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HISTORY 
 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE SURGEONS 
 
 IN THE 
 
 WAR OF REBELLION 
 
 PUBLISHED BY ORDER 
 
 OF THE 
 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE ASSOCIATION 
 OF MILITARY SURGEONS 
 
 190G 
 
 CONCORD, N. H. 
 Ira C. Evans Co., Printers 
 
COPYRIGHT 1906 
 BY GRANVILLE P. CONN 
 
DKDICATION. 
 
 To the State of New Hampshire and to the surviving Com- 
 rades of the War of the Rebellion, as well as to the descend- 
 ants of those deceased, aye, even "unto the third and fourth 
 generation, ' ' thie volume is most respectfully dedicated by the 
 Author. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 As the compiler of the sketches which are comprised in this 
 work, I have been under great obligations to comrades that 
 are living and to the friends of those deceased. They were 
 self-sacrificing patriots. I have made a great effort that 
 people of New Hampshire should have something in memoriam 
 of the professional attainments of those who so gallantly re- 
 sponded when their services were needed to care for the sick 
 and wounded. While president of the New Hampshire Med- 
 ical Society, one of the noble men from New Hampshire said 
 during that gloomy period of the war in 1863 : 
 
 "Our country is under a cloud, dark and portentous. A 
 great and powerful portion of this nation is in wicked rebel- 
 lion against the flag raised by our fathers after years of suffer- 
 ing and the spending of millions of treasure. No hour so 
 gloomy has it ever been the misfortune of this people to en- 
 dure. Is the sun of our glory about to go down forever and 
 leave the worshippers of Liberty no gleam of light? Can it 
 be that the future historian shall write our rise, progress and 
 downfall as not occupying the space of ninety years? And 
 have we as medical men nothing to do in this great struggle 
 for national existence, but to stand by in silence, or at most 
 to look after the sick and wounded ? Gentlemen, the founders 
 of this society were patriots as well as physicians. They 
 helped achieve our independence. They witnessed the dread- 
 ful agonies of the colonies and welcomed the birth of a nation. 
 The first president of our society, who was also one of its 
 founders, was the first person who voted for the Declaration 
 of Independence and the second man who signed it. The 
 blood of the heroes of the Revolution has never ceased to cir- 
 culate in this organization. It is in this society to-day. There 
 
VI PREFACE. 
 
 has never been a more patriotic and loyal body of men in any 
 state nor one that has done more for the commonwealth. They 
 have been the watchful guardians of the liberties of the 
 people, the friends of true religion, zealous in the cause of 
 education, and in all great movements for securing the happi- 
 ness and prosperity of the state. That our profession has 
 done its duty, every battlefield from Bunker Hill to Vicks- 
 burg attests. Let the thousands now ministering to the sick 
 and wounded on the Potomac, in the Dismal Swamp, on the 
 rice plantations of the Carolinas, in the everglades of Florida, 
 and the stagnant bayous of the murky Mississippi, tell of the 
 untiring devotion of our craft to their country and their 
 calling. ' ' 
 
 The unbounded faith of the writer of the above has been 
 more than verified in the new Union, which more than ever 
 before knows no North, no South, neither East nor West, thus 
 verifying the words of the great expounder of the Constitu- 
 tion, the Union is for all, and one and inseparable. To-day 
 the North, the South, the East and the West are prospering 
 as never before. 
 
 To my stenographer. Miss Lull, who for ten years so faith- 
 fully took charge of this work, I should be remiss if I did 
 not give honorable mention. 
 
 In the compilation of this work General Ayling's Register 
 has been of great service as giving the last known residence, 
 yet in many of the towns I had some friend who would at once 
 take up the subject and find some good friend of the comrade 
 that would give the key to the situation. The dates, parentage 
 and family history have generally been given by the comrade 
 himself or by some member of his family; others have been 
 traced by reference to college necrology as well as the college 
 catalogue. Some regimental histories were consulted with 
 much satisfaction, others seem to have forgotten about their 
 medical officers beyond the fact that their names were on the 
 roster at the end of the volume. So much the more need of a 
 medical and surgical history of the War of the Rebellion for 
 New Hampshire. 
 
