tain while acting under the command oc
General McClellan. His services in Wesi
Virginia made it a Union State. He wo.
the battle of Iuka and Oorinth while i.
command of the Army of the Mississippi
His useful services at later pe s in thi
war ineluded a victory at Stone River, im
portant movements resulting in the battle
e of Chickamauga and the capture of Chat
tanooga, and, while he was in command o
the Department of Missouri, the defeat of i
t plan of invasion attemped by the Confed
erate General Price. His rank as a sol
d dier of the Volunteers was Major General
After making his residence in San Fran
e cisco the General declined the superintend
d ency of the California branch of the Uni
ted States Mint and a nomination for Gov
vernor of the State. He was a Represents
*. tive in the f orty-seventh and Forty-eight
Congresses and, as a matter of course, i
e well known in Washington.
John H. Aufdemorte, redemption clerk b
in the office of the United States Sub-Treas a
urer at New Orleans, has abscorded, and an ti
investigation of his accounts develops a b
shortage of about $25,000. He endeavored I
to collect a check of $30,000 besides, but the a
bank on which it was drawn declined to ii
cash it. Aufdemorte had been employed in
the Sub-Treasury seventeen years, succeed- I
ing his father in the same position, and c
was considered one of the most capable and c
reliable men in that department. His skill f
as a detector of counterfeit money was re- I
ma'rkable. He is about 40 years of age
and has a wife and several children.
