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war; on staff of General Washington; died June 10, 1816, aged sixty-one.

Brevet Brigadier General John Crane of Braintree or Boston died, aged sixty-one, in Whiting, Me., August 21, 1805. He was colonel of the Third Continental Artillery; also colonel of the corps of artillery; had continuous artillery service from May 3, 1775, to November 3, 1783.

Henry Jackson of Boston was colonel of one of the sixteen additional Continental regiments, January 12, 1778, designated July 23, 1780, the Sixteenth Massachusetts Infantry; transferred to Ninth Massachusetts Infantry as colonel; transferred to Fourth Massachusetts Infantry January 1, 1783; was retained as the colonel of the last Continental regiment kept in service; the "First American Regiment." He died at Dorchester January 4, 1809, age sixtyColonel Edward Wigglesworth of Newburyport, born in Ipswich, colonel of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry from January 1, 1777, until his resignation March 10, 1779, died at the age of sixty-four. At Haverhill, August 4, 1746, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Cogswell, Fifteenth Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, was born. He died at Gilmanton, N. H., September 3, 1810, aged sixty-four.

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Brigadier General John Paterson came into the world at Farmington, Conn., in 1744. He died July 19, 1808, at Lisle, Conn., age sixty-four, a brevet major general. His service with Massachusetts troops began in April, 1775. He personally served with Massachusetts troops until the close of the war.

The Marblehead soldier, John Glover, began as colonel of a Massachusetts regiment May 19, 1775. He retired July 22, 1782, and died January 30, 1797.

Ezra Newhall of the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry, also lieutenant colonel of the Fourth under Henry Jackson, died at sixty-five.

Minterburn, Tyrone County, Ireland, was the birthplace of Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Maxwell. Charlemont, Franklin County, was his adopted home. He died voyaging from the West Indies,

October 14, 1799, aged sixty-six, after service in five campaigns in the Revolutionary War in Michael Jackson's Eighth Massachusetts Infantry, transferring to the Third Foot. He was at Valley Forge, and was of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. Michael Jackson of Newton survived his wounds until he attained the age of sixty-seven. He had five brothers and five sons in the army of the Massachusetts contingent to the Continental combatant forces. He was wounded in many fights; was colonel of the Eighth; also of the Third Regiment; was brevetted brigadier general; belonged to the Cincinnati.

Gamaliel Bradford, colonel of the Fourteenth Massachusetts Infantry, lived to be sixty-seven years old. Caleb Gibbs died at the Charlestown Navy Yard, November 6, 1818, aged sixty-eight. He was captain and commander of the infantry company of Washington's Guards from March 12, 1776, with rank of major after July 29, 1778, until transferred to the Second Massachusetts Infantry on January 1, 1781. Was retained in Colonel Henry Jackson's Continental Regiment in November, 1783, and served to June 20, 1784.

Colonel James Wesson of Brookline was colonel of the Ninth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment from November 1, 1776, to January 1, 1781. He survived his Monmouth wounds until the age of seventy-two. The unfortunate lieutenant colonel of Michael Jackson's regiment and John Greaton's Third Massachusetts Infantry of Massachusetts, William Hull of Newton, later retained in Colonel Henry Jackson's Continental Infantry-brigadier general, United States Army-lived until the age of seventy-two.

Brigadier General John Brooks, M.D., LL.D., of Medford, was seventy-three when he died. He served under Colonel Michael Jackson of the "Bloody Eighth" Massachusetts Infantry; and was lieutenant colonel commandant of the Seventh Massachusetts Infantry. He was governor of Massachusetts from 1816 to 1823.

Brigadier General Ebenezer Learned of Oxford, or Framingham, a brigade commander, was seventy-three when he died.

David Henley of Charlestown was colonel of one of the additional Continental regiments. His command was consolidated with Colonel Henry Jackson's Massachusetts Infantry, April 22, 1779. He was seventy-five at the time of his death.