PREFACE. VII 
 
 There are a few about whom, after nearly ten years' re- 
 search, I have failed to find any information and it is probably 
 true others may have been omitted because unknown to me as 
 well as to General Ayling. It is true I have introduced many 
 into these sketches whose record is not to be found in General 
 Ayling 's Register, but this volume is of later date, and then 
 his record did not embrace contract surgeons. Yet some of 
 these men did valiant service in the war, were detailed to 
 various army corps and suffered the same privations as com- 
 missioned officers. Therefore their patriotism and courage, 
 their endurance under adverse circumstances, should receive 
 recognition by the citizens of the state, notwithstanding the 
 officers and soldiers at the time of their employment consid- 
 ered that branch of the service somewhat equivocal. 
 
 Another class which I have considered worthy of mention 
 were enlisted men who did full duty during their term of ser- 
 vice and afterwards made the profession of medicine their 
 life's work. Many of them became prominent among their 
 fellows, and all were truly beloved by the public, wherever 
 located, always being true exponents of all the old flag sym- 
 bolizes, — the flag whose world-wide significance is "life, lib- 
 erty and the pursuit of happiness. ' ' 
 
 GRAmaLLE P. CONN, M. D. 
 
 Concord, N. H., September 20, 1906. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 By Stephen G. Abbott, Chaplain. 
 
 "When President Lincoln called for 75,000 men for three 
 months to suppress the Rebellion, New Hampshire responded 
 with an alacrity unsurpassed by any of the states. The proc- 
 lamation was issued the 15th of April, 1861. Enlisting sta- 
 tions were immediately improvised, and between the seven- 
 teenth and the thirtieth not less than 2,004 men were enrolled. 
 
 "The residue, after filling the First Regiment, were given 
 their choice to enlist in the Second Regiment, or serve out 
 their time of three months as the garrison of Fort Constitu- 
 tion at Portsmouth harbor. Four hundred and ninety-six 
 enlisted in the Second Regiment, and the remainder were sent 
 to Fort Constitution. 
 
 "The First Regiment rendezvoused at Concord, on the fair 
 grounds of the Merrimack County Agricultural Society on the 
 east side of Merrimack river, the camp being christened ' Camp 
 Union.' But a few days passed before the material of the 
 regiment was crystalized into a completely appointed and 
 equipped organization. A contract for fifteen army wagons 
 and one hospital ambulance was placed with the firm of Lewis 
 Downing & Son, of Concord. A supply of horses, averaging 
 in cost $125, was speedily purchased, and the contract for har- 
 nesses was filled by James R. Hill, of Concord. So well, thor- 
 oughly, and expeditiously was this work performed, that on 
 the fourteenth day of May, just fifteen days after his appoint- 
 
2 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 ment, Quartermaster Batchelder informed the colonel that the 
 regiment was uniformed, armed and equipped, and field trans- 
 portation for tents, baggage and supplies was ready. ' ' 
 
 "The regiment arrived in New York May 26, where it was 
 received by four hundred and fifty citizens, all sons of New 
 Hampshire, and presented by them with an elegant silk flag. 
 
 "The regiment arrived in Baltimore on May 27, and 
 marched through the city to the Camden station to the tune 
 of ' Yankee Doodle, ' the first national air played in the streets 
 of the city after the passage of the Massachusetts Sixth. 
 
 "The regiment arrived in Washington at 1.30 o'clock a. m., 
 May 28, and in the morning marched to 'Kalorama, ' their 
 camping ground, named 'Camp Cameron.' It was reviewed 
 from the porch of the White House by the president, who soon 
 after sent a special message to the camp to inform the colonel 
 that his was the best appointed regiment that had thus far 
 come into Washington." 
 
 ' ' July 8 the regiment marched to the Monocacy, eight miles, 
 where it spent the Fourth, naming the locality 'Camp Good- 
 win.' On the fifth the regiment marched to Point of Rocks, 
 six miles, giving the camp the name of ' Camp Berry. ' From 
 this point the tents and unnecessary baggage were sent to 
 Frederick, Md., and the regiment resumed its march to Wil- 
 liamsport, passing through Sharpsburg and Sandy Hook, op- 
 posite Harper's Ferry, arriving at that place July 7, twenty- 
 four miles from Point of Rocks. 
 
