Soldiers At Rest

New Yoek, Maren 21.- General Adam Badeau died at Ridgewood, N. J., yesterday, aged 04 yeara. He was on the staff of General Grant as military secretary, and nfterward served as secretary of the American legatiun iu London. General Badeaii was a nationul charaeter for many years. and owed his eelebnty largely to his friendship for Genoral Grant, the latter's regard for him and the work he did since Grant's death as the biographer of the great soldier His death was caused by apoplexy The general was stricken at abfout. 5 o'clock Tuesday aftcrnoon while talking with his adopted sou, George Corsa. ïhe two had boen together about lifteen minutes when the general began to gasp, and feil back into tho arms of Mr. Corsa, dying in i few minutes. During the past six months the general had to undergo several operations to remove catafaots from his eyes. He had reslded with George Corsa and Miss Cliillman, his adopted childreu, since last f all. WoUoded Whil Leading a Clurgt-. General Badeau was boru in this city in December, 1KÜ1 In his boyhood hu was put in the hands of a private tutor, and was afterward sent to a boarding school at Tarrytown. N. Y. In 18öa he volunteore.l in the military service of the United States, and lus lirst appointment was on the stuff of Brigadier General Thomas W. Sheruiau. He was with ïsheruian in Louislauu, where he Served until May '27, Is63. On llititdiiy he was ricspcrately wounueJ with liis oomiuauding ofticer whilo they were kind ing an as.sault on the Confedérate wn'r.. at Port HuUsou. About one year irom ihis Unte he was appointeo. military secrotaryjoi General Grant. The title whio.h Went with this appointment was tliat cl lieuttsnant colonèl. He was uiterwatxl maiie coioni:!. His Coiinection witli Gen. Grant. Whtle sorving in a capacity the duties of whiel) brc ught hun so close to the oommandar of the government's lorces during the year following, Colonel BadeaU had ampie opportunity to see General Grant's personality in all its phases, and he was probauly as familiar with tiie private character, ioibles, magnauiniity and military genius of the great soldier as any othcr man wlio touched the general's sphere. He accoinpauled Grant through the campaigns of the Wilderness and ot' ppomatt.ox, and served on the stuff uutil March, laii'j, when he was retired from the army with the fuU rank Of captain and the brevet of brigadier general. He was also rewarded with a simular brevet by the volunteer service. feuccehslul as a Diplomat, It was in May, 1869, ..hat General Badeau enterad the diplomatie service, receiving an uppointincnt as seeretary of the LiOndon legation. He served in that eapacity for six mouths. In 1870 he was sent to Madrid as the bearer of important governmeut dispatches, and in May of that yoar returned to Loudon is consul general, whioh office he held untü 1881. His diplomatic eareer was long and successful. During the two years of 1877 and )S78 he was given leave of absence from his duties in liondon, and was one of tho party that accompanied Grant on the famous tour of the world. He was recalled Erom liis position iu Loudon by President Garfleld, and one yoar later was given the consul generalship at Havana. In this posición he served until 1884-, when he resigned booause he was nut periuittedt by the department of state to substantiate cortain eliarges of corruptioa whieh he htd made against it. Was an .ulhur s WeU. He also had the satisfaction of beating Únele Saín iu two cases where he was charged with drawingtoo much mouey in (ees, the courts declaring that Badeau was right. The general about this tiine began to grow tired of a diplomatie life. In 1875 he was given au opportunity to go to Brussels as United States minister, but declinod. Later, iu 1881, when he was tendered a mission to Coponhagen he deolinod that place, too. All his life he was a litemry man, writiug ior the papers and also bcing the author of a immber of books, the most important of whtch was his "Military History of Ulysses S. Grant." He also later wrote "Grant in Peace." His coutribtitions to periodical literature in the way ot articles. covering a wido range of subjeets, have been valuuable and meritorious. ili Opiniou of Gen Grant. Whatever fame as a writer Badeau has must rest on hts volumes relating to Grant, and they are all works of great value. He it was who termed General Grant "Graut, the Hjnumer," because he declared that he smote the stone wull of the Confoderacy and left it in ruins. He held that General Grant's greatness culmiuated during tho list year of the civil war, when ho was in command of the uatiuiiitl armies. He was iv good president, but a great soldier, and it was uuun these lines that General Badeau beoame Grant's biographer. Wnting ot' the "Old Coinmander" hesays: "He was so simple, so unambitious, so unstudied, so apparently unconscious of self, so utterly unlike what I supposed ;i supereminently great man to be. Immediately alter Lee surrendered I weat up to him and said soinetliing about the event living in historv, but 1 ain aure thiit that had never occurred to him."