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 DR. DURYEA'S 
 
 COiMMEMORATIVE ADDRESS; 
 
 AND THE 
 
 Princeton Rolj of Honor 
 
 BY 
 
 PROF. CAMERON, 
 

AN 
 
 ORATION 
 
 COMMEMORATIVE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Restoration OF the Union, 
 
 WITH 
 
 A TRIBUTE 
 
 TO THE 
 
 Alumni and Under-Graduates 
 
 OF THE 
 
 COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY, 
 
 WHO FELL IN THE NATIONAL STRUGGLE. 
 
 DELIVERED 
 
 TUESDAY, JUNE 26th, 1866, 
 
 AT THE REQUEST OF THE 
 
 TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE, 
 
 BY THE 
 
 REV. JOSEPH T. pURYEA. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA : 
 
 McCalla & Stavely, Printers, 237 & 239 Dock Street. 
 
 1866. 
 

 
EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF 
 
 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
 
 OF THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
 "Resolved, That the Rev. Joseph T. Duryea of Nevv^ York City, be 
 
 invited to deliver an address at the next Commencement commemorative 
 
 of the restoration of the Union, with a suitable tribute to those graduates 
 
 and undergraduates of this College who were connedled with the Army 
 
 and Navy of the Country." 
 
 E. R. craven, clerk. 
 College of New Jersey, Feb. 7, 1866. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF 
 
 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
 
 OF THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
 ** Resolved, That the Rev. J. T. Duryea, D.D., be requested to 
 furnish the Board with a copy of the Address ' On the Restoration of the 
 Union,' delivered by him yesterday in accordance with the request of the 
 Board, for publication. 
 
 ** Resolved, That Professor Cameron be requested to furnish any notes 
 he may have made of fafts concerning the services of graduates and under- 
 graduates of this College, in the Army and Navy of the United States 
 during the late rebellion, to be published in connexion with the address 
 of Dr. Duryea.'' 
 
 Adopted June 27th, 1866, by the Board of Trustees of the College of 
 
 New Jersey. 
 
 E. R. CRAVEN, clerk. 
 College of New Jersey, June 27, i866. 
 
ORATION. 
 
 Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Board 
 OF Trustees, AND Brethren of the Alumni: 
 
 We are afTembled by invitation of the reverend 
 Board of Truftees to commemorate the reftoration 
 of the Union, and to render a suitable tribute to 
 the graduates of the College who were connected 
 with the army of the country. Such a service does 
 honor to the judgment and the heart of those who 
 conceived it ; it is moil fitting among the solemni- 
 ties of an institution so dependent in the accomplish- 
 ing of its high objects upon the protection and nur- 
 ture of government, and in its turn so vitally con- 
 nedied with the stability and welfare of the State 
 as a Chriftian College : it is due the worthy cause 
 whose triumph it contemplates : it is most just to 
 the noble men, the memory of whose brave deeds, 
 and sacrifices, and sufferings, it aids us to cherifli 
 
and perpetuate : it is most grateful to every instinct 
 of the patriotism and piety of those who have so 
 cordially responded to the call to celebrate it. 
 
 More especially is this service not only warranted, 
 but in all fitnefs demanded by numerous among the 
 most treasured alTociations which hallow with 
 changelefs consecration the place in which we are 
 gathered. We are upon the soil of New Jersey, 
 which, faithful and eminent among the colonies, 
 furnifhed the decilive battle-ground of the contest 
 for independence, and gave to the cause many of 
 its noblest advocates and defenders in the Senate 
 and the field. We are in the ancient borough of 
 Princeton which marked the turning-point of the 
 gallant struggle. Down this height the receding 
 tide of the revolution poured sullenly behind the 
 retreating Commander-in-chief to its loweft ebb at 
 the Delaware, then swept proudly up again, and 
 onward against the hastening Britifh Columns to 
 the Raritan. We are within the precincts of a 
 College which sent its fathers to the Congrefs and 
 its sons to the ranks, which put its hand to the de- 
 claration of freedom and lent its counsels to the 
 framers of the Conftitution. We are almost be- 
 neath the shadow of walls which echoed the tread 
 of soldiery, and bore the scars of battle ; not far 
 from a spot made sacred forever by the dust of the 
 elder patriots. If standing on this hallowed ground, 
 among the memorials of the nation's painful birth 
 and struggling infancy, we should fail to signalize 
 
the burfting of its bands, and the grand aflertion of 
 its proud majority, voices would come from the 
 tombs to rebuke our sad degeneracy. If to these 
 brothers who come up from battle in our defence 
 to surround with us these altars, and thrill us with 
 a fraternal grasp of the good right hands which 
 have so surely wrought the deliverance of our be- 
 loved land, we should not find it in our hearts to 
 speak a cordial greeting, and sound the honest, 
 earnest, grateful plaudit, "well done," these hills 
 would break forth before us into singing, and all 
 the trees of these hiftoric fields would clap their 
 hands, and shame us for our guilty silence. If 
 Alma Mater should forget to extend her arms, to 
 offer a warm embrace, and pronounce a loving 
 benediction to these her sons, who have, with filial 
 faithfulnefs, come here to-day to lay their laurels 
 at her feet, and reflect the luftre of their well- 
 earned fame upon her honored head, the very 
 stones of those enduring walls would cry out 
 against her for a most unnatural mother. If in 
 this annual coming home, we should not tenderly 
 repeat the names, and thankfully recount the deeds 
 of those who come no more because they sleep in 
 martyrs' graves, these familiar places which knew 
 them once but will know them not again, would, 
 with resistlefs eloquence, chide our faithlefsnefs and 
 our ingratitude, and through the halls in which 
 they learned the truth and imbibed the spirit which 
 made them strong to do and die, the summer 
 
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 winds would mourn their absence and sigh their 
 requiem. 
 
 But, notwithftanding the impulses of a loyal and 
 greatful heart move us to a cordial participation in 
 this service, and strong conliderations commend it 
 to us as a duty, yet, we will confefs, it presents to 
 us a task most difficult to execute. We are not 
 invited now, as so often we have rejoiced to be, to 
 unite in acknowledged sympathy with the unani- 
 mous American people, in celebrating the rescue 
 of our liberties from invalion and deftruction by 
 power, alTaulting from without, directed and urged 
 against our national life and being by natural and 
 common enemies. That would prove a task as 
 plain and easy as it is familiar. But we are called 
 to signalize the preservation of our country from 
 dismemberment, our Government from dilintegra- 
 tion, by forces upheaving from within, evoked and 
 impelled by our alienated countrymen and fellow- 
 citizens. We commemorate the reftoration of the 
 Union, remembering, as we must forever, that it is 
 the issue of a civil war. We cannot hail the grand 
 result without a note of triumph, which sounds as 
 well the defeat of brethren. May we then revive 
 the memory of domeftic war, and celebrate a vic- 
 tory over our kindred ? Will such recolledlion 
 and exultation be magnanimous ? 
 
 But this does not suggest all the difficulty we 
 have to meet. The aggreffors in the war have 
 been defeated, but not subjugated. They have 
 
been most surely subdued, but not passed under the 
 yoke. Had we even attempted to bend their necks 
 in servile subjection, we would have surrendered 
 in the effort, and in the hour of seeming succefs, 
 all we had battled for and hoped to attain. We 
 held, and still do hold, that we were fighting 
 solely to preserve the Government supreme in its 
 unity, limited only by the wise provifions of a 
 generous Constitution in its sovereignty over an 
 undivided country, administered impartially in the 
 interest of all the people. The genius of our 
 inlHtutions, the very object which inspired and 
 suftained the contest, made the subjugation of the 
 conquered impossible. Before the world we affirm 
 that we contended for a nationality of the whole 
 people, and confefs that we are defeated if the 
 nation fails to incorporate into itself those who 
 have laid down the sword at our feet. With con- 
 science sincere and true in the sight of God, we do 
 aver that we went forth to war, not to fight our 
 countrymen out of, but into, their rights and 
 privileges in the Government and the land. How- 
 ever incongruous the paradox may seem, we claim 
 to comprehend the vital truth it exprefles, and 
 assert our firm belief that the issues pf the struggle 
 will solve it for pofterity. If this be true will not 
 commemoration of the war perpetuate the aliena- 
 tions and revive the animosities by which it was 
 engendered, and tend to delay, if not prevent, the 
 reconciliation of those eftranged, their cordial co- 
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 operation with us in preserving and administering 
 the Government, and developing the power and 
 prosperity of the nation ? Would not sound wis- 
 dom, therefore, counsel us not to revive, but rather 
 to reprefs, the recollection of our enmity; not to 
 rear new memorials of our strife, but to make haste 
 ,to bury the already too numerous tokens of it? Do 
 not even tyrants, when they have crushed back a 
 people who had risen against oppression, from con- 
 siderations of most selfish policy, promptly employ 
 some fit device to divert the popular mind from 
 the disquieting remembrance of their struggle and 
 defeat ? May we then, who aimed not only to 
 preserve the nation, but to bring back misguided 
 brethren to allegiance; to invest them with privi- 
 leges they were ignorantly about to cast away; to 
 win them when convinced of their mistake to fra- 
 ternal confidence and love — may we continue to 
 remind them of their apoftasy, its difastrous con- 
 sequences, its ignominious conclufions? 
 
 Nay ! if painful recolledtion and humiliation 
 were the ends contemplated, or the only results in 
 fact accompifhed by commemoration of the suc- 
 cessful issue of this war, every truly loyal and gen- 
 erous soul would promptly say, let it be never so 
 much as named among us, let it be utterly forgot- 
 ten. God, in his singular providence, has taught 
 us this. At the moment of our triumph, he turned 
 our joy to sorrow, our exultation into mourning. 
 
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 And in our calendar he has suffered us to mark no 
 decisive day for an annual jubilee. 
 
 But commemoration of great events has im- 
 portant ends beyond itself. It is testimony to 
 truth vt^rought out by experience in the past. It 
 is instruction to the present age. It records teach- 
 ing for the generations yet to follow. And this 
 war has developed vital dodlrine which must needs 
 be alferted and reaiferted until it is rooted deep in 
 the practical convictions of our American people, 
 accepted as fundamental in their establifhed creed, 
 infused like an innate idea into the belief of their 
 children. Nor is this all. The spirit of the past 
 must be transmitted to the future by continuous 
 recollection. The due appreciation of the inesti- 
 mable worth of the Union must be secured by re- 
 newed conlideration of the agony and sacrifice it 
 cost to save it. Devotion to the Union must be 
 kindled afresh from the memory of the consecration 
 of those who first cherished it and died to redeem 
 it. In scenes like this we must inspire the spirit 
 of the patriots in their sons, and rouse their souls 
 to high endeavors to imitate their glorious deeds. 
 
 But another consideration adds to the extreme 
 delicacy of the task before us. This is the yearly 
 festival of the College, to which she summons all 
 her sons. They respond to the call from every 
 quarter of the land. They are here to-day, from 
 the South as well as from the North. We recog- 
 nize among them those who have come from dis- 
 
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 loyal States, and from the ranks of the insurgent 
 army. We accordingly commemorate the restora- 
 tion of the Union in presence of those who sin- 
 cerely sought to effect its diflblution ; we pay our 
 tribute to the heroes of the army of the country, 
 in the hearing of the men who met them face to 
 face in deadly battle. Shall we then celebrate our 
 achievement before their very eyes, and sound the 
 praises of their victors in their very ears ? Is this 
 a generous reception, will this promote our recon- 
 ciliation ? 
 
 Let us suspend our judgment for a moment. If 
 we should waive this public service, we still would 
 meet them. Their presence here suggests all that 
 this occafion more purposely recalls. We do not 
 then compel unwilling and rouse inactive memory. 
 The ordeal, however painful, must be passed. And 
 which is the manly way for us, for them, to meet 
 it openly and fairly, or to ignore it weakly and 
 with hypocrisy ? We do believe it noblest in us 
 all to look honeftly upon the past, and stand 
 squarely up to our position. We cannot, in God's 
 name, we will not deny that we were earnest and 
 determined in our faith and purpose in the war. 
 We believed in the Union, we thought it vital to 
 our national being, we esteemed our nationality 
 eflential to our liberty and peace upon this con- 
 tinent. For these high ends we poured out our 
 treasures, sent forth our sons, offered our most 
 fervent prayers. For them we fought, and would 
 
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 have fought on to the bitter end, in suffering and 
 sorrow, even through tedious years, until they could 
 be afTerted beyond denial, and established beyond 
 reversal. We cannot now abate one jot or tittle 
 from these principles for which we strove; we 
 cannot come down one yielding step from the lofty 
 pofition we have taken. Should we, from mis- 
 taken notions of conciliation, or through weak 
 timidity, renounce our faith, abandon our high 
 ground, we would fling into the face of our Southern 
 brethren the groflest insult we could devise. Shall 
 we tell them — without a cause we waged this 
 bloody war against you ; with deliberate wanton- 
 ness, and unneedful cruelty, we closed your harbors, 
 sealed up the sources of your wealth, disrupted 
 your social syftem, burned your cities, made deso- 
 late your homes, laid waste your fair fields, dese- 
 crated your churches, slew your people, made 
 childlefs parents, and weeping widows, and wailing 
 orphans almost at every fire-side ? Would we dare 
 to look them in the eyes and tell them this? 
 Would that conciliate them, revive their con- 
 fidence in us, inspire fraternal feeling, invite to 
 civil fellowfhip ? Were we unprincipled and 
 impolitic enough to descend so low, would we 
 dare to do it in presence of these others who 
 have toiled, and suflfered, and bled, and would 
 have died in the contest, and have buried thefc- 
 comrades on a thousand battle-fields ? Could we 
 do it, when we recall the dying agonies of thrice 
 
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 a hundred thousand patriot heroes, the sorrows of 
 a hundred thousand loyal homes? No! No! The 
 war is a fact accomplished, and we have made it 
 so. It cannot be undone. We have but one 
 apology to offer for it, if apology we needs must 
 make. We waged it with dread reluctance from 
 considerations of extreme neceffity. No other 
 motives could have compelled us to it, sustained 
 our courage, and made us strong and willing in 
 agony to struggle, in brokennefs of heart to sacri- 
 fice. No other ends could have received the sanc- 
 tion of our conscience, the prayers and benedic- 
 tions of our religion. For no others could we have 
 made our appeal to God, and put our trust in Him, 
 and hoped for the help of His just providence. 
 Standing firm in our true pofition, holding fast to 
 these affertions with bold sincerity, we shall be un- 
 derstood and honored by those who have most 
 widely differed from us, and most determinedly 
 opposed us. 
 
 Maintaining this strong ground, we are better 
 able to assert effectively a truth soon to be de- 
 veloped and confirmed by sure results, even now 
 maturing, until it comes to be acknowledged uni- 
 versale, which will contribute more than all other 
 facts combined to secure a thorough reconciliation 
 and lasting harmony. We mean this truth — that 
 fhe objects sought and accomplifhed in the war 
 were vital to the highest interests of all the people 
 of the land. However strange the declaration may 
 
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 appear to those who cannot yet perceive the issue 
 as we most distinctly understood it, nevertheless 
 we confidently announce it — we believed the war 
 to be in all its ultimate results as beneficent to 
 those on whom we waged it as it was just and es- 
 sential to ourselves. We challenge the world to 
 convict us of aught in the spirit with which the 
 nation, as a whole, accepted and suftained the con- 
 test at variance with this sentiment. The heart of 
 that lamented man who was called of Providence 
 to exprefs the will, and execute the purpose, and 
 guide the energies of the nation, whose solemn 
 work it was to summon armies, instruct their 
 chiefs, provide their enginery, and dire6l their des- 
 tructive forces, was all the while, as some of us do 
 know by tokens most convincing, filled to the flow- 
 ing over with generous charity and purest kind- 
 nefs. And that great heart kept time with the 
 pulses of the nation. And the surest way to true 
 conciliation and lasting friendship is to prove this 
 certain fact to those who by wrong conviction and 
 false pofition were accounted for a while our ene- 
 mies. To this good end we must continue to 
 demonstrate the necefiity, and justice, and the ul- 
 timate beneficence of the war for the Union. 
 
 That we may attempt to do our part in this 
 good work, we will confider and illustrate briefly 
 some grand results accomplifhed by the war, which 
 are equally connected with the interests of all por- 
 tions of the country. 
 
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 I. The war has tested practically and decided 
 the fact of our American nationality. 
 
 The history of our Government defines three 
 periods of development, in which three forms of 
 polity succeflively obtained — the colonial, the con- 
 federated state, and the national. The epoch which 
 marks the commencement of the last period is 
 the year 1787. In a convention of delegates from 
 twelve States a Constitution was framed, by which 
 sovereignty was vested in a Federal Government. 
 By subsequent ratification in popular conventions 
 it became the fundamental law of the land. In 
 the acts adopting it, the people aflumed the char- 
 acter and functions of a nation. To this effect is 
 the entire evidence of history. Proof indisputable 
 is found in the fadts connected with the formation 
 of the Union, in the testimony of its founders, in 
 the very vocabulary of the Constitution, in the 
 declarations and explanations of its framers, in the 
 decifions of the Supreme Court of the country. In 
 one of these decisions the doctrine of our present 
 polity is most emphatically declared : 
 
 " The Government of the Union is a Govern- 
 ment of the people. It emanates from them. Its 
 powers are granted by them, and are to be exer- 
 cised directly and for their benefit. The Govern- 
 ment of the Union is supreme within its sphere of 
 action." 
 
 Upon this basis of a federal sovereignty, limited 
 only in its control of the people, all and singular. 
 
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 by the provisions of the Constitution, the Govern- 
 ment was administered without serious obstruc- 
 tions for more than seventy years until it met re- 
 sistance in the late rebellion. It is true, each State 
 reserved, and was allowed a form of government, 
 and has always exercised a certain jurisdiction 
 within its boundaries for definite ends ; but it could 
 not assert itself an independent sovereignty even in 
 its sphere. The compact of the people demanded 
 that its form of government be homogeneous with 
 the Federal Government, its jurisdiction subor- 
 dinate to federal supremacy. Between the cen- 
 tripetal force of federal authority, and the centri- 
 fugal force of State control, the system finds its 
 balance, secures the welfare of the commonwealth, 
 and preserves the rights and liberties of individual 
 citizens. Our polity accordingly is national. It 
 confists not in a confederacy of independent states, 
 temporarily afibciated for a few common ends, but 
 in one, indifibluble, organic union of the people. 
 The Congress is not simply a great central com- 
 mission, with powers delegated and limited by the 
 several States ; it is a Government supreme in its 
 authority, universal in its control. The federal 
 officers are not State agents, but rulers of the land. 
 They govern not merely the little District of 
 Columbia, but the country. They command, not 
 only an insignificant standing army, a few ships, 
 and arsenals and navy-yards, but the efFed:ive forces 
 of the States. They control not alone some volun- 
 
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 tary offerings in a common treasury, but the entire 
 resources of the land. What are these but the 
 distinctive elements and functions of a nationality ? 
 
