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a Virtue, or Outlines of Systematic Rhetoric" (New 

 York, 1850); " Coleridge's Works, with Introductory 

 Essays "(7 vols.. 1853); "Lectures on the Philoso- 

 phy of History" (Andover, 1856); "Discourses and 

 Essays" (1856); "A Manual of Church History" 

 (2 vols., 1857); "The Confession of Augustine" 

 (I860); "A History of Christian Doctrine" (2 vols., 

 New York, 1863) ; " Ilomiletics and Pastoral Theol- 

 ogy " (1867) ; " Sermons to the Natural Man" (1871) ; 

 " Theological Essays " (1877) ; " Literary Essays " 

 (1878) ; " Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the 

 Romans" (1879); "Sermons to the Spiritual Man" 

 (1884); "Doctrine of Endless Punishment" (1885); a 

 monograph on " Calvinism, Pure and Mixed : A De- 

 fense of the Westminster Standards " ; " Orthodoxy 

 and Heterodoxy " (1893) ; and an exposition of his 

 system of" Dogmatic Theology" (3 vols., 1894). 



Shepherd, Oliver Lathrop, military officer, born in 

 Clifton Park, Saratoga County, N. Y., Aug. 15, 1815 ; 

 died in New York city, April 16, 1894. He was grad- 

 uated at West Point in 1840, and became brevet 2d lieu- 

 tenant, 4th Infantry. In the regular army he was pro- 

 moted 2d lieutenant, 3d Infantry, Oct. 2, 1840; 1st 

 lieutenant, Nov. 3, 1845; captain, Dec. 1, 1847 ; lieu- 

 tenant colonel, 18th Infantry, May 14, 1861, and colo- 

 nel, 15th Infantry, Jan. 21, 1863; and was retired Dec. 

 15, 1870. He received the brevets of captain, Aug. 

 20, 1847, for the battles of Contreras and Churubusco ; 

 major, Sept. 13, for Chapultepec; colonel, May 17, 

 1862, for services during the siege of Corinth ; and 

 brigadier general, March 13, 1865, for gallantry in the 

 battle of Stone River. His service against the Semi- 

 nole Indians in Florida made him, at the time of his 

 death, a survivor of three wars. He was commissary 

 of the supply train on its march from Corpus Christ! 

 to the Rio Grande at the beginning of the Mexican 

 War; served on the frontier after that war, and de- 

 fended Fort Defiance, New Mexico, against the Navajo 

 Indians in April, 1860; was in the early Tennessee 

 and Mississippi campaigns of the Army of the Ohio : 

 served with Gen. Buell in the movement through 

 Alabama and Tennessee to Louisville, Ky. ; and was 

 with the Army of the Cumberland from November, 

 1862, till April, 1863. After the war he was superin- 

 tendent of the recruiting service at Fort Adams, R. I. 



Singer, Otto, composer, born in Sora, Saxony, July 

 26, 1833; died in New York city, Jan. 2-3, 1894. He 

 was educated in music at Dresden and Leipzig, study- 

 ing in the conservatory of the latter place under 

 Richter, Moscheles, and llauptmann, and then spent 

 four years in study and teaching. For several years 

 he was connected with the Wagner-Liszt School in 

 Weimar, where a symphony composed by him was 

 highly praised by Liszt. In 1867 he removed, to New 

 York city, where he taught piano playing till 1873, 

 when he accompanied Theodore Thomas to Cincin- 

 nati as assistant musical director of the May festival. 

 He remained in Cincinnati till 1893, teaching and 

 composing. In 1876 wrote the cantata " The Land- 

 ing of the Pilgrims" for the Cincinnati Harmonic 

 Society, and in 1878 composed the "Festival Ode" 

 for the dedication of the Cincinnati Music Hall. He 

 was found dead in bed on Jan. 3. 



