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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



latnrc in 1849 and 1854, and was a delegate in 

 1852 to the Baltimore convention that nomi- 

 nated Gen. Scott for the presidency. In 1856 

 be united with the newly-formed Republican 

 party, and as its candidate was re-elected to 

 the Legislature in that and the following years. 

 lie was elected a representative in Congress in 

 1866 and 1869, and defeated by a few votes in 

 1871, and from 1876 till 1884 was a member of 

 every State Legislature. 



Stewart, Isaae Dalton, an American clergyman, 

 born in Warner, N. H., Dec. 23, 1817; died in 

 Dover June 7, 1887. He was educated at 

 Hopkinton and Henniker Academies, and 

 taught in Ohio, New Jersey, and New Hamp- 

 shire several years. In 1841 he studied in the 

 Biblical School at Parsonsfield, Me., and later 

 in the New Hampton Theological School. In 

 1842 he became principal of Henniker Acade- 

 my. Mr. Stewart was ordained to the Free 

 Baptist ministry at Meredith Feb. 2, 1843. 

 He held pastorates at Meredith and Laconia, 

 and was teacher, preacher, and financial mana- 

 ger at the New Hampton Institution. In 1867 

 he became pastor of the Free Baptist church, 

 Dover, N. H., to 1873, when he became agent of 

 the " Morning Star " newspaper, and its denom- 

 inational printing establishment- for the country. 

 This office he held until the paper and office 

 were moved to Boston in 1885. He represented 

 New Hampshire twice in the Legislature of the 

 State. In conjunction with Rev. Silas Curtis, 

 he prepared the first volume of "Minutes of 

 the General Conference" for publication, col- 

 lected the material for, and wrote the first vol- 

 ume of the " History of the. Free Baptists " 

 and the "Minister's Manual," also chapters for 

 the " Centennial Record." lie prepared many 

 reports, papers, and addresses of value. 



Stone, Charles P., an American soldier, born 

 in Greenfield, Franklin County, Mass., in 1826 ; 

 died in New York city Jan. 24, 1887. He en- 

 tered the United States Military Academy in 

 1841 and was graduated in 1845, immediately 

 thereafter being appointed a brevet second 

 lieutenant of ordnance. A month later he was 

 appointed acting assistant professor of ethics 

 in the Military Academy, an office he held till 

 January, 1846, when he was ordered to duty 

 in Mexico. He distinguished himself in sev- 

 eral battles under Gen. Scott, was brevetted 

 first lieutenant Sept. 8, 1847, for gallant and 

 meritorious conduct in the battle of Molino 

 del Key, and captain five days later for similar 

 conduct at Chapultepec, and commissioned 

 first lieutenant in the regular army in Febru- 

 ary, 1853. In 1851 he was sent to California, 

 where he constructed the Benicia Arsenal and 

 acted as chief of ordnance for the Pacific coast, 

 and resigned from the army in 1856. He was 

 engaged in the banking business in San Fran- 

 cisco for a year, and then undertook a survey 

 of Sonora and Lower California under a com- 

 mission from the Mexican President. Just be- 

 fore the inauguration of President Lincoln, 

 Mr. Holt, the Secretary of War, called Lieut. 



Stone to Washington, appointed him a captain 

 in the army, and assigned him to the, duty of 

 inspector-general of all the militia in the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia then organizing for the pro- 

 tection of the national capital. On May 14, 

 1861, he was appointed colonel of the Four- 

 teenth Regiment of United States Infantry, 

 and on May 17 a brigadier-general of volun- 

 teers. He served in the Shenandoali valley 

 under Gen. Patterson during July, and, when 

 after the battle of Bull Run Gen. McClellan 

 was appointed to the command of the Army 

 of the Potomac, Gen. Stone was selected to 

 command a division, which was directed to oc- 

 cupy the valley of the Potomac above Wash- 

 ington as a corps of observation. In October 

 following occurred the disastrous buttle of 

 Ball's Bluff, in which the National troops were 

 defeated. The event produced a profound ex- 

 citement in Congress and throughout the coun- 

 try, in which Gen. Stone was bitterly accused 

 of having risked the battle without due prep- 

 aration. On Jan. 5, 1862, he appeared before 

 the congressional committee on the conduct 

 of the war, and was rigidly examined as to 

 every detail of the battle. His responses were 

 given frankly and seemed to satisfy the com- 

 mittee ; but in February he was arrested and 

 imprisoned in Fort Lafayette, New York har- 

 bor, and kept in confinement there seven 

 months without any charges having been pre- 

 ferred agninst him, and despite his appeals to 

 Gen. McClellan, Secretary Stanton, and Presi- 

 dent Lincoln for such a hearing as the military 

 code provided for every accused officer. To 

 the day of his death he was never informed of 

 the cause of his arrest and imprisonment. 

 After his release lie served in the siege of 

 Port Hudson and was one of the commission- 

 ers to receive its surrender, and as chief of 

 staff of Gen. Banks was engaged in the skir- 

 mish of Bayou Teche and the battles of Sabine 

 Cross-roads and Pleasant Hill, April 8 and 9, 

 1864. He was mustered out of the volunteer 

 service the same month, and remained unem- 

 ployed till August, when he was assigned to 

 the command of a brigade in the Army of the 

 Potomac, retaining it till after the surrender 

 of Petersburg, then resigning from the army. 

 He was engineer and superintendent of the 

 Dover Mining Company of Virginia from 1865 

 till 1869, and in 1870 entered the service of 

 the Khedive of Egypt, becoming chief of the 

 general staff or practically commander-iu-chief 

 of the entire army. For his valuable services 

 in command, organization, and administration, 

 he was decorated commander of the Order of 

 Ostnanieh Oct. 10, 1870, grand officer of the 

 Order of Medjii Jan. 24, 1875, and raised to 

 the dignity of a pasha in 1873. Early in 1883 

 Gen. Stone resigned his commission in the 

 Egyptian service, and, returning to the United 

 States, was appointed engineer-in-chief of the 

 construction of the pedestal for Bartholdi's 

 statue of Liberty in the harbor of New York, 

 which proved his last work. 