Joseph Vose of Milton was colonel of the First Massachusetts Infantry from January 1, 1777, to November, 1783. He lived to be seventy-six years old.

John Bailey of Hanover, colonel of the Second Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, November 1, 1776, to his voluntary retirement, October 21, 1780, was eighty years old when he died.

Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Peters of Mendon, or Medfield, of Colonel Timothy Bigelow's Fifteenth Massachusetts Infantry, attained the age of eighty.

William Shepard of Westfield was colonel of the Third Continental Infantry. He was colonel of the Fourth Massachusetts Infantry for five years, dating from January 1, 1777. Died when eighty years old.

Barachiah Bassett of Plymouth, lieutenant colonel of Gamaliel Bradford's Fourteenth Massachusetts Infantry, served at Valley Forge, and died at eighty-one.

Colonel Thomas Marshall of Boston commanded his regiment, the Tenth Massachusetts, from November 6, 1776, to January 1, 1781. He lived to be eighty-two.

David Cobb, M.D., of Attleborough, or Taunton, or Boston, was the lieutenant colonel of H. Jackson's additional Continental Massachusetts Infantry Regiment; also of Colonel Henry Jackson's Ninth Massachusetts Infantry; aide-de-camp to General Washington; lieutenant colonel commandant of the Fifth Massachusetts in succession to Rufus Putnam; brevet brigadier general, and lived to be eighty-two years old.

Timothy Pickering of Salem was colonel and adjutant general to General Washington from June 18, 1777, to January 13, 1778, when elected member of the Board of War, November 7, 1777; colonel and quartermaster general, Continental Army, August 5, 1780, to July 25, 1795; Secretary of War, January 2 to Decem

ber 10, 1795, in succession to Henry Knox. Died January 29, 1829, aged eighty-four.

John Popkin of Boston, lieutenant colonel of Colonel John Crane's Third Continental Artillery, lived to be eighty-four.

Rufus Putnam of Sutton was colonel engineer; colonel of Fifth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, November 1, 1776, to January 7, 1783, when promoted brigadier general and served to close of war. He died at Marietta, Ohio, age eighty-six.

John Nixon of Framingham was born March 11, 1727, died Middlebury, Vt., March 24, 1815, in his eighty-eighth year. He was a soldier in 1745 at the capture of Louisburg. He resigned, a brigadier general, September 12, 1780, suffering from wounds received at Bunker Hill and Stillwater.

PHILIP READE.

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A LINCOLN LETTER ON THE WAR

N an old trunk which had lain in the cellar of an old New York

house for nearly fifty years, the owner recently found an interesting war letter of Abraham Lincoln, written to Hon. George Opdyke, mayor of New York in 1863. The letter is one of the best that has come into market in some time and its unpublished contents are of interest at the present time, particularly the last paragraph. It reads:

Dear Sir:

Executive Mansion, Washington, Dec. 2nd, 1863.

Yours of the 28th ult.. inviting me to be present at a meeting to be held at the Cooper Institute on the 3rd inst., to promote the raising of volunteers, is received. Nothing would be more grateful to my feelings or in better accord with my judgment than to contribute if I could by my presence or otherwise to that eminently patriotic object. Nevertheless the now early meeting of Congress, together with a temporary illness, renders my attendance impossible.

You propose also to celebrate our Western Victories, freed from apprehension of wounding the just sensibility of brave soldiers fighting elsewhere. It would be exceedingly agreeable to me to join in a suitable acknowledgment to those of the Great West, with whom I was born and have passed my life, and it is exceedingly gratifying that a portion lately of the Army of the Potomac, but now serving with the great Army of the West, have borne so conspicuous a part in the late brilliant triumphs of Georgia.

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely hears his country's cause. Honor also to the citizen who cares for his brethren in the field, and in service, as best he can, the same cause. Honor to him-only less than to him who braves for the common good the storms of heaven and the storms of battle.

Your obt. servt.,

A. LINCOLN.

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