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Dana'S death was cirrhOSs of the liver.
On June he was at his Office, appar-
emily strong and healthy. The next
day he was taken i'll, and he never
afterward visited New York. He was
Is years of age.
Sketch OF His Life.
| Charles Anderson Dana, journalist. was born
| at Iinsdale, n. H., August 8, 1919. His Ameri-
| can ancestry is traced to Richard Dana from
whom Chief justice Dana aal the two Richard
| Henry Danas We're descended and who is men
| toned as early as l6D When quite u boy
| Charles was sen. to Buffalo N V. where he
was clerk in a store until he was Is years of
| age, by which time he had lifted himself for
| college. He entered Harvard in 1882 but a
serious trouble with his sight temporarily dis
abled him and prevented his finishing the uni
versity course.
In 1917 he scttl3d in New York and was n
| member of the editorial staff of the New York
| Tribune from that time down to 1881, during
| considerable portion Of which h was its man
aging editor ana the man most trusted by its
eminent founder Horace Greeley
Assistant Secretary of War
| On January - 1884 he was nominated as as
sistant secretary of war for one year. lie was
renomnatcd January %, 1865 rendering the
principal part Of his service for the war depart
ment under the above commissions and as as
sistant secretary by ylstin, the army head
| quarters Of ROsecranS Sheridan, sherman and
Grant, advising contidcntially with the COM
| manding officers and corresponding freely
with President Lincoln and Secretary Stanton
He resigned Us assistant secretary July !, 1855
| In 1855 h had begun to plan compile and edit
with George Ripley. the New American
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Friead of Lincoln and stanton.
For the value Of Mr. DAMS services to the
union cause durlnt tn, war Of secession it is
but inst to award TO him tbe suorerne COM
mendation which il his due. With an intense
zeal equal To that of the ,.,eat war secretary
whose assistant he became and vet. with clear
vision and cool iudgment ne pave himself mn
rnserved1v In the work for which IA had baan
selected. He went 10 the front wberevor vital
battle; were to be fought. made himself
welcome ia every union commander. mas
terrd every situntfon: gave holDful ad-
,,ic, on tba eno,. n,1 wrota lnttnrs to
Stanton ana Lincoln full of facts which they
would not otherwise have known and of
suggestions which were of the highest mpor-
taucc If he hal done nothing but his service
in preventing the abandonment of Chattanooga
by RoSecrans after the battle of Chicllamauga
he would deserve the gratitude of the nation
His letters undoubtedly caused the super
scdurc of Rosecrans by lhomas and the trans
fer of the command of the operations on the
Tennessee to Grant. the conqueror of ViclSS-
burg in SaaSlu to prey mt RoSccrauS from re-
treating and to make possible tn, decisive vic
tories around Chattanooga.
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