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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



55 years. Mr. Dabney liad been for many 

 years consul at Fayal, and had won the affec- 

 tions of the poor islanders as it is the fortune 

 of but few men to do, by his earnest and un- 

 selfish solicitude for their welfare. In the ter- 

 rible famines which had visited the island he 

 had been a sort of special providence to them, 

 furnishing them with food, aiding them to re- 

 plant their fields, advising and suggesting the 

 culture of new and more varied crops, en- 

 couraging the despondent and restraining the 

 over-sanguine. During the whole of his resi- 

 dence there he had acted the part of a wise 

 and judicious father to the people, and, Avher- 

 ever he went, their blessings and gratitude 

 were constantly manifested for his disinter- 

 ested friendship toward them. 



April . HERTIG, WILLIAM, a centenarian, 

 died near Salisbury, N. C., aged 101 years. Ho 

 was a German by birth, and had taken part 

 against Napoleon Bonaparte in the battles of 

 Austerlitz, Jena, and Wagram. 



April . SPENCER, E. M., a Western jour- 

 nalist; died in Cincinnati. He had been em- 

 ployed tweaty years upon the Cincinnati 

 Times. 



May 6. BRAGG, Major HENRY M., U. S. 

 Volunteers, died in Brooklyn, L. L, aged 27 

 years. He entered the service in 1861 as 

 lieutenant in the Thirteenth Eegiment of New 

 York militia, then serving in Virginia. In Sep- 

 tember, 1862, he was commissioned a lieuten- 

 ant in the One Hundred and Thirty -ninth 

 Regiment of New York Volunteers, was ap- 

 pointed a captain and aide-de-camp by Presi- 

 dent Lincoln in August, 1863 ; and in March, 

 1865, received the brevet of major, for "gal- 

 lantry and meritorious conduct" during the 

 war. From August, 1862, until the close of 

 the war he served upon the staff of Major- 

 General Gillmore as aide-de-camp, taking part 

 in the campaign in Central Kentucky during 

 the autumn, winter, and spring of 1862-'G3 ; 

 in the operations against Charleston in 1863, 

 comprising the assault of Morris Island, the 

 reduction of Fort Sumter, and the siege and 

 capture of Fort Wagner; and in 1864 in the 

 battle of Drury's Bluff, and all the numerous 

 engagements of the Tenth Corps in the vicinity 

 of Bermuda Hundred and Petersburg. In the 

 winter and spring of 1865 he again served 

 upon the coast of South Carolina, was present 

 at the reoccupation of Charleston by the Union 

 forces, and with his own hands replaced our 

 flag upon the ramparts of Fort Sumter. Upon 

 the reorganization of the regular army in 1866, 

 he was appointed a lieutenant in the Second 

 Regiment of Infantry, and in November of 

 that year was, at his own request, transferred 

 to the Third Regiment of Cavalry, serving with 

 it in several campaigns against the Indians for 

 a period of over three years, until forced to 

 retire from the service by impaired health. 



May 10. ROGERS, Colonel HENRY C., U. 

 S. Volunteers; died in Brownsdale, Minn., 

 aged 37 years. He was a native of Vermont, 



removed to Minnesota in 1858, and in 1860 

 was elected to the Legislature of that State, 

 where he established a character for integrity 

 and independence which soon gave him a con- 

 trolling influence in connection with his party. 

 In 1862 he was commissioned lieutenant- 

 colonel of the Eighth Minnesota Volunteers, 

 with which he served until the end of the war. 

 In 1865 he was elected Secretary of State, and 

 reflected in 1867. In 1868 he was appointed 

 pension agent, which office he continued to 

 hold until his death. A severe wound received 

 fit the battle of Murfreesboro had its influence 

 in shortening his life. 



May 12. HAMILTON, WILLIAM, Actuary of 

 Franklin Institute, Philadelphia ; died in that 

 city, aged 80 years. He was born in Phila- 

 delphia, in February, 1791. He became a 

 member of the Institute in its infancy and was 

 connected with it for a period of forty years, 

 conducting its extensive correspondence, visit- 

 ing other cities on scientific matters, getting 

 up exhibitions, and in every way identifying 

 himself with the interests of the institution 

 not only, but the interests of science in general. 



May 13. FENTON, Colonel W. M., U. S. 

 Volunteers ; died at Flint, Mich. He had been 

 Lieutenant-Governor of that State, and colo- 

 nel of the Eighth Michigan Regiment during 

 the late war. 



May 13. GLYNN, JAMES, commodore U. S. 

 N. ; died at New Haven, Conn. He was a 

 native of Pennsylvania; appointed from Vir- 

 ginia, March 4, 1815, and was fifty-two years 

 in the service. 



May 13. GREINER, JOHN, ex-Governor of 

 New Mexico, a politician and journalist of 

 Ohio ; died at Toledo, aged 60 years. He was 

 a native of Philadelphia, removed to Ohio in 

 early manhood, and for eight years held the 

 office of State Librarian, from which position 

 he entered journalism as editor of the Ohio 

 State Journal. He was an earnest, enthusias- 

 tic Whig, and in the Harrison campaign came 

 into almost national celebrity through his cam- 

 paign songs, known as "Old Zip Coon," "Tip- 

 pecanoe and Tyler too," " The Wagoner Boy," 

 etc. In those days political songs carried with 

 them a vast amount of power, taking men's 

 opinions by storm, and Mr. Greiner's compo- 

 sitions were the most perfect of their kind. 

 In 1849 he received from President Taylor the 

 appointment of Indian Agent, and subsequent- 

 ly became Governor of New Mexico. In 1865 

 he settled in Zanesville, Ohio, as editor of the 

 Zanesville City Times, and has been wideh 

 known at editorial conventions, pioneer meet- 

 ings, Odd-Fellows' gatherings, etc., of which 

 he was the life and spirit. 



May 25. BURGER, Brigadier-General Louis. 

 N. Y. S. N. G. ; died in New York. He was 

 born at Kaiserslautern, in the Palatinate, in 

 1823, and emigrated to New York in 1847, 

 where he established himself as an architect. 

 In 1854 he organized the Engineer Corps of 

 the Fifth Regiment, and was elected captain. 



