GEN. EDWARD JARDINE DEAD
END OF A NOTABLE CAREER AS
SOLDIER AND BUSINESS MAN.
For Weeks He Had Been at the Point of
Death from Complications Resulting
from an Injury Received in the Draft
Riots---He Was Struck by a Piece of Lead
Pipe from a Cannon and the Wound
Never Healed---Arrangements for the
Funeral.
Gen. Edward Jardine, the veteran sol-
dier who for sixteen weeks had been bat-
tling against death, died in his apartments
at the Hotel Pomeroy at 1 o'clock yester-
day afternoon.
For several weeks Gen. Jardine's rela-
tives and friends had understood that
there was no hope of his recovery, and he
himself knew that he was sinking. Com-
plications resulting from a wound received
in the draft riots in this city caused his
death. The wound, which was in the
thigh, was caused by a piece of lead pipe
fired from a cannon, and would never heal.
The General was in continual bad health.
During the entire year of 1887 Gen. Jar-
dine was sick in bed, and his recovery was
regarded as impossible. Since then, and un-
til the attack of sixteen weeks ago, he had
been very feeble, but able to get around.
Gen. Jardine's wife and Mr. and Mrs.
Zabriskie were the only ones with him
when he died. His son, Augustus E. Jar-
dine of Delaware, was telegraphed for and
arrived last evening.
The body was removed from the hotel
last night to Scottish Rite Hall, Madison
Avenue and Twenty-ninth Street. There
the funeral services will be held to-morrow
evening at 8 o'clock. The Rev. Clark
Wright will officiate and deliver a eulogy
of the old soldier. The Chancellor Wal-
worth Lodge of Masons. the George Wash-
ington Post of the Grand Army, and the
Loyal Legion of Honor, all of which
Gen. Jardine was a member, will attend
the funeral. The burial will be in Green-
wood Cemetery Wednesday morning.
Telegrams of sympathy were received by
Mrs. Jardine from many prominent men
yesterday and from the various organiza-
tions to which the General belonged. Many
of his old army friends called on his widow
and offered their condolence.
Gen. Jardine was the son of Charles
Jardine, an Englishman of French descent.
He was born in Brooklyn, Nov. 2, 1828,
very shortly after his parents came to
this country. His early opportunities were
few, but he made the most of them. He
had to work in a hardware store during
the day, but he was a hard student at
night, and managed to secure by his own
effort a very good education. He succeeded
in business, too, and was engaged in im-
porting hardware on his own account by
the time he had reached his majority.
Gen. Jardine also took a great interest in
military matters. He had served in the
National Guard of the State as a member
of the Seventh Regiment. When the war
started in 1861, he voluteered his services
and went to the front as a Captain in the
Ninth Regiment, which afterward became
famous as the "Hawkins Zouaves."
With the Ninth Regiment he was at-
tached to the command of Gen. Burnside,
and served under him in the Roanoke ex-
pedition and at the battles of Fredericks-
burg and Antietam. For gallant conduct
he was promoted to be a Major, and for a
time commanded the Eighty-ninth Regi-
ment.
The enlistment of the men in the Ninth
Regiment expired in 1863. Gen. Jardine
started in to reorganize his old command
with a view to returning with it to the
field. It was at this time that the draft
riots occurred in this city. Gen. Jardine
was not attched to any command then,
but he issued a call to the old members of
the Hawkins Zouaves and of other regi-
ments to assemble and volunteer their
services to the authorities for the protec-
tion of life and property from the fury of
the mob.
Only about 200 men responded to that
call, but Gen. Jardine placed himself at
their head. He was a dashing commander,
a man whom his men would follow any-
where. On July 15 the mob was centred
at First Avenue and Nineteenth Street,
where the greatest disorder prevailed.
Gen. Jardine and his small command of
veterans started up First Avenue to dis-
perse that mob.
The odds were a score to one, however,
against Gen. Jardine and his men, and
they were driven back by the mob, leaving
a large proportion of their number dead
and wounded on the streets. Gen. Jardine
was one of the wounded, a great ragged
hole being torn in his thigh.
The wound incapacitated the General
for further service, although he was about
to have a commission given him as Colonel
of the Seventeenth Regiment, the new or-
ganization which had been formed of mem-
bers from the old Ninth and Seventeenth
Regiments, and had adopted the uniform
of the Ninth. This commission he could
not take, but had to be transferred to the
Veteran Reserve Corps.
When he was retired he was brevetted a
Brigadier General, as a recognition of his
services as a soldier. When the war closed
he went into business in Wall Street for a
time. He was associated in business there
with W.T. Pelton, a nephew of Samuel J.
Tilden. He became a citizen of New-Jersey,
residing at Fort Lee, on the Hudson. He
took an active interest in politics and was
several times a candidate for public office.
In 1869 he was Clerk of the New-Jersey
Legislature. From 1867 to 1869 he was
the publisher and editor of the Daily Times
of Jersey City and of the Bergen County
Weekly Times. In 1870 President Grant
appointed him a weigher in the New-York
Custom House, where he remained until
his health obliged him to give up all work.
Gen. Jardine was first married, when only
eighteen years old, to Miss Ophelia Kreemer
of this city. There were two sons by this
marriage--Augustus E. and James R.D.
Jardine. In 1885, several years after the
death of his first wife, he married Mrs.
Katherine Clark of this city, who sur-
vives him.
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