 The supremacy of the National Government 
 was the matter at issue in the war. It is con- 
 fidently asserted that the diffolution of the Union, 
 and the re-establishment of State Sovereignty 
 was the direct and long-cherished object of the 
 authors of the war. It is probable, however, that 
 decision on this point must wait the evidence of 
 facts not yet sufficiently developed. So far as his- 
 tory is now recorded it explains the issue on this 
 wise : The political leaders of a section of the 
 country were dilfatisfied with the sentiments and 
 manifest purpose of the great body of the people 
 in reference to slavery. The majority desired its 
 abolition, confidering it a moral, social and political 
 evil. Of the majority, comparatively few desired 
 to invoke the power of the Federal Government 
 for its immediate extinction. The remainder, 
 holding the General Government bound by the 
 provisions of its Constitution to refrain from inter- 
 ference with the system in the sphere in which it 
 had obtained existence, determined only to ex- 
 clude it from the common domain ; or to take such 
 measures as would make its extension practically 
 impoffible. 
 
 The people of the section attempted to justify 
 the inffcitution on the grounds of divine sanction, so- 
 cial necessity, and wise political economy. They 
 
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 determined to defend, perpetuate and extend it. 
 They were led to believe that it was the purpose 
 of a growing and resistless majority of the people 
 to secure its unconditional, immediate, entire ex- 
 termination. Those who were well informed and 
 candid, confessed that it was the purpose of the 
 majority simply to limit slavery to the States in 
 which it was existing. All, however, saw that the 
 profit and security of the institution demanded its 
 extension ; that if it were confined, it would in- 
 evitably react upon itself to its own destruction 
 and the utter ruin of the peculiar interests of those 
 who supported and defended it. They accordingly 
 determined to difix)lve their connection with the 
 Government, and to eftablish a confederacy among 
 themfelves, holding the States in which they lived, 
 and such portions of the common territory as they 
 might be able to retain, as the needful sphere for 
 the profitable development of slavery. 
 
 To prepare the people for this action a theory 
 had been long provided, it had been confidently 
 proclaimed and affiduously expounded and defended 
 by far-seeing men for more than thirty years, until 
 it came to be a part of their most cherifhed creed. 
 Taught from childhood to believe it, the mafi^es 
 held it most tenaciously. It is the grand apology 
 for their rebellion. It furnishes considerations 
 which have already turned the loyal heart from 
 wrathful vindictiveness to sad regret, from burn- 
 ing vengeance to long-suffering charity ; and now 
 
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 disposes it to honorable conciliation and forgive- 
 ness. The doctrines of this theory were briefly 
 these : The Union is a compact of convenience. 
 It is binding only during the pleasure of the parties. 
 The States are sovereign. The right of seceflion 
 is involved in their sovereignty; they may exercise 
 the right at their discretion. 
 
 A lawful and regular election, in which the 
 citizens of all the States participated, resulted in 
 the choice of an administration committed to a 
 policy adverse to the extension of slavery. This 
 was deemed sufficient cause for the practical asser- 
 tion of the theory of State independence, and the 
 right of separation from the Union. By what was 
 claimed to be legitimate action, though it was 
 neither ordered nor confirmed by popular expres- 
 sion, seven States paifed ordinances of seceffion, 
 united in the establishment of a hostile confederacy, 
 and proclaimed the diifolution of the Union an ac- 
 complifhed fact. To vindicate the right and 
 defend the position thus afiumed, a warlike atti- 
 tude was taken, and provision made to resist by 
 force of arms any exercise of federal authority. 
 The officers of the confederacy seized all the prop- 
 erty of the Government within the limits of the 
 seceded States, except three forts on the coast of 
 Florida, and one in Charleston harbor, and pre- 
 pared to seize and capture these. All this was 
 prior to any declaration of the policy and purpose 
 of the incoming administration, before it had so 
 
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 much as entered on its office, and accordingly 
 before it could, if so disposed, direct aggreffive 
 action against the rights of any State, or any in- 
 terests of slavery. The moment it came into power 
 the administration, by its first utterance, declared 
 that it had no lawful right, nor purpose, nor even 
 inclination, directly or indirectly, to interfere with 
 the institution of slavery in the States where it was 
 already in existence : that it was bound by solemn 
 oath, and in consistency with the platform on 
 which it was elected, to maintain inviolate the 
 rights of the States, and especially the right of each 
 State to order and control its own domestic insti- 
 tutions, according to its own judgment exclusively, 
 because that right was held to be efiential to the 
 balance of power on which the perfection and en- 
 durance of our political fabric depend. By deliv- 
 erances like these the Government labored to 
 convince the people of the South that no real 
 grievance could ensue to justify resistance to its 
 legitimate authority. 
 
 But on the other hand, true to the Constitution, 
 and the traditions of our political history, the 
 Government firmly announced the doctrine by 
 which it should be guided. The union of these 
 States is perpetual. No State upon its own mere 
 motion can lawfully get out of the Union. Re- 
 solves and ordinances to that efi^ect are legally void. 
 Acts of violence within any State or States against 
 the authority of the United States are insurrec- 
 
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 tionary, or revolutionary, according to circum- 
 stances. 
 
 The purpose was proclaimed, not with threaten- 
 ing, but calm and sure determination, that the ad- 
 ministration would take care that the laws of the 
 Union should be faithfully executed in all the 
 States. These solemn words of the President ex- 
 plained the attitude of government in the only 
 position it poffibly could take consiftent with the 
 oath of duty to the Union. " In your hands, my 
 dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, 
 are the momentous issues of civil war. The Gov- 
 ernment will not assail you. You can have no 
 conflict without being yourselves the aggrefTors. 
 You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy 
 the Government, while I shall have the most 
 solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." 
 The answer was sent from the mouth of cannon, 
 and echoed from the walls of Sumpter. The 
 Southern leaders had referred the question in dis- 
 pute to the stern arbitrament of war. No choice 
 was left the Government; the trial was accepted. 
 The people rose with one mighty impulse, and 
 decreed, they have asked for war, let them have 
 war, and we will wage it. 
 
 The war is ended in national victory. The arm 
 of refistance to federal authority is broken. The 
 federal supremacy is conterminous with the 
 boundaries of the country. The States are waiting 
 at the door of Congress for re-admiflion to the 
 
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 federal councils. That door will not be opened 
 until the Union is proclaimed perpetual, and seces- 
 sion treason — the General Government supreme — 
 the State subordinate — the Constitution fundamen- 
 tal — the laws of States derived. Whether or not 
 past history declares the American people a sove- 
 reign nation, the present fact will make them such 
 for all the future. For the Union is to-day estab- 
 lifhed, and we mean, if neceffity shall once more 
 require it of us, to turn to desperate deeds the 
 words of this our constant prayer — " Perpetual let 
 it be !" Whether or not, as was alTerted in Con- 
 gress a few days since, seceflion was born with the 
 federal Constitution, it surely died with the con- 
 federate capitulation, and we the people mean to 
 seal its sepulchre, and stand a sleepless guard, and 
 set a conftant watch against its resurrection. This 
 we accept and vindicate as the grand verdict of the 
 affize of war. 
 
 And if there be, as we believe, a Providence, and 
 its ruling is pre-eminent in the results of war, then 
 God has put his seal upon the compact of the 
 Union ; it is his almighty power which "hath made 
 and preserved us a nation," and henceforth the 
 American who reads the words of holy Scripture : 
 "The powers that be are ordained of God," will 
 understand them in the light of his decisive teach- 
 ing in these years of war, and know, without mis- 
 take, where conscience must confess allegiance due, 
 and bow down in obedience divinely sand:ioned to 
 the national supremacy. 
 
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 The preservation of their nationahty was neces- 
 sary to the security, peace, and prosperity of the 
 American people. The neceffity is founded in the 
 fact of the physical unity of the country. The 
 unity of a territory consists in its isolation by strong 
 natural barriers from other portions of the earth ; 
 in the close relation of its parts in mutual depend- 
 ence, and in combination in a system of contribu- 
 tions and compensations ; and in the absence of 
 serious obstacles to free intercommunication. A 
 land of such phyfical onenefs is an organism, con- 
 structed for the accomplishment of functions which 
 determine the relations, and subserve the welfare 
 of the people inhabiting it. He who is founder, 
 both of continents and nations, has secured his pur- 
 poses in the course of history by the conformation 
 of the globe. 
 
 (i.) The isolation of a country makes it defensi- 
 ble against invasion from abroad. While human 
 nature rernains as human nature is, strong natural 
 barriers against aggression will prove to be the in- 
 dispensable conditions of the security of peoples. 
 Mountains and oceans must be the guards that 
 keep the peace. To supply their place, if these do 
 not exist, by artificial means, the whole energy of 
 nations must be developed and directed, with vast 
 expense of material and men, with ruinous im- 
 poverishment of the vital sources of national pros- 
 perity. Too often in the mighty task the nation 
 is exhausted, and falls an easy prey before the 
 
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 covetous invader. In view of the present aspect 
 of all Europe, and the events transpiring this very 
 hour, these facts need not to be supported by labored 
 argument, nor to be illustrated by far-fetched his- 
 torical examples. 
 
 (2.) The inter-dependence of the various por- 
 tions of a country will make necessary the demand 
 that it be the common posseffion of all the people, 
 and that the common use of it be secured and 
 regulated by a general government. Especially if 
 the territory be widely extended, with parts ex- 
 ceedingly diverse in their productions, will the 
 posseffion of a common interest in it be conducive 
 to the highest material, intellectual, and social de- 
 velopment of the people. And as they come to 
 underftand this fact, they will more and more 
 tenaciously hold to their right and title in it. "All 
 that a man hath will he give for his life." And 
 if tlie neceffities of life are distributed in various 
 portions of the land, the people will require free 
 access to them, a commerce will be demanded, and 
 common law to regulate it. 
 
 But men will not be satisfied with bare exist- 
 ence. If wealth may be derived, and with it, 
 means of bodily ease and comfort, the appliances 
 of mental culture and enjoyment, of social eleva- 
 tion and refinement, in a word, all that we com- 
 prehensively name civilization, the people will de- 
 mand the opening of its sources, the freedom of 
 its channels, to all who choose to seek it. As 
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 civilization advances, creating demands for new 
 and various material found only in foreign lands, 
 enterprise will call for international commerce, 
 and claim free outlets for the produce of all sec- 
 tions, by road, and lake, and river, to the sea; and 
 an inlet on just and equal terms for commodities 
 and fabrics from distant industrial sources. 
 
 The inference from all these facts is plain. 
 Where a territory is one, the people must be one. 
 The common defence, the common interest must 
 be secured by union in a common nationality. If 
 under the conditions presented by the oneness of a 
 country, the people should consent to separate, and 
 endeavor to abide in several petty nationalities, 
 they would greatly hazard in the experiment their 
 safety and their peace, and would most surely put 
 narrow limits to their prosperity. That which, in 
 such circumstances, makes national unity conducive 
 to these ends, would equally make division des- 
 trudlive of them. By forming several states behind 
 a single natural frontier, the barriers against aggres- 
 sion from abroad would be virtually thrown down. 
 To gain access to the whole country a foreign foe 
 would need to conquer only a single feeble sec- 
 tion. This would invite invasion. Besides, at any 
 moment, one section through temporary, or set- 
 tled alienation, might be led to form alliance with 
 the invader, to open voluntarily the gates of 
 natural defence, to pass the intruder across its 
 limits, and bring him to the indefensible boundary 
 
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 of its neighboring section for purposes of plunder 
 or of conquest. 
 
 The common interests of the people of a coun- 
 try, in its several portions, would necessarily be 
 sacrificed by its partition under several independ- 
 ent States. But nevertheless the circumstances 
 would still remain, which make a common posses- 
 sion, and use of all the country needful to all the 
 people. And so inevitably envy and jealousy would 
 provoke diflensions and strifes. 
 
 The absence of all barriers, and the means of 
 easy communication between the sections, would 
 invite and lead to constant trespaffings, for which 
 explanation and reparation would be demanded, 
 and too often the grievances would meet with no 
 redress, but remain the provoking cause of civil 
 war. It needs no argument to prove that a peo- 
 ple in such circumstances of confusion and strife 
 could not hope to find material or means for great 
 prosperity. 
 
 These facts find confirmation in many histories; 
 in none perhaps more full than in the history of 
 Greece. In a country of marked unity several re- 
 publics struggled for independent existence and 
 development. The result was incelTant jealousy 
 and rivalry, almost interminable collision and war. 
 At one period Athens was supreme, at another, 
 Sparta; at another, Thebes; until at last, weak in 
 their division, enfeebled yet more by long con- 
 tinued conflict, they were easily appropriated by 
 
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 the Macedonian power. This empire, in its turn, 
 divided and weakened by the Achaean league, 
 steadily declined, and at last surrendered to the 
 Roman arms. All that remained to keep alive 
 the memory of claffic Greece was the insignificant 
 province of Achaia. 
 
 The knowledge of these principles of national 
 life and well-being led the fathers of our nation to 
 abandon the loose confederacy in which the States 
 were first united, and to establish what they sug- 
 gestively described as a "more perfect union." 
 Washington expressed their practical convictions, 
 when in his farewell address, he said : " The unity 
 of government which constitutes you one people 
 is now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main 
 pillar in the edifice of your real independence, 
 the support of your tranquillity at home, of your 
 peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of 
 that very liberty which you so highly prize." It 
 was the irresistible force of these considerations 
 that impelled the loyal people to reject the pro- 
 posal of a peaceful separation of the States, which 
 was so often suggested by so-called radical men, 
 both of the North and South, and seemed to offer 
 so simple and easy a solution of the difficulty 
 between the sections. It was plausibly maintained 
 that by amicable division of the country the 
 Northern people could retain their nationality 
 with universal freedom, while the Southern peo- 
 ple could form their chosen confederacy with 
 
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 negro slavery. Such a division was never sought 
 in the only legitimate way, by appeal for the con- 
 sent of the people. It is most certain that if it 
 had been sought, it could not have been obtained. 
 The intelligent people of the land most firmly be- 
 lieved that two nations could never exist together 
 on this soil in security, prosperity and peace. Nor 
 could their foresight discover when and where 
 dismemberment would cease if once, by their per- 
 mission, it should begin. They accordingly pro- 
 tested against secession, and determined to resist by 
 force, if it were needful, the division of the coun- 
 try. They saw in the liberty and wealth of this 
 fair continent motives which would make a strong 
 appeal to the spirit of despotism and cupidity in 
 the breasts of foreign tyrants, and knew that a 
 divided people would make the land an easy prey 
 to the too eager invader. They therefore deter- 
 mined to stand a massive unit, and present the 
 menace of a nation's power to every envious eye. 
 They also perceived the jealousy and hatred which 
 had been gathering force for years, and working 
 their result in sectional diffension, and knew full 
 well that States which could not rest in harmony 
 in a common government, would, when separate, 
 find war inevitable. 
 
 They accordingly determined to strengthen the 
 federal bond, and repress the strifes of sections with 
 the strong arm of national authority. They saw 
 the common poiTefTion of the country would 
 
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 make the nation great, and strong, and prosperous; 
 they accordingly determined it should be entire, 
 the property of all the people. It was this intelli- 
 gent determination which pushed on the war to 
 victory. The national success has saved the na- 
 tional domain. 
 
 Notwithstanding that, before the war, the coun- 
 try was acknowledged to be, in a manner, the 
 property of all the people, yet there were hin- 
 drances to the common employment of its re- 
 sources as effectually exclusive as any which might 
 have been interposed by its division into rival 
 sovereignties. The removal of these the war has 
 incidentally accomplifhed in the destruction of 
 slavery. To say nothing of the millions of negro 
 laborers who had no permanent interest in the 
 soil or its productions, the white laborer was prac- 
 tically debarred from vast portions of the country. 
 He could not enter them and put his hand to 
 honest toil, without most hopeless competition 
 with unpaid labor, most certain degradation of 
 himself and his, to the low level of a chattel slave. 
 To this the intelligent artisan could not abase him- 
 self. With him, the manufacturing capitalist was 
 necessarily excluded. 
 
 To-day, thank God, there is no servile caste. 
 The hand of toil may give itself to useful work, 
 without the stain of servitude ; the sun-browned 
 face may lift itself without the mark of shame, in 
 every portion of the land. Nay! God has made 
 
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 it so that they are thrice welcome who were once 
 cast out as mean, and held in strong contempt as 
 fellows with the laboring brute. Soon the anvil 
 will stand beside the plough, the loom beside the 
 cotton-gin, the refinery beside the sugar-press, and 
 the interests of husbandman and artisan will meet 
 and blend in one. 
 
 The war has incidentally procured the assimila- 
 tion of the civil and domestic institutions of the 
 country. 
 
 It is necessary to the stability of government 
 that the domestic institutions of the people be 
 homogeneous with it. If the government be 
 monarchical the ariftocratic principle must shape 
 all the relations of its subjects. If a government 
 be popular, the democratic principle must pervade 
 the forms of social life. For the institutions of the 
 country will react upon the government. If they 
 are similar the reaction will be conservative, if 
 they are diffimilar it must prove destructive. In 
 a monarchy, the aristocracy find it to their interest 
 to sustain the Government, the commonality learn 
 obedience to it by the discipline of feudal subjec- 
 tion. On the contrary, the social equality of the 
 people would soon create demands for political 
 equality. If the Government will retain its char- 
 acter the aristocracy must be sustained, and hold 
 strength enough to keep the people down. If 
 once the people rise in revolution against the social 
 tyranny, they will not stay their hand until it grasps 
 
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 the sceptre, flings off the crown, and overturns the 
 throne. 
 
 If, in a popular government, a social aristocracy- 
 prevails, they will desire to introduce the aristo- 
 cratic element, and seek exclusive privileges in the 
 civil government. If they maintain their purpose 
 and prove to be the stronger portion of the people, 
 they will modify the government, or overthrow it 
 to secure another more congenial. If the demo- 
 cratic portion becomes the stronger, and the gov- 
 ernment refuses to sweep away the exclusive 
 privileges of the oppreffive class, they will rise 
 against the government, and strive to supersede it 
 with such an one as they shall choose and fashion 
 to preserve their liberties. No man who knows 
 but superficially the history of ancient Rome will 
 hope to controvert these settled facts. Our fathers 
 believed them firmly and knew their deep signifi- 
 cance, and had them well in view, when they 
 wrote in the Constitution : " The Congress shall 
 guarantee to every State in this Union a republican 
 form of government." 
 
 The principles of our Government is democratic, 
 its method is republican. The Government exists 
 by the will of the people; it is administered in their 
 interest, and is responsible to them. 
 
 The principle of slavery is aristocratic, its method 
 is despotic. It exists by the will of a class, it is 
 employed for their sole benefit, and is responfible 
 to municipal authority, wholly subservient to their 
 
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 will. It accordingly creates an aristocracy. One 
 could not be more effectually established by legal 
 enadlments conferring the rank and titles of no- 
 bility. The master becomes a petty lord, all rights 
 and privileges are his : the slave becomes a vassal, 
 he has no rights, he lives only to be used by the 
 superior caste, to w^hich he is supposed to be by 
 nature subject, and his labor to be due. Too cer- 
 tainly the distinction between the mafter and the 
 slave is succeeded by a broader distinction between 
 proprietorship and labor. The free laborer, as well 
 as the slave, is included in the servile caste, to be 
 held in distant contempt by the gentry who do 
 not soil their hands with work. 
 
