Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-09-18
The Late General Reno.


The victory gained at the battle fought
near Middletown, Maryland, on Sunday
last, has cost the Union army another Ma
jOr General, and one, too, whom the country
can lily afford to lose. 4 private dispatch
received yesterday afternoon, by G. A. Re
no, Esq, of this city, conveyed the sad in
telligence that his brother, Major General
Jesse L. Reno, was killed at six o'clock P.
NJ, on Sunday, while gallsntly leading his
troops to victory.
Major General Reno was thirty-eight
years of age last june. He was born in
the State of Virginia, near Wheeling, but
was brought up in Pennsylvania, to which
State his parents removed soon after his
birth. In early life, the subject of this
sketch evinced a decided love for military
science, and in I841 he entered the West
Point Academy, with the firm determine
ton Of devOting his life to the profess
sion Of arms
From this institution he graduated in
1856; the third in his class of over thirty
members. He Immediately after received
the appointment Of second lieutenant in
the ordinance department of regular ar
my, and was stationed at the Watervlilt
arsenal
On the breaking out of the Mexican war
the young lieutenant was among the first
to connect himself with the famous GLOW
itzer Battery, attached to General Scott 3
division Of the army. He was engaged
in nearly all of the principal battles of
that war, during which, he was twice bre-
vO.ted for meritoriOus conduct. At the tax
ing of the Mexican capital, he received II
! ball in his right arm, which for some time
disabled him from active service.
At the close of the war he returned
home, and was Immediately ordered to
Washington, at which city and Philadel-
phia he spent most of his time till the fall
of 1856, when he was sent out to Utah, un-
der General johnson, who commanded the
| famous expedition ordered thither by Presi-
dent Buchanan, for the purpose of subject
ing the MormoDs to federal authority.
On his return from this expedition, Cap
tain Reno was placed in charge of Mount
Vernon arsenal; but on the breaking out
of the rebellion was sent to Fort Leaven-
worth. In the month of November, 1861,
he was appointed Brigadier General of Vol
unteers, and accompanied General Burn
side on his successful expedition to the
coast of North Carolina.
His military career since that period
is matter of history, with which the pub
lie are familiar The Burnside expedi-
ton is one of the most notable events of
the present war, and among the officers who
bore a part in its hardships and victories,
none discharged his duties with more fdel-
ity and bravery than did General Reno.
On the nineteenth of last April he was
appointed to the position of Major General,
and in that capacity, as well as in every
other in which he has acted, he was the
brave, devoted, faithful soldier, ready at
all times to peril his life in his country 5
cause. His younger brother, Colonel B.
F. Reno, who was a member of the Gene
rails staff, has borne his remains TO Phila-
delphia, where his grief-stricken wife and
children reside.
'' He sleeps his last sleep,
He has fought his last battle
No sound shall awake him t glory again.