General Wadsworth
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MAY 21, 1864.] HARPER'S WEEKLY. 333 GEN. JAMES S. WADSWORTH.GENERAL JAMES S. WADSWORTH, who fell at the head of his command in the battle of the 6th inst., in the Wilderness, beyond the Rapidan, was one of the first volunteers of the war. His first service in the field was under McDOWELL at Bull Run. About the 1st of August, 1861, he was commissioned a Brigadier-General ; and during the long drilling months which succeeded General McCLELLAN'S appointment to the command-in-chief General WADSWORTH won for himself the credit, among the most experienced army officers, of having his brigade, long before the close of the year, in the most efficient condition alike as to drill and discipline. In the spring of 1862 General WADSWORTH was appointed Military Governor of the District of Columbia ; and on the advance of General McCLELLAN to Manassas, and subsequently to the Peninsula, General WADSWORTH'S command extended to Occoquan Bay. In the winter of 1862-3, after his defeat as candidate for Governor of New York, he passed several months in the field, and was engaged at the battle of Chancellorsville. He was charged later in the season with a mission to the Southwest and the Gulf States, in connection with the organization of colored troops; and his latest position was that of General of the Fourth Division of the Fifth Corps. He gave his sons as well as himself to the service of his country, and used his large means with the utmost liberality to aid the national cause. He was nearly fifty-seven years of age. DESTRUCTION OF EAST TENNESSEE RAILROAD.WE give on this page a sketch of the incident referred to in the following letter from a correspondent at Bull's Gap, Tennessee : " The First Brigade of the Third Division of the Twenty-third Army Corps started from camp on the morning of the 25th inst. to destroy the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, and returned last evening, having torn up the road for fifteen miles between Lick Creek and Greenville, burning every bridge and railroad tie, and bending every rail, so completely destroying the road that it can not be repaired in months. The Second Brigade left on Sunday morning to destroy the railroad bridge over Watauga River, fifty-four miles distant. The force had a fight with the enemy under 'MUDWALL' JACKSON, completely routing him, and on their way back burned all bridges and tore up the entire track. The sketch sent you was takenon the spot."
DESTRUCTION
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