 In the light of these principles we may clearly 
 see that slavery was incompatible with the genius 
 of our free institutions. It introduced an ariftocratic 
 element into a democratic economy, and, therefore, 
 of neceffity caused confusion and antagonism. The 
 reaction upon the Government was well nigh des- 
 tructive. The slaveholding caste cherifhed a sense 
 of superiority, not only over the slaves and white 
 laborers of the South, but also over the people of 
 the North, so largely devoted to labor on the soil 
 and in the factory. It was no more than natural 
 to this spirit that they should become impatient of 
 a Government in which the common people 
 shared • with them authority and rights. They 
 came at last to assert political superiority. They 
 demanded and expected peculiar privileges in the 
 
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 Government, and endeavored to employ its adminis- 
 tration for the furtherance of the peculiar interests 
 of their class and section. And w^hen at last the 
 people rose in refistance to these alTumptions, and 
 signified their resolution to keep firm control of the 
 Government, and declared that its agencies should 
 not be subsidized by any class, but should be em- 
 ployed in the equal interest of all classes, they v^ere 
 ready to renounce allegiance to the Government, 
 and attempt its overthrow. 
 
 Meanwhile the race of slaves was multiplying 
 with fearful rapidity. They had been already 
 counted in millions, and no foresight could tell 
 their ultimate number. They were accumulating 
 tremendous power. The war has shown us that it 
 was capable of organization and direction, and 
 could have been brought to bear with prodigious 
 energy by executive skill and rapid discipline. No 
 man with intelligent assurance could deny that the 
 day might come when a chieftain would appear 
 to marshal the mighty host, and a sudden inspira- 
 tion would inflame their passions, unite and ani- 
 mate their purpose, exalt their courage, and send 
 them forth to achieve their liberty. They may, 
 like captive Israel in the house of bondage, have 
 waited long for the coming leader, and the pro- 
 pitious signs of their deliverance, but they surely 
 would have come to them at last. Nor would it 
 have been strange, if in the hour of their succefs, 
 the Government which had so long in silence 
 
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 witnefled and seemed to countenance their sore 
 oppreffion, had felt the force of their just ven- 
 geance. 
 
 But these perils now are past. The war has 
 ended slavery, and leveled aristocracy. And God, 
 in that wise providence which works with marvel- 
 lous fitness, as well as sure effect, has made the 
 hand of labor strong to do the deed, and crowned 
 the laborer's brow with the chiefest honors of the 
 grand achievement. 
 
 Finally : — The war has helped to complete in 
 the American mind true ideas of civil govern- 
 ment. 
 
 We underfland and appreciate as we never did 
 before the sandtity of government. It is ordained 
 of God. Its effence is divine, its form is humart ; 
 its authority is from heaven, its adminiflration is of 
 men. Providence is directly connected with its 
 establifhment, and orders all its changes. When 
 once it is establifhed it demands submifHon in the 
 name of its supreme author and founder. Obe- 
 dience to its laws is conformity to the will of God, 
 disobedience is rebellion. Until it comes to be 
 administered so as to be no longer promotive, but 
 subverfive, of its appointed ends, its subjects have 
 no right of revolution. Even when it becomes 
 entirely perverted, revolution is still a crime, unless 
 all other methods of redress have been strenuously 
 and patiently tried without avail ; and then, until 
 strong promise of succefs can be discerned, and 
 
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 firm alTurance gained that the Government, if over- 
 thrown, can be replaced by one more faithful to 
 its objects. These do6trines so signally confirmed 
 by the providence of God in the ifiues.of the v^ar, 
 are now a law to the conscience of the people. 
 
 We have also advanced in our conception of the 
 true objects of civil government. 
 
 In the rejection of absolutism and civil aris- 
 tocracy, and the formation of a democratic repub- 
 lican polity, we fondly hoped that we had secured 
 a system which would completely effect the ends 
 of government, promoting in harmony the liberty 
 of the individual citizen, and the order and well- 
 being of society. We still believe the principles 
 of our polity to be conservative of these ends. But 
 we have learned that we must give them broader 
 application, and increased efficiency. Unless we 
 are blind to the teaching of the war, we will now 
 accept as the high office of civil government, the 
 protection of man as man, in the enjoyment of 
 his natural right to the full development of his 
 entire manhood, in all the efi^entials of his total 
 welfare in the present and the future life, in all his 
 relations to his fellow-men and to God. The vital 
 importance and the grandeur of this object will be 
 efiiimated in view of the value of man to himself, 
 to his neighbor and to God. The value of man to 
 himself is to be estimated by confideration of the 
 possibilities of his nature as a material, intellectual, 
 and spiritual being, his capacity for noble develop- 
 
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 ment, eternal blefTedness and glory. His value to 
 his neighbor is found in the relation which God 
 has instituted between men, by virtue of which the 
 elevation ^d well-being ot the individual con- 
 tributes to every other member of society. The 
 value of man to God coniists in the momentous fact 
 that in his own development, and in his contribu- 
 tions to the race, he glorifies his Maker and Re- 
 deemer. 
 
 The war has discovered decisive proof of the 
 manhood of a class among us, not hitherto regarded 
 universally as human, never fairly protected in the 
 rights and privileges pertaining to them as men. 
 We have seen that evidence which we never can 
 deny that the negro is a man, by the possession 
 not only of the conformation of the human ani- 
 mal, but of the elTential qualities of the human 
 mind and spirit. Nay, more ! In. his gentleness, 
 meekness, long-suffering endurance and forgive- 
 ness, his constancy and fidelity, his simple truth- 
 fulness and enduring hope in the character and 
 providence of God, we have seen the choicest 
 fruits which grace produces in the human soul. 
 Thenceforth Government must recognize him as 
 a man, give him free scope for physical, mental, 
 and spiritual growth and action ; preserve his 
 tenure of material and means to realize his value to 
 himself, to his countrymen, and to God. And God 
 has put us under bonds to render him this justice. 
 For in the vicifTitudes of war his Providence out 
 
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 US in a peril that prompted us to ask the black 
 man's aid in rescuing our own dear rights and 
 privileges. And should we dare to deny him his, 
 our cheeks should mantle with a hu^ of shame 
 compared with which the darkness of his tawny 
 skin would be a mark of honor. 
 
 Once more: — We have learned by sore expe- 
 rience that the nation which allows the power of 
 Government to protect the authors of great wrong 
 will not escape God's righteous judgments. God 
 is the avenger of wrong. He will not always 
 suffer it. And when his wrath is roused it will not 
 cease to burn until even justice is exacted. There 
 is no future state for nations. They must be pun- 
 ished in the earth before their individuality is lost. 
 
 This nation has come out of the fires of righteous 
 retribution for the sin of slavery. 
 
 We are not now afraid to say that American 
 slavery was a crime. Once, through miftaken 
 fidelity to what they thought to be the word of 
 God, good men were constrained to make apology 
 for it. Too easily they fell into the sad error of 
 those theologians, who, at the advent of modern 
 phyfical science, refused to accept its sure dis- 
 coveries, and in the endeavor to save the traditional 
 interpretation of some obscure fragments of Holy 
 Scripture, perilled the faith of thinking men in the 
 whole of it. By adhering to an exegesis which 
 was eagerly employed to sustain an enormous evil, 
 true and honest men helped to make infidels and 
 
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 atheists. The Bible simply testifies that under cer- 
 tain peculiar conditions, God once permitted for a 
 time a certain form of servitude, and warrants 
 only this conclufion, that a sort of bondage could 
 once exist and not involve a sin. We were, there- 
 fore, accustomed to say, with some good reason, 
 that slavery is not a sin per se. But alas ! upon 
 this slender basis American slavery was justified. Its 
 advocates were wont to form their judgment on 
 this abstrad:ion, when the thing before the Ameri- 
 can conscience was a concrete reality. If God did 
 once, for cause, permit a kind of servitude, the 
 cause had ceased, and his permifiion gave no sanc- 
 tion to such slavery as existed here. The institu- 
 tions were not the same, their circumstances were 
 totally diffimilar. In such a case no man of com- 
 mon sense believes a precedent can hold. Servi- 
 tude must own a heathen origin." It was not or- 
 dained of God as the family or the state : it was 
 permitted as polygamy. In the Hebrew common- 
 wealth the mafter was allowed to own simply the 
 labor of the servant, and that only for a limited 
 period. The servant was protected in his person, 
 in his right to his family, in all spiritual privileges. 
 He could have his freedom at a price, at the end 
 of a period fixed by law without a ransom. His 
 welfare was so effectually secured that it was need- 
 ful to provide by law for the case of one who, at 
 the close of his period of service, should be so 
 content with his condition as to choose to remain 
 
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 a servant and cleave to his master and his house- 
 hold. The Hebrew servant v^as not a chattel 
 slave. Pradlically he was in the place of a minor 
 ward, or even of an adopted child. This condition 
 did not abolifh any natural right, or any mental or 
 spiritual privilege. He could be a man, and a 
 servant of Jehovah. Who does not know that 
 American slavery was totally the reverse of this ; 
 who does not know that the circumftances 
 under which it was enforced upon the negro 
 made neceffary to its enforcement the denial of 
 every natural right, and almost every intellec- 
 tual and religious privilege ? He could not, in 
 this nineteenth century of light and liberty, and 
 in this land of free institutions be kept a slave, 
 unless held down to a state of degradation approxi- 
 mate to the condition of a brute. Why then did 
 we apologize for slavery in the abftract, when it 
 could exist alone by concretion with these hideous 
 wrongs ? 
 
 But not only was apology for slavery found in 
 the Hebrew Scriptures. The New Testament 
 was made to give it sanction. But with what con- 
 sistencv ? 
 
 A form of servitude existed while our Lord was 
 on the earth. He did not directly attack it. But 
 he did treat it as he treated all other evils. He 
 uttered principles in effential and eternal antago- 
 nism with all such oppreffion and wrong. Why 
 should he hew at the branches of iniquity, when 
 
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 the axe was laid at the root of the tree. He 
 taught the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood 
 of man, the law of universal charity. No man 
 could accept his teaching and remain consistently 
 the owner of the flesh and blood, the destroyer 
 of the natural rights of his fellow man. He came 
 to die that he might redeem man from eternal 
 death, and form him into the image of God, that 
 in his body and his spirit he might glorify his 
 Maker and Redeemer. To fulfil this end of his 
 being no man could remain a chattel slave; he 
 must be the owner of his body and his spirit, and 
 have free scope for their complete development 
 and action. He made a covenant with man for 
 the salvation of his offspring. To ensure its condi- 
 tions, man must be the owner and custodian of his 
 children. Could American slavery confist with 
 such a gospel as this, and claim the sanction of its 
 author ? 
 
 But one of the Apostles sent a slave to his 
 Christian master. Yes, and sent with him a title- 
 deed to the brotherhood which in itself annulled 
 every opprellive element of servitude. 
 
 The man who has studied the exigencies of 
 slavery in this country knows full well that obe- 
 dience to the spirit and the precepts of Jesus 
 Christ would have brought the institution to a 
 certain end. Conformity to these would have 
 surely furnished the conditions, under which the 
 negro would have become both eager and able to 
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 demand and vindicate his liberty. The guards that 
 stood between him and his freedom, were planted 
 in defiance of every principle of Christianity, and 
 stood a perpetual insult to its Author. 
 
 When, therefore, the accursed thing was not 
 simply tolerated, but defended ; not regretfully 
 continued until wise means for its abolishment 
 could be provided, but claimed to be by divine 
 right perpetual, when it was declared to be the 
 peculiar million of the people of this country to 
 conserve it and extend it; then the cup of iniquity 
 was full, and God could no longer suspend his judg- 
 ments. 
 
 The nation endeavored to excuse itself because 
 slavery was municipal, and they who were directly 
 connected with it were alone accountable. But 
 the conscience of the people could not long ahsolve 
 itself, the conscience of the world held them re- 
 sponlible. The nation had permitted the planting 
 and growth of slavery, adopted laws which involved 
 a sanction of it, defended it with the whole power 
 of Government. The nation was implicated in the 
 crime ; it shared the fearful retribution. By solemn 
 discipline we now have learned that a people can- 
 not countenance sin and expect the favor of a just 
 Providence. They may compromise with wrong, 
 they cannot compromise with God. 
 
 Such, fathers and brethren, are some of the grand 
 results of the war. 
 
 It has establifhed our nationality in the su- 
 
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 premacy of the Federal Union, and the tenure of 
 an undivided and unique domain ; providing the 
 conditions of security from foreign foes, of internal 
 prosperity and peace. It has opened all portions of 
 the land to the enterprise and industry of all the 
 people, and so created a common interest in it, 
 and prepared the way for the full delopment of its 
 resources. It has affimilated our civil and domes- 
 tic institutions, and so secured the harmonious 
 working of our republican economy. It has formed 
 in the mind of the people true ideas of the sanctity, 
 the objects, and the ethics of government. It has 
 put an end to a public crime which forfeited the 
 favor of God and the protection of his providence. 
 It has admitted millions of human souls to liberty, 
 and light, and hope. 
 
 And shall we say that these results are not vital 
 to the highest interests of every inhabitant of this 
 land ? Nay ! rather do they not enter into the ac- 
 complifliing purposes of Him who has appointed a 
 mission for the nation, and is leading them to 
 accept and discharge it ; and even into the broader 
 plan by which he is working out in his own way 
 and time the destinies of all mankind ? Surely 
 then, God has made the war to be, what we most 
 earnestly prayed and hoped it might become, a 
 bleffing to the nation and the race. 
 
 It is true, we do not see at once the full fruition 
 of our hopes. These voluntary forces that have 
 been called forth and set in motion cannot be im- 
 
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 mediately revoked and quieted, but notwithstand- 
 ing their persistent energy and oppofition, under 
 God's good leading, they will resolve themselves 
 in that resultant line which leads to the fulfilment 
 of our expecStation. We shall be one in the free 
 unity of confidence, esteem and love, as we now 
 are one by stress of power. Only let us be patient, 
 confiderate, forgiving, generous ; taking counsel of 
 God and following the tokens of his will ; and 
 time will moderate the paffions now so restless and 
 disturbing, and correct the judgments now so diverse 
 and opposite, and we shall come to harmony and 
 rest at last. 
 
 To the success of this grand cause which to-day 
 we have contemplated, the College of New Jersey 
 has made no mean contribution. Many of her 
 sons have been pre-eminent in the work of instruct- 
 ing the public mind in the true import and issues 
 of the crisis. These have gone forth from this 
 seat of learning destined to become claffic in the 
 literature of civil science. Others of our brethren 
 have stood in the councils of the state and nation; 
 or have served most efientially the common cause 
 in the labors of the Christian and Sanitary Com- 
 missions. 
 
 But we especially commemorate to-day those 
 who rendered service in the army of the country. 
 Taking up the roll of honor, and tracing out the 
 names of those once connected with the College, 
 as far as we have been able to discover about one 
 
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 hundred of our brethren were alTociated with the 
 service. We count four Major- Generals, Boyle, 
 Blair, Belknap and Van Cleve ; one Brigadier 
 General, three Colonels, four Lieutenant-Colonels; 
 the rest distributed through every arm of the 
 service, holding every rank, down to the common 
 soldier.* The living we cannot attempt to name 
 in this address. They are not unknown, and un- 
 cherished by their grateful countrymen and breth- 
 ren. The mournful roll of the dead we call. These 
 are they who won the crown of martyrdom : 
 
 Colonel Cornelius W. Tolles. — He was graduated 
 in 1848, was appointed in July 1861, Assistant Ad- 
 jutant General of the First New Jersey detached 
 brigade, by Governor Olden. August 17th, he 
 became First-Lieutenant in the Thirteenth In- 
 fantry of the regular army. August 20th, 1862, 
 he affumed the poiition of Chief Quartermaster of 
 the Sixth Army Corps, and held it under Generals 
 Franklin, Sedgwick and Wright. The prestige of 
 the Sixth Corps is said by competent authority to 
 have been measurably due to his ability and fidelity. 
 He was under fire in nearly all the battles of the 
 Army of the Potomac. He saved the materiel of 
 the army at the retreat to Harrison's Landing, and 
 at the retrograde movement from Centreville to 
 Drainsville, and laid the pontoon bridge at Fred- 
 ericksburg for Franklin's Corps. General Meigs 
 
 * See Roll of Honor. 
 
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 paid a flattering tribute to his worth in a general 
 order, and the Secretary of War mentioned his 
 name with honor in his report. He was a man of 
 strong, active and pohshed mind, of warm affec- 
 tions, high toned principles, self-reliant and brave, 
 yet modest and considerate of others. While act- 
 ing as Chief Quartermaster on General Sheridan's 
 Staff, surrounded by a small escort of twenty-five 
 men, guarding a single ambulance, himself un- 
 armed, he was shot, and died October iith, 1864. 
 
 [New Orleans, La., Oct. 20, 1866. 
 Dear Sir : — * * * The ability, energy and per- 
 severance displayed by Colonel Tolles, while sur- 
 rounded as he was during the time he served in 
 the Valley, by the innumerable difficulties which 
 naturally attend an army newly and quickly or- 
 ganized, stamped him as one of the ablest officers 
 in his department. I cannot say too much in his 
 praise. * * * 
 
 Very respectfully. 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 P. H. SHERIDAN, 
 Major-GeneralU.S.A. 
 Prof. H. C. Cameron, 
 
 College of New Jersey, Princeton, N. J.] 
 
 2. Dr. Joseph A. Freeman was born at Paterson, 
 New Jersey, and graduated with one of the honors 
 of the College in 1852. He received the degree 
 of Doctor of Medicine in 1856. He was first 
 
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 Assistant Surgeon, and afterwards Surgeon of the 
 Thirteenth New Jersey Volunteers. Subsequently 
 as United States Affistant Surgeon, he was in charge 
 of a general hospital at Nashville, where he died 
 of disease contracted w^hile in discharge of his self- 
 sacrificing duties, at the age of 31, December 29th, 
 1864. He was efteemed by those who knew him 
 for rare intellectual, moral and social qualities. 
 
 3. Adjutant Richard M. Strong was born at Al- 
 bany, N. Y., June loth, 1835, and graduated in 
 1854. In 1865 he was admitted to the bar. He 
 entered the army from most peremptory convic- 
 tions of duty. He was first appointed a member 
 of the Staff of General Rathbone, and afterward 
 entered upon active service in the field as Adjutant 
 of the One-hundred-and-seventy-seventh New 
 York Volunteers. He accompanied the Banks 
 expedition, and died of disease contracted on the 
 low lands of Louisiana, May 12th, 1863. We re- 
 member him as a gifted and accomplished scholar, 
 an urbane and finished gentleman, a warm and con- 
 stant friend, a simple, earnest, active, consecrated 
 follower of Jesus Christ. 
 
 4. Captain Henry Harrison Woolsey was born 
 at Pennington, New Jersey, April ist, 1837, and 
 graduated in 1856. He was admitted to the bar 
 in 1859. During August, 1861, he entered as a 
 private soldier in the Fifth New Jersey Volunteers, 
 but was almost immediately appointed Second Lieu- 
 tenant. He acted as Quartermaster in the Penin- 
 
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 sular campaign. At the battle of Williamsburgh 
 he was in the thickest of the fight, and for gallantry 
 was made a First Lieutenant. He was in all the 
 campaigns conducted by General McClellan. His 
 first wound was received in August, 1862. At the 
 battle of Chancellorsville he was in command of 
 his regiment, and was slightly wounded. He re- 
 ceived a third wound at Gettysburg. From No- 
 vember, 1 862, to May, 1864, he was detached from 
 his regiment and served as Provost Marshal of the 
 First Congrefilonal Diftrict of New Jersey. His 
 efforts were of great value in the work of rein- 
 forcing the army. He afterwards joined his regi- 
 ment, and was mortally wounded, i8th of June, 
 before Petersburg. Under the tender and affec- 
 tionate care of Dr. Edward L. Welling, also a 
 graduate of the College, he passed away, saying, 
 " I die in the glorious cause. I feel that I have 
 not lived in vain for this world or the world to 
 come." The tidings of his death reached his 
 family while they were surrounding the grave of 
 his young and lovely wife. The interment was 
 partially completed, and the place was guarded 
 until the remains of the hufband were brought 
 home and laid in the same consecrated earth. 
 
