ed in the navy for his talents as an officer as well as for his intrinsic, worth.

Dec. 22.-MICHAEL CORCORAN, a brigadiergeneral of U. S. volunteers, born in Carrowkeel, county Sligo, Ireland, Sept. 21st, 1827, died Dec. 22d, 1863, near Fairfax Court House, of injuries received by a fall from his horse. His father, Thomas Corcoran, was an officer in the British army, and saw service in the West Indies. On the mother's side he was a descendant of the Earl of Lucan, the title and estates of whose family were confiscated after the noble defence of Limerick, during the seventeenth century, and were conferred on the Bingham family for services rendered the British crown. Young Corcoran received the benefits of a good English education until his nineteenth year, when, through some influential friends, he received an appointment in the Irish Constabulary force; but the love of his country burned so strongly within him that he could not brook the oppression of British rule, and, fearing that some occasion might tempt him to break through all restraint, he resigned his commission in 1849, emigrated to this country, and settled in New York city. There he made many friends, and through their influence was appointed to an official situation in the postoffice, and subsequently was clerk in the register's office. He commenced his military career as a private in Company I, 69th New York State militia. Displaying some amount of military talent, he rose successively from one grade to another, and in August, 1859, was elected colonel of the 69th. While holding this position, he attracted much public notice by his refusal to parade his regiment at the reception accorded to the Prince of Wales, upon his visit to New York city during the fall of 1860. He had not forgotten how England had persecuted and oppressed his countrymen, and declined to do homage to the son of a sovereign under whose rule some of the most worthy sons of Ireland had been banished. In this he was consistent with the spirit and principles of those heroes of Limerick from whom he had descended, and was fully sustained by the corps he commanded. By command of Major-Gen. Sandford he was subjected to a trial by courtmartial, which was long, and contested upon his part with true Irish spirit and independence, and which was still pending when the war broke out. The President's call to arms fired all the patriotism of his soul; he called upon his men to stand by the flag of the Union and the sacred principles it involved. The courtmartial was quashed. The Irish flocked to the ranks with all the enthusiasm of native-born citizens, and the 69th left New York for the seat of war, attended by a vast concourse of admiring people. The regiment was speedily sent to Virginia, where the men comprising it built, upon Arlington Heights, the famous Fort Corcoran." At the disastrous battle of Bull Run, July 21st, 1861, the 69th won itself much honor. Their gallant colonel was taken

prisoner, first sent to Richmond and afterwards to Charleston, S. C., where he was closely confined for nearly a whole year, being held most of the time as a hostage for some privateersmen who had been condemned as pirates. An exchange being finally effected, he was released, and was commissioned brigadier-general, dating from July 21, 1861. He next organized the Corcoran Legion, which took part in the battles of the Nansemond River and Suffolk, during April, 1863, and held the advance of the enemy upon Norfolk in check. In August, 1863, the Legion was added to the Army of the Potomac. On the 22d of December, Gen. Meagher, who had been paying a visit to Gen. Corcoran, was returning to Washington, when the latter, with some members of his staff, concluded to accompany him. Gen. Corcoran mounted upon Gen. Meagher's horse, and was somewhat in advance of the party. When near his headquarters, his companions found him lying senseless, his horse having fallen upon him. He was placed at once under medical treatment, but died without waking to consciousness.

Dec. 31.-Capt. GEORGE W. VANDERBILT, SON of Commodore C. Vanderbilt, died at Nice, in the 25th year of his age. He graduated at West Point in the spring of 1860, and immediately entered the regular army with the rank of second lieutenant. He was first stationed at Fort Walla-Walla, in Washington Territory, where he remained until the war broke out, when he was ordered to Boston to take charge of the recruiting service at that place. In the spring of 1862 he received an appointment on the staff of Brig.-Gen. Tyler as assistant-adjutant general, with the rank of captain. He was regarded by his superiors as an officer of great promise. While in the discharge of his duties he contracted a disease incident to exposure in an unhealthy region, and resisting the importunities of his superior to accept a furlough for the recovery of his health, he was soon beyond the reach of medical skill. In the spring of 1863, finding himself seriously ill, he obtained a furlough, and left for Europe, where he secured the best medical advice, but too late; he continued to sink, and died the last day of the year, lamented by a large circle of relations and friends.

