MAJOR CHARLES JARVIS.

Major Jarvis was the only surviving son of Hon. William Jarvis, better known as Consul Jarvis, — of Weathersfield. He was born on the 21st of August, 1821; was mortally wounded in an encounter with the enemy near Cedar Point, N. C., December 1, 1863, and died in a few hours. His remains were brought home, and his funeral attended by a large concourse of relatives, friends, soldiers, and citizens of his own and neighboring towns, on the 13th of December, 1863. No man from Vermont who lost his life in the war of the rebellion was more generally respected for his many virtues, or more sincerely mourned by all who knew him, than was Major Charles Jarvis. He fitted for college principally at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., and entered the University of Vermont at the age of fourteen, the youngest member of his class. He maintained a high standing for scholarship and deportment in college, and graduated with honor in 1839. He studied law, and graduated at the Law School in Cambridge, Mass., in 1842.

After obtaining his degree at Cambridge, at the solicitation of his aged father, who needed his assistance in the cares and responsibilities of extensive agricultural and pecuniary concerns, he decided that duty

which he always regarded as paramount- dictated that he should remain at home. On the breaking out of the Great Rebellion, in 1861, he again felt that duty called him to the defense of the Constitution and laws of his country. When remonstrated with by his many friends and neighbors, who appreciated his worth as a citizen, and knew his importance as the head of a large family, bereft of a husband and father by the death of Consul Jarvis, in October, 1859, he replied, "There are things dearer than life," and "I had rather be a martyr to my country than live in ease at home." Soon after the breaking out of the war, he went to Washington, and tendered his services to the Government, in any capacity where he could be most useful in suppressing the rebellion.

In June, 1862, Major Jarvis recruited a full company, in his own and adjoining towns, for the Ninth Regiment, and was chosen its Captain. After some appropriate remarks, he presented each of his men a handsomelybound Bible. He was tendered a higher position, but preferred to remain with the men who knew and appreciated him. His regiment left the State for the seat of war in July, 1862. This regiment was a part of the eleven thousand and five hundred troops disgracefully, and it was feared treacherously, surrendered by Colonel Miles, an experienced regular army officer, to Stonewall Jackson, at Harper's Ferry, on the 15th

of September, 1862. They were paroled and sent to Chicago, but not exchanged until December. In June, 1863, Captain Jarvis was promoted to Major of his regiment, and was killed as stated. The commander of the regiment, Colonel Edward H. Ripley, in a letter to Major Jarvis' family, wrote, "He died gloriously, as could all hope to do, battling in a stern, inflexible vindication of the right of man to liberty-proving in death that his devotion to his country was of no ordinary intensity, and his faith in the promises of his religion unbounded. He passed away, as he had lived, a brave soldier and simple-hearted, devoted Christian, and left an example that has found its way to all our hearts, and whose impression will never fade away."

Resolutions, complimentary to the head and heart of Major Jarvis, and of condolence and sympathy for his family, were passed by the Ninth Regiment, by the Bar of Windsor County, of which he was a much respected member, and by citizens of Weathersfield.

BREVET MAJOR ELIJAH WALES.

But few men who went to the war from Vermont, or any other State, fought more battles, received a greater number of wounds, and had more hair-breadth escapes,

than Brevet Major Elijah Wales, of Brattleboro', and he still lives to tell his own story. His record is a most creditable, remarkable, and interesting one. listed as a private, and was mustered into Company C, Second Regiment, May 1, 1861; appointed First Sergeant, June 20, 1861; promoted Second Lieutenant, January 23, 1862; First Lieutenant, October 20, 1862; Captain, March 1, 1863; and Brevet Major, August 1, 1864, for gallantry in the Wilderness and subsequent engagements.

Major Wales participated in twenty-four battles, and says he was under fire more times than he would undertake to count. He was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864 —a minie ball entering his left shoulder-blade, passing between his heart and spine, and coming out under the right shoulder-blade, near the arm. He was in the field again in less than two months, and was wounded in an engagement at Strasburg, Va., August 4, 1864, by a minie ball, in the head, breaking the bone in over the left eye. He did not leave his regiment, but participated in a skirmish at Stony Point the fourth day afterwards, and was twice wounded, once in the wrist and again in the right leg. He served to the end of the war, was mustered out with his regiment, and was honorably discharged.

During his term of service, Major Wales performed many daring and gallant acts. At Petersburg, on the

2d of April, 1865, he, with two men, captured a piece of artillery, turned it upon the enemy, and fired upon them the charge they had themselves placed in the gun. He returned to Brattleboro' after "the cruel war was over," still resides there, and may he long live to enjoy the blessings of the good government for which he most nobly fought.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL ADDISON BROWN, JR.

Lieutenant Colonel Addison Brown, Jr., was a son of Mr. Addison Brown, of Brattleboro', one of the proprietors and editors of the Vermont Phenix. He was another of the many young men who went from Vermont to the field, and distinguished himself for gallantry in battle, and good conduct on all the trying occasions incident to the life of a soldier in time of war. When the war broke out he was living at Brooklyn, N. Y., and enlisted as a private in the Twelfth New York Regiment, under the call of the President for three months' volunteers. This regiment was the first to cross Long Bridge into Virginia, where for some time it was on duty, and afterward returned to Washington. At the end of his three months' term of enlistment, Lieutenant Colonel Brown returned to