 Henry Woolsey was one who cannot be forgot- 
 ten — a gentle, cheerful, loving, faithful spirit, that 
 has left memorials in many hearts that will not 
 perifh. He was an humble, faithful believer in Jesus 
 Christ. 
 
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 5- Captain Thomas R. Haines was born in Suffex 
 county, in New Jersey, and graduated in 1857. 
 Before entering the service he was admitted to the 
 bar, and entered his profeffion with unusual pros- 
 pects. He was offered the poiition of First Lieu- 
 tenant of First New Jersey Cavalry, and after- 
 wards served by promotion as Captain. His ability 
 and fidelity were commended by all his superior 
 officers. He fell by a piftol shot, and a blow of 
 the sabre, June 6th, 1862, at Harrisonburg, Va. 
 • He possessed a clear, vigorous, and retentive mind, 
 a frank, sincere, genial dispofition. His Christian 
 character was gentle, earnest, pure. Few blows 
 made so many hearts to bleed as that which laid 
 him low. 
 
 6. Captain Cortlandt Van Renfi^elaer was born 
 June 5th, 1838, and graduated in 1858, and was 
 class orator. He was admitted to the bar of New 
 Jersey. Early in the year 1861 he was appointed 
 First Lieutenant of theThirteenth Infantry, United 
 States Army. At the close of the year 1862 he 
 was promoted to a Captaincy. He was actively 
 engaged at the siege of Vickfburg, and in subse- 
 quent battles with General Sherman. He died 
 October 7th, 1864. His mind was vigorous, logi- 
 cal, comprehensive, and cultured in a high degree. 
 To strangers he was reserved, to friends warm and 
 true. He became a believer in Christ before his 
 death, and departed in peace and hope. 
 
 7. Lieutenant Josiah S. Studdiford was born at 
 
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 Lambertville in 1837, and graduated in 1858. He 
 soon after commenced the practice of law. He 
 was appointed Adjutant of the Fourth New Jersey 
 Volunteers, and accepted the polition, saying to his 
 friends, "Many families are giving their sons to 
 the country. There are five of us brothers. We 
 have no representative in the army. Two are in 
 the ministry. One is a physician. The other is 
 too young. I can go — I ought to go." At the 
 battle of Gaines' Mill he was taken prisoner. He 
 fell at the battle of South Mountain. His Colonel 
 wrote: "I have lost my best officer." To the at- 
 tractions of a choice natural character he added 
 the graces of a Christian life. 
 
 8. Colonel Abm. Zabrifkie was born February 
 1 8th, 1 841, and graduated in 1859. In Septem- 
 ber, 1861, he was appointed Adjutant of the Ninth 
 New Jersey Regiment. He accompanied Burn- 
 side's expedition to North Carolina. In December, 
 
 1862, he became Lieutenant-Colonel; in January, 
 
 1863, Colonel and Acting Brigadier-General. 
 February, 1864, his term of service expired. At 
 his solicitation the regiment re-enlisted. On the 
 1 6th of May, while at the right wing of General 
 Butler's army, he was wounded, and died May 
 24th, 1864. A resolution of the Common Council 
 of his native city says: "One will fail to find 
 a braver, purer, or more self-sacrificing spirit." 
 
 9. Captain Charles H. Dod was born in Prince- 
 ton, June 13th, 1 841, and graduated in 1862. He 
 
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 soon after entered the army as First Lieutenant of 
 the Second New Jersey Cavalry. After a severe 
 campaign in the South-west he was transferred to 
 the Army of the Potomac, and served as Assistant 
 Adjutant General on General Hancock's staff. 
 Prostrated by disease, he died August 27tli, 1864. 
 His nature was gentle and beautiful. Grace devel- 
 oped in him the noble qualities of his manhood. 
 For only a few lost can we mourn as we did for 
 him. He sleeps with his fathers in the consecrated 
 ground near which we now are gathered. 
 
 10. Colonel Hugh Janeway did not graduate. 
 He entered the army at twenty years of age, as 
 First Lieutenant of the First New Jersey Cavalry, 
 immediately after the first Bull Run repulse. He 
 rose by acts of gallantry, through the grades of Cap- 
 tain, Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, to Colonel. In 
 December, 1861, in a raid near Alexandria, he re- 
 ceived eight slug and bullet wounds. The enemy 
 were about to kill him, but seeing his wounds, left 
 him to die. He summoned strength and crawled 
 to his regiment. At Chancellorsville a bullet 
 grazed his forehead, touching his forehead with 
 his hand, another ball took off his finger. After 
 the fall of Petersbug and Richmond, in a charge 
 near Painesville, while rallying his men, a ball 
 pierced his temple and he fell. He was a kind, 
 thoughtful, upright, sincere and truthful man — 
 a calm, courageous, energetic officer. He was a 
 Christian. When I remember these last two 
 
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 spirits, they do not seem to have been made for 
 war. But the leflbn of their heroism is precious. 
 There is a courage in the gentle soul, more noble 
 and enduring far, than the impulse of brute paffion, 
 and the momentum of unguided will. 
 
 These are our own lamented and honored dead.* 
 
 Will your patience yet suffer one word more 
 concerning those who, living or dead, are not 
 usually named on the lists of fame. I mean the 
 private soldiers of the rank and file. 
 
 By clear perception, prompt forethought, sharp 
 sagacity, practical judgment, versatility and endur- 
 ance, the American soldier stands far beyond any 
 other soldier yet developed in the school of war. 
 Study the march of Sherman from the river to the 
 sea, and know that if comprehenlive intellect 
 planned most marvellously, the readiness, patience, 
 self-sacrifice, the energy, perseverance, ready re- 
 sources, implicit obedience, and unqualified cour- 
 age of the private soldier, converted the com- 
 mander's plans into achievements. Trace the pro- 
 gress of the great Captain's movement on his chosen 
 line, and know that if irrefistible will did compel a 
 way through seeming impoffibility to success, it was 
 because self-devoting fidelity recoiled before no 
 bloody sacrifice. 
 
 My countrymen, be not unmindful of the com- 
 mon soldier. Those of us who have been with 
 
 *See In Memorjam, 
 
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 him at the lonely picket post, and in the busy- 
 camp, in winter's quiet, and on the eve of battle, 
 in scenes of peril and in the praying tent, or round 
 the homely communion board, have found it in 
 our hearts to reverence the man w^ho went for the 
 work and not the circumftance of war; the cause 
 and not the honors of the country, and stood with- 
 out the sound of title and the blaze of uniform, 
 the worn, browned, scarred soldier of the rank and 
 file. 
 
 If it be my lot to live until years pass over me, 
 and little ones shall cluster round my feet to hear 
 an old man's story of the war, I may tell them 
 with infirmity of pride, not unpardonable even 
 now, how I sat in familiar intercourse with the 
 great leader and martyr of the country's cause ; 
 and stood befide the great Captain, as with finger 
 on his chart, he traced the movements of the 
 grand campaign ; and took by the hand the men 
 whose counsels in the cabinet and field preserved 
 the fruits of victory. But the tale will not be 
 complete until I boast with grateful pride that my 
 voice was given to plead for the commiffion of 
 noble Christian men who carried home and sanc- 
 tuary to the battle-field, and camp and hospital ; 
 that I have shared the common soldier's couch and 
 fare ; these hands have ministered to his needs upon 
 the bed of pain, and broken for him the bread of 
 life. 
 
 Verily, they all shall have their due reward. 
 
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 Living ! — a nation points to them with gratitude as 
 its deliverers ; millions of dufky hands are lifted 
 for them to heaven with heartfelt benedid;ions. 
 Voices come echoing across the sea from the op- 
 pressed and struggling of every land: "Ye have 
 made new ground for the anchor of our, wavering 
 hope." 
 
 Dead ! — they sweetly sleep. The tongue of 
 gratitude speaks tenderly their names, the hand of 
 affection treasures their sacred dust. And if they 
 were true to God as well as country, they have 
 gone to the embrace of Him who knows what it 
 is to suffer and to die for others, to blend the lefTer 
 lustre of their honor with the eternal splendor of 
 the Redeemer's glory. 
 
IN MEMO RI AM 
 
 BY 
 
 PROF. HENRY C. CAMERON. 
 
 I, Captain Henry C. Bartlett, son of Gamaliel 
 and Mary Bartlett, was born at Stanhope, N. J., 
 April loth, 1827. He was graduated in the Cen- 
 tennial Class of Nassau Hall, in 1847, and studied 
 law with Peter T. Woodbury, Esq., of New York 
 city, where he was admitted to the bar. He prac- 
 tised his profeffion for sometime and then became a 
 banker and broker in New York. He was quite 
 successful in bufmess, retired and spent a year in 
 Texas. On the breaking out of the war he was 
 refiding in Caldwell, N. J. After the battle of 
 Bull Run he enlisted a company, and was muftered 
 into service in the 7th New Jersey Volunteers, Au- 
 gust 28th, 1 86 1. He participated in all the battles 
 in which the Army of the Potomac was engaged, 
 commanded his regiment in the seven days' fight 
 before Richmond, and by his gallantry won the 
 
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 encomiums of his commanding officers. His 
 health failed in consequence of his exposure at 
 the battle of Frederickfburg, and he resigned 
 January 14th, 1863. Upon the reftoration of his 
 health he was appointed Captain, and affisted in 
 the organization of the 33d New Jersey Volunteers. 
 He was with the regiment in all its engagements 
 in the South- West, and in the march from Chat- 
 tanooga to Atlanta, until May 8th, 1864, when he 
 was mortally wounded while gallantly leading a 
 battalion against the enemy's works at V Dug Gap," 
 near Dalton, Georgia. He died the next morn- 
 ing. Thus fell one whom his numerous friends 
 will long remember for his genial character, social 
 disposition, devoted patriotism, and well-tried cour- 
 age. 
 
 2. Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac K. Casey, son of 
 the Hon. Joseph Casey, Chief Justice of the Court 
 of Claims, was born in Pennsylvania, January 17th, 
 1844. Colonel Casey was educated at home until 
 he was prepared to enter upon his higher acade- 
 mic studies at Princeton, in the College of New 
 Jersey, where he remained more than two years. 
 Shortly after leaving College he entered the 
 army, in response to the summons which, in 
 the year 1861, caused so many others among 
 our gallant youth to fly to arms, in defence of 
 the country. In his patriotic and military en- 
 thusiasm he volunteered at first as a private soldier. 
 
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 but was afterwards appointed a Lieutenant of cav- 
 alry by Governor Curtin, and subsequently by 
 President Lincoln, an aid-de-camp, with the rank 
 of Captain. He served in the army more than 
 four years, on the staffs, succeffively, of General 
 Sturgis, General Casey and General Carter. He 
 participated in many battles of the war, among 
 which were the second battle of Bull Run, the 
 battles of South Mountain, Antietam and Frede- 
 ricksburg, on the occasion of Burnside's attack, 
 in which last-named encounter he was slightly 
 wounded. Twice brevetted for gallant and meri- 
 torious services, he left the army in the year 1866, 
 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, purposing to 
 carry into a life of business the same energy which 
 he had brought to his duty as a soldier, when he 
 was suddenly arrested by consumption, and stricken 
 down in the full flufh of manly vigor, and at the 
 very threshold of his career in life. Patient in 
 suffering, he died in the full confidence of Chris- 
 tian hope, at Washington, D. C, March 5th, 1867. 
 
 3. Dr. Ferdinand V. Dayton, son of the Hon. 
 William L. Dayton and Margaret (Van Derveer) 
 Dayton, was born in Freehold, N. J., July 29th, 
 1834. Prepared for College by Dr. John Wood- 
 hull, of Freehold, New Jersey, he entered the 
 Sophomore Class, at Princeton, in 1851, and was 
 graduated in 1854. He pursued his medical 
 studies in Trenton, New Jersey, in Philadelphia, 
 8 
 
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 and in Europe, and received his degree of M. D. 
 at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1857, -^^ 
 practised his profession in Trenton, N. J., Gow^- 
 anus, N. Y., PhiUpfburg, N, J., and Mauch 
 Chunk, Pa. He entered the service as Affistant 
 Sur'geon, ist New^ Jersey Cavalry, and participated 
 in its many engagements on the Potomac and in 
 the Shenandoah Valley. Appointed Surgeon, 2d 
 Nev7 Jersey Cavalry, July 12th, 1863, he served 
 in the West and South until muftered out, October 
 24th, 1865, He was in the campaigns against 
 Forrest, under Generals A, J, Smith and Sturgis, 
 and in the Missouri campaign, under General 
 Pleasanton. From March 31st to May 17th, 
 
 1864, he acted as Surgeon-in-chief, Cavalry Divis- 
 ion, 1 6th Army Corps, and from February nth, 
 
 1 865, until muftered out, he was Surgeon in charge 
 of the district of Natches, Miss. On March 20th, 
 
 1866, he was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel for 
 meritorious services. His faithful discharge of his 
 duty won for him the confidence of his com- 
 manders. His death, which was sudden and un- 
 expected, occurred at Natchez, November ist, 
 1866. 
 
 4. Dr. William P. Grier, only son of the Hon. 
 Robert C. Grier, Associate Justice of the Supreme 
 Court of the United States, was born in Allegheny 
 City, Pa., December 17th, 1834. He was pre- 
 pared for College by Dr. Samuel Crawford, of 
 
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 Philadelphia, and was for a short time connecfted 
 with the University of Pennsylvania. In Septem- 
 ber, 1 85 1, he entered Brown University, and in 
 the winter of 1852 he entered the College of New 
 Jersey. Here he remained about a year and then 
 became an Assistant Civil Engineer on the Sun- 
 bury and Erie Railroad. He subsequently studied 
 medicine with Dr. Joseph Carson, of Philadelphia, 
 and received the degree of M. D. from the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania in 1858. He was, for some- 
 time, a phyfician at the Blockley Almshouse, and 
 afterwards one of the resident physicians of the 
 Proteflant Episcopal Hospital, in Philadelphia. 
 He engaged in private practice in Philadelphia, 
 and subsequently in Peoria, 111., where he was very 
 successful. After the battle of Fort Donelson, 
 he volunteered, and labored in the field and in the 
 hospital. He was appointed Affistant Surgeon in 
 the United States Army, July 23d, 1 862, and served 
 in the Army of Virginia, on the field at the second 
 battle of Bull Run, in the Affistant Surgeon-Gen- 
 eral's office, and in the hospital at Wafhington; 
 was then ordered to the Chester hospital, Pennsyl- 
 vania, and finally to the Medical Director's office 
 in Philadelphia, where he discharged his duties 
 faithfully and energetically until after the close of 
 the war. He was assigned to the Department of 
 Arkansas, October 23d, 1865, and while on his way 
 to join his regiment, the 3d United States Cavalry, 
 he was blown up on the steamer Miami, near the 
 mouth of the Arkansas river, January 28th, 1866. 
 
6o 
 
 Dr. Grier married Miss Caroline Smith, daugh- 
 ter of Isaac Smith, Esq., of Philadelphia, in Feb- 
 ruary, 1865. Mrs. Grier died in December, 1865. 
 Dr. Grier was a man of fine personal appearance, 
 of exuberant spirits, great kindness and generosity 
 of heart. His later experience in life, and upon 
 the battle field, had developed the finer traits of 
 his chara(fter. His courageous and faithful dis- 
 charge of his duties, won for him not only the 
 approval of his superior officers, but the grateful re- 
 collection of those whom he so affiduously attended, 
 and his friends lovingly cherifh his memory. 
 
 5. Lieutenant- Colonel Thomas M. Hall, son 
 of the Rev. John H^ll, D. D., was born in Phila- 
 delphia, June 2d, 1835. He was graduated at 
 Nafiau Hall, in 1853, studied law with the Hon, W. 
 M. Meredith, of Philadelphia, and was admitted 
 to the bar in Odtober, 1856. His character for in- 
 tegrity and earneftness of purpose, and his attain- 
 ments in his profeffion were such as to win the 
 respect of his afibciates, the confidence of the 
 courts, and the hearty friendihip of all who knew 
 him. Although in feeble health his patriotism 
 induced him to enter the service of his country, 
 and in August, 1862, he became Adjutant of the 
 I2ist Pennsylvania Volunteers. In the field his 
 bravery was conspicuous. At Frederickfburg he 
 was in General Meade's Division, which broke 
 through the rebel lines. His horse was shot under 
 
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 him. At Chancellorsville and Gettysburg his con- 
 duct was such, that coupled with the discharge of 
 his duties as Adjutant, it recommended his promo- 
 tion. His brother officers requefted his appoint- 
 ment as Major, and he subsequently became 
 Lieutenant-Colonel of his regiment. But the 
 fatigues and exposure of the field developed the 
 disease which had long lurked in his conftitution. 
 Broken down in health he was compelled reluc- 
 tantly to refign, and returned home to linger for a 
 while among friends and then to die. Simple and 
 unostentatious in his piety, faithful and conscien- 
 tious in the discharge of his duties in civil and in 
 military life, his devotion to his country led to his 
 death, November 6th, 1864, 
 
 6. Henri S. Holden, was born in Hingham, 
 Mass., August 31st, 1841. He was prepared for 
 College by the Rev. J. F. Pingrey, of Newark, N. 
 J., and entered the Sophomore Class of Princeton 
 College in i860. He was one of the first scholars 
 in his class, but left College and joined the army 
 in September, 1862. His military service cul- 
 minated in Burnside's attack upon Fredericks- 
 burg. At the expiration of his term of service, in 
 1863, he entered the Theological Seminary at 
 Princeton, N. J. His devotion to the cause of his 
 country laid the foundation of that disease which 
 gradually developed itself and ended his career, 
 November loth, 1864. His fine talents and excel- 
 
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 lent scholarfhip had been consecrated to his Re- 
 deemer, and this consecration and his Christian 
 faith were the consolations of his dying hour. 
 
 7. Adjutant ,G. Drummond Hunt, Jr., son of 
 G. Drummond Hunt, and Catharine A. Hunt, 
 was born near Lexington, Ky., April 24th, 1842. 
 He was for a time connected with Transylvania 
 University, Ky., and previous to his entering Col- 
 lege at Princeton he studied at Plainfield, N. J. 
 From a deep and urgent sense of duty he enlisted 
 in the service of his country in the spring of 1862, 
 as First Lieutenant, 4th Kentucky Volunteers, of 
 which his brother, P. Burgess Hunt, was Lieuten- 
 ant-Colonel. General Fry selected him as his 
 AcSting Affistant Adjutant General, and in this 
 position he served during the movements before 
 Corinth. In October, 1862, he was appointed 
 Inspector of the 3d Brigade, 3d Division, 14th 
 Army Corps, and in April, 1863, he was commis- 
 sioned Adjutant of the 3d Kentucky Volunteers, 
 and shared its gallant fortunes. In the battle of 
 Chickamauga his valor was so conspicuous that he 
 received the special commendation, not only of 
 his brigade and divilion commanders, but that of 
 Major- General Thomas himself. He seized the 
 colors of a routed regiment, in the vicinity of his 
 own, succeeded in rallying them, and was gratified 
 by seeing them return and fight most gallantly. In 
 the battle of Miffion Ridge, November 25th, his 
 
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 gallantry was even more marked. In the charge 
 he led his regiment, and was twenty yards in ad- 
 vance of every one, and within one hundred and 
 fifty yards of Bragg's headquarters, where he pro- 
 posed to plant his State flag which he bore in his 
 hand. But in the moment of anticipated victory 
 he fell, mortally wounded, and died, November 
 29th, 1863. Thus fell as "noble, pure and gallant 
 a youth as ever yielded up life in the cause of his 
 countrv." Gentle and modest in chara6ter, affec- 
 tionate in dispofition, genial in manners, he was a 
 universal favorite. A Christian from his youth, 
 his piety bore the trying test of the camp unin- 
 jured, and he died a Christian partriot and soldier. 
 
