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treat of the army to Centreville. At the battle of South Mountain his brigade led the column of attack of the First Division, Sixth Corps, at "Crampton's Gap," breaking the enemy's line at the foot of the mountain, driving him beyond the crest, and securing the road for the passage of our troops.

At Antietam he engaged with the balance of the Corps. For his services up to this date, he was recommended by Gen. McClellan for promotion to Brigadier-General, which title he received about ten days after.

From this period to the close of the war he also engaged in every battle of the Army of the Potomac. At the battle of Marye's Heights, Second Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville, hewas with Sedgwick's Sixth Army Corps.

At Gettysburg he was given by General Sedgwick the command of the Third Division of the Sixth Army Corps. retaining its command until the "Mine Run" campaign, when Gen. Sykes applied for him to command the First Division of the Fifth Corps, which he retained until Gen. Grant took command and consolidated the six corps of the army into three. This legislated him out of a command, but the Corps Commander made up for him the equivalent of a division, by giving him nine regiments of veteran troops. With this command he served through the Wil derness campaign and in front of Petersburg. For distinguished services in that campaign he was made Brevet Major-General. At the battle of "Five Forks" he was once more assigned to the command of the First Division of the 'Fifth Corps, which marched from there to Appomattox Court House with the cavalry. Being in advance of the corps the morning Sheridan struck Appomattox, he formed his division in two lines of battle with a cloud of skirmishers in front, and forced the enemy to retire behind the town, and received the surrender of a rebel brigade before the general surrender took place.

The next day he was appointed to receive the surrender of the infantry arms of Gen. Lee's army. Gen. Bartlett was struck six times, but never for a day gave up the com

mand of his troops. After the close of the war he was appointed by President Johnson "Minister Resident" to Stockholm, where he remained three years.

This record shows continuous service in the field from the first Bull Run until after the surrender at Appomattox Court House.

He is now Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, having been appointed to that position by President Cleveland.

COLONEL ALEXANDER DUNCAN ADAMS, The fourth son of Gen. William H. Adams, was born at Lyons, N. Y., on the 25th of December, 1832. He entered Hobart College, at Geneva, in 1852. After leaving college, he was engaged as Civil Engineer on the Erie Canal enlargement, for a few years, when he accepted an appointment as teacher in the Lyon's Union School. He responded to the first call for volunteers, and raised the first company in Wayne county. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel after the first battle of Bull Run, and to Colonel after the battle of Antietam. At the close of his term of service he returned to Lyons, and became Principal of the Union School, which position he held for five years. Declining health prevented active employment after this. He died of consumption on the 28th of October, 1872, leaving a widow and one daughter.

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Was born Dec. 1st, 1822, in Eaton, Madison County, N. Y. At the age of fourteen he removed, with his father's family, to Angelica, N. Y. On the fall of Fort Sumter, he was practicing law, but immediately relinquished his profession, and recruited a company of volunteers at Angelica, of which he was commissioned Captain; and the company was accepted into the State service May 13th, 1861; and on May 16th the company departed from Angelica, and reported at the State Military Depot at Elmira; and on May 21st the company was assigned to a regiment, and designated as Company "I," in the 27th Regiment N. Y. Volunteers. On the 1st of September, 1861, Captain Gardiner was promoted, to fill a vacancy, to Major of the same regiment. The records of the regiment show his military services, complete.

In the battle of Gaines' Mill, Major Gardiner was injured by a shell, but remained with the army until its retreat to Harrison's Landing, where, on the 3d of July, 1862, he was ordered sent north on Surg. Barnes' certificate of disability. On his arrival at Washington, he was granted leave of absence for thirty days, on Surgeon's certificate of disability, "on account of wounds," by S. O. No. 155, War Department, and G. O., Washington, July 7th, 1862, and returned to his home in Angelica; and in consequence of a continuance of his disability, he forwarded his resignation from the service, to the War Department, which was accepted by the Adjutant-General of the Army, July 24th, 1862.

Major Gardiner was subsequently brevetted Colonel of U. S. Volunteers, for "gallant and meritorious services during the war." In 1864 he was assigned to the U. S. Mustering and Disbursing Office at Elmira. In 1867 he was appointed U. S. Assessor of Internal Revenue of the 27th District of New York, at Elmira. In 1868, he was the Conservative candidate for Congress in the 27th District of New York. In 1873 he removed to the City of St. Louis, Mo., which is his present home.

When the last toll of the funeral bell dies away upon the solemn air of death, and what was mortal is laid to rest, we instinctively turn to preserve in some form the biography of the departed.

"His life was gentle, and the elements

So mixed in him that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, 'This was a man.'

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DR. NORMAN S. BARNES.

On Saturday morning, April 18th, 1885, Dr. Norman S. Barnes, after a severe and protracted illness, in which the highest patience and courage were shown, died at his residence, 365 Warren avenue, Chicago, Ill. His life for ten years preceding death, was filled with physical pain, having suffered at the beginning of these years an attack of paralysis of the optic nerves, terminating in the loss of sight, the result of a sunstroke received while engaged in the service of his country and though doomed to silent meditation over this most unhappy affliction, his genial disposition shed sunshine upon an otherwise rayless sky. Born to lead and command, he was, however, of a gentle and loving mold, whose sympathies were enlisted with every good cause, and whose charities to the needy, financially and professionally, were without stint. He possessed in full those traits of character which endeared him especially to the young, for whom in all worthy pursuits and aspirations he had words of cheer and encouragement. Scores of friends will not soon forget how pleasantly his conversation, sparkling with humor and brilliancy, would entertain them for hours; nor should they forget how tenderly his ear would be given to their tales of sorrow or disappointment.

The Rev. Dr. Lawrence, of the Second Baptist Church of Chicago, assisted by representatives of the Grand Army, Post 28, conducted the last sad rites over the remains of the deceased, which were quietly and simply placed in the cemetery of Rose Hill.

Dr. Barnes was born at Avon, N. Y., in 1830, and four years subsequently was taken by his parents to their new home in Lapeer county, Mich., where the lavish mental and physical gifts that nature had bestowed upon him were nurtured to great strength through the quiet, simple and thoughtful life he led until his seventeenth year, when his ambitious spirit naturally sought a wider field for cultivation and acquaintance with the world, which was gratified by taking his departure for Rochester, N. Y., in the hope of fulfilling.