The North-Carolina standard., 1849-08-15
!. LIEUT.. COLONEL N MAeREE.. CREE.

-, nrtf.i LIEUT.. COLONEl4 MAeREE. ~ 3
~ Among the many worthy and meritorious citizens
taken from society and their country by the direfp
visitation of the Asatic pestlence our sister city o
St. Louis has lost more deserving of our griei
and our remembrance than the departed soldier Lieut.
In his, manly breast nature had implanted, with
many other noble qualities, ardent thirst for mill
tary distinction. which was gratifed by his admission,
at the age Of fifteen, as cadet at the National Mill
tary Academy of West Point, ii pg,s3 n .
In his nineteenth year. having graduated with cred
it, he received his commission from the President,
bearing date July 1st 1922 second Lieutenant in the
on the REDUCTION Of the army in the following year,
he was arrapged to the Ist regiment of Infantry,
in which he served until the Sth November, 1889,
having been promoted to first Leutenant,@ to rank
| from September 80, 1923; and, again promoted to
Captain, to rank from December 3lst 1891 He sc-
conpanied his regiment in the meantime, performing,
with rigorous exactitude the duties of his position
whether in garrison, the field. .;,r
+ He was appointed Assistant Qhartersnastef, July
7h 1893. and promoted to Quarter-master, with the
rank of Major, to date from November g, l849. s
He was Quarter master at this post and conciated
TO remarkable degree the favorable opinion of many
good citizens, who cherish the remembrance of his
numerous excellent qualities. When orders from
Washington directed General Taylor to proceed with
all the force then available to Corpus Christi, Texas,
Colonel fthen Major) MacRae, provided the neees-
sary transportation and supplies for that expedition
The necessities of the service requiring officers of
ZEAL talent and activity, he was ordered, when
1eved by Col F: Hunt, to report for duty to Gen.
TAYLOR. This he did at Corpus Christi when he
was appointed chief of the Charter masters staff,
which position he retained u:tf the advance of our
troops to the Rio Grande, when his connection with
the field operations of the army destined for the over
throw of the enemy in Northern Mexico, ceased, by
his being detached to assume charge of the important
post at Point Isabel - 3" -E'tNsf7 i
AS Quafter-master at this point, durhg the anxfo6s
period that nteryened between the capture Of Thorn
tons scouting party and the decisive victories of
DAP nd dc Ia hat q
insofen and presumptuous foe from the left bank of
the Del Norte Coli MacRee's conduct characterized
by prompntude, irmness coolnes, and courage, meri
ted and received from the proper quarter, cemer-
daory notice. Until the sailing oftthe expedition,
conveying the troops destined for the reduction of
Tampico, Vera Cruz, and the capital of Mexico,
Colonel MacRee- remained at Point Isabel, when he
was ordered to report to the commanding officer at
the-Island of Lobos, the rendezvous of our fleet.
Arrived there, he was, by order of General Scott,
placed at the head of the Quarter masters staff, in
which honorable position ne remained sntil the ca
pitnlation of Vera Cruz, when, by special pernis
sion of the -Commander-n-Chief, he was granted
leave to return to his family and his country, his
health being greatly impaired from anxiety of mind
severe bodily Iabors, and constant exposure .baka
Shortly after his return to the United States, he
was ordered on duty to Newport KY, and thence,
about two years ago. to st. LOUIS which he always
spoke of as his home, and III the neighboThood of
which city, about miles distant on small farm
owned by HIMSELF he expired, the 18th instant
aged forty-eght years. .s1+t.r--f- ss~, = ss
4Ie received his brevet of Lieut.. Colonel for
meritorious conduct, while serving in the enemy's
country, - to date from May &c. I949 short time
before his DEATH j. i7'5,@fi 100. .'s.+FZiH' 7stio
Lieut.. Col. Samuel MacRe was a native of VIII.
mingon, North Carolina, and brother of the late dis
tinguished Engineer officer, Col. William MacRee,
also graduate of West Point. e..,;f .s':ifff a5!
He was descended from Scotch family of respec-
liability, and partook largely of the Distinguishing
traits of that singuary enterprsing and intellectual
people. Perhaps in nothing this more remark
a61e 1ovo of
where malice could not exist, in the playful levy OF
the passing moment. 3&. .f'ieHi i.T'f'3 '~'s5
He married in his native town, a lady of great
worth excellent sense and rich in intellectual endow-
nent; by whom he leaves two orphan boys of tend
years, to mnge their griefs with hers, their
iFreparabe and heart-reDdig bereavement Who can
assuage the widows wall or dry the orphaT' s tear in
their desolaton of heart, from the removal of their
dear oe the pride of the past the stay of the present
the hope of the future, and the loved at all time!
May the God of the heart-stricken comfort the wild
ow and the orphan! The husband andthe father, the
soldier and the friend, has gone from anongstus-we
shall see him more forever but he will long live
in the nj emories of those who knew him, and who
appreciate high honor, true nobility Of soul, CHI
valrous devotion to the calls of his country and in
flexible integrity. His country will honor the men,
ory OF the gallant soIdierhi friends beWail the loss
of. one incapable of guile. @-,'3A 'i5 y co. X
! ,@l''.5>-' 'f, . ''s - = NeD Orleans Deha
TOUCHING CHOLERA INCIDENTS The progress of
the disease everywhere is marked by many touching
and affecting incidents. The New York Journal Of
Commerce gives the following: ST fjI .fat
' A gentleman, extensively engaged in manufactu-
ring, told yesterday thata fine little fellow I2 or
Ia years old, recently came to- him and asked for
work. He told~him he- had none to give hirhAbut
prompted, by the tears which started to his eyes,
he was turning away, inquire into his circum-
stances..GI1e told him where he had lived in the
Tenth avehue-zand that within few days his moth
father, two brothers, two sisters, and appten-
tce boy who lived with them had died OF the cholera,
and that he the sole survivor of them all Such
appeal not to be resisted the little fellow soon
found place and is now at work. a'so sss'. 80
&c On Saturday lastwe heard of case in PhiladelI
phia, in which father and mother were taken away,
and eight children-in needy circumstances-are now
mourning the awful bereavement - II 4S29Y"ia
The Delaware Republican says: s7is2 n@~<c aTsf
3" A daughter of George Shannon died at the house
morning of the 18th inst, and her child died the
evening of the same day of dysentery, and were
both inferred in grave. The lad presided in ST.
Louis, Mo-, and had come with her husband to visit
her friends in the neighborhood OF Chrstiana. ghe,
however, fell victim the destroyer, asishe most
probably would have doneha she remained in ST.
Louis. An instructive lesson may be learned from
this circumstance. The same God watches over the
whole earthHe is in the West well assthe East,
in the North well the South-iRcity and coun-
try akes' s51t tog tljf$ - ats ,isE7 eas las! auk
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y yPREsENTIMENT. On the day of Lieutenant Dale's
death in Syria, Che belonged to the uUnitsd States
expedition 10 the Dead Sea- his wife, being then in
Pennsylvania, remarked to gentleman, who has since
testified to the faet-' wish you to note this day;
my spirits are oppressed, my feelings are pn-
accounably strange, that am sure some great ca
amity awaits it, that this is the "a N July