The National tribune., 1896-11-19
MUSTERED OUT.
Veterans of the Country's Grandess Army
Who Have Answered the Last Call.

Veterans OF the Country's Grandess Array
Who Have Answered the Last Call.
CARRoLL.-At Fort Pickens, Fla, Oct. IL, al
the age of Ga, Ordnance Serg't Thomas Carroll.
He enlisted JAM Is, 1852, and was assigned to
Co. G. LIST q. S. Art; discharged Jan. IL 1857.
by expiration of service; re-enlisted Sept. I6.
1858, in Battery e, LIST U. s. Art, and was sta
| toned at Fort Sumter during the lombard
ment of April 12 and Is, 1861. enjoying the
distinction of firing the first gun from the fort.
He afterwards participated in the following
battles: Newmarket, Bull Run, Antiesam.
Fredericksburg, Charlottesville, Aldie. MIDI
dleburg and Upperville, Gettysburg, Shepard
Station; discharged Sept. I8, 1868. by expirs-
ton of service; re-enlisted Sept. Is, 1854. in
Battery F, 1st u. s. Art, and discharged July
%. 1865. by s. o. 37S, A. g. o., a Corporal; re-
enlisted Sept. 8, 1866, in Battery F. in 1st o. 8
Art, and discharged Sept. 3. 1869, Corporal,
re-enlisted and served therein until appointed
Ordnance Sergeant, Nov %, 1878; in charge
of Fort Barrancas, Fla. from July "a. 1885. to
Nov. so, 1885; again in charge from July 10,
1856. to Oct. %, 1886; assumed charge of Fort
Pickens, Fla, May. 1891, and served at that
post until his death.
DoDGE-At Springfield, Mass, Nov g. DR..
James M. Dodge, Captain. Co. b. Cd Mimi,
and one of the oldest practicing dentists in the
city.
PARKER.-At Boston, Nov =. after linger.
mouth College. He was born at Keene. N. H.,
April II. 1921; graduate from Dartmouth in
1911; became pastor of a church at Concord. N.
H., and left his pulpit to become Chaplain OF
the % n. III. He became Latin Instructor at
Dartmouth in 1869, and continued until feeble
health compelled bis retirement. The remains
were buried at Hanover, N. II.
BATEs.-At Portland. Ind, Oct. &c. of an ac-
cidental gunshot wound, Henry C. Bates. Co.
K, 34th Ohio. and of Stephen ]. Bailey Post,
l54 Department of Indiana. which conducted
his funeral. Resolutions of respect and condo
lence we're passed by the Post, and by tho
Methodist Sunday school, in which he was q
loved and valued teacher.
KNIGHT.--In Lincoln, Neb.. Oct. 25 James
F. Knight. aged q years. Comrade knight
was u hero of two wars having served through
the Mexican a member of tbs Sth U. 8.
At the outbreak of the rebellion he enlisted as
o private in Co. +. 2Sth Pa. was promoted to
Second Sergeant. and later Captain of his conf
pany for mertoriouS services He was III Gen
Sherman's Atlanta campaign, and the
March to the Sea- He was discharged June
/, 1865.
BRooKs.-In Bennett, Neb, Oct 26, Comrade
John Brooks Fifer, Co. d. 22d Iowa. He was
buried in Wyuka Cemetery, at Lincoln. by Far
ragut Post, %.
AcKLEY.-At Aberdeen, Oct. 13, John Ackey,
aged "a years. In June, 1862, he enlisted as q
seaman for enc year in the United States Navy,
Mississippi River Squadron. Upon his dis
charge he was offered commission rs Master,
Mate, but owing to a severe attack of malariai
! fever threw up his commission. In 1863 he
went to Philadelphia, Pa. and at once enlisted
/ in tho hastily-gathered militia to assist in
repeling the enemy, then marching to their
defeat at Gettysburg. After several months
| service he returned to his home in Iowa, and
| in 1864 again entered service rs First Lieuten.
ant of Co. K, 44th Iowa, and served until tho
/; discharge of the regiment He was Depart
ment Commander of South Dakota.
BURaEss.-At Albuquerque, N. NJ, DR.. Thoa
~ Burgess. He was S. geon in a California
battalion in the Mexican war; also. Surgeon
! on Gen. Grants staff when Grant was Briga-
der General, and also ExaIaiu rg Surgeon ~
Cairo, Ill.,, at the beginning of the war, l06l-66
(, He was member Of tho Legislature Of ILL.
nois, and largely responsible tor the Illinois
schooi Law. He leaves = widow and siS
children.