returned to Missouri and raised a brigade, he was appointed by the President a brigadier-general of volunteers. On the 29th of November, 1862, he was promoted to be a majorgeneral. General Blair's military record while in command of a brigade at Chickasaw Bayou and Arkansas Post; of Sherman's old division of the Fifteenth Corps in the siege of Vicksburg and the capture of Jackson; of the Fifteenth Corps in its marches from Iuka to Chattanooga, and thence to Knoxville, and the battle of Missionary Ridge; and of the Seventeenth Corps in the Atlanta campaign, we have already followed, step by step. When the Army of the Tennessee went into winter-quarters at Huntsville, in 1863, General Blair, at the personal request of President Lincoln, returned to Washington, and resumed his place in Congress. At the reopening of active operations he hastened back to the army, and was assigned the command of the Seventeenth Army Corps, in place of General McPherson, who had succeeded General.Sherman at the head of the Army of the Tennessee. Peter Joseph Osterhaus was a native of Prussia, and held a commission in the Prussian army, but afterwards emigrated to the United States, and took up his residence at St. Louis, in Missouri. During the winter of 1860, in anticipation of the war, he organized and commanded a company of militia, and subsequently took part with it in the capture of the secession camp near the city by General Lyon, in May, 1861. His company being mustered into the service of the United States, on the 17th of July, 1861, he took part, under General Lyon, in the battle of Booneville; on the 2d of August fought at Dug Springs, in Southwestern Missouri, and on the 10th of the same month was engaged in the battle of Wilson's Creek, during which Lyon was killed. He was then promoted to be colonel of the Twelfth Missouri Volunteers, and at the head of that regiment took part in the brief campaign under Fremont. At the battle of Pea Ridge, on the 7th and 8th of March, 1862, Colonel Osterhaus commanded with ability the |