eloquent tribute to the virtues and memory of the deceased, to which his Honor, Chief Justice Caton thus replied:

"The Court received the announcement of the death of Gen. Wallace with emotions, for the expression of which we find no adequate words. In his death the Bar has lost one of its brightest ornaments, the Court one of its safest advisers, and our country one of its ablest defenders. His whole professional life has been passed among us, and we have known him well. All your words of encomium are but simple justice, and we know they proceed from the deepest convictions of their truth. All his instincts were those of a gentleman; all his impulses were of a noble and lofty character— his sensibilities refined and generous. He was certainly a man of a very high order of talent, and he was a very excellent lawyer. By his industry he studied the law closely, and by his clear judgment he applied it properly. He did honor to his profession-it is meet that his professional brethren should honor his memory.

"Scarcely a year ago he was with us, engaged in a lucrative practice--the ornament and the delight of a large circle of friends, and enjoying the quiet endearments of domestic life, loving and beloved by a family worthy of him, now made desolate. At the very first call of his country for defenders, he abandoned his practice, he withdrew from his associates and friends at home, and tore himself from the domestic circle, and pledged his energies and his life to the vindication of his country's flag, which has been torn down and dishonored by rebel hands at Sumter-to the defence of that Constitution and those laws, the maintenance of which is indispensable to material greatness and happiness. For these he fought, for these he died.

"For myself, I may say, he was my near neighbor and my dear friend. He honored me with his confidence, and disclosed to me fully the patriotic impulses which led him to abandon all to defend his native land. If he was an able lawyer, so he was an able commander. If we mourn him as a departed friend and brother, so does the country mourn him as one of her ablest Generals gone.

"With the glad news of victory, comes the sad lament of his death. Our gladness was turned to mourning. So it ever is, and so must it ever be in this sublunary world. With all our joys are mingled strains of sorrow. Happiness unalloyed is reserved for

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that brighter and better world promised to those who act well their part on earth, into the full fruition of which, those who knew him best, doubt not he is accepted.

"The resolutions which have been adopted by the Bar will be entered upon the records of the Court, as a perpetual memorial of our appreciation of the worth of the late General Wallace, and the Clerk will furnish a copy of them and a copy of this order to the widow and family of the deceased, and out of respect to his memory the Court will now adjourn."

MAJOR-GENERAL B. F. PRENTISS.

The subject of the following sketch was the first in Illinois who wore the insignia of a Brigadier; one of the first placed in command of a division and the first to be carried into captivity, and experience the tender mercies of the Southern chivalry.

BENJAMIN F. PRENTISS was born November 23, 1819 at Bellville, Virginia, subsequently his father removed to Missouri; thus the youth of the future General was spent in the midst of the practical beauties of American slavery. It may be that early recollections had to do with the bitterness with which the General denounced the system and all its appendages in the political campaign in 1864.

In 1841 the family removed to Quincy, Illinois, where he supported and educated himself by working at his trade, rope-making. His first taste of war was in 1844. He was 1st Lieutenant of the Quincy Rifles, of which Captain (Brigadier-General) James D. Morgan was commander. "The Rifles went into Hancock county rendered the State some service in

the infested district and

the maintenance of order.

At the out-breaking of the Mexican war he promptly volunteered and was made Adjutant of Colonel Hardin's Regiment, 1st Illinois Infantry. On the resignation of Capt. T. L. Dickey, he became Captain of Co. I and was succeeded as Adjutant by W. H. L. Wallace. The companies of James D. Morgan and Prentiss, Morgan the ranking officer, were at the battle of Buena Vista posted at Saltillo, under orders from Gen. Taylor and held it, against a superior force, and these regiments won marked commendation from their perfection in drill, and soldierly efficiency.

Returning to Quincy Captain Prentiss resumed for a time his former trade, and subsequently entered the commission and forwarding business in which he continued until the war began.

In 1860 he was a candidate for Congress against William A. Richardson, but the district was overwhelmingly democratic and he was beaten.

Of course the intelligence of the outrage upon the Flag stirred the blood of one who had carried it beyond the Rio Grande. On Sunday came word of the surrender of Sumter, and in one week, Prentiss, with the reorganized Quincy Rifles and others, amounting in all to two hundred men, was en route to Cairo, determined to aid in holding it at all hazards. He was elected Col. of the 7th Regiment, and as soon as there were troops enough to organize a brigade, he was elected Brigadier-General of Illinois troops under the three months' call, his former compatriot, Morgan, succeeding him in command of the 7th. He was active and energetic at Cairo, placing its defences in such order as to promise resistance to any assailing force, drilling his new recruits, who, though since proved to be very brave, were most of them very raw.

