PEAKING of pathetic scenes on the battlefield," said the colo nel, as we sat before our cheerful camp-fire on the shores of Lake Winnipiseogee, "reminds me of an incident which came under my own observation, and which, I presume, many a man in New Hampshire tinctly. remembers dis "Our company, which belonged to a New Hampshire regiment, went out from Keene. In it was a bright fellow by the name of Young-'Brigham' Young we called him. He was the life and soul of the company, and ten minutes in his presence was enough to dispel the worst attack of the blues that ever afflicted a man. "Young had been South before the war broke out, but his home was in New Hampshire. He had been pressed into the rebel service, and whether his conscience smote him for taking up arms against his northern kindred, or whether he realized that our cause was the right one, I cannot say; at any rate, he deserted the Confederate forces soon after the beginning of the war, and came home to enlist with the Union army. "The Battle of Winchester, as you may know, was by no means a mere skirmish. The casualties on both sides amounted to nearly ten thousand men, killed or wounded, and that was really the first fighting which our in. company was engaged 'During that battle, Young was conspicuous for his bravery, and many a time his comrades saw him face the enemy's onslaughts with a dogged smile on his face and a determined look in his eye, which indicated that he was in the fight to stay. "Well, when the battle was over and the Union forces had won the day, the ghastly work of picking up the dead and wounded was in order. While this was in progress somebody missed Young, and a diligent search was at once set on foot in the hope of finding him, dead or alive. "One by one the bodies of the dead and dying were picked up and tenderly removed to the quarters which had been hastily provided for them. More than one poor fellow looked up into the faces of his comrades, smiled, and passed awaymustered out of the service forever. "At length, some of the boys who had gone on in advance of us stopped, hesitated a moment, and then called to the rest of us to come on. We did so, and when we reached them the sight which met our eyes was one which I never shall, never can, forget. There on the bloody ground, naked as when he came into the world, lay Brigham' Young with a bayonet run through his body and into the soil. He was dead, but the same cheerful look had possession of his features as when he had charmed the camp with his songs and shared his last bit of hardtack with some of the boys. "Poor old Brigham'! Not a fellow of us all who could not recall some act of kindness which he had performed toward his fellows. His tobacco had always been at our disposal, his jolly disposition had in it an element of sympathy which had often comforted us when we had received bad news from home. Strange, is n't it, that persons of a mirthful temperament are often possessed of such sympathetic, almost sentimental, qualities-and frequently more highly developed than in people of apparently finer grain! "There had been many sober faces among the searchers on the battlefield as we had found our fallen com rades; but now the big, briny tears forced their way from our eyes and down over our grimy cheeks, however hard we might wink in attempting to restrain them. We picked poor Young up from the ground, and after covering him with a blanket carried him from the field. I've had many a good friend before and since, but never one whom I loved better than I loved 'Brigham' Young." Here the colonel sniffed a bit and appeared to be thinking over the pathetic points of the story which he had been relating. "What had become of your comrade's clothing?" he was asked. "Oh, the Rebs got it," was the nonchalant reply; "and evidently some of them had recognized Young as a deserter, which accounts for the bayonet thrust through his body." THE BELLS OF GILMANTON. By Thomas Cogswell, Jr. When the shadows of the gloaming And the leaves fall, one by one, They are always gently ringing Is the hour for rest and comfort, John T. Perry, a prominent citizen of Exeter and well-known journalist, born in Exeter, April 5, 1832, died in that town November 2, 1901. Mr. Perry was the youngest of five children of Dr. William and Abigail (Gilman) Perry. His father was a remarkable man, distinguished physician and surgeon, and at his death, January 11, 1887, in his ninety-ninth year, was Harvard's senior alumnus. His mother was a daughter of Col. Nathaniel Gilman, younger brother of Gen. John Taylor and Senator Nicholas Gilman. Mr. Perry entered Phillips-Exeter in 1843, and in 1852 was graduated from Harvard with Phi Beta Kappa rank. He then studied law under the late Gen. Gilman Marston, and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in