Colonel Alexander Gardiner

HARPER'S WEEKLY.

[NOVEMBER 5, 1864.

716

THE LATE COLONEL ALEXANDER GARDINER.

THE LATE COLONEL GARDINER.

COLONEL ALEXANDER GARDINER, of the Fourteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, whose portrait is engraved on this page, was a native of New York City. Shortly after being admitted to the bar he removed to Kansas, then in her darkest hours of trouble, taking with him a printing-press and materials for the establishment of a Free State paper. But Lawrence was sacked and his press utterly destroyed before the issue of the first number of the paper. Colonel GARDINER did not practice law in Kansas, as he refused to take oath under the pro-slavery Constitution. Having seen Kansas sub

stantially through her troubles, Colonel GARDINER removed to New Hampshire, and soon took a commanding position in his profession. He volunteered in the Fourteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, and was appointed Adjutant. After seeing service in Virginia the regiment went to New Orleans, when it was attached to the Nineteenth Corps, with which it returned to take part in the final struggle in Virginia. Adjutant GARDINER had been promoted to the command of the regiment, and was killed at its head while leading his men to the charge at the victorious battle of Winchester. The army may have lost more prominent officers, but none braver, nobler, truer.

THE LATE MAJOR JAMES P. JONES.---[SEE PAGE 717.]