Chauncey B. Reese

                OBITUARY.
      Major Chauncey B. Reese, United States
                   Army.
 A private telegram received here yesterday re-
ports the death of this officer at his station at Mo-
bile, on the 22d inst. Major Reese was a native of
this State. He entered the Military Academy at West
Point in July, 1854, and graduated in 1859. Imme-
diately after he was commissioned brevet second
lieutenant in the corps of engineers and ordered to
Alabama, where he served until the outbreak of the
rebellion. Promoted to the rank of first lieutenant
he aided in placing Washington in a state of defence,
and participated in the Virginia peninsular cam-
paign. He constructed numerous bridges, roads and
field works. Among the first named was the 
famous bridge, 2,000 feet in length, across the
Chickahominy. Until August, 1863, he remained in
Virginia, having, by this time, won the rank of cap-
tain. He was next sent to the Department of the
South, where he engaged in the siege of Fort Wag-
ner and in constructing defences, until February,
1864, when he was appointed Chief Engineer of the
Army of the Tennessee. He participated in the
entire campaign under General Sherman, from
Dalton to Atlanta, and thence to Savannah. At the
close he was made brevet major, brevet liuetenant
colonel and brevet colonel, December 21, 1864,
for gallant and distinguished services during
the campaign through Georgia and ending
in the capture of Savannah. Still serving
under Sherman he made another campaign
through South and North Carolina, which
resulted in the surrender of Johnston's army. For
the part he took in the operations he was made a 
brevet brigadier general. After the close of the war
he was placed on duty as captain of engineers, that
being his rank in the regular army. In 1867 he was
promoted to major, which commission he held at
the time of his death. For some time past he had
been on duty at Mobile. It is supposed that the dis-
ease which carried him off was yellow fever, a ser-
vant in his family having died of it some ten days
previous. Major Reese was widely esteemed by all
who knew him. He was married a couple of years
ago at Fortress Monroe, and, besides his widow,
leaves a child which was born some months ago.