At the close of the three months' term General Prentiss was made Brigadier-General of volunteers, by Presidential appointment, and very soon was ordered into Southern-Missouri, where he conducted an expedition through Pilot Knob, and the southern part of the State. He was next ordered into North Missouri where, with a handful of troops, whom he multiplied by activity, he subdued for a time the desperate hordes of guerrillas which infested the unfortunate district. From thence he was ordered to report to General Grant at Pittsburg Landing, where he arrived only two or three days before the battle and was ordered at once to take command of the 6th division.

The reader has seen the statement made by the General as to the disposition of troops to prevent surprise and to meet the enemy. Charging with fury came the picked men of Johnston's army, and the gallant sixth division received the attention of its heavy columns. Seeing he was flanked, General Prentiss ordered his division to fall back in order of battle, to the color line of his encampment, at the same time sending word to Wallace and Hurlbut. Again compelled

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to retire, his division was re-formed on Hurlbut's right and Wallace's left. Again and again came on the foe and his command was greatly reduced by casualties and the escapade of many of his raw troops. At ten A. M., General Grant visited his division and expressed himself gratified with his exertions and plans, and ordered him to maintain his position. He did so, until even Hurlbut's iron division was compelled to give way, when he changed front and attempted to advance upon the enemy, only to find himself encircled by his foe and without supports, and was obliged, with more than two thousand to surrender. He fought desperately to prevent it, but was overpowered. The exultation of the captors was beyond description. As they passed through Southern towns, the population thronged to see a Yankee General, and occasionally the General treated them to a sound stirring Union speech, such as they had not often heard in their "sunny latitudes." In Memphis he made a speech on the 10th, ostensibly to his own troops, but the citizens heard it and some cheered. The Provost Marshal bade him be silent. The General told him that his (Prentiss') friends there, were four to one if they could be heard. He said to the citizens, "Keep quiet a few weeks and you will have an opportunity to cheer the old flag to your hearts' content." His "boys" gave, as musical volunteers, Hail Columbia, Red White and Blue, Happy Land of Canaan, and set to melody the information that

"John Brown's soul is marching on!

Glory, hallelujah !”

They were conveyed to Montgomery, Alabama, where they were paroled, on the 23d of May, 1862. They reached Nashville on the 5th of June. The reason assigned for the parole was the inability to feed them. The rebels had not then reached the savage cruelty of deliberately starving our men taken in battle, as in Libby Prison, Andersonville and Millen!

On the 29th of November his commission as Major-General of volunteers was dated, subsequently to which he rendered comparatively little active service, and within a few months tendered his resignation. In the Presidential canvass of 1863, he was placed upon the Republican electoral ticket for the State at large, and spoke repeatedly in favor of the re-election of Mr. Lincoln and the

election of his former companion in arms, General Oglesby, to the gubernatoral chair of Illinois.

Brigadier-General Mason Brayman, was born in Buffalo, New York, May 23, 1813. His farm-life and the common school gave him his early education. He entered the office of the Buffalo Journal and learned the printer's trade, and the second year was made foreman. From the types to preparation for the bar was the next step, and at twenty years of age, he was editor of the Buffalo Bulletin, a thorough Jackson paper, advocating democracy with all imaginable zeal, and with fair ability to boot. At twenty-two he was admitted to the bar, and the succeeding year he married.

In 1837 he was editor of the Louisville Advertiser. In 1842, he removed to Springfield, Illinois, and engaged in the practice of his profession. Three years subsequently, under appointment of Governor Ford, he revised and codified the Statutes of the State. In 1846 he was made a special states' attorney and commissioned to prosecute offences growing out of the Mormon war.

In 1851, he was attorney for the Illinois Central Railway, and as such, had the management of vast pecuniary interests, securing the right of way, protecting its land, &c. He was associated with the late Governor Bissell, and the presence of the latter in Congress devolved most of the care and responsibility on Mr. Brayman.

He was next engaged in a great railway scheme which should connect Cairo with Texas, connecting south and west with Galveston and the Pacific. It was a huge undertaking. Mr. Brayman was president of the two companies engaged in it, and the prospects were flattering until the commencement of the war, which of course laid aside the "Southern route to the Pacific," until peace should return and render Southern travel safe for Northern men with Union principles.

He was an original and thorough Democrat in his convictions and associations, but on the breaking out of the war, he with McClernand and Logan at once offered himself to the country. Governor Yates gave him a commission as Major of the 29th infantry, forming part of General McClernand's brigade. He was appointed chief of staff and Assistant Adjutant, for which position his business habits and decision gave him eminent fitness. Of course his relations to