Feb. 3. John C. Foley, a veteran of the Civil War, died today in Charleston, S. C., while on a business tour. His residence for some years past had been in New Orleans, La. He belonged to an old and widely respected Irish family favorably known in Kilkenny and Tipperary, members of which emigrated to this country in the early fifties and settled in South Brooklyn, N. Y., where some of them still reside. On the breaking out of the Civil War the deceased joined the Eighty-eighth Regiment, New York Volunteers, of Meagher’s Brigade, in which he was commissioned as first lieutenant in the company of which the late Maj. P. K. Horgan was then captain. He served with his command through all the engagements in which it participated, down to Burnside’s disastrous assault on the fortified lines of the Confederates at Fredericksburg, in which the Irish brigade, in the assault on Marye’s Heights, was so cut up that after the fight the New York regiments originally comprised in it could only muster, all told, between two and three hundred unwounded men. General Meagher applied to the war department to have the brigade temporarily relieved in order that its decimated ranks might be again recruited; but the reply of the secretary of that time,—who had never regarded the Irish organizations with favor,—was an order relieving Meagher of his command, consolidating the regiments into four companies, under a lieutenant-colonel, and mustering out the other surviving officers as supernumeraries. Feb. 6. Michael Hicks, a member of the Society, died today at his residence in New York City. Feb. 7. James A. Walsh died today in Lewiston, Me. He was a member of the Society. Feb. 9. Hon. Carlton McCarthy, mayor of Richmond, Va., writes today, expressing his appreciation of “The great value and importance of the work” in which the Society is engaged. Feb. 11. Rear Admiral John McGowan, U.S.N. (retired), is today admitted as a Life member of the Society. His father was born in Philadelphia, Pa., but his grandfather was born in Ireland. Feb. 11. Brig.-Gen. Michael Cooney, U.S.A. (retired), is admitted to membership in the Society. Feb. 11. Brig.-Gen. Peter Leary, Jr., U.S.A. (retired), writes expressing his appreciation of the work in which the Society is engaged.