ERRATA

66

TO MAJOR JAMES' PAPER ON THE BORROWED" TROOPS.

P. 181-16th line, read "there" for "then."

P. 183-28th line, read "division" for "divisions."

P. 183-35th line, read Cotile for Cotele.

P. 183-37th line, read Natchitoches for Natchitoche,
P. 183-40th line, read Loggy for Soggy.

P. 185-18th line, read "his" for "its."

P. 185-25th line, read Cloutierville for Clontinville.
P. 186-31st line, read 1757 for 175.

P. 186—34th line, read 849 for 840.

P. 190-Reference note at foot page, read 256 for 206.

P. 192-Foot note No. 2, read p. 370 for 378.

P. 193-9th line, read "bridges" for "bridge."

P. 196-18th line, read "when" for "where."

P. 197-1st line, read Wolfe's for Wolf's.

P. 197-3rd line, read "pressed" for "pursued."

P. 197-30th line, add after “36 guns," 5,123 prisoners, with three general officers.

Biographical Sketches

of

Our Dead.

1895-6. ·

Major William H. Calkins died at Tacoma, Washington, January 29th, 1894.

Major Calkins was born in Pike county, Ohio, February 18th, 1842, but with his family removed to Indiana in 1853. At the outbreak of the rebellion he enlisted in a company in Benton county being raised by Captain Templeton, but the organization of which was never completed. In August, 1861, he went to Jones county, Iowa, and assisted in raising a company which was engaged at Fort Henry, Donelson, and Shiloh, where he was taken prisoner, and thus remained at several places in the South for a period of seven months, and upon his release was temporarily attached to the 128th Indiana infantry.

In February, 1864, he was commissioned as Major of the 12th Indiana cavalry, and so remained until mustered out at the close of the war, when he became a student of law and was two years later elected prosecuting attorney of his district, and a few years later served a term in the state legislature, and in 1874 was elected to Congress for three successive terms, and, ten years later was nominated by the Republican party as Governor, but was defeated by Isaac P. Gray. He then resumed the practice of his profession at Indianapolis.

In 1889 he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington, and so served until the territory was admitted to statehood.

He was the Tacoma candidate for U. S. Senator in 1891, but was defeated by Watson C. Squire, which appeared to have such a depressing effect that his health began to fail and his capacity for active work decreased until the end came.

Major Calkins had a wonderful faculty for making and holding friends. The grief at his death was not confined to his family and relatives, but was shared by strong men who wept as they looked upon his face for the last time.

Lieutenant Isaiah C. Worley died at Lewistown, Illinois, September 29th, 1895.

Lieutenant Worley was born near Carlisle, Pa., October 27th, 1834, of Daniel and Mary Worley, who, while Isaiah was yet an infant, moved to Ohio and settled in Richland county, where both parents died when he was only about seven years of age. He, when but fifteen years of age, went to Lewistown and began life's business struggle. In 1854 he was appointed to a clerkship in the Circuit Court, where he remained until he entered the army in 1862 as Second Lieutenant Co. A, 103d Illinois infantry, with which he served in the Vicksburg and Jackson campaigns, being in the meantime promoted to First Lieutenant, and in 1864 detached and ordered

to duty with the Signal Corps under Captain Howard, with whom he served through the Atlanta campaign and March to the Sea, when failing health necessitated his resignation.

Returning to Lewistown he was appointed Deputy Clerk, and in 1873 was elected County Clerk, which position he retained until appointed Master in Chancery of Fulton county, in 1883, which office he was filling at the time of his death.

He was first married in 1862 to Miss Amanda L. Clark, who died in 1885. He was again married in 1890 to Miss Alice E. Dykes, who together with two children are left to mourn his death.

He was a brave and capable officer and an honorable citizen, who won and retained the confidence and respect of all who knew him.

Surgeon William H. Gibbon died at Chariton, Iowa, October 2d, 1895.

Dr. Gibbon was born at Ellicott's Mills, Md., January 31st, 1832. Much of his early life was spent in Philadelphia, where he received his medical education, graduating at Jefferson Medical College in 1857, immediately after which he removed to Chariton. Here he was residing when he entered the service in 1861, and early in 1862 he was commissioned Surgeon of the 15th Iowa infantry, with which he remained until the close of the war.

The Army of the Tennessee had no more skilled or faithful surgeon, or more courteous and highly educated gentleman; views of life broadened by travel, widely read, discriminating in thought, keen in wit, and ready and accurate in expression; social by nature, his companionship and conversation was always entertaining and

instructive.

From the close of the war up to the time of his death his labor of love was assisting his old, maimed and deserving comrades to obtain just pensions, for which he invariably declined pecuniary reward.

By reason of that stern logic which necessarily becomes a part of a successful surgeon's mental training, he was at times inclined to agnosticism, but he lived and died in the hope that he might again meet his old companions of the Army of the Tennessee in a better and brighter world, where sorrows and sufferings are never known. He dearly loved his wife, daughter and grand-children, who were ever first in his heart's affections.

As a sincere friend, a kind and charitable citizen, a skilled surgeon, his death is a grevious loss to the community in which he lived, and to his old comrades of the Army of the Tennessee.

Brevet Brigadier-General Orlando M. Poe, Colonel of Engineers, U. S. A., died at Detroit, Michigan, October 2d, 1895.

General Poe, a native of Ohio, entered the Military Academy September 1st, 1852, and graduating four years later was assigned