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taring many guns and several thousand prison- 

 ers/' He fought the last battle and won the 

 last victory of the Army of the Potomac at Sail- 

 or's Creek, April 6, 1865. After Appomattox, 

 Wright, with his corps, was sent to Shermans 

 aid in North Carolina, and when Johnston sur- 

 rendered he returned to Washington. He re- 

 ceived the brevet of brigadier general for gallantry 

 at Cold Harbor, and that of major general in the 

 United States army for services at the capture of 

 Petersburg, March* 13, ISO;"), and also the thanks 

 of the Legislature of Connecticut " for his eminent 

 services."" From July, 1865, to August. 1866, he 

 commanded the Department of Texas, and he was 

 mustered out of the volunteer service on Sept, 1, 

 1866. Returning to his corps, in which he had 

 held the rank of lieutenant colonel from Nov. 8, 

 1863, he was assigned to duty as a member of 

 various boards having to do with engineering 

 works. He was made a colonel on March 4, 1879, 

 and on .June 30 brigadier general and chief of 

 engineers, serving also ex officio as a member of 

 the Lighthouse Board, which places he held until 

 liis retirement. March 6, 1884. He was co-author 

 of a Report on the Fabrication of Iron for De- 

 fenses (Washington, 1871). In announcing his 

 deatli the chief of engineers said: "For nobility 

 of character, for gentleness of disposition, for all 

 the grand attributes of the beau-ideal soldier, 

 Gen. Wright stood pre-eminent," In Arlington, 

 on the slope of the east bank of the Potomac, 

 facing the city that he saved from the enemy, 

 he was buried with military honors. 



Yates, John Barentse, soldier, born in Sche- 

 nectady, N. Y., Oct. 19, 1833; died there, Oct. 20, 

 1890. He began life in the service of the Utica 

 and Schenectady Railroad as an axeman, later 

 going West to serve as a rodman. On the break- 

 ing out of the civil w r ar he enrolled a company 

 of the 1st Michigan Engineers, and was commis- 

 sioned as captain in 1861, promoted to the rank 

 of major in 1863, and made colonel in 1864. In 

 this command he was the main reliance of Gen, 

 Sherman in his march to th,e sea, who wrote a 

 letter to the War Department praising him in 

 the highest terms. It was said of his regiment 

 that it built and destroyed more railroads under 

 fire than any similar organization of modern 

 times. After *the war he was appointed military 

 superintendent of railroads for Tennessee, a place 

 which he retained throughout the reconstruction 

 period. Returning to his profession and his na- 

 tive city, he was made division engineer on the 

 Erie Canal, and he then built the additional 

 tracks of the New York Central Railroad. He 

 was employed extensively throughout the coun- 

 try down to the time of'his death. 



Young, Henry A., physician, born in Salt 

 Lake City, Utah, in 1866; died near Manila, Phi- 

 lippine Islands, Feb. 4-8, 1899. He was a nephew 

 of the late Brigham Young; was graduated at 

 the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons 

 in 1893; spent two years as an interne at the 

 Rhode Island Hospital, in Providence; and then 

 settled in Salt Lake City. At the beginning of 

 the war against Spain he enlisted in the Utah 

 Light Artillery, becoming sergeant in Battery A. 

 The Utah Artillery was among the few batteries 

 of the State militia fully equipped with modern 

 breech-loading 3.2-inch steel rifles at the begin- 

 ning of the war, and was among the first organ- 

 izations sent to Manila. In the attack on the 

 American lines by the Filipino insurgents on the 

 night of Feb. 4, and in the fighting that was con- 

 tinued till the 9th the Utah Artillery became 

 conspicuous by its position and remarkable exe- 

 cution, and was highly commended by Gen. Otis 



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in his official dispatches. After the defeat of 

 the insurgents and the cessation of fighting Dr. 

 Young could not be found. His comrades insti- 

 tuted a search, and his remains were found, hor- 

 ribly mutilated, at a spot within the lines occu- 

 pied by the insurgents while the fighting was at 

 its height. 



Young 1 , John Russell, journalist, born in 

 Dowington, Pa., Nov. 20, 1841; died in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., Jan. 17, 1899. He was educated in ; 

 the public schools of Philadelphia and New Or- 

 leans. In 1857 he became a copyholder on the 

 Philadelphia Press, on which he was rapidly pro- 

 moted to reporter, news editor, Washington cor- 

 respondent, and at the outbreak of the civil war I 

 war correspondent with the Army of the Poto- 

 mac. He remained with that army from the bat- 

 tle of Bull Run till the end of the Chickahominy 

 campaign, when illness compelled him to return 

 to Philadelphia, where he took the managing 

 editorship of the Press, In 1864 he went as cor- 

 respondent with the Red River expedition under 

 Gen. Banks, and at the close of that campaign 

 he resumed editorial control of the Press. In 

 September, 1865, he joined the editorial staff of 

 the New York Tribune, and in May, 1866,. be- 

 came managing editor. While holding this place 

 he established the Morning Post in Philadelphia. 

 Mr. Young retired from the Tribune in 1869, and 

 the same year established the Standard in New 

 York. In 1871 he went to Europe as a corre- 

 spondent of the New York Herald, and traveled 

 in each of its countries excepting Russia till 1877, 

 when he was selected by the Herald to accom- 

 pany ex-President Grant on his journey around 

 the world. In 1879 he resumed editorial work 

 on the Herald till 1882, when he was appointed 

 minister to China. In 1885 he resigned his post 

 and returned home. His last public office was 

 that of librarian of Congress, to which he was 

 appointed June 30, 1897. He Avas author of 

 Around the World with Gen. Grant (2 vols., New 

 York, 1879) and editor of a Memorial History 

 of the City of Philadelphia, from its First Settle- 

 ment to the Year 1895 (vol. i), and Narrative and 

 Critical History, 1681-1895 (New York, 1895). 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. Abdy, John 

 Thomas, English jurist, born in Madras, India, 

 July 5, 1822; died in September, 1899. He was 

 educated at Cambridge, and was admitted to the 

 bar. From 1854 to 1873 he was Professor of Civil 

 Law at Cambridge. He became recorder of Bed- 

 fordshire in 1870, and was raised to the county 

 court bench in 1871. He was the author of a 

 valuable Historical Sketch of Civil Procedure 

 among the Romans (Cambridge, 1857), and of 

 an edition of Kent's Commentaries on Interna- 

 tional Law (London, 1866). With Bryan Walker 

 he translated and annotated the Commentaries of 

 Gaius and the Institutes of Justinian (1876). 



Achenbach, Heinrich von, German states- 

 man, born in 1830; died in Potsdam, July 10, 

 1899. He was a Professor of Law in the Univer- 

 sity of Bonn w r hen first elected to the Prussian 

 Chamber in 1866. In 1872 he was appointed un- 

 dersecretary in the Ministry of Education, and 

 in 1878 became Prussian Minister of Commerce, 

 having in his former post contributed much to 

 the preparation of the Kulturkampf legislation. 

 He took a prominent part in the purchase of the 

 Prussian railroads by the State and in the exten- 

 sion of the railroad system. In 1879 he was ap- 

 pointed president of the province of Brandenburg, 

 and under his instruction the present Emperor 

 learned in 1882 the details of local administration. 



Ahamuda, Marquis de, Spanish soldier, died 

 in Saragossa in October, 1899. He fought with 