 "The next morning the brigade marched for Martinsburg, 
 Va., twelve miles, arriving there about noon of the same day, 
 where it joined the Army of the Shenandoah, under the com- 
 mand of General Patterson, making an army of about 25,000. 
 
 ' ' The approaching battle of Bull Run rendered it eminently 
 important that General Johnston should be intercepted and 
 prevented from joining in the engagement. This work was 
 entrusted to General Patterson, but, for reasons which may 
 
FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 3 
 
 never be explained, instead of receiving in the morning 
 marching orders, it was suddenly decided that there should be 
 no movement until further orders. A subsequent investiga- 
 tion of the matter resulted in the supersedure of General Pat- 
 terson by General N. P. Banks." 
 
 ****** 
 
 ''On the twenty-eighth of July the First Regiment New 
 Hampshire Volunteers moved across the river and went into 
 camp. On the second day of August their term of enlistment 
 expired, and they made no delay in embarking on board the 
 cars for home. They were paid off and mustered out, mostly 
 on the ninth of August, and discharged at Concord. 
 
 "The First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers did no 
 fighting, excepting the exchange of shots at intervals for two 
 days across the river at Conrad's Ferry. In this affray none 
 of our men were hit. The rebels admit one captain and two 
 privates killed and about twelve wounded. The regiment, 
 however, did a large amount .of guard duty, a service which, 
 though unattended with much eclat, may have accomplished 
 as great good as a victory on the field of blood and carnage. 
 The regiment did faithfully all that was required of it. 
 
 "The First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry 
 was attached to the Department of Washington May 27, 1861 ; 
 to the Seventh Brigade, Third Division, Department of Penn- 
 sylvania, July 10, 1861. 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF. 
 
 Colonel . 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel 
 
 Major 
 
 Adjutant 
 
 Quartermaster 
 
 Paymaster 
 
 Surgeon . 
 
 Assistant-Surgeon 
 
 Chaplain 
 
 Mason W. Tappan. 
 Thomas J. Whipple. 
 Aaron F. Stevens. 
 Enoch Q. Fellows. 
 Richard N. Batchelder. 
 ]\IosES K. Hazelton. 
 Alpheus B. Crosby. M. D. 
 Henry C. Shaw, M. D. 
 Stephen G. Abbott. 
 
SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 Alpheus B. Crosby, M. D., 
 Hanover, N. H. 
 
 (1 N. H. V.) 
 
 Ceosby, Alpheus B. F. and S.; b. Gilmanton; age 29; res. Hanover; 
 app. Apr. 30, '61; must, in May 2, '61, as Surg.; must, out Aug. 9, 
 '61. See Miscel. Organizations. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 7.) 
 
 (Miscellaneous Organizations.) 
 
 Crosby, Alpheus B. U. S. V.; b. Gilmanton; age 29; res. Hanover; 
 app. Maj. and Surg. Sept. 5, '61; resigned June 30, '62. Died Aug. 9, 
 '77, Hanover. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1041.) 
 
 Alpheus Benning Crosby was born in Gilmanton, N. H., 
 February 22, 1832. He was a son of Dixi Crosby, and grandson 
 of Dr. Asa Crosby, all New Hampshire men, and while here 
 we lose the professional thread of the ancestral line, we find 
 that his great-grandfather was a soldier, — first, in the old 
 French and Indian War, and later as an officer in the Revolu- 
 tionary army, commanding a company in Colonel Reed's New 
 Hampshire regiment, in which, together with two of his older 
 sons, he did noble service at Bunker Hill. "Tracing the line 
 of succession still further, through four more generations of 
 New England's strong-armed, strong-willed sons, we reach at 
 length their pioneer, Simon Crosby, who in 1635, with his 
 wife Ann, left Lancashire, and, crossing in the good ship 
 'Susan and Ellyn, ' settled, at the age of twenty-six, in Cam- 
 bridge, Mass." 
 
