Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-12
Death of Cornelius Jay DuBois.

Cornelius Jay Dubois was born in the city of New York August 3Oth, 1886. He was graduated at the Columbia College Law School ! in 1861, and was shortly after admitted to practice in the Supreme Court. On the 18th of April, 1861, he marched to Washington
 with the Seventh New York regiment, as D l member of Go. K of this celebrated corps, l and in 1862 went with this same regiment to Baltimore. Upon his return he recruited at New Haven, Company D of the Twenty seventh regiment of Conn. Vols, and as cap- l tain of the same he joined the Army of the Potomac. It will be remembered that when this regiment was captured in Virginia, Go. D was one of the two companies which escaped capture and thus saved the colors. He served | in Tooks brigade, under Hancock, at Aquia
 Greek, Falmouth, Fredericksburg and Chan | cellorsville. At the battle of Gettysburg,
 July 2d, 1863, he received severe wound
 from which he never fully recovered. He was
 indeed supposed to be among the killed, but 8 l brother, then serving as assistant surgeon on ! General Meads staff, fortunately found him, l dressed his wound, and had him conveyed to his friends in New York.
 His spirited conduct at Gettysburg attracted the notice of Gen. Hancock, who sent word to his father in New Haven ''that he had never seen 8 more gallant charge" Col. Brooks also sent word to the family 'sthat there was not a more gallant soldier in the army than Capt. Dubois"
 As soon as he was partially recovered from his wound, he went to Georgia as Adjutant of the 20th Conn.,, serving under Hooker and
 also in Sherman's division of the 20th army corps. At the battle of Resaca, when the rApimaDE WAS Ordarad t0 storm A sfrOn0 r0Si- tion of the enemy, and the men, partly up the hill, began to waver under the heavy fire, he seized the colors from the wounded bearer, rallied the men, and at their head planted the
 colors on the summit. letter, at the time, from fellow officer to his parents describing this gallant action, was published.
 In July. 1866, he took the degree of M. D. in the Yale Medical College, and has, with some intervals of absence, spent abroad for
 the benefit of his health, continued to reside
 in New Haven up to the time of his death, practicing his profession for part of the
 time, until his increasing ill health prevented.
 During the greater part of his life Dr. Du- Bois had been great sufferer, scarcely know
 ing what it was to have well day. Though
 small of frame and 8 confirmed invalid, he
 made up in plsIck and endurance what he
 lacked in physical strength and muscle Few
 of his men could equal him on long and
 rapid march, or better bear the hardships of
 picket duty, on which service he was frequent
 ly detailed on account of his vigilant and wiry
 nature. Upon the now famous march of
 the Seventh New York regiment, the little,
 high strung invalid, carrying musket and
 equipments almost as heavy as himself, out
 walked and outlasted the strongest and hard
 fest men. He received from the President of
 the United States the brevet of major for
 distinguished bravery" at the battle of
 Gettysburg, and that of lieutenant colonel
 for gallant conduct at Resaca. After
 the war he received the brevet rank
 of colonel from the Governor of Connecticut
 Though of a nervous and excitable tempera-
 ment, he was always cool and collected in the
 presence of danger, (to which he was not in- different, but in every emergency he was res- olute in the performance of his duty and fear less in action. The soubriquet of s'the dare devil captain" given to him in the army by men of less resolution, was no true descrip- tion of his character, for his courage was as far removed from recklessness as from timid- ity. Strict disciplinarian ss he was, he had Q warm heart, and sympathy for his comrades, and many of them in New Haven and else- where on reading these lines will recall kind deeds and services, and sincerely mourn his death. The courage and endurance shown on the field and on the march were charac- | teristic of the man and were equally conspic- l uous in his private life.
 To the invalid, so long trammelled by sick | ness and hampered in all his efforts at useful | ness by bodily infirmities, death has come at | last as welcome release from pain and suf- | fer1ng, opening another and better sphere | for those capacities and activities, which the | weary constraint of the flesh so crippled and | confined while here on earth. !