Dec. --Lieut.-Col. LACHLAN ALLAN MAOLEAN, an officer of the Confederate army, killed in a personal encounter at Richmond, Ark., by Colonel Robert C. Wood, who had been at one time a member of Gen. Sterling Price's staff. Lieut.-Col. Maclean was born in Scotland, and was the son of Hector Maclean. He once lived in the State of Missouri, and taught school in Lexington. He had been chief clerk for John Calhoun, surveyor-general for the State of Arkansas and the territory of Nebraska, and proved himself so efficient that the entire business was entrusted to him. During the Kansas troubles he espoused the pro-slavery party and became a brigadier-general of volunteer forces in Kansas. At the time of his death he was the

adjutant-general of Major-Gen. Sterling Price, and about forty-four years of age. He had the wild roving disposition of a border man, or of the Scottish Highlander, but the gentle and refined manners of the polished gentleman. His personal appearance was remarkably striking,

his voice rich and mellow, and his taste for poetry and elocution chaste and cultivated. His friends, who have so often assembled around the camp-fire in the far West to hear his rehearsals, will long remember his "Dundee" and his "Antony and Cleopatra."

Jan. 8.-Rear-Admiral GEO. W. STORER, an officer of the U. S. navy, died at Portsmouth, N. H. Admiral Storer had served his country in its navy over half a century. He was born in New Hampshire, and was appointed a midshipman in the navy Jan. 16th, 1809. On July 24th, 1813, he was appointed a lieutenant, and ordered to the Independence, seventy-four guns. He was ordered to the old frigate Congress in 1818, and in 1819 to the Jura frigate. In 1820 he was ordered to the Constitution, then flag-ship of Commodore J. Rodgers, on the Mediterranean station, where he remained on a long cruise. In 1825 he was stationed at the Portsmouth navy yard. In 1828 he was promoted master commandant, which is ranked next to that of captain. He was placed in command of the sloop-of-war Boston (eighteen guns), and attached to the Mediterranean squadron in 1831. He remained in command of that ship until the end of the cruise, when he was again ordered to the Portsmouth navy yard, 1833. He was promoted captain, and put on waiting orders Feb. 9th, 1837. The following year he was put in command of the Potomac frigate, and ordered to the coast of Brazil. He returned in 1843, and awaited orders at Portsmouth, and was again attached to the navy yard at that place. In 1848 he commanded a squadron off the coast of Brazil. In 1851 he obtained a leave rendered necessary by the state of his health. After a short leave he reported for duty, and was put on waiting orders. He was then ordered to the Philadelphia Naval Asylum as Governor, in 1855. He was relieved in 1858 and placed on waiting orders. On the 16th of July, 1862, he was promoted rear-admiral, and placed on the retired list. His time was largely occupied after, as in fact before his promotion, as president of courts-martial and inquiry. He was fifty-five years in the naval service. Of that time he was at sea twenty-one years and nine months; twenty years on shore and other duties; unemployed twelve years and eight months. At the time of his death he was announced to preside over a court-martial to be held in New York city. He had lived to see the once small navy of a few ships grow to be scarcely inferior to any on the ocean. It was the dream of his youth and the pride of his manhood realized and gratified.

Jan. 12.-Col. EDWIN ROSE died at Jamaica, L. I. He was born in Bridgehampton, L. I.

Feb. 14th, 1817, graduated at West Point, but resigned his position in the army in 1837, to enter the service of the State of Michigan as civil engineer. He reëntered the service in 1861, as colonel of the 81st New York volunteers, and served with honor through the peninsular campaign, when, his health becoming impaired, he accepted the appointment of provost-marshal of the First Congressional district of New York. He twice represented Suffolk County in the Legislature.