 ****** 
 
 "When Dr. Ben, as he was familiarly called by all who knew 
 him intimately, was six years of age, his father received an 
 appointment to the chair of surgery of Dartmouth College, as 
 the successor of R. D. Muzzey; the Crosby family left Gil- 
 manton and ever after resided in Hanover. It was an ideal 
 home. What that home implies, those of us who remember 
 the Crosby mansion as a ' House Beautiful ' among the ' Delec- 
 
FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 6 
 
 table Mountains' of tlie river border, need not now be re- 
 minded. Whether we sought it as strangers and pilgrims, or 
 as social visitors; as students, or as office boys; as invalids, 
 seeking kind words and quick relief, or as friends, privileged 
 to go in and out, in all the delightful confidence of the house- 
 hold,— our recollection of it brings the same throb of pleasure. 
 The picture of that country home, with its fair surroundings 
 and embellishments ; its quiet dooryard, shaded with elms and 
 horse-chestnuts ; its ever-open door, to the call of hospitable or 
 professional claim ; its threshold, trodden by more distinguished 
 feet, perhaps, than any single portal in the state ; its crowds of 
 visitors; its social and family gatherings; its daily music of 
 conversation and merriment, all make that dear old homestead 
 a dream of delight to him who whiled away the summer hours 
 of life's morning under its shadow; a very Mecca to those 
 who under its roof-tree began their professional pilgrimage, 
 and a shrine of sweet memories to us all. ' ' 
 
 * * * * * * 
 
 He was graduated from the classical department of Dart- 
 mouth College in 1853, and at once commenced his medical 
 studies in the office of his father, who was professor of surgery 
 in the medical department of Dartmouth College. He at- 
 tended lectures both at Dartmouth and at the College of Phy- 
 sicians and Surgeons in New York City, and served for one 
 year as an interne in the United States Marine Hospital, at 
 Chelsea, Mass., and was graduated from Dartmouth Medical 
 College in the class of 1856. 
 
 "At the outbreak of the Rebellion, in 1861, he was ap- 
 pointed surgeon of the First Regiment of New Plampshire Vol- 
 unteers for three months' service. This being concluded, he 
 was at once commissioned as brigade surgeon of United States 
 Volunteers, and soon after appointed to the rank of medical 
 director, serving as such on the staffs, successively, of Generals 
 Stone, Casey, Sedgwick and Peck. His army service was 
 marked by the same strong individuality, the same resolute 
 activity, the same executive talent, which we have seen 
 
b SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 stamped upon the boy and the youth. Added to all these 
 other qualities, was that same genial humanity which made 
 friends of everyone. His brother officers trusted him, de- 
 pended upon him, and loved him. The private soldiers idol- 
 ized him, for they saw his quick and constant sympathy for 
 them, and knew that his large and loving heart embraced them 
 all in its tender care, always seeking their comfort and well- 
 being, whether in camp or in the field. ' ' 
 
 w TT "vr w 9r 'il' 
 
 As might be expected of a man having such marked indi- 
 viduality, his was a noble record of army service, and through 
 him to New Hampshire belongs the credit of having erected 
 the first complete military hospital on the modern "pavilion 
 plan" that was built during the War of the Rebellion. In a 
 paper presented to the New Hampshire Medical Society, en- 
 titled "A Lost Art in Surgery," is found the following 
 description of this hospital from his own pen : 
 
 "In the summer of 1861, being the first year of our civil 
 war, I was assigned as division surgeon to the staff of Gen- 
 eral Charles P. Stone, then commanding a corps of observa- 
 tion at Poolesville, Md. As we were thirty-six miles 
 from Washington, and as the general hospitals in that city 
 were at the time crude and unsatisfactory, I conceived the idea 
 of establishing a division hospital on the ground, and so retain 
 for care and treatment both our sick and wounded. 
 
