Joseph Gerhardt

      DEATH OF GENERAL GERHARDT.
A Patriot, a Soldier, and a Stalwart Re-
         publican Gone.
 It is with deep regret announcement is
made of the death of General Joseph Gerhardt,
who died yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, at
his late residence, 1626 Fourteenth street north-
west. He was born and educated at the university
at Bonn, on the Rhine, and took a prominent part
with Kinkle, Carl Shurz, and H. Rasher in the
German revolution in 1848-'49, commanding a bat-
talion in the Badish insurrection. He fled to
Switzerland, and coming to this country in 1850, he
made Washington his home. At the out-
break of the rebellion he was the first
citizen of this District who organized a
volunteer company to defend the Stars and
Stripes, and was afterward commissioned as col-
onel of the Forty-sixth New York Volunteers, and
breveted by President Lincoln, who was his warm
personal friend, to be brigadier-general for
meritorious services during the war. Since
the war his health has been in a shattered
condition, which finally caused his death. He
was a good Stalwart Republican, and was twice
elected as a delegate from this District to the Repub-
lican convention which nominated President
Abraham Lincoln. His death is mourned by his
friends as well as by the whole community. He
leaves a wife and seven children in moderate cir-
cumstances. He was a well-known restaurant-
keeper, his last place of business being on Sixth
street, adjoining the Washington Gymnasium. The
Grand Army of the Republic have already taken
charge of the body, and an invitation will be ex-
tended to the Washington Light Infantry to par-
ticipate in the funeral.