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battle of the Wilderness, where he was dan- 

 gerously wounded in the thigh. While lying 

 in hospital, he was twice captured by guer- 

 rillas, but was retaken by the United States 

 forces, and removed to the hospital at Wash- 

 ington. When he recovered from his wound, 

 he rejoined the army before Petersburg, and 

 received his commission as second-lieutenant, 

 and for gallant and meritorious conduct was 

 shortly afterward promoted to be first-lieu- 

 tenant, and given the command of Company 

 C. He remained with the army until Lee's 

 surrender. When he returned from the war, 

 he entered the composing-room of the Tribune, 

 and there exhibited such skill and efficiency 

 that in 1869 he was assigned to the position 

 of night news editor, and was gradually ad- 

 vanced to that of night editor in charge, which 

 place he held at the time of his death. 



June 8. JOHNSON, Mrs. MART A. W., an 

 able writer, wife of Oliver Johnson, Esq.; 

 died in New York City. She was a woman 

 of brilliant intellect, and deeply interested in 

 every movement for freedom, happiness, and 

 the elevation of the human race. 



June 9. WALL, JAMES W., formerly a 

 United States Senator from New Jersey ; died 

 at Elizabeth, N. J., aged 52 years. He was 

 born in Trenton, N. J., in 1820, and was a son 

 of the Hon. Garrett D. Wall, United States 

 Senator. He graduated at Princeton, in 1839, 

 studied law, and entered upon the practice of 

 his profession in his native place. His first 

 position was that of a commissioner in bank- 

 ruptcy. In 1847 he removed to Burlington, 

 and devoted his attention chiefly to literary 

 pursuits, in which he became eminent. In 

 1850 he was elected Mayor of Burlington, and 

 in 1854 visited Europe, and subsequently pub- 

 lished a volume entitled " Foreign Etchings, 

 or Visits to the Old World's Pleasant Places." 

 During the early part of the civil war, he 

 wrote against the Administration in power, 

 for interfering with the freedom of the press, 

 and was imprisoned for a few weeks in Fort 

 Lafayette. In January, 1863, he was elected 

 a Senator in Congress, from New Jersey, for 

 the unexpired term of John W. Johnson, de- 

 ceased. In 1869 he removed to Elizabeth, and 

 gave himself mostly to literary pursuits. 



June 9. WILLIAMS, THOMAS, formerly mem- 

 ber of Congress for the Twenty-third District 

 of Pennsylvania ; died at Pittsburg. He was 

 born in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, 

 Pa., August 28, 1806 ; graduated at Dickin- 

 son College, in 1825 ; studied law, and was 

 admitted to the bar, in 1828. Having settled 

 in Pittsburg, he was sent from that place as 

 Senator to the State Legislature in 1838, and 

 the three following years; was reflected in 

 1860 to the Lower House of the Legislature; 

 and in 1862 was a Representative from Penn- 

 sylvania to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serv- 

 ing on the Committee on the Judiciary. He 

 was reflected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, 

 and again to the Fortieth, in which he was 



one of the managers of the impeachment of 

 Andrew Johnson. 



June 12. SWAN, Colonel WILLIAM, formerly 

 an army officer; died at Cummington, Mass., 

 in his 96th year. He was in the service from 

 1798 to 1815, received several promotions, was 

 in the battles of Little Fork, New Toronto, and 

 Sackett's Harbor, and passed safely through 

 many perils. He was a comrade of General 

 AVinfield Scott, in New Orleans, both at that 

 time being captains, one of infantry, and the 

 other of artillery. 



June 20. REESE, WILLIAM J., Lieutenant 

 Sixth Cavalry, United States Army; died at 

 Nashville, Tenn., in the 27th year of his age. 

 He entered the Volunteer service in June, 1862, 

 before he was sixteen years of age, and served 

 until February, 1865, leaving his regiment at 

 that time to accept an appointment at West 

 Point. He entered the Military Academy the 

 same year, and graduated with credit, in the 

 class of 1869. While a cadet, his genial dis- 

 position, his self-denying liberality, and un- 

 questioned honor, made him the friend and 

 favorite of all who knew him. After gradua- 

 tion, he served with his regiment, principally 

 in Texas, until his health compelled him to 

 return home. Lieutenant Reese had just been 

 promoted to be first-lieutenant. 



June 22. RICH, Captain CHARLES OTIS, U. 

 S. Volunteers; died at Yokohama, Japan. 

 He was a son of Mr. Otis Rich, of Boston, and 

 was a captain in the Forty-fifth Massachusetts 

 Regiment, which served under General Foster, 

 in North Carolina, in the civil war. He was 

 present at the battles of Kinston and Golds- 

 borough. After the war, he became a partner 

 in an East India house with which his father 

 was connected, and went as its representative 

 to Yokohama, where he died. 



June 26. KELLOGG, Miss MARY, an eminent 

 teacher ; died in Great Barrington, Mass., aged 

 83 years. She was one of three sisters who 

 conducted a seminary for young ladies in that 

 village, and for a period of twenty -five years 

 devoted themselves untiringly to its interests, 

 rendering it an institution of the highest order. 



June 29. CRABBE, THOMAS, Rear- Admiral, 

 U. S. N. ; died at his residence in Princeton, 

 N. J., aged 84 years, sixty years of which had 

 been spent in the service. He was born in 

 Maryland, in 1788, and afterward removed to 

 Pennsylvania, from which State he entered the 

 Naval Academy in 1809. He was made cap- 

 tain in 1841, and from 1850 to 1855 had charge 

 of various foreign squadrons. In 1862 he was 

 made commodore, and in 1866 rear-admiral. 



June . SKINNER, General ST. JOHN B. L. ; 

 died in Washington, D. C., aged 75 years. He 

 was a native of Washington County, N. Y., 

 served in the War of 1812, and, during the 

 administration of President Pierce, was made 

 First Assistant Postmaster-General, a position 

 which he retained under Presidents Buchanan, 

 Lincoln, and Johnson. 



July 1. ROBERTS, SALLIE, formerly a col- 