 "In August, 1861, I made a communication to Surgeon 
 Tripler, who was the medical director of the army, at Wash- 
 ington, submitting my plan for the construction of a hospital, 
 and asking for the necessary lumber, doors, windows, etc., with 
 which to construct it. The plan was approved; my requisitions 
 were endorsed, and the necessary materials furnished. The 
 work was completed, and on the twenty-first of October, the 
 day on which the battle of Ball's Bluff took place, we were 
 ready to receive the wounded from that ill-fated engagement. 
 This hospital was built essentially on what is now known as the 
 pavilion plan, though I was at the time ignorant of the action 
 
FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 7 
 
 which the sanitary cominission was taking in the same direc- 
 tion. I have recently learned that the sanitary commission 
 made a communication to the government in July, 1861, advo- 
 cating the use of pavilion hospitals, and in October follow- 
 ing, — about the time my hospital was completed and occu- 
 pied, — secured an order for the construction of a hospital on 
 the pavilion plan. I have given these details, because from 
 them it appears that my own hospital was built and occupied 
 before any of those suggested by the sanitary commission, and, 
 so far as I know, was the first hospital of the kind erected 
 during the war. ' ' 
 
 "On the 26th of July, 1862, Dr. Crosby was united in mar- 
 riage with Mss Mildred Grassell Smith, a native of Alabama, 
 and daughter of Dr. William E. Smith, who was afterwards, 
 and until his death in 1875, a resident of Galveston, Texas." 
 
 Children, three : Mildred, Dixi and W. Pierce. 
 
 Dr. Crosby resigned from the United States service the day 
 preceding his marriage, and in the autumn of the same year 
 was appointed adjunct professor of surgery in Dartmouth 
 Medical College. 
 
 ' ' In 1865, he was invited to the chair of surgery in the Uni- 
 versity of Vermont, and in the same year to a similar chair 
 in the University of Michigan. Both these positions he ac- 
 cepted and ably filled for several years." 
 
 In 1870, on the resignation of his father, he was appointed 
 to the chair of surgery in Dartmouth, and also delivered a 
 course of surgical lectures in the medical department of Bow- 
 doin College, Maine, the same year. He also held appoint- 
 ments in surgery and surgical anatomy in the Long Island 
 Medical College, the New York University, and also in Belle- 
 vue Hospital Medical College of New York City. 
 
 Prof. Henry E. Parker of Dartmouth College, chaplain of 
 the Second N. H. Vols., with much force and feeling, remarked 
 on the day of Dr. Crosby's burial: "It is no small encomium 
 
8 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 for any man, when the place where he has grown up, and in 
 which he has spent both his earlier and riper years, has no 
 recollection of him other than what is to his praise." 
 
 In closing this sketch, the writer desires to acknowledge his 
 obligation to Dr. J. Whitney Barstow, resident physician of 
 Sanford Hall Asylum, New York, for facts relative to Surgeon 
 Crosby in his memorial address before the New Hampshire 
 Medical Society. 
 
 Dr. Barstow only echoed the feelings of the profession 
 throughout the state and New England, when he spoke of his 
 college classmate and professional friend in the following lan- 
 guage : 
 
 "His sun was then in its zenith; he had climbed easily the 
 ladder of professional fame, and stood in the full glory of 
 mature manhood. A few days later the tidings reached us, 
 unwarned, that that sun had gone down suddenly at midday, 
 and left us stunned and blinded by the shock, as when the bolt 
 from heaven drops from a clear sky and rends the oak at our 
 very threshold." 
 
 Dr. Crosby died in Hanover, August 9, 1877. 
 
 Henry C. Shaw, M. D. 
 
 Hanover, N. H. 
 
 Shaw. Hexrt C. F. and S.; b. Waitsfield, Vt.; age 28; res. Han- 
 over; app. April 30, '61; must, in May 2, '61, as Asst. Surg.; must, 
 out Aug. 9, '61. Died Sept. 7, 'C2, Alexandria, Va., while a mem- 
 ber of 5 Vt. Inf. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 19.) 
 
 The above is the record from Adjutant-General Ayling's 
 office and is supplemented by the following memorial record 
 in the history of Waitsfield, Vt., which was prepared by 
 Eev. A. B. Dascomb. 
 
