Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — Led a Desperate Charge. [ARTICLE]

Led a Desperate Charge.

Brevet Brigadier General James Cavanaugh, who died recently at his Brooklyn, N, Y„ home, at the age of 79 years, fought with the Irish brigade in the war of the rebellion from Yorktown to Antietam; with Colonel Nugent he led the famous charge of that command at the battle of Fredericksburg and fell dangerously wounded within 100 feet of the enemy’s position. Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister, was in Albany, N. Y„ the other day and while there met David B. Hill at a “Where are your wife and children?” said the oriental. Dave confessedly answered that he was a bachelor. “Wrong, wrong,” said the diplomat. “You bachelors should be taxed for remaining single,, and the older you are the higher you should be taxed.” This idea was liberally applauded by all the married men present, thus adding much to the ex-gov-ernor’s embarrassment.