Jan. 20.-T. M. SAUNDERS, captain in the United States army, died at St. Paul, Minn. He was a native of Virginia. During the Crimean war he obtained a furlough and joined s British regiment. He was twice wounded at the battle of Inkermann. At the breaking out of the rebellion he continued firm in the support of the Government; and, upon receiving an autograph letter from Jefferson Davis, enclosing a commission as a brigadier-general in the Confederate Army, he returned it with the utmost indignation.

Jan. 29.-STEPHEN G. CHAPLIN, brigadiergeneral of United States volunteers, died at Grand Rapids, Mich. He entered the service as major of the 3d Michigan, was severely wounded at Fair Oaks, participated in the battles of Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, and received his commission of brigadier in 1862. He was in command of the Grand Rapids camp of conscripts at the time of his death.

Jan. 31.-SOLON BORLAND, formerly a United States Senator from Arkansas, and brigadiergeneral in the rebel army, died in Texas. He was born in Virginia, educated in North Carolina, studied medicine, and settled in Little Rock, Ark., where he practised his profession. He served in the Mexican War as major of volunteers and aide-de-camp, and was taken prisoner; was elected United States Senator in 1849, and in 1853 appointed minister to Central America, where, in consequence of an altercation, he returned in 1854, and Greytown was bombarded by Com. Hollins in consequence of the insult offered him. He was afterwards ap pointed Governor of New Mexico, but declined He was ardently in favor of secession, and on the 24th of April, 1861, long before the seces sion of the State, raised a body of troops and captured Fort Smith, Ark., in the name of the Southern Confederacy.

Feb. 5.-Rev. N. A. STAPLES, a Unitarian

clergyman, died in Brooklyn, in the 34th year of his age. He was a native of Mendon, Mass.; studied theology at the Meadville Seminary, under Dr. Stebbins; was for a time pastor of a church in Lexington, Mass., and subsequently of a church in Milwaukee. At the beginning of the war he was appointed chaplain to one of the Wisconsin regiments, resigning his pastorate to accept the post. Here, as ever, he was earnest and faithful in the discharge of his duties, and contracted the disease which finally terminated in death. He succeeded the Rev. Mr. Longfellow in the Second Unitarian Church of Brooklyn, where he discharged his duties as a pastor as long as his failing strength allowed. Feb. 15.-Capt. ALLAN RAMSAY, of the United States Marine Corps, died at the headquarters of the Marine Corps, of small-pox. He was a son of Commodore William Ramsay, United States navy, and was on the Richmond during all her service on the Mississippi, before and after running past the batteries. He had been in fifteen engagements during the war.

Feb. 20.-Commander DAWSON PHENIX, U. S. navy, died in Philadelphia, aged 36 years. He entered the naval service in 1841, having been appointed from Maryland, his native State. His first orders were to join the Independence, then attached to the home squadron. Subsequently he served on board the frigate Savannah, of the Pacific squadron, and during a cruise of the Brandywine, also upon the steamer Princeton. In July, 1847, he was ordered to the naval school for promotion; was a passed midshipman in 1848, and the following year was ordered upon the coast survey, where he remained until July, 1850, when he was ordered to the Raritan, but was transferred to the sloop St. Mary's. In 1852 he was detached from that vessel and ordered to the Observatory at Washington, where he remained until October, 1853, when he was sent to the receiving-ship Philadelphia, and again to coast survey duty. In September, 1855, he was promoted to a lieutenancy, and afterwards served upon the Fredonia and the Lancaster. In 1861 he was promoted to be lieutenant-commander, and ordered to ordnance duty at Old Point Comfort, Va. A few months previous to his death he was assigned to the command of the gunboat Pocahontas.

Feb. 22.-Col. FRIBLEY, of the 8th United States volunteers (colored), was killed at Olustee, Florida, aged 28 years. He enlisted at the commencement of the war as a private in the 84th Pennsylvania, and rose to his position through good conduct and courage alone.

