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as Brigadier-General, tendered him by the Government. Her illness was brief, and laying her, who had been the partner of his joys and sorrows for more than a quarter of a century, to rest in the quiet shades of Greenwood, the hero and philosopher buried his sorrows in his heart and went forth to fight the battles of his country. He was first connected with the army of the Potomac, but saw no active service there. He was next assigned to a command in Cincinnati and the country adjacent on both sides of the Ohio River, and soon after was ordered to join the department of the Ohio, under the command of Major-General Buell, and was the first officer to enter Bowling Green, at the head of his brigade. From that city his command, which at this time was a division, marched in the van toward Nashville. On the capture of that city, he made a forced march toward Corinth, taking with him but a single brigade of his division. He then made a feint of attacking Chattanooga, and having caused the enemy to concentrate their force there, he turned suddenly toward Fayetteville, and making a forced march, seized the railroad midway between Corinth and Chattanooga, and thus broke the rebel line of communication and held the towns along that railroad for a distance of nearly two hundred miles completely under control. Every movement looking to revolt against his authority, or the insulting of his soldiers, was promptly and sternly repressed. Athens, Alabama, one of the larger towns on the route, had been remarkable for the bitter hostility of its citizens to the Union army, and the command of the rebellious town was assigned by General Mitchel to Colonel, now General, Turchin, an officer of Russian birth of decided energy and ability, whose vigorous measures soon brought the insolent rebels to terms. Complaint was made by some of the rebels to General Buell of Turchin's severity, and the General, who inclined to the rose-water policy, ordered a court-martial to try Turchin. General Mitchel sustained his faithful and vigorous subordinate, and thereby incurred Buell's displeasure, in consequence of which he asked to be relieved of his command. But the Government could not dispense with the services of so energetic and faithful a General as Mitchel, and after remaining a short time without a command he was appointed to succeed General Hunter as commander of the department of the South, and entered upon the duties of his office on the sixteenth of September, 1862. The energy which had characterized him at the West was not relaxed in his new field of action. The discipline of his army was greatly im proved; old abuses were checked, order took the place of disorder and confusion, and the care and management of the freedmen, or "contrabands" as they were popularly called, which had been a difficult problem in that department from the first, was rendered simple and easy by his executive skill. Satisfied that the Government would soon see the desirableness of employing the able-bodied among them as soldiers, he did not deem it wise to forestall its action, but directed his energies to the elevation and improvement of their social and intellectual condi

tion. He encouraged them to adopt the habits and customs of the more intelligent of the colored people of the North, and to evince their right to freedom by making their conduct worthy of freemen. He caused a model house for a negro family to be built, and then offered to furnish lumber and to pay a premium to those who would build houses equal to this, and in a short time he had a village of good, substantial houses going up for the freedmen, as different as possible from the filthy cabins in which they had previously vegetated, and each with its gardenplot fenced in. He encouraged schools among them, and in every way stimulated their ambition and energies till an observer would have deemed it impossible that the enterprising and manly negroes of Hilton Head could have been the stolid, unimpressible slaves of a year before.

His activity was equally manifest in military affairs. He believed in constantly harassing the enemy, and as his force was insufficient for any of those great military undertakings in which he would have most delighted, he resolved to make the best of it in smaller enterprises. An expedition was sent to St. John's River, Florida, which was successful in breaking up several small garrisons of the rebels, in destroying vessels and cargoes which were prepared for running the blockade, and in taking possession of some towns of importance; another attacked and destroyed the extensive salt-works of the enemy at Bluffton, thus depriving them of a large portion of their supply of that important article. A third, on a larger scale, was sent on the twenty-first of October, under the command of Brigadier-General Brannan, to Pocotaligo and Coosahatchie Rivers, to burn the bridges and break the railroad communication between Charleston and Savannah; but this, which General Mitchel had intended at first to command in person, was but partially successful, owing to the plan of it having been by some traitor communicated to the rebels, who had, in consequence, rallied a strong force and fortified positions where they could repel the attacks of the approaching force; and though some bridges were destroyed, yet the heavy loss incurred by the attacking force made the expedition practically a failure.

But in the midst of his usefulness, and with plans for securing the triumph of the Union arms in his department as yet unaccomplished, this brave and energetic commander was suddenly called to surrender to a relentless and powerful foe. Death came, and with ruthless hand bowed the strong man whom no hardships could cause to falter, and after a brief illness, laid him in the grave. The yellow fever made its appearance at Hilton Head on the twentieth of October; on the twenty-sixth, General Mitchel was taken with the disease in its worst form, and died on the thirtieth. His death was perfectly in keeping with his life. Though suffering severely, he was calm and collected and in full possession of his faculties to the last. The Christian's hope, which had sustained him amid all his trials and bereavements in the past, was his stay and support in the trying hour.

"It is a blessed thing," he said to Mrs. Gage, "to have a Christian's hope in a time like this." The great responsibilities of his position were laid aside with the utmost composure, as he felt that the time had come for him to die, and uttering the words, "I am ready to go," and pointing upward when speech failed, he passed away "as sinks the summer sun to rest." In the quiet shades of Greenwood, by the side of her he loved so well in life, the astronomer, patriot, and hero sleeps quietly till the trump of the archangel shall waken his dust to the never-ending life of eternity.

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THEODORUS BAILEY.

HE achievements of our navy were the pride of the nation in the war of 1812. On the outbreak of the present rebellion the people looked hopefully, from the Potomac blockaded and the squadron inactive in Hampton Roads watching the erection of the enemy's batteries, to a period when it would vindicate its old renown. At length the hoped for period arrived. Foote led off on the Mississippi; Stringham at Hatteras; Goldsborough in Albemarle Sound; Du Pont at Charleston; and Farragut at New-Orleans, and then the navy had solved the problem as to the relative value of guns ashore and guns afloat, and proved that if the revolutionary batteries of General Moultrie on Sullivan's Island did drive off a British fleet, it would not hold that therefore the Southern coast could be protected from the American navy.

Amongst the long list of gallant officers who have added new lustre to this service Admiral Theodorus Bailey has manfully done his share, and deserves something more than a passing notice. He was born at Chateaugay, in Franklin County, on the northern border of the State of New-York, in the year 1805. His father, Judge William Bailey, was one of the early settlers of the great northern wilderness, having married the daughter of one of the patentees of Plattsburgh, to which place he soon afterward removed. As a boy, standing on the shore of the lake, Admiral Bailey witnessed McDonough's victory, and saw the pride with which the victors were greeted, and determined that he too would be a sailor. His uncle, General Theodorus Bailey, (a Senator from New-York,) was fortunately able to aid his aspirations, and on the first of January, 1818, at the early age of less than fourteen years, he obtained his first commission. It would be covering too much space to follow him through the twenty-six years of active duty and the various gradations of rank. He twice made cruises around the world, and served under the old flag in every climate and sea, and always with credit, never having become involved in any difficulty with the department, his superiors, or messmates, but earning the reputation of an efficient, enterprising, and faithful officer. At length, on the breaking out of the Mexican war, he was assigned to the command of the Lexington, an old razee, rated as a store-ship, and carried out from the port of New-York to California Captain Tompkins's (regular) battery, and a number of officers of the army, amongst whom were Lieutenants (now Generals) Halleck, Sherman, and Lozier, and a large amount of munitions of war.

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