Richard Stoddard Ewell, a general of the Confederate States of America, born in. the District of Columbia in 1820, died at Spring Hill, Tenn., Jan. 25, 1872. He graduated at West Point in 1840, and became lieutenant of dragoons. He served in the Mexican war from 184(3 to 1848, and was breveted as captain for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco. In 1859 he was wounded in a skirmish with the Apaches. In May, 1861, he entered the confederate service, and commanded a brigade at the battle of Bull Run. Early in 1862 he was promoted to major general, and commanded a division in Jackson's campaign in the Shenandoah valley. He was conspicuous in the battles of Gaines's Mill, Malvern Hill, and Cedar Mountain, was worsted by Hooker at Bristoe Station, and lost a leg at the second battle of Bull Run. He was made a lieutenant general in May, 1863, and succeeded to the command of Jackson's corps, with which he was present at Gettys-hurg, the Wilderness, and Spottsylvania Court House. During the siege of Petersburg, being disabled from active service in the field, he had command of the garrison of Richmond. At Sailor's creek, during the confederate retreat, he was cut off by Sheridan, and surrendered, with 6,000 or 7,000 men, three days before the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. Toward the close of the war he had married a daughter of Judge Campbell of Tennessee, and subsequently took up his residence in that state, and engaged in stock raising, in which he was very successful.