Richard Henry Stoddard, one of our three most distinguished living
poets, (see note on “Kearny at Seven Pines,” by Edmund Clarence
Stedman) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, July 2, 1825. Mr.
Stoddard’s long devotion to literature (although he was for some
years connected with the New York custom-house and dock department)
is too well known to call for extended chronicle. Not only as a
poet, but also as an editor and critic, has he won a high place in
American letters.
Brigadier-General Nathaniel Lyon, a native of Connecticut (1818), a
graduate of West Point, and a veteran of the Seminole and Mexican wars,
was killed while rallying his troops at the battle of Wilson’s Creek,
Missouri, August 10, 1861.