and represented the ninth 

 district in the Twenty-ninth Congress, and 

 again in the Thirtieth, as a Whig. In 1841 he 

 was appointed charge d'affaires to the Repub- 

 lic of Chili, and in 1851 President Fillmore 

 made him minister to the Argentine Confed- 

 eration, and authorized him to negotiate with 

 Paraguay. 



Nov. 20. BEYANT, Dr. JOEL, homoeopathic 

 physician and author of several medical trea- 

 tises, died in Brooklyn, L. I. He was born in 

 Suffolk County, L. L, November 10, 1813. He 

 graduated at the Pennsylvania Medical College, 

 entered upon his profession in his native vil- 

 lage, but removed to Brooklyn in 1850, and be- 

 came quite prominent as a practitioner. For 

 some years previous to his death he was a great 

 sufferer, and was unable to attend to his duties 

 as a physician. He was the author of several 

 treatises on homoeopathy, the best of which 

 was "Bryant's Pocket Manual." 



Nov. 22. BOYNTON, NEHEMIAH, a prominent 

 citizen of Chelsea, and Boston, Mass., died in 

 Chelsea. He was born in the present town of 

 Rockport, near Gloucester, Mass., December 2, 

 1804. In 1825, he commenced business at St. 

 George, Me., where, a few years later, he was 

 elected a member of the Legislature. At the 

 age of thirty he removed to West Thomaston, 