March 4.-Col. ULRIC DAHLGREN, an officer in the United States volunteer service, born in 1842, killed in a skirmish at King and Queen's Court House, Virginia, March 4, 1864. He was the son of Rear-Admiral John Dahlgren, and had received a very thorough education, and especially a careful training in the science of gunnery, which was his father's speciality. He had entered the navy as midshipman before

the breaking out of the war, and at the time of the attack on Fort Sumter was travelling in the Southwestern States. Great efforts were made to induce him to join the rebels, but he refused indignantly; and hastening home, he assisted his father in the Ordnance Department; and when Gen. Saxton was in command at Harper's Ferry, and the place was first threatened, Commodore Dahlgren, having received orders to place a naval battery on Maryland Heights, sent his son Ulric to place the guns in position, and take charge of the battery. He executed this duty with great skill, and when Gen. Sigel relieved Gen. Saxton of his command, he found young Dahlgren at his post as captain of artillery, and took him at once upon his staff. Subsequently Gen. Sigel solicited and obtained his appointment as additional aide-de-camp with the rank of captain. He served in this capacity in Fremont's mountain campaign, distinguishing himself particularly at Cross Keys, and served through Pope's campaign, acting as chief of artillery under Sigel at the second battle of Bull Run, where he was specially commended by his general. During the movements in the autumn of 1862 he was actively engaged under Gen. Stahel in all his reconnoissances and raids, and when the Army of the Potomac moved down into Virginia, in November, 1862, he made that attack upon Fredericksburg at the head of Gen. Sigel's bodyguard, which has become famous in the history of the war. For this gallant act Gen. Burnside detailed him as special aid upon his staff. At the crossing of the Rappahannock, at the unfortunate battle of Fredericksburg, he was one of the first to land in that city. When the army went into winter quarters he rejoined Gen. Sigel, and when that general was relieved of command, Gen. Hooker applied to have Capt. Dahlgren transferred to his staff, which was done. He again distinguished himself at the battle of Chancellorsville, was with General Pleasanton in all the cavalry fights in the Bull Run Mountains and Aldie, joined Gen. Stahel's expedition to Warrenton as a volunteer, and led the most important reconnoissances then made. When Gen. Meade succeeded Gen. Hooker, he requested Capt. Dahlgren to remain on his staff. Before the battles at Gettysburg he obtained from Gen. Pleasanton a hundred picked men, with a roving commission, and among other distinguished services rendered the Union cause, scoured the country in search of a bearer of despatches, whom he knew to be on his way from Jefferson Davis to Gen. Lee, captured him and his escort, secured the despatches, and, by the most skilful manœuvring, succeeded in reaching Gen. Meade's tent after the first day's battle, and laid these important papers before him. Not waiting for thanks, he returned to his men, and harassed the enemy at every point, destroying their wagon trains, and attacking their rear-guard. On their retreat he led the famous charge into Hagerstown, when of five officers in the charge two

est perfection, the Texas Rangers. Thomas Green commanded a company of Texas Rangers in Col. Jack Hays's regiment during the war with Mexico. After peace was declared he became clerk of the Supreme Court. At the breaking out of the war he entered the Confederate army, and commanded the 5th, the choicest regiment of cavalry from Texas. He was commander-in-chief at the battle of Valverde during the latter part of the fight, Gen. Sibley being too ill to remain in command. He also commanded the forlorn hope of five hundred Texans in the attack on Galveston and the capture of the Harriet Lane. After this feat he was ordered to report to Gen. Dick Taylor, and was put in command of the old Sibley brigade. He was in the battle of Bisland, where Gen. Taylor, in his report, called him the "Ney" and the "Shield and Buckler of his army." At Vermilion Bayou, where he had a fight with the Federal gunboats, he was seen to go to the river edge to get a drink of water. As he held the bucket to his lips two bullets passed through it, but Gen. Green neither took it from his mouth nor spilled a drop. A staff officer being sent to him to know how long he could hold his position, as there were hundreds of baggage wagons to get away, he answered: "Tell Gen. Taylor not to ask me how long I can hold the position, but to send me word how long he desires it held." About this time he was put in command of all the cavalry in Taylor's army and in the district in which that army operated. He was repulsed at Donaldsonville. At the battle of Bayou La Fourche he defeated Gens. Grover and Weitzel, and captured over five million dollars' worth of supplies. He defeated Gen. Washburne at Bayou Fordache in November, 1863. At Bayou Borbeaux he fought successfully two entire corps, and was made major-general for his achievements. He was then ordered to Texas and put in command of all the cavalry of the Trans-Mississippi Department. Gen. Green was a remarkable man, and was regarded in his department, and by all who knew him, as one of the few men who, during the whole war, had manifested real military genius.