 8. Dr. Webster Lindsley, son of Dr. Harvey 
 and Emeline C. Lindsley, was born in Washing- 
 ton, 'D. C, October 6th, 1835. Prepared in several 
 academies, he spent some time at the Columbian 
 College, near Wafhington, D. C, then entered the 
 College at Princeton, N. J., where he was gradu- 
 ated in 1855. He pursued his professional studies 
 with his father, and attended medical lectures at 
 Harvard University, from which he received the 
 degree of M. D., in 1857. -^^ immediately sailed 
 for Europe, and spent two years in Paris, in arduous 
 study, and in unremitting attendance upon the 
 medical lectures, and in the hospitals. He returned 
 home thoroughly qualified for the duties of his 
 profeflion, and at once began a successful practice. 
 
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 He was selected by the Government and the 
 Colonization Society to take charge of a ship load 
 of re-captured Africans, and restore them to their 
 native land. He successfully accomplished this 
 commiffion and returned from Liberia in Decem- 
 ber, i860. May 28th, 1 861, he was appointed 
 Affistant Surgeon in the United States Army, and 
 after service in various hospitals, he took the field 
 with the 1 8th United States Infantry, and served 
 in the grand armies of Rosecrans and Thomas, in 
 Kentucky and TennefTee, Alabama and Mississippi. 
 He was present at many of the most important 
 battles in the West, in 1862-3, especially at Shiloh, 
 and subsequently at Murfreefboro', where his regi- 
 ment saved the fortunes of the day, though half 
 its number fell. His devotion to duty and the 
 character of his services subsequently secured his 
 promotion as Major, November 3d, 1865. After 
 the conclusion of hostilities he had charge of hos- 
 pitals at Cincinnati, Charleston, Wafliington and 
 Richmond. He had charge of the post hospital 
 at Richmond during the last eight months of his 
 life. He was faithfully performing his duties 
 when, on July 14th, 1866, he was suddenly at- 
 tacked with hemorrhage of the lungs, which 
 was followed by a slow, deep fever that never left 
 him. He was removed to his home in Wafhing- 
 ton, D. C, and expired beneath his father's roof, 
 August 8th, 1866. A child of many prayers, he 
 ever bore the Bible with him, and revered the 
 
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 ordinances of religion. Gentleman-like in his 
 manners, practical in his cast of mind, almost in- 
 tuitive in his judgment, and quick and accurate in 
 his perceptions, he was admirably fitted for the 
 profession to which he was so enthufiastically 
 devoted. He is mourned for as an only son. 
 
 9. Colonel Henry Boyd McKeen, son of Hen- 
 ry McKeen, was born in Philadelphia, Septem- 
 ber 1 8th, 1835, and was graduated at Nassau Hall 
 in 1853. He was one of the most gallant of those 
 younger officers who fell during General Grant's 
 campaign in the spring and summer of 1864. He 
 entered the army, as Adjutant of the Thirty-first 
 Pennsylvania, October 27th, i86i,andwas pres- 
 ent in every engagement of the Army of the Poto- 
 mac, from Williamburg, in 1862, until his death 
 at Cold Harbor, in 1864. Promoted Major for 
 gallantry at Fair Oaks, he soon became Colonel of 
 his regiment and commanded the ist Brigade, 2d 
 Division, 2d Army Corps, at the time of his death. 
 He was wounded in the seven days' fight, at 
 Fredriecksburg, and at Chancellorsville. At Cold 
 Harbor his brigade actually held their pofition 
 within fifteen yards of the enemy's works, and so 
 murderous was the fire of these eight hundred men 
 that all the efforts of the enemy could not dislodge 
 them. His pofition was so perilous that he could 
 not retreat, and he could not be relieved save by a 
 "sap" or zigzag trench from the main line of 
 
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 works to his. Thus the men were at length res- 
 cued, but their gallant leader, while preparing to 
 relist an alTault, had fallen, pierced by the bullet of 
 a sharp fhooter. The three hundred of Thermopylse 
 perifhed, but the leader of the eight hundred of 
 Cold Harbor, while saving the lives of his men, 
 gave up his own. 
 
 ID. Adjutant Samuel Hepburn Pollock, the 
 son of the Hon. James Pollock, and grandson of 
 Samuel Hepburn, Esq., was born in Milton, North- 
 umberland county. Pa., October 23d, 1838. Having 
 prepared for College, he entered Nassau Hall, and 
 was graduated in 1859. He shortly afterwards 
 entered the law office of his father and continued 
 the prosecution of his studies until the breaking 
 out of the rebellion, in the spring of 1861, when 
 he haftened to the capital of his native State to 
 offer his services in defence of his country. A few 
 months after he became the Private Secretary of 
 his father, who had been appointed Director of the 
 United States Mint, at Philadelphia. Here he 
 remained in the faithful discharge of his duties 
 until after the unfortunate Peninsula campaign, 
 when his patriotism impelled him to offer his 
 services a second time. Appointed Adjutant of the 
 131st Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, with 
 his command he hastened to the defence of Wash- 
 ington after the disaftrous battle of the second Bull 
 Run. His regiment was incorporated into the 
 
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 Army of the Potomac, and participated in its his- 
 tory — noble in defeat and glorious in victory. He 
 was present at many of the most terrible battles of 
 the war — at the victory of Antietam and the battle 
 of Fredericksburg, where his Colonel commanded 
 a brigade and he directed the movements of his re- 
 giment in that bloody conflict. At the close of the 
 war, in which he exhibited conspicuous courage, 
 he gladly returned to peaceful pursuits. He had 
 endured the hardships of the war and palTed safely 
 through the dangers of the field only to fall at 
 home, by the hand of disease. Gentle and loving 
 in disposition, yet of great strength of character 
 and firmness of purpose, the best commentary upon 
 his religious principles is the fact that he returned 
 from the camp pure in heart and uncontaminated 
 in life. He died at Philadelphia, on the 25th of 
 October, 1865, aged twenty-seven years. 
 
 1 1 . William Sergeant, son of the Hon. John Ser- 
 geant and Margaretta (Watmough) Sergeant, was 
 born in Philadelphia, Pa., August 29th, 1829. He 
 was prepared for College by the Rev. Mr. Craw- 
 ford, principal of the Grammar School of the 
 University of Pennsylvania. He entered Princeton 
 College in 1845, where his father and his maternal 
 grandfather had been educated, and was graduated 
 in the Centennial Class of NafTau Hall in 1847. 
 He studied law with his father, was admitted to 
 the bar in 1850, eledied to the Legislature of Penn- 
 
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 sylvania in 1852, and in 1855 was appointed Sec- 
 retary to the Commissioners of Bankruptcy. His 
 manly integrity and genial character secured him 
 many warm personal friends, and in the discharge 
 of his duties as a Master in Chancery, to which 
 branch of his profeffion he chiefly applied himself, 
 he secured the confidence of the Supreme Court 
 of his native State, and his reports won the highest 
 encomiums of his fellow-lawyers. When the war 
 broke out he offered his services to the Govern- 
 ment, and was appointed Captain in the 1 2th 
 Infantry, United States Army. He spent some time 
 in recruiting, and then accompanied his regiment 
 in the campaign of the Peninsula, in 1862, par- 
 ticipating in the siege of Yorktown, and especially 
 in the battles of Gaines' Mills, June 27th, and Mal- 
 vern Hill, June 30th, 1862. He was in the move- 
 ment under General Pope in Virginia, and present 
 in General McClellan's campaign in Maryland, 
 which culminated at Antietam. One half of his 
 regiment was lost in these campaigns, and his ex- 
 posures so impaired his health that he was with- 
 drawn from active service in November, 1862. 
 Engaged in recruiting service for some time, in 
 October, 1 863, he was placed on the staff of Colonel 
 Burbank, his Brigade Commander, and served 
 with the Army of the Potomac until December, 
 1863. After various services he was appointed 
 Colonel of the 210th Pennsylvania Volunteers, in 
 September, 1864. He organized his command 
 
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 and joined the Army of the Potomac, 2d Division, 
 5th Army Corps, and participated in the move- 
 ments in front of Peterlburg, particularly in the 
 affair of the ** Boydtown Plank Road," Warren's 
 raid on the Weldon Railroad, the second Hatch's 
 Run, and the " Battle of the White Oak Road," 
 March 31st, 1865, in which he was fatally wounded. 
 He was sent home, but died upon the steamboat 
 between City Point and Washington, D. C, April 
 iith, 1865. His success as an officer was marked, 
 and he was repeatedly complimented for his con- 
 duct at the head of his regiment, and for his sol- 
 dierlike and energetic handling of his brigade, 
 which he repeatedly commanded. On the 8th of 
 November, 1853, he married Miss Eliza, daughter 
 of James S. Espy, Esq., of Harrisburg, Pa., who, 
 with her five young daughters, survives, to mourn 
 the too early loss of a beloved husband and 
 father. 
 
 1 2. Lieutenant John M. Williams, second son of 
 Michael Magie and Sarah Williams, was born, 
 June 20th, 1 841, at Elizabethtown, N. J. Pre- 
 pared for College by the Rev. David H. Pierson, 
 he entered the College of New Jersey, and main- 
 tained a very high standing during his connection 
 with the inftitution. He obeyed the call of his 
 country, and in company with several of his class- 
 mates, enlisted in the Anderson Cavalry, September 
 1 2th, 1862, as a body guard to General Rosecrans. 
 
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 Was in the fkirmish near Carlisle, Pa,, December 
 30th, 1862, and then proceeded to Tenneflee, 
 where he was for a time engaged in guerilla war- 
 fare. His courage in battle and his coolness in the 
 hour of danger soon impreffed his superior officers, 
 and he was appointed a Lieutenant and Adjutant 
 of the 17th Kentucky Volunteers. He was pros- 
 trated by fever, and yet so eager was he to discharge 
 his duty that at the request of his Colonel he took 
 the oath of office while reclining upon his couch. 
 But he could not enter upon his duties, for he fell 
 in the very outset of his career. He died of ty- 
 phoid fever, August 9th, 1863, at McMinnville, 
 Tennessee. 
 
 Note. — Captain Henry Lewis Southard, and Lieutenant Kent Delaware 
 Davis, are also among the dead, but no materials could be obtained for 
 special memoirs. 
 
ROLL 
 
 OF THE 
 
 COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY 
 
 WHO SERVED IN THE 
 
 ARMY OR NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 PUBLISHED 
 
 BY REQUEST OF THE TRUSTEES. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA : 
 
 McCalla & Stavely, Printers, 237 & 239 Dock Street. 
 1867. 
 
ROLL. 
 
 ABERT JAMES W., District of Columbia, Class of 1838. Was 
 graduated at West Point in 1842 ; appointed Lieutenant, U. S. 
 Topographical Engineers, and engaged in surveys and recon- 
 noisancCvSi in the West from 1843-4(5 ; in the Mexican War 
 under General Kearney ; Assistant Professor at West Point 
 in 1849 and '50 ; again on survej's ; and in the Seminole War 
 under General Harney in 1856 and 1858. In General Patter- 
 son's army in 1861, and on the staff of General Keim in the 
 battle of Falling Waters ; on the staff of General Banks in 
 1861 and 1862, and specially mentioned by him in his official 
 report of the battles of May 23d, 24th and 25th, 1862. In 
 General Pope's campaign on the Rapidan, and in Genei'al 
 McClellan's advance on Frederick City and South Mountain. 
 On General Gillmore's staff in South Carolina, in 1863 and 
 1864. Resigned his commission as Major U. S. Engineers, 
 June 25th, 1864. 
 
 ABERT S. THAYER, District of Columbia. Served during 
 the war under the U. S. Corps of Engineers. Was in the 
 Shenandoah campaign imder General Banks, and constructed 
 the bridge by which the army crossed into Maryland at Wil- 
 liamsport. Assisted in fortifying Nashville ; was under Gen- 
 eral Meade before Petersburg, and served until the close of 
 the war. 
 
 ADAMS JAMES L., Hospital Steward, and afterwards Assis- 
 tant Surgeon, 5th Michigan, until January 23d, 1863. 
 lO 
 
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 BABER RICHARD P. L., Ohio, Class of 1843. Paymaster, T. 
 S. A., September 12th, 1861. 
 
 *BARTLETT HENRY C, Xew Jersey, Class of 184t. Cap, 
 tain, 1th N. J. Yols., August 28th, 1861 ; served with the Army 
 of the Potomac before Richmond, &c. ; resigned January 14tli, 
 
 1863. Appointed Captain, 33d ISTew Jersey, August 29th, 1863. 
 Mortally wounded at Rocky Face Ridge, Georgia, May 8th, 
 
 1864. (See Memoir.) 
 
 BARTON W. B., New York. Lieutenant-Colonel, 48th N. Y. 
 Volunteers, July 24th, 1861 ; promoted Colonel, Jime 18th, 
 1862. Served before Charleston, S. C, in reducing Pulaski, 
 before Petersburg and Richmond. Commanded a brigade in 
 1864; mustered out December 3d, 1864. 
 
 BATEMAN ROBERT M., M.D., New Jersey. Assistant Sur- 
 geon, 25th N. J. Volunteers ; term of service expired June 
 20th, 1863. Served in Maryland and Virginia. As Field Sur- 
 geon, participated in Burnside's attack upon Fredericksburg, 
 Va., December 13th, 1863, and narrowly escaped with his life. 
 
 BEAUMONT H. N,, M.D., Pennsylvania. Assistant Surgeon, 
 U. S. N., April 29th, 1864, Served in hospital at Norfolk, 
 Va., and on board of the monitor " Canonicus." Took part in 
 both attacks on Fort Fisher under Admiral Porter, and then 
 served on the Carolina coast and in the West Indies, until 
 July 1st, 1865. Subsequently medical officer of the " Ohio" 
 and the " Chattanooga." 
 
 BELDEN OLIVER S., M,D., New Jersey, Class of 1853. As- 
 sistant Surgeon, 5th New Jersey Vols., Ma^^, 1862; served in 
 the Peninsula in the field as the Surgeon of the regiment, and 
 in the hospital of the brigade. Present in the seven days' fight 
 before Richmond, and subsequently at Bristow Station and the 
 second Bull Run. During the last battle he was a prisoner 
 for twenty- four hours and then released. Was in the battle 
 of Fredericksburg, and term of service expired in Feb., 1863. 
 From May, 1864, until Jan., 1865, was acting Assistant Sur- 
 
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 geon, U. S. A. in Alexandria, Ya,, having charge chiefly of 
 the King Street Hospital. Feb. 1st, 1865, served in hospitals 
 in Savannah, Ga., until they were broken up. Honorably dis- 
 charged May, 1865. 
 
 BELKNAP WILLIAM WORTH, Iowa, Class of 1848. Major 
 of the 15th Iowa Yols., Nov. 7th, 1861; promoted Lieut.-Col., 
 Aug. 20th, 1862, and Colonel, April 22d, 1863; Brigadier 
 General, IT. S. Yols., July, 1863, and commanded 3d Brigade, 
 4th Division, ITth Corps: Brevet Major-General, March 13, 
 1865, for " gallant and meritorious services during the war." 
 Honorably mustered out, Aug, 24th, 1865. He was in nu- 
 merous battles, the most important of which were those of 
 Shiloh (where he was wounded and had a horse shot under 
 him), Corinth, the several battles at Atlanta, &c. He was en- 
 gaged in the sieges of Corinth, Yicksburg and Atlanta, and 
 accompanied Sherman in his great March from Atlanta to the 
 Sea, and thence to Goldsborough, Raleigh and Washing- 
 ton. He was repeatedly mentioned for his coolness and cour- 
 age, and in the battle of Atlanta, July 22d, 1863, he took pris- 
 oner Colonel Lampley, of the 45th Alabama, by pulling him 
 over the works by his coat collar. General B.'s final command 
 was the 4th Division, Itth Corps. 
 
 BILL JOSEPH HOWLAND, M.D., Class of 1855. Assistant 
 Surgeon, U. S. A., April 13th, 1860. Served in the Depart- 
 ment of New Mexico until May, 1862; in hospital at Fred- 
 erick, Md., from October 1862, until January, 1863; as- 
 signed to U. S. Laboratorj^, Astoria, Long Island, January, 
 1863; Major by brevet, " for meritorious service," November 
 3d, 1865, to date from March 13th, 1865 ; assigned to IJ. S. 
 Laboratory, Philadelphia, Pa., November 29th, 1865, where he 
 remains. Promoted Surgeon, August 29th, 1866, to date from 
 July 28th, 1866. Participated in the battles of Second Bull 
 Run, South Mountain, and Antietam. 
 
 B.LAIR FRANK PRESTON, Missouri, Class of 1841. Briga- 
 dier-General, U. S. Yols., Major-General, U. S. Yols., Novem- 
 ber 29th, 1862 ; resigned November 1st, 1865. At the siege 
 
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 of Yicksburg ; commanded ITth Arm 3^ Corps in General Sher- 
 man's March to the Sea, and thence to Washington, D. C. 
 
 BLAIR DE WITT CLINTOT^, New Jersey, Class of 1856. 
 Served three months in 22d New York State Militia, in 1861. 
 
 BLANEY JAMES YAN ZANDT, M.D., Illinois, Class of 1838. 
 Snrgeon of Brigade, U. S. Yols., August 31st, 1861. Medical 
 Purveyor at Chicago, Illinois, November 23d, 1861. Ordered 
 to Department of Yirginia, November 10th, 1862. Medical 
 Director Department of Yirginia, September 23d, 1863. Medi- 
 cal Purve3^or, Chicago, Illinois, September 12th, 1864. Mus- 
 tered out, October T, 1865. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, Octo- 
 ber 6th, 1865. 
 
 BOYLE J. TILFORD, Kentucky, Class of 1839. Brigadier- 
 General, U. S. Yols., November 9th, 1862. Resigned, January 
 26th, 1864. Served in Kentucky and Tennessee. 
 
 BRADNER THOMAS SCOTT, New York, Class of 1846. Chap- 
 lain, 124th N. Y. Yols., September 5th, 1862; mustered out, 
 June 3d, 1865. 
 
 BRECKINRIDGE MARCUS PREYOST, Illinois, Class of 
 1848. Captain in Subsistence Department, U. S. Yols., Sep- 
 tember 2d, 1862. Honorably mustered out of service, January 
 10th, 1866. Brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. Yols. 
 
