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Sergeant, and was retained at this post during the whole time of his enlistment.

He then went into the business of steamboating between Cincinnati, St. Louis and New Orleans, until the war began in 1861, when he entered the service as Colonel of the Sth Minnesota Infantry Volunteers, July 4th, 1861, and was appointed BrigadierGeneral of Volunteers, July 16th, 1862.

Commanded his regiment in an expedition against guerrillas and bushwhackers along the line of the North Missouri railroad in July, 1861. Subsequently proceeded to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and thence to Paducah, Kentucky, taking part in the advance of General Grant's army to Fort Henry, and thence to Fort Donelson, where, on the 15th of February, 1862, in command of the 5th Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee, he successfully stormed a strong position held by the enemy. Following the capture of Fort Donelson, he returned with his command to Fort Heiman, and soon after advanced up the Tennessee river, in conjunction with General Lew Wallace's division, to Crump's Landing, proceeding thence on the 6th of April, 1862, in command of the 1st Brigade, to the field of Shiloh, where he was engaged in the battle of the 7th. He next took part, as commander of the 1st Brigade of General Sherman's 5th Division in the siege of Corinth, being particularly engaged in the action at Russell's House on the 17th of May, 1862. Soon after the evacuation of Corinth, he accompanied General Sherman's command to Moscow, Tennessee, commanding subsequently an expedition to Holly Springs, Mississippi, and finally reached Memphis, Tennessee, July 21st, 1862. Here he remained, making occasional expeditions, reconnoissances, etc., into Northern Mississippi, until November 25th, 1862, when, as commander of the 2nd Division of General Sherman's army, he participated in the expedition to Oxford, Mississippi, and returning to Memphis, December 16th, 1862, proceeded thence with the expedition under General Sherman to Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he received a gun-shot wound in the left side, during a reconnoissance of the enemy's position, on the 28th of December, 1862. In consequence of this wound he was off duty until October 6th, 1863, when he assumed command of the 2nd Division, 15th Army Corps, while enroute from Vicksburg to Chattanooga, and held it until August 17th,

1864, being engaged at the battle of Missionary Ridge, the movement for the relief of Knoxville, and the Atlanta campaign, at the close of which he obtained a short leave of absence, returning September 27th; last he was placed in command of the post and district of Vicksburg where he remained until the close of the war, resigning July 12th, 1865, since which date he has made his home in Washington City, from which place he was temporarily absent on business at the time of his death.

Colonel JOSIAH T. HERBERT died suddenly in St. Louis, Missouri, March 30th, 1875.

He was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, July 14th, 1838, and moved to Iowa in 1856, where, upon the commencement of hostilities, he assisted in recruiting the 16th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and with it entered the field as Sergeant-Major, from which position he was soon promoted to Adjutant, and thence through the various grades to be its Lieutenant-Colonel and its last commanding officer. The details of his history need not be given, for it was the history of his regiment, and its history the history of the Army of the Tennessee. From Shiloh to Bentonville he shared in all the battles and campaigns of that army, maintaining at all times the reputation of a most gallant and efficient officer, who arose to a prominent position through sheer force of doing his duty courageously and well on the battle-field, on the march and in camp. There never was a man who took less counsel of his fears, if he was accessible to such a feeling, which Turenne declared to be a part of human nature, he never allowed it to perceptibly sway his conduct, and over and over again he distinguished himself by assuming and performing tasks from which others would have shrank.

He was married to a most estimable young lady, Miss R. L. Bunta, at Troy, Ohio, December 3rd, 1865, after which he moved to East Liverpool, Ohio, and engaged in the oil and afterwards in the queensware business. He had, while in the army, contracted typhoid pneumonia, the results of which finally caused his death, leaving a wife and family of small children to mourn his loss.

He was a devoted and enthusiastic member of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, having enrolled himself as a member at the time of its organization in Raleigh, North Carolina, and never missed a subsequent meeting. There are few, very few,

members who will be more missed at our annual gatherings than poor Herbert, where his happy smile and kindly greeting cheered the hearts of all with whom he came in contact.

We know the journey is not far

Across death's mystic river;

And when we meet beyond its shores,
We part no more forever.

Captain JAMES BRYANT WALKER, Assistant Adjutant-General, was born in Cincinnati, January 5th, 1841. He graduated at Harvard College in 1860, and at once entered the law school at Cambridge. The war breaking out, he returned to Cincinnati in the Summer of 1861, without completing his course. Failing to get a commission, he entered the 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in October, 1861, as a private soldier.

He was promoted successively Corporal, Sergeant and First Sergeant of his company. On March 31st, 1862, he was appointed Sergeant-Major of the regiment; then Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant of his company and Adjutant of his regiment. During the siege of Vicksburg he was appointed Adjutant of the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Corps, and soon after the surrender of the city was appointed, by the President, Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

He was engaged at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, siege of Corinth, Bolivar, Pocahontas, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill, siege of Vicksburg, the Meridian raid and in the march of the 17th Corps to Atlanta, up to July 22nd, 1864, when his thigh was shattered by a Minnie ball. He was confined to his bed for a year. The wound always remained open, and frequent abscesses continually undermining his constitution, finally ended his life December 30th, 1874.

