OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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U. S. A., captain of a volunteer battery in the 

 late war ; died at Key "West, Fla., of yellow fe- 

 ver. He was a native of New Hampshire, from 

 which State he was appointed in September, 

 1861. He entered the service as a private in 

 the First New Hampshire Volunteer Battery, 

 and rose through the grades of corporal, ser- 

 geant, and first-sergeant, to be first-lieutenant 

 of the battery, to which he was commissioned 

 in December, 1864; in January, 1865, he was 

 commissioned captain of the same battery, 

 which he. commanded until it was mustered 

 out in the summer of 1865. During the ser- 

 vice with the battery he participated in the 

 campaign of the Armies of the Potomac in 

 1864 and 1865, until the capitulation of the 

 rebel forces at Appomattox Court-House, Va. 

 He was commissioned second-lieutenant Third 

 Artillery in February, and first-lieutenant in 

 July, 1866 ; was brevetted captain, to date 

 from March 2, 1867, for " gallant and merito- 

 rious services at the battle of Sutherland Sta- 

 tion." Lieutenant Dakin served with his regi- 

 ment at Raleigh, N. 0., Hilton Head, S. C., 

 Fort Adams, R. I., and Key West, Fla., acting 

 as regimental and post quartermaster, from 

 April to November, 1869. He passed through 

 the epidemic of yellow fever at Key West, in 

 the summer of 1869 to which one-fifth of 

 the command fell victims and was in com- 

 mand of his post until the above date, when 

 he was suddenly stricken down by the same 

 disease. 



Sept. 22. ARNOLD, Lieutenant-Colonel LEW- 

 IS G., U. S. A., a gallant artillery officer; died 

 in Boston, Mass., aged 54 years. He was ap- 

 pointed a cadet in 1833 from the State of New 

 Jersey, graduated in 1837, and was attached 

 to the Second Artillery, with which he served 

 in the Florida War of 1837-38, in the Chero- 

 kee country in 1 838-^39, and on the Canada 

 frontier in 1840-'41, during the border dis- 

 turbances occasioned by the Canadian rebel- 

 lion of 1837-40. In 1846 he accompanied 

 his regiment to Mexico, and was engaged on 

 the southern line of operations under General 

 Scott, being present at the siege of Vera Cruz, 

 in which he was slightly wounded ; in the bat- 

 tles of Cerro Gordo and Amozoque ; the cap- 

 ture of San Antonio, and the battle of Churu- 

 busco. In the last-named battle he led his 

 company with conspicuous gallantry, and in 

 storming of the tete de pont was severely 

 wounded. His service in Mexico was marked 

 by uniform good conduct and gallantry, and 

 at the close of the war two brevets were con- 

 ferred upon him for his services in battle, that 

 of captain for the battles of Contreras and 

 Churubusco, that of major for the battle of 

 Chapultepec. He afterward served in Florida 

 again, and was present in some minor actions 

 with the Indians of that Territory. The com- 

 mencement of the war in 1861 found Major 

 Arnold at the Dry Tortugas, from which he was 

 soon transferred with his command to Fort 

 Pickens. On the 9th of October the Southern 



forces crossed over from the main-land, and at- 

 tacked the troops encamped on Santa Rosa 

 Island. The attack was repulsed, and the en- 

 emy, being followed up by a force detached 

 for the purpose the next morning, under the 

 command of Major Arnold, recrossed to the 

 main-land. In the successive bombardments 

 of Fort Pickens, which followed in November, 

 January, and May, Major Arnold, as executive 

 officer of the work, distinguished himself by 

 his energy, judgment, and gallantry. In rec- 

 ognition of the value of his services on these 

 occasions, he was brevetted a lieutenant-colo- 

 nel, to date from November 22, 1861 ; appointed 

 a brigadier-general of volunteers, to date from 

 January 24, 1882; and assigned to the com- 

 mand of the Department of Florida, with his 

 headquarters first at Fort Pickens and after- 

 ward at Pensacola. On the 1st of October, 

 1862, he was placed in command of the forces 

 at New Orleans and Algiers, Louisiana, which 

 command he retained until November 10th, 

 when, while on parade, he was disabled by a 

 stroke of paralysis, from which he never re- 

 covered. In February, 18G4, all hope of his 

 restoration to active life having been aban- 

 doned, General Arnold was retired from active 

 service " on account of disability resulting 

 from long and faithful service, and of disease 

 contracted in the line of duty." 



Sept. 24. KELLY, Captain JAMES, Sixteenth 

 Infantry, U. S. A. ; died at Jackson, Miss. He 

 entered the service in April, 1861, as a captain 

 in the Sixty-ninth New York Volunteers, of 

 which he was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 

 September following. He was conspicuously 

 engaged in nearly all of the actions in which 

 the celebrated Irish Brigade to which his 

 regiment was attached participated during 

 the war, in several of which he commanded 

 the regiment, and was severely wounded at 

 the first Bull Run and at Antietam. He was 

 appointed a captain in the Sixteenth Infantry 

 in October, 1861, but continued in service un- 

 der his volunteer commission until March, 

 1864, when he joined his regiment at Chatta- 

 nooga. For two years after the war he was 

 not in service, but was reassigned to the Thir- 

 ty-fourth Infantry in September, 1867, with 

 his original rank. 



Sept. 25. SEAVEK, Colonel WILLIAM, a 

 Democratic politician and journalist; died in 

 . Batavia, aged 82 years. He was one of the 

 pioneers of Western New York, having emi- 

 grated thither when the country was little 

 more than a wilderness. He held the office 

 of Supervisor of Pembroke, Genesee County, 

 which at that period embraced a considerable 

 portion of what now constitutes the Seventh 

 and Eighth Judicial Districts of the State. In 

 1822 he removed to Batavia, and in 1836 was 

 appointed postmaster by General Jackson, 

 holding that office during a part of his admin- 

 istration and during the administrations of 

 Presidents Van Buren, Polk, Pierce, and Bu- 

 chanan. In 1844 he was a delegate to the 