 BROWN HARYEY ELLICOTT, M.D., New York, Class of 
 1854. Assistant Surgeon, 1st Excelsior, JJ. S. Yols., April 
 24th, 1861 ; promoted Surgeon, July 29th, 1861. Served in 
 Maryland and in the Peninsula, taking part in the battles 
 before Richmond, the seven days' fight, &c. ; subsequently in 
 the battle of Fredericksburg, December 14th, 1862. Assistant 
 Surgeon, IT. S. A., April 13th, 1863. Served in Department 
 of the East until February, 1864 ; in Department of New Mex- 
 ico until October, 1865, part of the time as Medical Director 
 of the De^Dartment ; in Department of the East until October 
 9th, 1866 ; at present in the Department of the Gulf. Cap- 
 tain and Major by brevet, November 3d, to rank from March 
 
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 13th, 1865, " for faithful and meritorious service during the 
 war." 
 
 *CASEY ISAAC K., Pennsylvania, Private in a Pennsylvania 
 regiment ; appointed a Lieutenant of Cavalry by Governor 
 Curtin, and subsequently by President Lincoln, an Aid-de- 
 Camp, with the rank of Captain. Twice brevetted for gallant 
 and meritorious services, he left the army in 1866, with the rank 
 of Lieutenant-Colonel, and died in Washington, D. C, March 
 5th, 186Y. (See Memoir.) 
 
 COCHRAN" ANDREW P. LIXN, Class of 1856. Corporal and 
 CajDtain, 152d Regiment Ohio IS^ational Guard ; in service 
 May — August, 1864. 
 
 COMBS WILLIAM SrTPHEiS^, New Jersey, Class of 1861. 
 Assistant Surgeon, 38th N. J. Vols., September 23d, 1864 ; 
 mustered out June 30th, 1865. 
 
 CONOYER WILLIAM ARTHUR, M.D., New Jersey, Class of 
 1859. Acting Assistant Surgeon in the Summer of 1862. As- 
 sistant Surgeon, U. S. Yols., October 6th, 1862. Served in 
 Department of Washington until May, 1863 ; promoted Sur- 
 geon May 8th, 1863. Was with the 10th Corps in the van of 
 the Army of the James, and participated in numerous battles 
 North and South of the James, and in front of Petersburg ; 
 was at the battle of Drewry's Bluff, the explosion of the Mine 
 and the bombardment of Fort Pi^her, and entered Richmond 
 with the armj^ Served in Department of Yirginia and North 
 Carolina until August, 1865. Accompanied 25th Army Corps 
 to Texas *as Medical Director with rank of Lieutenant- 
 Colonel ; served in Department of Texas until mustered out, 
 March 13th, 1866. Brevet Colonel to date from November 
 24th, 1865. 
 
 COOK JEREMIAH, Pennsylvania, Class of 1858. 1st Lieuten- 
 ant, 126th Penna. Yols., August 9th, 1862. Participated 
 with his regiment in the battles of Fredericksburg and 
 Chancellorsville, and honorably discharged February 18th, 
 1863. 
 
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 COX ROWLAND, Illinois, Class of 1863. Left College to join 
 the army. Appointed Assistant Adjutant General, U. S. Yols., 
 with the rank of Captain, September 19th, 1863. In the cam- 
 paigns under Generals Sherman and McPherson. Resigned, 
 January 6th, 1865. 
 
 GUMMING RICHARD S. C, New York, Class of 1854. New 
 York Tth Regiment under first call. 
 
 DALRYMPLE AARON P., M.D., Class of 184T. Surgeon, 1st 
 N. Y. Volunteer Engineer Regiment, September 11th, 1861 ; 
 participated in the caj)ture of Port Royal and Beaufort, South 
 Carolina ; resigned in the Spring of 1862. Surgeon, U. S. 
 Vols., June, 9th, 1 862. Served in Department of the South until 
 mustered out February 2d, 1866. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 
 for meritorious services during the war. He was chief medical 
 officer, &c., in the 10th Corps at Hilton Head, was with the 
 wounded of Pocotaligo, in the assaults on Fort Wagner and 
 Olustee ; had charge of hospitals and discharged other duties 
 successively at Beaufort, S. C, Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, 
 S. C. August 11th, 1865, appointed Medical Director of the 
 Department of North Carolina, on the staff of General Gillmore, 
 and afterwards of General Sickels. 
 
 *DAVIS KENT DELAWARE, Pennsylvania, Class of 1861. 
 Second Lieutenant Marine Corps, June 1863 : Judge Advo- 
 cate at Norfolk, Va., and died January, 1864. 
 
 *DAYTON FERDINAND V., New Jersey, Class of 1854. As- 
 sistant Surgeon, 1st N. J. Cavalry, September 20th, 1861 ; 
 promoted Surgeon 2d N. J. Cavalry, July 12th, 1863. Acted 
 as Surgeon-in-Chief, Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps, from 
 March 31st, to May mh, 1864 ; and February 11th, 1865, was 
 assigned to duty as Surgeon in charge of the District of 
 Natchez, Miss.; mustered out October 24th, 1865. BrcA^et Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel, March 20th, 1865, for meritorious service. 
 (See Memoir.) 
 
 DE GRAW CHARLES SMITH, M.D., New York, Class of 
 185^. Assistant Surgeon, 8th Regiment N. Y. State Militia, 
 
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 April 23d, 1861. In the first battle of Bull Rim with two 
 other surgeons, he "nobly surrendered rather than desert the 
 wounded." A prisoner for some time, he was at last ex- 
 changed" in February, 1862; appointed Assistant Surgeon, F. 
 S. A., to rank from July 11th, 1862. On duty in General Hospi- 
 tal at York, Penna., till January 5th, 1863 ; at Campbell Hos- 
 pital, Washington, D. C, October 21st, 1863; with the 1st 
 Battalion, 13th Infantry, July 2*7th, 1864, and served in the 
 campaign and siege of Yicksburg ; on duty at Fort Dodge, 
 Kansas, from May ITth, 1866. Brevet Major " for faithful and 
 meritorious conduct," November 3d, to date from March 13th, 
 1865. 
 
 DE PUE ABRAHAM, Class of 1858. Private, 2d K J. Regi- 
 ment ; served three months and was discharged August, 1861. 
 Acting Assistant Paymaster, TJ. S. IST., June 1st, 1863, and in 
 the "Kittatinny" assisted in the destruction of the pirate 
 "Tacony;" then joined the West Gulf Squadron, and re- 
 mained until July, 1865. Mustered out, December 25th, 1865. 
 
 DICKSON JOHN NEWTON, Pennsylvania, Class of 1859. 
 Lieutenant and Captain, 6th Penna. Cavalry; served with the 
 Army of the Potomac. 
 
 DILWORTH RICHARD B., Pennsylvania, Class of 1865. 
 Left College and served nine months in a Pennsjdvania regi- 
 ment. 
 
 DOD ALBERT BALDWIN,New Jersey, Classof 1854. Captain, 
 15th U. S. Infantry, May 14th 1861 : on i-ecruiting duty and 
 in the field in Kentucky, until the Winter of 1861 : from that 
 time until June, 1863, mustering officer at Columbus, Ohio. 
 Participated in the capture of Morgan in Ohio ; was in the 
 campaign from Murfreesboro to Chattanooga, with his regi- 
 ment in the battle of Chickamauga, and on the staff of Major- 
 General Gordon Granger, in the battles of Lookout Mountain 
 and Missionary Ridge, &c. Under Generals Thomas and 
 Sherman. Resigned in the Summer of 1864. 
 
 *DOD CHARLES HODGE, New Jersey, Class of 1862. First 
 
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 Lieutenant, 2d N". J. Cavalry, September 8th, 1863, and served 
 in the West until June 19th, 1864, when he resigned, having 
 been appointed, June 8th, 1864, Captain and Assistant Adju- 
 tant-General of Yolunteers, and placed upon the staff of General 
 Hancock. Died August 27th, 1864. (See Memoir.) 
 
 DODGE ROBERT P., District of Columbia, Class of 1836. 
 Paymaster with the rank of Major, June 5th, 1861; brevet 
 Lieutenant-Colonel, March, 1865; mustered out, July 20th, 
 1866. 
 
 EDWARDS LOUIS A., M.D., Class of 1842. Appointed As- 
 sistant Surgeon, U. S. A., August 2*7th, 1846. Served in 
 Mexico and the Department of IS'ew Mexico until August, 
 1850 ; at different forts until 1854, when he was assigned to 
 duty in Washington, D. C. Promoted Surgeon, March 21st, 
 1861. Served in the Middle Department and that of the East, 
 during 1862, '63, '64 and '65. Appointed Colonel bj'' brevet, 
 June 15th, 1865, to date from March 13th, 1865. Chief Medical 
 Officer of the Bureau of Refugees, Ereedmen and Abandoned 
 Lands, August 13th, 1866, and also Medical Director of the 
 Department of Washington, November 1st, 1866. 
 
 EGBERT AUGUSTUS R., M. D., Class of 1850. Surgeon of 
 Brigade, U. S. Volunteers, November 5th, 1861. Served in the 
 Department of the Pacific until mustered out, October 9th, 
 1865. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, October 6th, 1865. 
 
 ELMER ROBERT W., New Jersey, Assistant Surgeon, 23d 
 New Jersey Volunteers, August 26th, 1862 ; mustered out 
 June 2nh, 1863. 
 
 EMERY JOHN RUNKLE, New Jersey, Class of 1861. Second 
 Lieutenant, 15th New Jersey Volunteers, August 5th, 1862 ; 
 discharged for disability incurred in the service, February 23d, 
 
 1863. 
 
 FIELD EDWARD, Class of 1861. Second Lieutenant, First 
 New Jersey Cavalry, August 20th, 1861. Second Lieutenant, 
 Fourth United States Artillery, February 19th, 1862; pro- 
 
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 rooted First Lieut., 4th U. S. Artillery, August 11th, 1863 ; ap- 
 pointed Brevet Captain, TJ. S. Artillery, May 12th, 1864. Was 
 in twenty battles ; served with the Army of the Potomac, was 
 in the seven days' fight ; in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chan- 
 cellorsville and Antietam ; in Sheridan's Raid and before Rich- 
 mond. He was specially commended and received promotion 
 for gallantrj'- at the battle of Cliancellorsville. Now at Fort 
 Foote, Md., near Washington, D. C. 
 
 *FREEMAN JOSEPH ADDISON, M.D.,Xew Jersey, Class of 
 1852. Assistant Surgeon, 13th New Jersey Volunteers, July 
 11th, 1862 ; promoted Surgeon, March 16th, 1864, and resigned 
 April 26th, 1864 ; appointed Assistant Surgeon, United States 
 Volunteers, April 6th, 1864. Served in the Department of the 
 Cumberland, and died of pneumonia at the General Hospital, 
 Nashville, Tenn., December 29th, 1864. (See Memoir.) 
 
 FULLER ALBERT C, New Jersey. First Sergeant in a com- 
 pany from Trenton, during the raid into Pennsylvania, in 
 
 1863, First Lieutenant, 34th New Jersey Volunteers, October 
 19th, 1863; served in Tennessee and Kentucky; was Ad- 
 jutant and Provost Marshal of Island No. 10, and Post Adju- 
 tant of Columbus, Ky. Repeatedly prostrated by illness, he 
 resigned, October 10th, 1864. 
 
 GANSEVOORT HENRY L., New York, Class of 1855. Private, 
 April 16th, 1861 ; promoted Second Lieutenant Fifth Artillery, 
 United States Army, May 14th, 1861 ; mustering officer at 
 Harrisburg, Pa., September, 1861 ; organized Battery "M.," 
 Fifth Artillery, in December, 1861, and served with it and 
 Battery " C," Third Artillery, through the Peninsular cam- 
 paign and the seven days' fight ; promoted First Lieutenant 
 Fifth Artillery. Present in battles of Groveton, Gainesville, 
 second Bull Run, South Mountain and Antietam, where he 
 was wounded. Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, Thirteenth New 
 York Cavalry, in March, 1863 ; promoted Colonel, March 28th, 
 
 1864. October 14th, 1864, Colonel Gansevoort, with his 
 regiment, surprised Mosby's camp and captured his artillery. 
 Bre vetted Brigadier- General in 1865, and mustered out of 
 service in August, 1865. 
 
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 * GRIER WILLIAM P., Pennsylvania. Assistant Surgeon, 
 United States Army, July 23d, 1862. Served with the Army 
 of Yirginia. On duty in Surgeon-General's office from Jan- 
 uary 10th, 1863 ; in Medical Director's office, Philadelphia, Pa., 
 December 14th, 1863; assigned to Department of Arkansas, 
 October 23d, 1865. Blown up on the steamer Miami, January 
 28th, 1866. (See Memoir.) 
 
 GUBBY JAMES, Class of 1850. Chaplain, Third Regiment, 
 Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, October 10th, 1861 ; present at 
 the capture of Ports on Hilton Head and Bay Island ; resigned 
 October, 1862, and appointed Hospital Chaplain, United States 
 Army, April 2d, 1863, and served at Hilton Head until Jan- 
 uary, 1865; at Alton, 111., from May until July, 1865, when 
 he was honorably mustered out of the service. 
 
 GULICK JOHN S., New Jersey, Class of 1838. Purser, United 
 States Navy ; ranks as Captain, February 1st, 1851. 
 
 HAINES ALANSON A., New Jersey. Chaplain, Fifteenth 
 New Jersey Yolunteers, August 15th, 1862. This Regiment 
 belonged to the Sixth Corps, and participated in all its hard- 
 ships and severe fighting. He was present and often exposed 
 to li. e in more than thirty battles, among which may be men- 
 tioned Fredericksburg, December 13th, 1862, and May 3d, 
 1863, Gettysburg, Spottsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, 
 Petersburg and the last battle in Yirginia. He witnessed the 
 surrender of Lee's army, and was mustered out July 1st, 1865. 
 
 * HAINES THOMAS RYERSON, New Jersey, Class 185Y. 
 Captain, First New Jersey Cavalry, October 6th, 1861. Served 
 in Yirginia, and was killed at Harrisonburg, Ya., June 6th, 
 
 1862. (See Memoir.) 
 
 HALL CALDWELL KEPPELL, New Jersey, Class of 185T. 
 Adjutant, Fifth N. J., Yolunteers, August 24th, 1861 ; pro- 
 moted Lieutenant-Colonel, Fourteenth New Jersey Yolunteers, 
 August 2Tth, 1862; discharged September 10th, 1864, "on ac- 
 count of physical disability from wounds received in action," 
 at the battle of the Monocacy, Md. Bre vetted Colonel and 
 
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 Brigadier-General, " for gallant and meritorious services dur- 
 ing the war," in the Peninsular campaign, Meade's campaign 
 of 1863, and that of the Wilderness in 1864. 
 
 *HALL THOMAS MIFFLIN, Pennsylvania, Class of 1853. 
 Adjutant, 121st Pennsylvania Yolunteers, August, 1862 ; pro- 
 moted Major and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1864. Served with 
 the Army of the Potomac, and participated in the battles of 
 Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. (See Me- 
 moir.) 
 
 HAMILTON M.,left College and enlisted in the Anderson Cav- 
 alry, September, 1862. 
 
 HEBERTON EDWARD PAYSON, Pennsylvania, Class of 1850. 
 
 As second officer of the U. S. Coast Survey vessel, " Dana," 
 he assisted in rescuing her from vmder the guns of Fort Marion, 
 St. Augustine, Fla.; appointed Assistant Paymaster United 
 States Navy, November, 1861, and assigned to the "Hetzel ;" 
 engaged with the " Richmond," in James River ; took part in 
 the Burnside expedition to Roanoke Island, and narrowly es- 
 caped death from the explosion of a gun, while he was acting 
 as volunteer signal officer, during the attack; was engaged in 
 the capture of Elizabeth, North Carolina. In the " Stellin" he 
 did blockade duty off Charleston, S. C, and participated in 
 the first attack on Fort Sumter. On account of ill health he 
 resigned in May, 1864. ^ 
 
 HEWITT JOHN DUNBAR, Class of 1860. Private in an in- 
 dependent Battery, United States "Volunteers, Captain Nevin, 
 of Lancaster, Pa., July 1st, 1863. Term of service expired 
 about February 1st, 1864. 
 
 HODGE JOHN LEDYARD, Class of 1853. Additional Pay- 
 master United States Army, with the rank of Major, July, 1861; 
 October, 1861, made assistant in the office of the Paymaster- 
 General, United States Army ; April, 1865, brevetted Colonel 
 of Yolunteers, and in May, 1866, appointed also Chief Pay- 
 master of the Washington District; January ITth, 1861, Pay- 
 master, United States Army. 
 
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 HODGE JOHN B., New Jersey. Second Lieutenant, 10th Re- 
 giment 'New Jersey Yolunteers, April 12tli, 1862 ; honorably 
 discharged in consequence of physical disability, January 29th, 
 1863; re-commissioned March 4th, 1863, but obliged to resign 
 on account of ill health, June 25th, 1863. Served in Wash- 
 ington, D. C, and Suffolk, Ya. 
 
 HOLDEN EDGAR, M.D., New Jersey, Class of 1859. Assist- 
 ant Surgeon, U. S. Navy, September, 1861; Surgeon on the 
 Minnesota in Hampton Roads, and at the capture of Norfolk ; 
 on the Wyandotte ; on the second Monitor, the Passaic ; par- 
 ticipated in the first attack on Charleston, S. C. Engaged in 
 hospital duty and on the blockade ; he was subsequently on 
 the Sassacus when her gallant commander. Roe, endeavored 
 to run down the iron-clad ram Albermarle. For an account of 
 this action see Harper's Magazine, for September, 1864. In 
 1864 he directed the Medical Department of the James River 
 Squadron, and resigned in the fall of 1864. Served in the 
 Army Hospital, in Newark, until the close of the war. 
 
 *HOLDEN HENRI, New Jersey. Left College and enlisted in 
 the army, September, 1862 ; served nine months. Died Novem- 
 ber 10th, 1864. (See Memoir.) 
 
 HOY JAMES, Jr., Class of 1858. Paymaster, United States 
 Navy, October 11th, 1861 ; ranks as Lieutenant-Commander 
 from October l^th, 1864. 
 
 HFEY SAMUEL BAIRD, Pennnsylvania, Class of 1863. Cap- 
 tain's Clerk, U. S. Navy, June, 1863, on the " Sah Jacinto," 
 Com.R. Chandler, East Gulf Squadron ; July, 1863, Aid to Ad- 
 miral Bailey, on blockade duty in the West Indies and the Gulf; 
 February, 1864, appointed Acting Assistant Paymaster, and 
 on the " Yantic," was on blockade duty, &c., at Wilmington, 
 N. C; was in both attacks on Fort Fisher, in the capture of 
 Fort Anderson, and Wilmington, N. C, in charge of a battery, 
 and as signal oflicer. Honorably mentioned and resigned, Jan- 
 uary, 1866. 
 
 HUNT EZRA MUNDY, M.D., New Jersey, Class of 1849. As- 
 
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 sistant Surgeon, 29th ISTew Jersey Yolimteers, October, 1862; 
 had charge of Calvert Street Hospital, Baltimore, Md., during 
 his whole term of service until March, 1863. 
 
 *HUNT G. DRUMMOND, Jr., Kentucky, 1st Lieutenant, 4th 
 Kentucky Volunteers, SiDring of 1862 ; Inspector 3dBrigade,3d 
 Division, 14th Army Corps; Adjutant, 3d Kentucky Yolun-> 
 teers, April, 1863 ; mortally wounded at Mission Ridge, Novem- 
 ber _25th, and died November 29th, 1863. (See Memoir.) 
 
 HUNTER LOUIS B., New Jersey, Class of 1824. Surgeon, 
 United States Navy, January 3d 1828; promoted AjDril 4th, 
 1831. Ranks as Captain. 
 
