The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-30
OBITUARY.


The recent death OF the Rev. Harrison Lam0din
is another reminder, II needed, OF the fact
that our war against the Rebellion in many re-
spects real war OF independence, and like that OF
Germany in the beginning OF this century, the
training school for the nation and its best men. The
Rev. Mr.. Lambdin, who died on Monday at the age
OF thirty in deaoons orders OF the Episcopal Church,
had fought through nearly the whole OF the recent
war. When the Rebellion began he was teaching
At the Episcopal Academy Just after gradu-
atlng at the University. Little past
tweLty, he gave up his studlous habits, his artistic
pursuits and his intense love OF domestic life to
take part in the war fer the Union. Joining Colonel
Chapman Bddle's regiment as subaltern, he ex-
kibited great bravery and military skill in his nrst
battie-that OF Fredericksburg. His good conduct
in action and on the field soon won for him promo
ton, and he became Assistant Adjutant- Generai,
with the rank OF Captain, then of Major, and finally
by brevet OF Lieutenant-Ooonel He served in
succession with various brigade and division cem-
manders, and his zeal and ability were thoroughly
tested and appreciated by Rice and
Chamberlain and Crawford and Hoffman, to all OF
whom he gave most eficient assistance. While
serving with General Hoffman he was severely
wounded near Petersburg, and although after long
sickness he was finally able to return to the field
and served to the close Of the war; he never reco-
yered his health. Indeed, he was from his earliest
youth so delicate that few OF his friends believed
tn at he could withstand the fatigues and exposure
OF campaigning, yet the hard life gave him fresh
strength and new vigor.
His beautiful Christian character, his marked viz
tues, his hearty enjoyment OF all that was good and
wholesome in army life, and the perfect immunity
which he enjoyed from all It's evil influences, all en-
deared him to his own men and those of his reg-
ment, ana In like degree to the general ana stafT
officers with whom he associated in the later and
distinguished portion OF his career in the army
OF the Potomac Returned to civil life, he went to
work at once and showed the same earnestness in
aa
draughtsman in Mr. Joseph Harrison's en-
gineering works, his old love OF art
and literature took him back to his
teaching, and while he was busily engaged at the
Episcopal Academy, he began aud carried on his
studies for the Episcopal ministry TO which he was
admitted last spring. Full OF piety, imbued
with the purest and highest religious zeal, gifted
with great literary skill and restrained from its fire.
quent exercise only by too nice and critical judg-
ment, utterly unselhsh and apparently unconscious
alike OF his own unusual experience and rare en-
dowments, he gave promise Of becoming useful
and, in time, distinguished offlcer of the Church.
His health however irreparaby broken by his in
cessant hard work, and even summer spent abroad,
where his love OF art and his skill with his pencil
might have given him the necessary change and
rest, broken 10y the outbreak of the war, which
brought him home. He never recovered sufficiently
to set to work at his new abors in the Church. but
his life had been spent In its service, and in the
midst OF his daily avocations he had found time for
and for instruction both in secular and religious
matters with zeal a9d skill which endeared him
to his associates His whole life, short it was,
was full OF good WORKS, and 1t was terminated too
soon for others who would have benefited by It,
rather than for himself.