. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . ton have pricked some pretty have exposed the hollowness of much maudlinsympathy for the negro, etc. Having performed thisduty, General Fullerton again, for the third time, tend, n 1his resignation from the military service, and urging thisit was accepted, and he was mustered out in September,1866. He was offered the commission of colonel of oneof the new regiments of the regular army, hut not caringfor military life in the time of peace declined the same,and returned to civil life. After leaving the service
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . ton have pricked some pretty have exposed the hollowness of much maudlinsympathy for the negro, etc. Having performed thisduty, General Fullerton again, for the third time, tend, n 1his resignation from the military service, and urging thisit was accepted, and he was mustered out in September,1866. He was offered the commission of colonel of oneof the new regiments of the regular army, hut not caringfor military life in the time of peace declined the same,and returned to civil life. After leaving the service he-was appointed postmaster of St. Louis, which office heheld for two years, and then retired to take up the praof law. For twenty-five years lie has been tnthe Society of the Army of the Cumberland, next to theG. A. R. the largest military society. In the fall of 1890 he gave up the practice of law inSt. Louis, and since then ha - lively engaged as chairman of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga NationalMilitary Park Commissi 66 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (.volunteer). BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL JAMES MONROEDEEMS, Brevet Brigadier-General James Monroe Deems,whose name is associated with music, particularly in theState of Maryland, was born in the city of Baltimore,January 9, [818. His grandfather, Frederick Deems,served in Captain William Craigs company, Third Regi-ment Pennsylvania Infantry, during the Revolution. Hisfather, Jacob Deems, was a popular and public-spiritedcitizen of Baltimore, and commanded a company in theFifty-third Regiment Maryland Infantry, in the war of1812. At an early age the subject of this sketch de-veloped a decided talent for music and received instruc-tion on several orchestral instruments, also on the [839 he went to Germany, locating in Dresden, wherehe studied composition and violoncello with J. J. F. Dot-zauer, then the first violoncellist in Europe. In 1S41 hereturned to the United States and followed the professionof music in hi
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