 JACKSON HUNTINGTON W., New Jersey. Left College, 
 and was appointed Second Lieutenant, 4th New Jersey Volun- 
 teers, September 1th, 1862; promoted to First Lieutenant, 
 and Aid-de-Camp to Major-General John Newton, 1st Army 
 Corps; also Aid-de-Camp to Major-General 0. 0. Howard, 
 Army of the Tennessee ; brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel ; served 
 in the Army of the Potomac, from the battle of Antietam until 
 April, 1864; participating in the battles of Fredericksburg, 
 Chancellors ville, Marye's Hill, Gettysburg, Mine Run, &c.; 
 with General Sherman's army, from Chattanooga to Jones- 
 borough, Georgia, resulting in the capture of Atlanta. Parti- 
 cipated in the battles of Rockj'^ Face Ridge, Resaca, Kennesau 
 Mountain, &c.; wounded at Kennesau, June 26th, 1863. Re- 
 commended for promotion for especial gallantry at Marye's 
 Hill, Gettysburg and Kennesau. Mustered out, October 1st, 
 1864. 
 
 JANEWAY JOSHUA HOWELL, Class of 1851. Chaplain, 
 199th Pennsylvania Volunteers, December 24th, 1864. Served 
 until the regiment was mustered out, June 28th, 1865. 
 
 *JANEWAY HUGH H., New Jersey. First Lieutenant, 1st 
 New Jersey Cavalry, August 14th, 1861; promoted for gal- 
 lantry, successively to the grades of Major, Lieutenant-Colonel 
 and Colonel. In different battles he was twelve times wounded. 
 
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 He fought through the war, and was killed at Amelia-Springs, 
 Ya., April 5th, 1865. 
 
 JENI^ISON JOSEPH FOWLER, Pennsylvania, Class of 1852. 
 Chaplain, 203d Penna. Volunteers. 
 
 JEROLOMAN JOHN, New Jersey. Left College and entered 
 the 2d New Jersey Cavalry, as Sergeant, July 28th, 1863 ; 
 promoted Second Lieutenant, 3d New Jersey Cavalry, May 
 6th, 1864 ; promoted First Lieutenant, November 1st, 1864, 
 and Captain, for meritorious service on the battle-field, May 3d, 
 1865; mustered out, August 1st, 1865. Served in the West, 
 and was wounded at Guntown, Miss.; next served in the 
 Yalley of the Shenandoah, participating in Sheridan's victories 
 and in his grand raid, and was wounded before City Point. 
 
 KELLEY SAMUEL P., New Jersey. Private in the New Jersey 
 militia, July 1st, 1863; served six weeks at the time of the 
 Pennsylvania invasion ; July 14th, 1864, private in the 196th 
 Pennsylvania Volunteers ; served in various places, chiefly on 
 guard duty. Mustered out, November 16th, 1864. 
 
 KIMBERLY HENRY DICKINSON, New York, Class of 
 1860. Assistant Paymaster, United States Navj'-. 
 
 KNOX JAMES SUYDAM,New Jersey, Class of 1860. Pri- 
 vate, 21st N. J. Volunteers, July, 1862, and took part in the 
 battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. In the Spring 
 of 1863, again enlisted in the United States Army, and served 
 as Hospital Steward for some time. Again enlisted in the 1st 
 Battalion District Volunteers, and was gradually promoted to 
 Captain. Resigned in 1865, just before the close of the war. 
 
 LEDYARD EDWARD DENISON, Pennsylvania, Class of 
 1864. While a student, enlisted in 49th Penna, State Militia, 
 and served nearly three months at the time of the invasion of 
 Pennsjdvania. 
 
 LEWIS VALENTINE A. Chaplain, 2d Regiment New York 
 Volunteers, May 11th, 1861, and served in the Peninsula. 
 Resigned in Septemper, 1861, on account of sickness. 
 
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 *LINDSLEY WEBSTER, M.D., District of Columbia, Class 
 of 1855. Assistant Surgeon, United States Army, May 28th, 
 1861 ; on duty in Washington, D. C, until July, 1861, when 
 ordered to Cincinnati, Ohio ; served with the 18th United 
 States Infantry, in Kentucky and Tennessee, from December, 
 1861, until April, 1863. Subsequently had charge of hospitals 
 at Baltimore, Md., York, Pa., Beaufort, S. C, and finally at 
 Washington, D. C, in June, 1864. Served with 1st Battalion, 
 12th United States Infantry, at Richmond, Ya., from August, 
 1865, to November 3d, 1865, then placed in charge of the Post 
 Hospital. Major by brevet, November 3d, 1865. Died in 
 Washington, D. C, Avigust 8th, 1866. (See Memoir.) 
 
 McCAULEY CLAY, Pennsylvania, Class of 1864. While a 
 student, became a private, 126th Pennsylvania Yolunteers, 
 August 6th, 1862 ; promoted Sergeant and Second Lieutenant ; 
 mustered out, Ma}^ 22d, 1863. Participated in the battles of 
 South Mountain, Antietam, White Sulphur Springs, Ames- 
 ville, Predericksburg and Chancellorsville. In the last battle 
 he was stunned, captured and incarcerated in Libby Prison for 
 six days, and after a captivity of eleven days was paroled. 
 
 McCLEERY JOHN, Pennsylvania, Class of 1858. Captain, 5th 
 Pennsylvania Reserves, May, 1861; served in West Yirginia, 
 before Washington, in the Peninsula, and at Falmouth, Ya. 
 Participated in the seven days' fight before Richmond ; in 
 the battle of Glendale, in the thickest of the fight he was 
 wounded in the thigh and in the shoulder, -and taken pris- 
 oner ; spent some weeks in hospital, was then transferred to 
 Libby Prison, and finally exchanged in August, 1862. Unable 
 to join the army until October, ill health compelled him to re- 
 sign in December, 1862. He became Lieutenant-Colonel of the 
 28th Provisional Regiment of Pennsylvania, and assisted in 
 repelling the enemy from the Cumberland Yalle}^, when they 
 invaded Pennsylvania. 
 
 McCOY JAMES SHARON, Ohio, Class of 1863. Mate, United 
 States Navy; August 25th, 1864, served on the "tin clad" 
 "Juliet," and on the "iron clad" "Louisville," Mississippi 
 Squadron. Resigned, May, 1865. 
 
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 McDowell a. WILLIAM, M.D., Class of ISST. Surgeon, 6th 
 Veteran Volunteers, Februarj^ 23d, 1865 ; served at Indian- 
 apolis, Harrisburg and Washington. Mustered out, April, 
 1866. 
 
 McGILL GEORGE M., M.D., Class of 1858. Assistant Surgeon, 
 United States Army, April 16th, 1862 ; on duty in hospitals, 
 in the Department of Washington, until March 14th, 1863; 
 with the Army of the Potomac, in its campaigns until January 
 13th, 1865, when assigned to the hospital at Baltimore, Md.; 
 assigned to the Department of the East, July 24th, 1866. 
 Major by brevet, March 13th, 1865; Lieutenant-Colonel, by 
 brevet, September 28th, 1866, for services during the preva- 
 lence of cholera at Hart's Island, N. Y. 
 
 MoGOWAN THEODORE, Class of 1 855. Captain and Assist- 
 ant Adjutant General, United States Volunteers, July 14th, 
 1862, and served in the Peninsula. March 3d, 1863, placed 
 on staff of General Martindale, Military Governor of Washing- 
 ton, and served as Judge Advocate until Eebruarj^, 1864, then 
 as Chief of Staff and Acting Adjutant General until December 
 17th, 1864, when General Augur appointed him Provost Judge 
 of Washington and Assistant Judge Advocate of the Depart- 
 ment. Promoted Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, by brevet, 
 March 13th, 1865. Mustered out, July 1st, 1866. 
 
 *McKEEN HENRY B., Class of 1853. Adjutant, 81st Pennsjd- 
 vania Volunteers, October 2tth, 1861 ; promoted Major for 
 gallantry at Fair Oaks, June 1st, 1862 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, 
 July 1st, and made Colonel, November 24th, 1862 ; wounded 
 in the seven da3^s' fight, at Fredericksburg and at Chancellors- 
 ville; killed at Cold Harbor, June 3d, 1864. (See Memoir.) 
 
 MARCELLUS ALGERNON, New Jersey, Class of 1863. Left 
 College and enlisted in the 59th Regiment, N. Y. Vols. ; with 
 the 2d Corps passed through the campaigns and battles of 
 Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Mine Run. 
 Appointed 2d Lieutenant, U. S. Colored Troops, December 
 29th, 1863, and served in New Orleans and Pensacola. As 
 staff officer served in various capacities, and in April 1865, was 
 
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 promoted Adjutant of the 25th U. S. Colored Troops. Mus- 
 tered out, December 14th, 1865. 
 
 MATHER DE WITT CLINTOX, New York, Class of 1852. 
 N. Y. Tth Regiment under the first call. 
 
 MATHER THOMAS D., New York, Class of 1853. N. Y. 1th 
 Regiment under the first call. 
 
 MEHAFFEY CALYIN D., Pennsylvania, Class of 1853. Second 
 Lieutenant, 1st U. S. Infantry, August 5th, 1861 ; promoted 
 1st Lieutenant, October 24th, 1861; promoted Captain, No- 
 vember 26th, 1864. 
 
 MILLER ELIHU SPENCER, Class of 1836. Commanded a 
 Battery from Philadelphia during the invasion of Penna. 
 
 MILLER JONATHAN DICKINSON, M.D., New Jersey, Class 
 of 1829. Surgeon U. S. N ; appointed December 5th, 1836, 
 promoted April 20th, 184T. Ranks as captain. 
 
 MOFFi\ T EDWARD, New Jersey. Left College and enlisted 
 as a private in the 9th N. J. Yols. Appointed 1st Sergeant, 
 promoted 2d Lieutenant, March 9th, 1862, but declined: again 
 appointed, May 16th, 1862; detached and appointed 2d Lieu- 
 tenant Signal Corps, U. S. A., March 3d, 1863. Brevetted 1st 
 Lieutenant, and then Captain, and mustered out August llth^ 
 1865. Served in the Army of the Potomac, and in the Burn- 
 side Expedition ; participated in the capture of Roanoke Is- 
 land ; was in General Foster's Goldsboro expedition, and took 
 part in its decisive battles ; was in General Hunter's Expedi- 
 tion against Charleston, S. C. He was in more than a dozen 
 battles in North Carolina. Had charge of signal outposts, espe- 
 cially at Bachelor's Creek, N. C, where February 1st, 1864, 500 
 Union Soldiers resisted General Pickett with 1000 men and 
 several batteries of artillery for nine hours, and thus saved 
 Newbern. Lieutenant M. unwittingly rode into a regiment of 
 rebels, but preferring death to the horrors of Andersonville, he 
 turned, and amid a shower of bullets, he escaped. He was offl- 
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 cially thanked for his gallantry in this battle. May 26th, 1864, 
 his signal station was accidentally blown up, and eighty persons 
 killed. September 10th, 1864, he was appointed Acting Chief 
 Signal Officer of North Carolina, and while at Newbern was 
 attacked by the yellow fever. February, 1865, he was stationed 
 as Signal Officer at General Meade's Head Quarters, before 
 Petersburg, Ya. He was actively employed during Lee's attack 
 on Fort Steadman, in the Hatcher Run fight, the capture of 
 Petersburg, in the line of battle, April 6th, and present at the 
 closing fight and at the surrender. 
 
 MOORE DAYID W., Class of 1858. Chaplain, 9nh Penna. 
 Yols., June Tth, 1864. Served with the regiment before Pe- 
 tersburg, Ya., under Generals Meade and Butler. Resigned 
 November 24th, 1864. 
 
 MOORE AMBROSE Y., Class of 1846. Chaplain. 
 
 *NEFP ALDUS J., Pennsylvania, Class of 1850. Captain, 
 3Tth Penna. Reserves. Died August 4th, 1862. 
 
 OAKLEY LEWIS WILLIAM, M.D., New Jersey, Class of 1849. 
 Assistant Surgeon, 2d N. J. Yols., May 2Tth, 1861 ; promoted 
 Surgeon, October 12th, 1861. Brigade Surgeon under Gen- 
 erals Kearney and Taylor ; and Surgeon-in chief of the Brigade 
 under General Torbert, until mustered out, June 24th, 1864. 
 Served with the Armjr of the Potomac. 
 
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 OTIS GEORGE ALEXANDER, M.D., Class of 1849. Surgeon, 
 27th Mass. Yols., September 14th, 1861 ; Assistant Surgeon U. 
 S. Yols., June 30th, 1864, and Surgeon, August 30th, 1864 ; 
 Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet, March 13th, 1865. Assistant 
 Surgeon, U.S.A., February 28th, 1866 ; Captain by brevet, 
 September 28th, 1866 ; Major by brevet, September 28th, 
 1866. Was in Burnside's Expedition to North Carolina, and 
 participated in its engagements. Served in the Departments 
 of the South and of Yirginia for nearly three years. July 1 st, 
 1864, in the Surgeon General's Office on duty in connection 
 with the Surgical Records of the War of the Rebellion, and as 
 Curator of the Army Medical Museum. 
 
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 OVERTON EDWARD, Jr., Class of 1856. Major and Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel, 50th Penna. Yols.; served with the Army of 
 the Potomac ; wounded at Antietam ; mustered out, Septem- 
 ber 30th, 1864. 
 
 PAIGE JAMES ALEXANDER, Class of 1849. Hospital 
 Chaplain, IJ. S. A., St. Louis, Missouri, June 4th, 1862. Hon- 
 orably discharged, December, 1865. 
 
 PENNINGTON SAMUEL HAYES, Jr., Class of 1862. Yol- 
 unteei-ed as private in Second Battalion N. J. Militia, on inva- 
 sion of Pennsylvania ; entered the volunteer service as Second 
 Lieutenant and mustering officer, August 22d, 1863 ; commis- 
 sioned First Lieutenant 35th N. J. Yols., September 15th, 
 1863; Captain, November 15th, 1864: mustered out August 1st, 
 1865. Took part in the expedition from Yicksburg to Meri- 
 dian, Miss., in the campaign against Atlanta, in the pursuit 
 of Hood, and finally in Sherman's March to the Sea, and the 
 closing campaign in the Carolinas. Was frequently detailed 
 for special service as Commandant of Pioneers, Acting Judge 
 Advocate, &c. 
 
 PHELPS CHARLES EDWARD, Maryland, Class of 1852. 
 Officer, Tth Maryland Yolunteers, September, 1862, promoted 
 Colonel; resigned, September 9th, 1864. 
 
 PHILLIPS WILLIAM W. L., M.D., New Jersey, Class of 1848. 
 Surgeon 1st N. J. Cavalry, August 16th, 1861 ; Surgeon of 
 Bayard's Cavalry Brigade, October, 1862, and Division Sur- 
 geon of Bayard's Cavalrj-- Division, November, 1862 ; on staff 
 of General D. M. Gregg, December 13th, 1862. Term of ser- 
 vice expired, September 1st, 1864. 
 
 PIERCE SAMUEL EYERETT, Class of 1850. Chaplain of a 
 New York Regiment, State Militia, under the first call. 
 
 *POLLOCK SAMUEL HEPBURN, Pennsylvania, Class of 
 1859. Adjutant, 131st Penna. Yols., 1862-65. (See Memoir.) 
 
 POTTER ROBERT B., New Jersey. Second Lieutenant, 24th 
 
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 N. J. Vols. ; served with his regiment until its muster out, 
 June 29th, 1863. 
 
 POTTER WILLIAM E., New Jersey, Class of 1863. Left College 
 and enlisted as a private, 12th N. J. Yols., July 28th, 1862 ; 
 commissioned 2d Lieutenant, August 14th, 1862 ; mustered into 
 service for three years, September 4th, 1862. Served in Mary- 
 land and in the Army of the Potomac as Ordinance Oflflcer of 
 the 3d Division, 2d Corps, until October, 1863 Promoted 1st 
 Lieutenant, August 4th, 1863, and appointed Judge Advocate 
 of the Division October 1st, 1863. Promoted Captain Febru- 
 ary 4th, 1864. In the campaign beginning May 4th, 1864, he 
 was wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness, May 6th, 1864. 
 Returned to duty in June, 1864, and was present in all the 
 battles of the campaign. August 1st, 1864, Judge Advocate 
 of 2d Division, 2d Corps, and on the staff of General Gibbon ; 
 January 15th, 1865, Aid-de-Camp to General Gibbon and 
 Judge Advocate of the 24th Corps, Army of the James. Was 
 in all the actions of the final campaign, and present at the 
 surrender, Appomattox C. H., April 9th, 1865. He was one 
 of the six officers detailed to deliver the colors of Lee's Army 
 to the Secretary of War. Brevet Major of Yolunteers, May 
 1st, 1865, and mastered out, June 3d, 1865. 
 
 RAWN CHARLES C, Jr., Pennsylvania, Class of 1861. 2d 
 Lieutenant, 1th IT. S. Infantry, August 5th, 1861 ; promoted 
 1st Lieutenant Jul}^ 9th, 1862; promoted Captain, Tth IT. S. 
 Infantry, November 4th, 1863. 
 
 REEDER FRANK, Pennsylvania. Left College and enlist- 
 ed in the 5th Penna. Yolunteers, August, 1862 ; Adjutant 
 l'74th Penna. Yolunteers, November 19th, 1862; Captain 
 19th Penna. Cavalry, October 19th, 1863, and Lieutenant 
 Colonel of his regiment, January 26th, 1865, which he com- 
 manded during the last year and a half of its service ; mus- 
 tered out, May 18th, and finally discharged, June 4th, 1866. 
 Served under General Corcoran at Black Water Creek and 
 Suff'olk, Ya., was in General Foster's Expedition from Beau- 
 fort, N. C. ; served under Generals Hunter and Gillmore. 
 
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 While in the Cavalry, he took part in several expeditions and 
 raids and battles in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkan- 
 sas and Louisiana, under Generals Smith, Grierson, Sturgis, 
 Slocum, Mower and Canby. He was engaged in thirty skirm- 
 ishes and nearly thirty battles, among which may be mentioned 
 those at Bolivar, Tenn., Black Pdver, Port Gibson and Grand 
 Gulf, Miss., and the battles before Nashville under General 
 Thomas, all in 1864. He was repeatedly wounded, had 
 three horses shot under him at the battles of Nashville, took 
 a stand of colors and Lieutenant Colonel Pennington of 4th 
 Louisiana Yols., in a hand to hand conflict in front of Nash- 
 ville, December ITth, 1864, for which he was mentioned in the 
 official report, and recommended for a brevet and a medal of 
 honor. 
 
 REEDER HOWARD JAMES, Pennsylvania. Left College 
 and entered the U. S. A., October, 1861. Resigned, but re- 
 entered the army in October, 1862. Captain, 153d Pa. Vols.; 
 mustered out, July 25th, 1863. 
 
 RINKER HENRY, New Jersey, Class of 184t. Private in a 
 New York Regiment of Yolunteers. 
 
 ROBESON WILLIAM P., New Jersey. Eirst Lieutenant, 3d 
 N. J. Yols., May 28th, 1861 ; promoted Captain August 13th, 
 1862 ; promoted Major, 3d N. J. Cavalry, December 28th, 1863 ; 
 promoted Lieutenant-Colonel November 23d, 1864 ; mustered 
 out with his regiment, August 1st, 1865. Brevetted Colonel 
 and Brigadiei'-General "for gallant services during the war." 
 
