OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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President, repaired to Alexandria, and, going 

 on board a steamer on which General Jackson 

 was, walked up to the general in the cabin, 

 pulled his nose, and, before any one could issue 

 a process for his arrest, escaped beyond the 

 jurisdiction of the county. He was a fugitive 

 for a couple of years, but then returned to the 

 District, where he resided till his death. The 

 act spoiled his prospects for any Government 

 position. When, thirty years after, Secretary 

 Floyd made him Superintendent of the Wash- 

 ington Armory, President Buchanan ordered 

 his dismissal at once, out of regard to Jack- 

 son's memory. 



April 22. -JOHNSON, Colonel ROBERT, son 

 and former private secretary of ex-President 

 Johnson; died suddenly at Greenville, Ten- 



April 23. MoALESTER, Major and Brevet 

 Brigadier-General MILES D., U. S. A., a brave 

 and skilful army officer, who rendered great 

 service to the Union Army in the late war as 

 an engineer ; died suddenly at Buffalo, aged 34 

 years. He was a native of New York, but 

 was appointed a cadet at West Point from 

 Michigan. He was graduated in 1856, ranking 

 third in his class, and was immediately assigned 

 with brevet rank to the Corps of Engineers, 

 becoming full second-lieutenant in that corps 

 in December, 1856. He served on engineering 

 duty in the construction and repair of fortifi- 

 cations on the Atlantic coast, from Florida to 

 New York, till May, 1861, being promoted to a 

 first-lieutenancy in the Engineer Corps in May 

 of that year. During the war he was engaged 

 in engineering duty mostly as Chief Engineer 

 of the Third Army Corps, in the Army of the 

 Potomac, till October 30, 1862, being in all the 

 important battles of that army and winning 

 two brevets ; from October 30, 1862, to April, 

 1863, he was Chief Engineer of the Department 

 of Ohio, fortifying Cincinnati and its vicinity, 

 and providing bridge-trains for the Western 

 armies ; and in June and July was Chief Engi- 

 neer in the siege of Vicksburg. On the 3d of 

 March, 1863, he was promoted to be captain 

 in the Engineer Corps, and in September of 

 that year called to West Point as Assistant 

 Professor of Engineering. On the 15th of 

 July, 1864, he was appointed Chief Engineer 

 of the Military Division of West Mississippi, 

 and in that capacity was engaged in the mili- 

 tary operations for the reduction of forts 

 Gaines and Morgan, at the mouth of Mobile 

 Bay, in July and August, 1864, and the siege, 

 capture, and storming of Spanish Fort and 

 Fort Blakeley, Mobile, in April, 1865. For 

 his gallant and meritorious conduct here he 

 was brevetted colonel and brigadier-general, 

 U. S. A., and subsequently to the war was 

 assigned to duty, and the construction of de- 

 fences in the vicinity of Mobile and New Or- 

 leans, and the improvement of the mouths of 

 the Mississippi River. He was commissioned 

 major of the Corps of Engineers, March 7, 1867, 

 and appointed Engineer of the 8th Light-house 



District, May 22, 1867. Few young men have 

 accomplished so much in a brief life, or done 

 their work so uniformly well, as this accom- 

 plished young engineer. 



April 23. RUSHMOEE, WILLIAM 0., a dis- 

 tinguished citizen of Brooklyn, L. I., President 

 of the Atlantic Bank, Treasurer South Side 

 Railroad Company, and Registrar of the 

 Brooklyn City Railroad Company ; was killed 

 by an accident on the Long Island Railroad, at 

 Willow Tree, near Jamaica, L. I. His age was 

 51 years. 



April 26. HOOPER, JOHN, an eminent bota- 

 nist of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; died in that city, aged 

 67 years. He was born in Oxford, England, 

 but had resided in the United States for thirty 

 years, and had been during the whole of that 

 time engaged with unremitting zeal in the pro- 

 motion of natural science. To his researches 

 and study, in conjunction with the labors of 

 the late Prof. Bailey, of West Point, and Prof. 

 Harvey, of Trinity College, Dublin, science is 

 mainly indebted for our present knowledge of 

 the marine algae. His splendid collection of 

 these, the most complete yet made of our ma- 

 rine flora, he bequeathed to the Long Island 

 Historical Society, of which he had been an 

 active member from its organization. 



April 26. POST, MIXTURE, M. D., an emi- 

 nent physician and author, of New York City ; 

 died there in the 61st year of his age. Dr. 

 Post was born in New York City, June 28, 

 1808, graduated at Columbia College in 1828, 

 studied medicine in New York and Philadel- 

 phia, was a private pupil of Dr. Valentine 

 Mott, and after receiving his medical degree 

 went to Paris, and completed his studies under 

 the instruction of Baron Louis Broussais and 

 others. On his return to the United States he 

 translated an able French Treatise on Auscul- 

 tation and Percussion, and was largely instru- 

 mental in promoting the study of physical 

 diagnosis. He soon attained a good and lucra- 

 tive practice, and for twenty-six years past had 

 been the medical examiner of the New York 

 Mutual Life Insurance Company, a position 

 requiring a thorough knowledge of his profes- 

 sion, quick discernment, and skill in ready 

 diagnosis. Dr. Post ranked very high in his 

 thorough familiarity with all the diseases of the 

 chest, and outside of his profession was a man 

 of wide and generous literary culture. 



April 27. McCLOSKEY, HENRY, a New York 

 journalist of considerable ability; died in Flat- 

 bush, L. L, aged about 40 years. He was a 

 native of Ireland, but emigrated to the United 

 States about twenty years since. He was edi- 

 tor of the Brooklyn Eagle for several years, 

 but early in the late war his articles were so 

 bitterly hostile to the Government, that he 

 found it necessary to withdraw from that 

 paper. He then entered upon the practice of 

 law, and was elected City Clerk of Brooklyn 

 for two terms, becoming also political editor 

 of the New York Sunday Mercury, He had 

 been for two years past reporter for the Court 



