other regiments, or fought in scattered squads about the field. It is but just, however, to say, that as individuals, fighting irregularly after their lines had been broken, they displayed great intrepidity. Their list of killed and wounded bears testimony to their courage.

The official reports of General Heintzelman and Colonel Ward speak in high terms of the gallantry displayed by Farnham on that disastrous day. After the panic-stricken rabble had fled, an officer of one of the few regiments which had retreated in good order, saw Farnham slowly walking his horse along the road. "Colonel, you are hurt-your head is bleeding." "Oh no-it is nothing;" and he passed on.

His wound was mortal. But as he lay upon his bed in the last weary days, the only sad thought which cast a shadow over the heroic cheerfulness of the young colonel, was the recollection of the disgrace which his country's flag had suffered in his sight. "Ah!" said he, half rising upon

his elbow, and gesticulating vehemently with his right fore-finger, "it was a cowardly retreat-ah! it was a cowardly retreat."

Although his fitness and his preparation for a glorious career gave such brilliant promise as to create in the minds of those who knew him best an almost superstitious confidence in the certainty of his final success, his death, after all, is not on his own account to be regretted. He had not lived long enough to lose the freshness of youthful enthusiasm, or to suffer the heart-sickness of disappointed hopes. Trusting most humbly, but sincerely, in Christ, he was ready at any time to die. It was his rare good fortune to receive his death-blow while in the very act of discharging a dangerous and glorious duty.

LIEUTENANT PRESLEY O. CRAIG, U. S. A.

KILLED AT BULL RUN, JULY 21, 1861.

PRESLEY OLDHAM CRAIG was the third son of Colonel Henry K. and Maria Bethune Craig, and was born at the Watertown Arsenal, in the State of Massachusetts, in December, A. D. 1834. The tie of nativity was not the only one that bound him to that ancient and patriotic commonwealth, for to her he also owed one half his parentage, and traced his maternal descent from the Hunts of Watertown and the Bethunes and Faneuils of Boston. But the family whose name he owned and illustrated by a manly life and heroic death, has been, since he Revolutionary war, settled in Western Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Major Isaac Craig, and General John Neville, his great-grandfather, had both born conspicuous parts in the war of Independence, and were much distinguished for eminent services in the patriotic cause. At the termination of the contest, both officers, with other relatives and friends, fixed their future homes near the site of the present city of Pittsburg, where the State of Virginia then claimed territorial sway.

In the troubles that followed the breaking out of the insurrection of the western Pennsylvanians, in 1794, the fidelity and soldiery spirit

of these revolutionary veterans was still further tested on the side of the government they had labored with unsparing sacrifices to establish. The historian of the American republic bears cordial testimony to the priceless services rendered by them, at every risk of life and with large loss of property, in support of the national cause during this trying period of Washington's administration, in stemming a rebellion, that, in the words of Marshall, "at one time threatened to shake the government of the United States to its foundation."

The military spirit that had marked the character of the revolutionary ancestry of the subject of this sketch, was not wanting to the succeeding generation. Colonel Henry Knox Craig, his father, entered the army at the outset of the late war with Great Britain, and served with much credit during the campaign, taking part in many actions on the Canadian frontier. In the war with Mexico, the same officer, then a veteran of nearly forty years' service, joined General Taylor's army at Corpus Christi, and participating in the most arduous operations of the army of the Rio Grande, shared the dangers of all the battles fought on that frontier.

By him of whose character and too brief life it is here sought to give some account, the soldierly qualities of his forefathers were inherited in their largest extent, and exhibited themselves as his strongest trait. Unusual personal beauty, united with an uncommonly gentle and docile disposition, had marked a childhood that, to eyes less partial than parental ones, gave most excellent promise for maturer life. Ripening years fulfilled every assurance; and while the outward form developed into the exactest symmetry and mould, the inward nature and dispo sition seemed to take upon itself the stronger and sterner qualities of the man, without parting with or lessening the gentler and more