 ROE JOSEPH B., M.D., Pennsylvania, Class of 1858. Assistant 
 Surgeon of Yolunteers, 1862; served until November, 1865, in 
 hospital and other duty. 
 
 SCHANCK PETER Y., M.D. Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A., 
 May 28th, 1861 ; on du.ty at St. Louis from September 30th, 
 1862, until November, 1864 ; in Department of Missouri until 
 May 1st, 1865 ; at Washington until July 15th, 1865 ; in Texas 
 from September 2nh, 1865, until September 2nh, 1866. Re- 
 signed, January 1st, 186T. 
 
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 *SEIIGEA]S[T WILLIAM, Pennsylvania, Class of 1847. Cap- 
 tain, 12th Infantry, V. S. A. ; Colonel, 210th Pa. Vols. Served 
 with the Army of the Potomac. Fatally wounded March 31st, 
 1865, and died April 11th, 1865. (See Memoir.) 
 
 SHELLABARGEE, JOSEPH L., Illinois, Class of 1858. Pri- 
 vate, 116th 111. Yols., August 1862 ; promoted 2d Lieutenant 
 June 1863 ; promoted 1st Lieutenant ; detailed into the signal 
 corps, U. S. A., February, 1864, and served in it to the close 
 of the war. Mustered out, June 29th, 1865. Was in the as- 
 saults upon and the siege of Yicksburg, the capture of Jack- 
 son, Miss. Took part in the several expeditions with the army 
 of the Tennessee, was in Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, his 
 March to the Sea, and thence to Wa-shington. 
 
 SIMONSOI^ GEORGE LE FEYRE, New York, Class of 18 65. 
 While a student he enlisted in a New York Regiment, State 
 Militia, at the time of the invasion of Pennsylvania, and served 
 about three months. 
 
 SIMPSON JOSIAS,M.D., New Jersey, Class of 1833. Assistant 
 Surgeon, U. S. A., July 11th, 183t : served in the Florida War ; 
 in the War with Mexico, at the siege of Yera Cruz, the battles 
 of Cerro Gordo and Churubusco. Promoted Surgeon, August 
 11th, 1855 ; Medical Director, Department of the Pacific, 1858. 
 Medical Director of the Middle Department, Baltimore, Md., 
 from December, 1861, until September 29th, 1866, when as- 
 signed as Medical Director of the department of Tennessee. 
 Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel, March 13th, 1865, 
 " for faithful and meritorious services during the war." 
 
 SMITH JAMES PASCAL, M.D., New York, Class of 1855. 
 Surgeon 69th N. Y. State Militia and Yolunteers. In the three 
 months' service and again, September 20th, 1861, until Janu- 
 ary, 1863. 
 
 SMITH LOUIS HENRY, New Jersey. Second Lieutenant, 
 2d N. J. Cavalry, August 15th, 1863. Was for many months 
 a prisoner in different prisons in the South. 
 
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 *SOUTHARD HENRY LEWIS, New York, Class of 1836. 
 Captain, 1st N. Y. Yol. Engineers. Died June 3d, 1864, from 
 wounds received at Bermuda Hundred. 
 
 STANFIELD E. P., Indiana. Left College and became Adju- 
 tant, 43d Indiana Yols. Served from November 18th, 1861, 
 until December 20th, 1864. 
 
 STEWART CHARLES S., New Jersey, Class of 1820. Chap- 
 lain, November 1st, 1828. 
 
 STEWART JOHN, Pennsylvania, Class of 185Y. First Lieu- 
 tenant, 126th Penna. Yols., August 6th, 1862; appointed Ad- 
 jutant, August 12th, 1862; Assistant Commissary of Musters, 
 3d Division, 5th Corps, January, 1863; honorably discharged, 
 July 30th, 1863. Participated in battles of Fredericksburg, 
 December, 1862, and Chancellorsville, May, 1863. 
 
 STOCKTON SAMUEL W., New Jersey. Second Lieutenant, 
 4th TJ. S. Cavalry, May 4th, 1861 ; promoted First Lieutenant 
 May 24th, 1861, and Captain March 14th, 1865. Appointed 
 Captain of Yolunteers, and Aid-de-Camp on staff of General 
 D. Hunter. Brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel March 13th, 1865. 
 Resiglied. 
 
 STRATTON MORRIS HANCOCK, New Jersey, Class of 1858. 
 Captain, 2d N. J. Cavalry, August 28th, 1863 ; resigned, August 
 23d, 1864. 
 
 *STRONa RICHARD MARYIN, New York, Class of 1854. 
 First Lieutenant and Adjutant, lYtth N. Y. Yols., Novem. 
 ber, 1862. Served in the South-West, and died at Assump- 
 tion, La., May 12th, 1863. (See Memoir.) 
 
 STRYKER WILLIAM SCUDDER, New Jersey, Class of 1858., 
 Private in New Jersey troops, three months' service. Officer 
 in organizing 14th N. J. Yols., July 11th, 1862. Paymaster 
 U. S. A., February 19th, 1863, and ordered to Hilton Head. 
 Major and Aid-de-Camp to General Gillmore. Participated in 
 
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 capture of Morris Island, night attack on Fort Wagner, and 
 bombardment of Forts Wagner and Sumter. Transferred 
 North to save life, and placed in charge of Pay Department at 
 Parole Camp, Columbus, Ohio. Brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel 
 " for meritorious services during the war." Resigned, June 30th, 
 1866. He was appointed Adjutant General of New Jersey, April 
 12th, 186t. 
 
 *STUDDIFORD JOSIAS SIMPSON, New Jersey, Class of 1858. 
 Adjutant, 4th N. J. Yols., August 17th, 1851. Served with the 
 Army of the Potomac. He was taken prisoner at the battle 
 of Gaines' Mill, June 2tth, 1862, and subsequently exchanged. 
 Killed at Crampton Pass, Md., September 14th, 1862. (See 
 Memoir.) 
 
 TAYLOR JOHN WINTHROP, M. D., New Jersey, Class of 
 1835. Surgeon, U. S. N.; appointed March tth, 1838 ; promoted 
 May 1st, 1852. Ranks as Commander. 
 
 TAYLOR S. B., New Jersey. Left College and enlisted in the 
 19Tth Penna. Yols., stationed at Rock Island, 111. 
 
 THOMSON McLEOD, Pennsylvania. Left College and en- 
 tered the Anderson Cavalry, September 12th, 1862. Served in 
 the West. 
 
 *TOLLES CORNELIUS W., New Jersey, Class of 1848. As- 
 sistant Adjutant General of the New Jersey Brigade, three 
 months' troops, July 8d, 1861 ; appointed First Lieutenant, 
 13th TJ. S. Infantry, dating from May 14th, 1861; promoted 
 Captain; appointed Lieutenant Colonel and Quartermaster, by 
 
 . act of July 17th, 1862. Died of wound received in action at 
 Winchester, Ya., November 8th, 1864. (See Memoir.) 
 
 TOWNLEY JONATHAN, New Jersey, Class of 1858. Second 
 Lieutenant, 9th New Jersey Yolunteers, November 13th, 1861. 
 Was in the "Burnside Expedition;" took part in the capture 
 of Roanoke Island, and was wounded at Newbern, N. C, May 
 14th, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant, May 16th, 1862, and 
 
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 Captain, March 11th, 1864. Wounded at Drury's Bluff, Va., 
 May 16th, 1864, and mustered out, February 4th, 1865. 
 
 VAN CLEYE HORATIO P., Miunesota. Colonel of the 2d 
 Minn. Yols., July 22d, 1861 ; with General Thomas in his 
 Kentucky campaign of 1861-62, and took part in the battle of 
 Mill Spring, for which he was promoted Brigadier-General. 
 Was at the siege of Corinth ; commanded a division under Gen- 
 eral Buel and General Rosecrans, and was wounded in the battle 
 of Stone River, December 31st, 1862. Besides minor engage- 
 ments he was in the battle of Chickamauga. Mustered out of 
 service, August, 1865. 
 
 • VAN DUYN JOHN, New Jersey, Class of 1862. Hospital at- 
 tendant, August, 1862, David's Island, N. Y.; Medical Cadet, 
 February 2d, 1864, Louisville, Ky.; A. A. Surgeon, U. S. Army, 
 March, 1864 ; Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Yolunteers, May 15th, 
 
 1864, and served at Pittsburgh and Chambersburg, Pa. Mus- 
 tered out, November 1st, 1865. Brevet Captain, October 1st, 
 
 1865, " for faithful and meritorious service." 
 
 YAN DIJYN STEPHEN WYNKOOP, New Jersey, Class of 
 ISSt. Acting Medical Cadet, U. S. Army, September, 1862 ; 
 in 1863, A. A. Surgeon, U. S, Army; on service at the XJ. S. 
 General Hospital, David's Island ; March, 1865, Assistant Sur- 
 geon, 1st New Jersey Cavalry, and served in Yirginia. Mus- 
 tered out, August, 1865. 
 
 YAN DUYN WILLIAM. Hospital Attendant, August, 1862; 
 Medical Cadet, U. S. Army, February 2d, 1864 ; Assistant Sur- 
 geon, TJ. S. Yolunteers, May 15th, 1864. Besides other service, 
 had charge of hospitals at Pittsburgh, Pa., and Chambersburg, 
 Pa. Brevetted Captain, U. S. Yolunteers, October 1st, 1865, 
 " for faithful and meritorious service." Mustered out Novem- 
 ber 1st, 1865. 
 
 YAN DYKE HENRY L. R., New Jersey, Class of 1858. 
 Served three months in the 22d N. Y. State Militia, under the 
 first call. 
 
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 VAN RENSSELAER CORTLANDT, Jr., New Jersey, Class 
 of 1858. First Lieutenant, 13th IJ. S. Infantry, May 14th, 
 1861; promoted Captain, June 18th, 1862, on the staff of 
 General Sherman, and died at Nash>'ille, Tenn., October Tth, 
 
 1864. (See Memoir.) 
 
 VAN RENSSELAER PHILIP LIVINGSTON, New Jersey, 
 Class of 1860. Second Lieutenant, 2d N. J. Cavalry, July 8th, 
 1863 ; promoted Captain, September 8th, 1863, and Major, Octo- 
 ber 8th, 1864. Was in several expeditions nnder General A. J. 
 Smith and General Grierson, and in the siege of Mobile. Was 
 on General Canby's staff for a time. Resigned, June 28th, 
 1865. 
 
 WALL EDWARD BARRY, New York, Class of 1848. Chap- 
 lain, 3d N. Y. Cavalry, June 8th, 1863, and served in the Army 
 of the James and the Army of the Potomac. Honorably dis- 
 charged, October 12th, 1864. 
 
 WARREN LUCIUS HENRY, Massachusetts, Class of 1860. 
 Private, 32d Massachusetts Volunteers, Julj^ 24th, 1862 ; pro- 
 moted Second Lieutenant, July 31st, 1862 ; promoted First 
 Lieutenant for gallantry at Fredericksburg, Va.; appointed 
 Major, 38th U. S. Colored Infantry, March 24th, 1864. While 
 in the 3 2d Massachusetts he took part in thirteen battles, 
 among which were. Second Bull Run, Chantilly, Antietam, 
 Fredericksburg, Chancellor sville and Gettysburg. Wounded at 
 Chancellorsville, and three-fourths of his company were killed 
 and wounded at Gettysburg. He was Judge Advocate of 1st Di- 
 vision, 5th Corps. Commanded the 38th U. S. C. I. before Peters- 
 burg and Richmond, and was in numerous engagements. It 
 was in the mine explosion, and at New Market Heights more 
 than one-half of the officers and men were killed and wounded. 
 In June, 1865, the regiment was ordered to Texas, and he was 
 promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, and then Colonel, March 13th, 
 
 1865. Commanded a brigade, brevetted Brigadier-General, 
 December, 1866, and was mustered out in the Spring of 1867- 
 
 WEYER EDWARD PAYSON, Indiana, Class of 1858. First 
 
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 Sergeant, 6ltli Indiana Volunteers, August, 1861; engaged in 
 the Western and Southern campaigns ; promoted Captain ; 
 was in the second attack on Yicksburg ; in the battle of Ar- 
 kansas Post, &c. Mustered out, July, 1865. 
 
 WILLING EDWARD LIYmOSTON, M.D., New Jersey, 
 Class of 1851. Assistant Surgeon, 3d New Jersey Volunteers, 
 June 25th, 1861 ; promoted Surgeon, 11th N. J. Volunteers, 
 July 19th, 1862 ; January, 1863, appointed Surgeon in charge 
 of the Division Hospital, 2d Division, 3d Corps, near Frede- 
 ricksburg, Va.; Medical Director of all the hospitals in the 3d 
 Corps, April 1st, 1863 ; January, 1864, Surgeon in charge of 
 the 2d Division, 3d Corps ; had charge of the " Division Fly- 
 ing Hospital," in Grant's march, and during the Summer of 
 1864, &c ; again had charge of the Division Hospital, 3d Di- 
 vision, 2d Corps, and was Surgeon-in-Chief of the 3d Brigade. 
 Mustered out, July, 1865. He was with the Army of the Poto- 
 mac from the first battle of Bull Run to the surrender of Lee 
 at Appomattox Court House. Besides other engagements, he 
 participated in the seven days' battles ; in that of Fredericks- 
 burg, December, 1862; in that of Gettysburg, and in all the 
 battles of Grant's campaign, from the Rapidan to the James, 
 and to Petersburg. 
 
 * WILLIAMS J. M., New Jersey, left College and entered the An- 
 derson Cavalry, September 12th, 1862; Lieutenant and Ad- 
 jutant, 11th Kentucky Volunteers. Served in the West, and 
 died August 9th, 1863. (See Memoir.) 
 
 WILLIAMS LEWIS J., M.D., Maryland, Class of 1838. Sur- 
 geon, U. S. Navy; appointed January 25th, 1842; promoted 
 September 11th, 1856 ; rank of Commander. 
 
 WINEBRENER JOHN A., Pennsylvania, Class of 1861. Second 
 Lieutenant, 3d IF. S. Infantry, 14th November, 1863 ; trans- 
 ferred as Second Lieutenant, Ordnance Department, same 
 date; First Lieutenant, Ordnance, December 1st, 1865. 
 
 WOOD FRANCIS G., New York, Class of 1858. Secretary to 
 
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 Com. Wm. Mervine, May, 1861 ; in the Gulf Blockading 
 Squadron, until October, 1861. 
 
 WOOD WILLIAM JACKSON, New Jersey, Class of 1856. 
 Major of Cavalry and Paymaster TJ. S. A., February 25tli, 
 1862 ; on the staff successively of Generals Hunter, Foster, 
 Gillmore and Hatch in the Department of the South ; volunteer 
 aid to General Gillmore during the siege and capture of Morris 
 Island. Kesigned and honorably discharged, August 12th, 
 1864. 
 
 WOODHIJLL ADDISON WADDELL,M.D., New Jersey, Class 
 of 1854. Assistant Surgeon, 5th N. J. Yolunteers, August 23d, 
 1861 ; promoted Surgeon, 9th N. J. Yolunteers, February 6th, 
 1862 ; mustered out February Tth, 1865. Served in the Army 
 of the Potomac, and in North Carolina and South Carolina, in 
 the hospital, and in Newbern and Beaufort, and as Surgeon 
 of General Hickman's Star Brigade, both in Yirginia and the 
 Carolinas. In one engagement he had his horse shot under 
 him, and was wounded. 
 
 WOODHIJLL ALFRED ALEXANDER, M.D., New Jersey, 
 
 Class of 1856. Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army, September 19th, 
 1861 ; served in Washington, and in the field, with the Army 
 of the Potomac, until November, 1862; in the office of the 
 Medical Director of Middle Department, from December, 1862, 
 to October, 1863 ; Medical Department of Yirginia and North 
 Carolina, from November, 1863, to May, 1864; with the Army 
 of the James until Maj^, 1865 ; preparing catalogue of the Army 
 Medical Museum, since June, 1865; Captain by brevet, and 
 Major by brevet, June 15th, 1865, to date from March 13th, 
 1865, " for faithful and meritorious service during the war." 
 Participated in the siege of Yorktown, the battles of Gaines' 
 Mills, Malvern Hill, second Bull Run, Antietam and others; 
 present at Petersburg, April 2d, and Appomattox C. H., April 
 9th, 1865. Lieutenant-Colonel hy brevet. 
 
 WOODRUFF ISRAEL C, New Jersey. Graduate of West 
 Point. Brevet 2d Lieutenant, 3d Artillery, U. S. A., July 1st, 
 
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 1836 ; 1st Lieutenant U. S. Corps of Engineers ; promoted Cap- 
 tain ; promoted Major August 6th, 1861; promoted Lieuten- 
 ant-Colonel August 15th, 1864. Brevetted Colonel and Briga- 
 dier-General " for meritorious services during the war," March 
 • 13th, 1865. Assistant Professor at West Point, 1836-38 ; in 
 Lake Surveys, 1838-1846 ; on Light House Board, 1846-48 ; on 
 the Plains and constructing military roads, 1848-53; engineer 
 of Light Houses on the Lakes, 1853-5t ; since 1857 in Engineer 
 Bureau at Washington, where he is now the senior assistant. 
 
 *WOOLSEY HENRY HABRISOISr, New Jersey, Class of 
 1856. Lieutenant 5th N.J. Vols., 1861 ; Captain, May, 1862 ; 
 served chiefly in the Army of the Potomac ; killed before Peters- 
 burg, Ya., June 18th, 1864. (See Memoir.) 
 
 WURTS WILLIAM W., New Jersey. First Lieutenant, 1st 
 N. J. Cavahy, April 20th, 1862 ; resigned May 28th, 1863. 
 Afterwards Captain in a Cavalry Regiment, Pennsylvania State 
 Militia. 
 
 YOTJNGr JOHN P., Pennsylvania. Lieutenant and Adjutant, 
 lUh Penna. Yols., March 31st, 1862 ; served in the Army of 
 the Potomac; resigned March 14th, 1865. 
 
 *ZABRISKIE ABRAM, New Jersey, Class of 1859. Adjutant, 
 9th N. J. Yols., October 18th, 1861; promoted Major, February 
 10th, 1862; Lieutenant-Colonel, December 22d, 1862; promoted 
 Colonel, January 8th, 1863. Wounded at Drury's Bluff, Ya., 
 May 16th, 1864. Died May 24th, 1864. Brevet Brigadier- 
 General, U. S. Yols. (See Memoir.) 
 
 ZAPH C. H. A., New Jersey, Class of 1864. Private, 4th N. J. 
 Yeteran Yols., 6th Army Corps, December 12th, 1864, and. 
 served as Captain's Clerk. Took part in the battle of Peters- 
 burg, April 2d, 1865 ; discharged July 9th, 1865. 
 
[The editor of the Roll of Honor has endeavored 
 to make it a complete and faithful record of the 
 fad:s respecting the Sons of Nassau Hall, who 
 were engaged in the War for the Union. Many 
 omissions and errors will, doubtless, be found. 
 They are unintentional, and the editor will grate- 
 fully receive all additions and corrections. He re- 
 turns his sincere thanks to all who have assisted him 
 in the work, and commits it to all those who love 
 our common Union, and who, like Washington, 
 consider it "the palladium of our political safety 
 and prosperity." 
 
 Nassau Hall, June 17th, 1867.] 
 
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