The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-09
OBITUARY..
General william Gates.

The death of General william Gates took
The ripe old age OF eighty years. Deceased en-
tered the Military Academy in 1901. and gra-
duated in 1905, when he was promoted to
second Iieutenancy in an artillery regiment,
and did garrison duty until the hostiliIies be.
tween the United States and Great Britain took
place, in 1872, when he was advanced to first
1ieutenancy, and was engaged in the capture
OF Toronto Gthen York;, Upper Canada, and
ihe settlement of the then existing difiiculties.
he served In garrison and frontier duty
and rose through various grades OF his
Carolina in lS82-8S, -wnen notification was
threatened in The Palmetto State, General
at Fort Moultrte in Charleston HarOor. He
took an active part in nearly all the Indian
out he sccompanied % the 81 ArtilIery a. Lieu. LEU
tenant Colonel. In l846, and for two years sub.
sequent, he acted as Governor OF Tampico.
Mexico. Since then he did many years SER
vice in 1868 and was brew cited Brigadier- Gene.
raj in 1865 for long and faithful services. Gene
few remaining links that connect us with the
past, He was engaged for over half q century
In the sTsce OF hs ans mas a.
sleep Of which there comes no waking.
General Adam j Slemmer.
General Adam j. Slemmer, commander at
of heart disease. He was native of Mont.
gomery county. Penn, the grandson of sol
9isr Of J., the s6 He a. West
lst Artillery. and ordered to Florida, to hold
the Seminole Indians In check. Having been
promoted for galiantry in his encounters with
the Seminoles. he was ordered 10 San Diego,
California and thence 10 Fort Yuma. Next
he was ordered to Fort Moullrie, Charles
ton Harbor, and soon thereafter was in
vited by Superintendent Bsche TO join the
Coast Survey; but the absence of the Secretary
of War from his Bureaup revented. and before
that officer could return and give his assent TO
the transfer, the Superintendent OF the West
Point Academy had made a requisition for
Lieutenant Slemmer's services teacher In
that institution. He served four years in that
capacity, and was again ordered to Fort Moul-
where he was put In command. Lieutenant
Slemmer married the accomplished daughter
of the Rev. John Reynolds of the Episcopal
Church, once Chaplain in the navy. The
tenant Slemmer with a small garrison in Fort
McRea. Hastily gathering from the Navy
Yerd few troops who had proved faithful
among the fatthless. and joining to these force
then in Pensacole Bay, he threw himself
with his little force, numbering only about
eighty men, into Fort Pickens He had
secured himself against immediate attack
a mile distant from Fort Pickens, by destroying
all The ammunition that was not locked in the
magazine of the foI mer fort, and by spiking the
uns and ramming the tompiops so firmly into
the muzzes that they had to be bored out
Lieutenant Slemmer held Fort Pickens while
President Buchanan was IempOrtzing with the
Rebels, until the 18th OF April, 1861, without re
Inducements, rejecting meantime q Rebel offer
of $4,000 and commission in the Bebel army.
and $500 to every private in his command If he
would surrender this key TO the Gulf of Mexico
Lieutenant Slemmer commanded until the Goth
of April, when he yielded precedence TO Colonel
Brown, who had been sent to provision and
amply garrison the fort A like honora ole
career in the subsequent history of the war
attained to the high office which he held at the
time af his death,