Charles Cleveland Dodge

     GENERAL CHARLES C. DODGE.
 General Charles Cleveland Dodge died
early yesterday morning at the Dr. Bull
Sanatorum from pneumonia. He had been
ill about a week. The funeral will be held
at the home of his brother, the Rev. D.
Stuart Dodge, No. 6 East 49th street, on
Monday, and services will be held at the
St. Nicholas Collegiate Church at 10 o'clock.
 General Dodge was the son of William
Earl and Melissa Phelps Dodge, and was
born in Plainfield, N.J., on September 16,
1841. When the Civil War broke out he
was commissioned a captain of the New
York Mounted Rifles, and a week later was
made major. He was placed in command
of a cavalry column in General Wool's
army, and received the surrender of Nor-
folk, Va., before the arrival of his superior
officers. On August 14, 1862, he was made
a colonel of rifles, and on November 29 of
the same year re received his commission
as brigadier general of volunteers. He was
in command at Suffolk during General
Longstreet's siege of the town, and was
wounded in the land fight the day of the
battle between the Monitor and the Merri-
mac. He resigned his commission on June
12, 1863.
 General Dodge was at one time a mem-
ber of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co. He
belonged to the New York Chamber of
Commerce, and was actively interested in
many business enterprises. He was the
first president of the New York and Boston
Cape Cod Canal Company, a position which
he held until the time of his death. Gen-
eral Dodge married Mary Theresa Brad-
hurst Scheffelin, a daughter of Samuel B.
Schieffelin, of New York. Mrs. Dodge died
on March 28 of this year. He leaves two
children, Charles Stuart Dodge and Ethel
Sanger, wife of Colonel William Cary
Sanger, of Sangerfield. His brothers are
Anson G.P. Dodge and the Rev. Dr. S.
Stuart Dodge, of New York.