During the ten years of suffering he was admitted to the bar, served as Assistant City Solicitor of Cincinnati two years, City Solicitor two years, Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, by appointment to fill a vacancy, five months; was professor in the Cincinnati Law School, and edited several law books.

He married Fannie H. Tyng, of New York, September 19th, 1866, and left surviving, her and three children.

His death was felt to be a public loss, and was lamented in a manner seldom seen except upon the death of one who has spent a long life of public usefulness.

Brevet Brigadier-General CHARLES G. EATON died at Clyde, Ohio, October 13th, 1875.

General Eaton was born at Lowell, Massachusetts, September 27th, 1825. Commenced practice as a physician at Savannah, Athens County, Ohio, in 1848; was married at Wheeling, Virginia, to Miss Mary H, Conant, May 15th, 1849, and moved to Clyde, Ohio, March 23rd, 1853, where he entered upon the practice of his profession.

Upon the breaking out of the war he took an active interest in recruiting troops for the 72nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which regiment he was commissioned Captain of Company A.

They were soon ordered up the Tennessee river; at Shiloh Captain Eaton was quite sick with congestive chills, and in consequence was unable to participate actively in this engagement, in which the Lieutenant-Colonel was killed and the Major captured, by which the command devolved upon Captain Eaton until the regiment reached Camp No. 6, in front of Corinth, when Colonel Buckland, who had previously been commanding the brigade, re-assumed command of the regiment.

July 23rd, 1862, Captain Eaton was promoted to Major, and in November, 1862, Colonel Buckland being again called to the command of a brigade, Major Eaton commanded the regiment on Grant's Mississippi campaign, and several other independent expeditions, until the return of Lieutenant-Colonel Crochtel, in January, 1863. Passing with credit through the Vicksburg campaign he was soon thereafter promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and in consequence of the absence of the Colonel commanded the regiment until it was mustered out, September 11th, 1865.

Colonel Eaton commanded his regiment on McPherson's expedition to Canton, Mississippi, and in Sturgis' fight with Forrest, near Tupello, Mississippi, where his bravery and devotion saved many of his men from capture. In General A. J. Smith's fight with Forrest; on General Mower's raid through Arkansas into Missouri after the rebel General Price; at the battle of Nashville, December, 1864, where he and his regiment won distinguished honor; in the attacks upon the forts about Mobile in the Spring of 1865, he bore himself like a true soldier; after which he marched with his command via Montgomery and Selma to Vicksburg, Mississippi, where the regiment was mustered out.

He came out of the service without a blemish on his military

record, and after the close of the war was brevetted BrigadierGeneral for his gallant and meritorious services.

Colonel JAMES C. McCoy, Aide-de-Camp to General W. T. Sherman, born January 8th, 1828; died May 29th, 1875.

Colonel McCoy was born near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, January 8th, 1828. His parents-Alexander and Jane McCoywere of Scotch descent. The mother died at James' birth.

At the age of eleven years James was removed to Columbus, Ohio, and was adopted by his uncle, Robert W. McCoy, one of the pioneers of that State, who brought him up to the business of a merchant, in which he himself was so successfully engaged.

In March, 1850, James acquired an interest in the business, which was carried on in the name of W. A. & J. C. McCoy & Co., which continued after the death of the uncle, and until 1857, when the business closed, and James moved, first to Springfield, Ohio, and then to Cincinnati, where he was employed in the store of the Messrs. Shillito, at the outbreak of the war.

Even when a boy he manifested a taste for military life, joined a company of "Fencibles" in Columbus, of which he was Lieutenant, and was one of the Guard of Honor over the remains of the celebrated Dr. Kane, at the capitol in Columbus, when they were en route from New Orleans to their final resting-place at Philadelphia.

On the breaking out of the civil war he promptly volunteered, and joined a company in Cincinnati, which afterward formed. part of the 54th Ohio (Zouaves), and on the consolidation of the several companies into a regiment he was chosen as Adjutant by his Colonel, Thomas Kilby Smith.

This regiment with others from the State of Ohio, first rendezvoused at Paducah, Kentucky, and on being brigaded fell to the 2nd Brigade of the Division, afterward commanded by General W. T. Sherman.

General Sherman, on making up his staff, was attracted by the soldierly bearing and intelligence of Adjutant McCoy, and selected him as one of his Aides-de-Camp, in which capacity he remained up to the day of his death, May 29th, 1875.

He followed his leader in all the campaigns and battles of the war, and was always present, ready and willing for duty.

At Shiloh he was specially named for gallantry as also at Vicksburg, Chattanooga and Atlanta.

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