Obituary.
COL. LEWIS BENEDICT, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-
SECOND NEW-YORK VOLUNTEERS.
The advices from New-Orleans give a partial
list of the killed and wounded in the battles in West-
ern Louisiana. Among the best known names is
that of Col. LEWIS BENEDICT, of the One Hundred and
Sixty-second New-York Volunteers.
Col. BENEDICT, who was a son of the late LEWIS
BENEDICT, of Albany, was born in 1817. He graduated
at Williams' College, and practised law in Albany.
In 1861 he was a member of the Legislature, and in
the Summer of that year entered the army as Lieu-
tenant-Colonel of the Second Fire Zouaves. At the
battle of Williamsburgh he was distinguished for
bravery, and was taken prisoner. He entered that
battle almost helpless from a sprained ankle, and
leaning on the arm of an orderly. A confinement of
three months followed in the prison-house of Rich-
mond and Salisbury, when he was finally exchanged,
and was one of the officers that received an ovation
in New-York with Col. CORCORAN.
In the Fall of 1862, Col. BENEDICT was appointed to
the command of the One Hundred and Sixty-second
New-York Volunteers, who went out with the Banks
Expedition. In the battles of the Department of the
Gulf Col. BENEDICT has been conspicuous, and he
has always borne the reputation of a brave soldier
and an accomplished officer. On the 14th of June
last he commanded a brigade which made an attack
pn Port Hudson. At the storming of Port Hudson, he
and Col. BERGE were designated as leaders of the for-
lorn hope. For some time past he has commanded
the First Brigade of the First Division of the Nine-
teenth Army Corps, consisting of the Duryea Zou-
aves, Lieut.-Col. CARR; the Buffalo Regiment, Col.
LOVE; and the Thirtieth Maine, Col. FESSENDEN. In
every capacity Col. BENEDICT has nobly acquitted
himself, fully securing the tardy recognition of merit
that in so many other instances was all too swift to fall
upon the undeserving. The country which mourns
the loss of so many precious lives has need of such
soldiers as Col. BENEDICT.
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