April, 1856. He never practised, however, his tastes inclining to literary work. In 1857 he joined the staff of the New Hampshire Statesman, from which he soon went to the Manchester Mirror. Early in 1858 he became an editor of the Cincinnati Gazette, of which he soon became a proprietor. His connection with the Gazette lasted until its consolidation with the Commercial in 1883, when he sold his interest and returned to Exeter, buying as his home, the quaint old house once occupied by his great-grandfather, Nicholas Gilman, state treasurer during the Revolution. Since 1888 Mr. Perry had been an editorial writer for the Exeter News-Letter, and in 1888 and 1896 was managing editor of the New Hampshire Journal and its successor, the Record, organs of New Hampshire Congregationalists. He had contributed to leading reviews. He was the author of "Sixteen Saviours or One," a book published at Cincinnati in 1879, to prove that the gospels are not Brahminic, and in 1899 he published a valuable history of the First church of Exeter. He was an omnivorous reader, had a most retentive memory, and was a veritable cyclopedia of facts and dates. He had long been chairman of the Exeter public library trustees, and the library owes much to his scholarly tastes. He was a member of the state historical society. In March, 1885, he was elected a trustee of the academy, and at his resignation in April, 1899, was president of the board. He was a member of the First Congregational church. In 1862 Mr. Perry was married to Miss Sarah Chandler of Concord, a lineal descendant of John Wheelwright, founder of Exeter. She died June 11, 1897. He had no children. He leaves one brother, Dr. William G. Perry of Exeter. He was an uncle of Sarah Orne Jewett. OSCAR D. ABBOTT, M. D. Dr. Oscar D. Abbott died at his home on Walnut street, Manchester, January 1, 1902. Oscar Dunreath Abbott was born in Cornish Flat on September 13, 1824, and was the son of Ezekiel and Phobe (Morse) Abbott. He was in the seventh generation, in direct line, from George Abbott, who settled in Andover, Mass., in 1643, coming from Yorkshire, Eng. His great-grandfather, Nathan Abbott, was born at Andover and moved to Wilton, where his grandfather was born. Dr. Abbott received his early education in the district school at Bradford, and then attended Henniker academy and Phillips-Exeter academy. He went to Manchester, in 1847, and took up the study of medicine in the office of Drs. Davis and Jones. He received the degree of M. D. from the Berkshire Medical college of Pittsfield, Mass., on November 20, 1850. He passed the following winter and spring in Boston doing hospital work and attending lectures, and then, in 1853, he settled in Rockport, Mass., where he remained sixteen years, when it became necessary for him to change his residence on account of ill health, and he removed to Manchester. There he was for many years a prominent figure in medical circles. In 1878'79 he was city and county physician, and in 1870 was on the board of health. He was a member of the Massachusetts State Medical association, the New Hampshire Medical society, and the Manchester Medical association, and was consulting physician to the Elliot hospital. Outside of his profession he had several social connections, being a member of the Knights Templar, the Derryfield club, and at one time of the Knights of Pythias. Dr. Abbott was thrice married, his first wife being Margaret S., daughter of Edward H. Pearce of Gloucester, Mass.; the second being Emma B. Pearce, a sister of his first wife. On June 10, 1879, he was married to Kate Tarr, daughter of Benjamin Tarr of Rockport, Mass., who survives him. Other survivors are his daughters, Mrs. C. T. Parsons of Arlington Heights, Mass., Mrs. George W. Chickering, and Miss Annie O. Abbott of Manchester; one brother, Egbert O. Abbott of Manchester, and a sister, Mrs. James Wilkins of Henniker. HON. CALEB BLODGETT. Hon. Caleb Blodgett, formerly associate justice of the Massachusetts superior court, died at his summer home at Canaan Street, on Wednesday, December II, 1901. Judge Blodgett, who was a brother of Chief Justice Isaac N. Blodgett of the New Hampshire supreme court, was born in Dorchester, June 3, 1832; fitted for college at Canaan and Meriden, and graduated from Dartmouth with high honors in 1856. He then returned to Canaan, where the family then resided, and commenced the study of law with William P. Weeks, going thence to Worcester and entering the office of Bacon & Aldrich, where he prosecuted his studies until his admission to the bar in Worcester county, February, 1860. He began practice in the little town of Hopkinton with his classmate, the Hon. H. L. Parker, as associate. In the autumn of 1860 he removed to Boston and |