April 17.-Rev. WM. H. GILDER, chaplain of the 40th New York regiment, died of smallpox at Culpepper, Va., aged 52 years. He was educated in the Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Conn., joined the Philadelphia Con ference in 1833, and after preaching for several years in New Jersey, returned on account of failing health to Philadelphia, where he edited the "Christian Repository." He was for seventeen years engaged in the work of education: first as Principal of the Female Institute at Bordentown, N. J., and afterwards as President of Flushing Female College, L. I. In 1859 he resumed preaching, and in 1862 accepted a chaplaincy in the army, following his charge to every battle, until prostrated by disease terminating in his death.

April 18.-Lieut.-Com. CHARLES W. FLUSSER,

of the United States navy, born in Maryland about 1832, killed near Plymouth, North Carolina, in a naval engagement, April 18th, 1864. Commander Flusser belonged to one of the oldest and best families in Maryland, but during his childhood his parents removed to Kentucky, from which State he was appointed a midshipman in the navy, July 19, 1847. His first cruise was made in the Cumberland. In 1849 he was sent to the Raritan, 40 guns, where he remained until the latter part of 1850. In 1851 he was ordered to the Saratoga, sloop-of-war, and in her made a cruise which lasted two years. In 1853 he was at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, preparatory to passing as passed midshipman. His warrant to that grade bore date of June 10, 1853.

At the close of the examination, after a brief recreation, he was ordered to the frigate Savannah, where he remained during the entire cruise, which ended on the 26th of November, 1856. During the cruise he was promoted to a lieuten ancy, his commission bearing date September 16, 1855. In 1857 he was granted a leave of absence. Toward the close of the year, however, he was ordered to the Naval Academy as an assistant professor. He remained in that position until ordered to the brig Dolphin, in 1859. He made a cruise in her, returning late in 1860. He then was granted a leave of absence, in which position he was when the war broke out. He applied for active duty at once, when it was seen that war must ensue, and the Navy Department assigned him to the command of the purchased gunboat Commodore Perry, and with this vessel he took part in the naval attack by Commodore Goldsborough which preceded the capture of Roanoke Island on the 7th of February, 1862, by Gen. Burnside.

On the 3d of October, 1862, he took part in the shelling of Franklin, Virginia. More recently he has been in command of the gunboat Commodore Perry, in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, being stationed in North Carolina waters. At the time of his death he was in command of the Miami, in Albemarle Sound.

In

He was a skilful and intelligent sailor, a thorough and gallant officer, and a genial, accomplished, and high-toned gentleman. habits he furnished an example of temperance and moderation.

He had been urgently besought by his Maryland friends, many of whom were secessionists, as well as by Commander Collins, and other Southern officers, to join the South, and was offered a high command; but he refused firmly and indignantly, and threw his whole soul into the cause of the Union.

April 24.-FRANKLIN HULSE CLACK died from wounds received during the battles of Mayfield and Pleasant Hill, Louisiana. He was a son of Commander Clack, U. S. N., was born in Florida, 1828, graduated at Mount St. Mary's College in 1845, and took the degree of Bachelor of Laws at Yale College, 1847. In 1851