OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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lie commanded the Fifth Regiment in a short 

 campaign from April 7 to July 7, 1861, and on 

 the invasion of Pennsylvania, in 1863, again 

 accompanied his regiment to the field. He 

 was appointed general of the Second Brigade, 

 First Division, N. Y. S. N. G., December 19, 

 1865 ? and was twice elected President of the 

 Lie(Ier!;r* i '~ Society. 



May 27. CoxYSffciTAM, Jonx B., captain 

 Twenty-fourth Infantry, U. S. A., late Colo- 

 nel U. S. Volunteers ; died at Wilkesbarre, Pa., 

 aged 44 years. He was horn in 1827; gradu- 

 ated with high honor at Yale College, and 

 subsequently practised law in Wilkesbarre and 

 St. Louis, where he was considered legal au- 

 thority. At the first call for troops in 1861, 

 he volunteered in the three-months service, 

 and on his return joined the Fifty-second 

 Pennsylvania Volunteers, of which he was ap- 

 pointed major on the 5th of November, 1861. 

 Moving forward with the Army of the Poto- 

 mac up the Peninsula, under McClellan, he 

 participated in the campaign of 1862 of that 

 army. In the winter of 1863 he was sent 

 with his regiment to Port Royal, S. 0., and 

 was present at the naval attack on Fort Sum- 

 ter in April, 1863, and participated in the sub- 

 sequent assault and siege operations against 

 Fort Wagner. Upon the reduction of that 

 fort, Major Conyngham was placed in com- 

 mand of the defences of Morris Island. He 

 was detailed by General Terry to make a night 

 reconnoissance of Sumter, and was subsequent- 

 ly engaged in the night assault on Fort John- 

 son, across Charleston harbor. In this assault 

 he was captured and detained as prisoner for 

 several months at Macon, Charleston jail, and 

 at other points. "While a prisoner at Charles- 

 ton, he was one of the number selected as 

 hostages to be shot in case of a bombardment 

 of the city by our forces. In November, 1863, 

 lie was promoted to the lieutenant-colonelcy, 

 and in March, 1865, to the colonelcy of his regi- 

 ment. In March, 1867, Colonel Conyngham was 

 appointed captain in the Thirty-eighth Infantry, 

 U. S. A., and transferred to the Twenty-fourth 

 Infantry, November, 1869. In 1871 he was 

 brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel for gal- 

 lant service in the field. During his term of 

 service in the regular army he was most of the 

 time on the Indian frontier, partly in Kansas, 

 and latterly at Fort Clark, Texas. It was during 

 this service that his health became very much 

 impaired, and efforts to restore his shattered 

 constitution proved unavailing. 



May 31. MONTGOMERY, Brigadier-General 

 WM. READING, U. S. Volunteers ; died at Bristol, 

 Pa., aged 70 years. He was born in Monmouth 

 County, N. J., July 10, 1801, and was the 

 son of James Montgomery, a Revolutionary 

 patriot. At the age of twenty, young Mont- 

 gomery became a cadet at the U. S. Military 

 Academy, from which he was graduated July 

 1, 1825, and promoted in the army brevet sec- 

 ond-iieutenant in the Third Infantry, in which 

 regiment he served, chiefly on the "Western 



ie^ till July 7, 1838, when, becoming a 

 captain in the newly-organized Eighth Infan- 

 try, he was transferred to the Canada border 

 for the suppression there of the disturbances 

 of 1838-'40. Subsequently he participated in 

 the Florida hostilities of 1840-'42, and in 1845 

 accompanied General Taylor's "Army of Oc- 

 cupation" to the Rio Grande. In the war 

 with Mexico, which soon followed, he took an 

 active part, being engaged at Palo Alto, Resaca 

 de la ?almft, Cerro Gordo, San Antonio, Chu- 

 rubusco, Molino del Key, Chapultepec, and the 

 city of Mexico. He was brevetted major for 

 his "gallant conduct at Palo Alto and Resaca 

 de la Palina," in which latter battle he was 

 wounded; and lieutenant-colonel for "gal- 

 lant and meritorious conduct in the battle of 

 Molino del Rey," where he was again wound- 

 ed while assaulting the enemy's works with 

 his regiment, to the command of which he 

 succeeded both his seniors on that field, Waite 

 and Wright having previously been struck 

 down by the enemy's deadly fire. From 1848 

 he was on duty chiefly in Texas and on the 

 Western plains, till December 8, 1855, when 

 his connection with the army terminated. At 

 the outbreak of the war, though Colonel 

 Montgomery was sixty years old, he forgot his 

 age, immediately organized the first regiment 

 of New Jersey Volunteers, and took command 

 with it at Vienna, Virginia, from which post 

 he joined the reserve of the Union army under 

 Colonel Miles, and aided in covering its retreat 

 from the disastrous battle-field of Bull Run. 

 Soon after he was commissioned a brigadier- 

 general of volunteers, and appointed Military 

 Governor of Alexandria, Virginia, where he 

 remained till the close of the year. He then 

 took command of Annapolis, Maryland, till 

 May 17, 1862, and afterward of Philadelphia 

 till March 2, 1863. Failing health caused his 

 resignation from the military service, April 4, 

 1864, after which, except during a brief inter- 

 val of mercantile occupation in Philadelphia, 

 he spent the remainder of his days in his quiet 

 abode at Bristol. 



June 1. MURPHY, JAMES MoLsoD, Colonel 

 of U. S. Volunteers ; died in New York, aged 

 44 years. He served in the U. S. Navy as 

 midshipman, was a member of the New York 

 Senate, and early in the late war was colonel 

 of the New York Fifteenth Regiment. He sub- 

 sequently reentered the navy, and commanded 

 the iron-clad Carondelet in 1863-' 64. 



June 3. LORD, ELEAZER, LL. D., a merchant, 

 underwriter, and theological writer, long resi- 

 dent in New York City ; died at Piermont, N. Y., 

 aged 73 years. Though not a graduate, he had 

 received an excellent education, which he im- 

 proved by close study to such a degree that, in 

 1821, Dartmouth College, and in 1827 Williams, 

 conferred on him the honorary degree of A. M., 

 and during his active business life as a mer- 

 chant, president of an insurance company, and 

 for some years of the Erie Railroad Company, 

 he still continued his habits of study and his 