Slocnm, Henry Warner, military officer, born in 

 Delphi, Ononclaga County, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1827 ; died 

 in Brooklyn, N. Y., April'l4, 1894. He was graduated 

 at West Point in 1852, and became 2d lieutenant, 1st 

 Artillery. After serving in the Seminole war in 

 Florida, he was promoted 1st lieutenant, March 3, 

 1855, and was on duty at Fort Moultrie, South Caro- 

 lina, till Oct. 31, 1856, when he resigned his commis- 

 sion. He then settled in Syracuse ; began practicing 

 law, which he had studied while in the army ; en- 

 tered political life; was elected to the Legislature as 

 a Democrat in 1859, and from 1859 till 1861 was also 

 instructor of artillery in the State militia with the 

 rank of colonel. On May 21, 1861, he became colonel 

 of the 27th New York Volunteers. The regiment 

 left Elmira for the front on July 10, and eleven days 

 afterward it passed through the first battle of Bull 

 Run, where its commander was wounded in the 



thigh. On Aug. 9, while confined to the hospital he 

 was promoted brigadier general of volunteers. On 

 his recovery he was assigned to the command of a 

 brigade in Franklin's division, Army of the Potomac. 

 In the peninsular campaign of 1862 he took part in 

 the siege of Yorktown 

 and the engagement at 

 West Point; succeeded 

 Gen. Franklin in com- 

 mand of the division on 

 May 15; re -enforced 

 Gen. Fitzjohn Porter in 

 the battle of Gaines's 

 Mill, June 27 ; and, with 

 his division, occupied 

 the right of the main 

 line in the battles of 

 Glendale and Malvern 

 Hill. On July 4, 1862, 

 he was promoted major 

 general of volunteers; on 

 Aug. 30 was engaged in 

 the second battle of Bull 

 Run ; Sept. 14 was in the battle of South Mountain ; 

 and Sept. 17 added much to his brilliant record in 

 the battle of the Antietam, in the latter part of which 

 he was assigned to the command of the 12th Corps, 

 succeeding Gen. Mansfield, who had been killed. 

 He further distinguished himself at Chancellorsville 

 and at Gettysburg, where his command was on the 

 right of the army, and repelled a charge made by 

 E well's Corps at 'daylight on July 3, 1863. In Octo- 

 ber, after the defeat of Rosecrans at Chickamauga, 

 the llth and 12th Corps were detached from the 

 Army of the Potomac and hastened to re-enforce the 

 army in the Department of the Cumberland. In 

 April, 1864, Gen. Sherman consolidated the two corps 

 into what was afterward known as the 20th Corps, 

 and assigned Gen. Hooker to the command. On this 

 consolidation Gen. Slocum was given command of a 

 division and of the district of Vicksburg. In August 

 Gen. Hooker was succeeded by Gen. Slocum. When 

 Gen. Sherman made his movement around Atlanta to 

 the Macon road, he assigned Gen. Slocum to guard 

 the communications, and when the Confederates left 

 their intrenchments about Atlanta to meet the Na- 

 tional army. Gen. Slocum threw his corps directly 

 into the city. In the march to the sea and through 

 the Carolinas, Gen. Slocum commanded the left wing 

 of the army, comprising the 14th and 20th Corps. 

 From June 29 till Sept. 16 he commanded the Depart- 

 ment of the Mississippi, and on Sept. 28, 1865, he re- 

 signed his commission, returning to civil life in 

 Brooklyn. In the election of 1865 he was defeated as 

 Democratic candidate for Secretary of State of New 

 York ; in 1868 was a presidential elector ; and in 1868 

 and 1870 was elected to Congress. He was defeated by 

 Grover Cleveland in the Democratic Convention of 

 1882 as candidate for the nomination for Governor of 

 New York, and in the following year was elected Con- 

 gressman at Large. Gen. Slocum was for several years 

 a trustee of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, and 

 had large railway and other financial interests in 

 Brooklyn. He bequeathed $5,000 each to the Brook- 

 lyn Children's Aid Society and the Society for the 

 Prevention of Cruelty to Children. 



Sniper, Q-nstavns, military officer, born in Baden, 

 Germany, June 11, 1836; died in Syracuse, N. Y., 

 March 29, 1894. He was brought to the United States 

 when five years old, and was engaged in the tobacco 

 business in Syracuse, N. Y., when the civil war be- 

 gan. Early in 1861 he organized a company of vol- 

 unteers, but failed to have it mustered into a desired 

 regiment because the quota was full. Afterward he 

 raised a company for the 101st New York Volunteers, 

 was commissioned captain, and was promoted major 

 before the regiment left the State. For services on 

 the field he was promoted lieutenant colonel. He 

 served with his regiment till it was consolidated with 

 the 37th New York Volunteers, and was then mus- 

 tered out. In August, 1864, he assisted in raising the 