 ' ' Went out from this town as assistant surgeon of the First 
 New Hampshire Regiment. Serving out his time, which was 
 three months, he returned, and again went into the army; 
 served as assistant surgeon in the Fifth Vermont Regiment, 
 
FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 9 
 
 and died of fever at Alexandria, Va., September 7, 1862, at 
 the age of thirty years. His remains were brought home for 
 interment. ' ' 
 
 The general catalogue of Dartmouth College shows that Dr. 
 Shaw was graduated from the medical department in the 
 class of 1858. Dr. William Child, of the class of 1857, says 
 that Dr. Shaw remained at Hanover as an assistant to Dr. 
 Ben Crosby, and was residing in Hanover at the time the First 
 Regiment was called for, and was commissioned, at the same 
 time as Surgeon Crosby, as assistant surgeon of the First 
 New Hampshire (three months) Volunteers. From the record 
 of the Fifth Vermont Regiment, it appears that Dr. Shaw 
 was commissioned assistant surgeon in that regiment in a few 
 days after being mustered out of the First New Hampshire, 
 and probably went immediately to the front with the regi- 
 ment. He seems to have been a young man of ability and to 
 have attracted the attention of his superior officers. The 
 brigade surgeon under whom he served, Dr. Henry James of 
 Waterbury, Vt., says: "I have seldom met a young man to 
 whom I was more strongly attracted. He was a fine-looking, 
 symmetrically proportioned, agile and healthy man, with a 
 clean, intelligent face, a remarkably pleasing address, and had 
 the manners of a cultivated gentleman." 
 
 It seems that Dr. Shaw was taken ill about the close of the 
 seven days' fight on the Peninsula, and was sent with others 
 to Alexandria on a transport, and died there September 7, 
 1862. 
 
 / 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 By Hon. Martin A. Haynes of Lakeport, 
 Historian of Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 "A large proportion of the original members of the Second 
 Kegiment were eolisted for three months' service under Presi- 
 dent Lincoln's first call, many of them among the earliest 
 recruits in April, 1861. But early in IMay, while the regi- 
 ment was still in camp at Portsmouth, orders were received 
 from the war department to send no more three months' 
 troops. Most of the men thereupon enlisted for three years, 
 this second muster by companies dating from June 1 to 8. 
 The regiment left Portsmouth June 20, 1861, arriving at Bos- 
 ton on the same day, and at New York on the twenty-first, 
 receiving tremendous ovations from the Sons of New Hamp- 
 shire and the local authorities. 
 
 ''The regiment arrived in Washington on the afternoon of 
 the twenty-third, and was brigaded with the First and Second 
 Rhode Island and the Seventy-first New York, the brigade 
 commander being Col. Ambrose E. Burnside. This constituted 
 the Second Brigade of Hunter 's Division, and opened the fight 
 at the first Bull Run battle, July 21. Colonel Marston was 
 severely wounded here, and the regiment's loss was reported 
 as seven killed, fifty-six wounded, forty-six missing." 
 
 This shows that but little time was lost before the surgical 
 corps was in actual service. 
 
 In the compilation of the surgical history of the Second 
 Regiment, I have taken the liberty to include something of 
 the work and character of Miss Harriet P. Dame, whose faith- 
 ful service deserves a place with that of the medical and surg- 
 ical staff. 
 
SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 11 
 
 Hon. Martin A. Haynes, the historian, says: ''Any sketch of 
 the Second Regiment would be incomplete without mention of 
 Miss Harriet Patience Dame, the faithful army nurse." I 
 therefore take the liberty to place her record with that of the 
 surgical corps of the Second New Hampshire Regiment, w4th 
 whom she so faithfully followed in their career the fortunes 
 of war. Her work was ever present, and even when a pris- 
 oner, she most kindly gave her attention to the wounded of 
 the enemy, thereby showing she had "malice toward none, 
 but with charity for all," she became a faithful exponent of 
 Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty. 
 
 In 1891, a number of young ladies in Nashua, desiring to 
 perpetuate the memory and history of their fathers and 
 brothers, organized a society under the National Association 
 Daughters of Veterans, for the Department of New Hamp- 
 shire, and with the spirit of loyalty and patriotism remembered 
 that true nurse, whose devotion to the Second Regiment was 
 conspicuous during the entire four years of the war, and 
 Tent 1 bears the name of Harriet P. Dame. 
 
 The Second New Hampshire Volunteers was attached to and 
 joined the Department of Washington, June 23, 1861; 
 Hooker's Brigade, Army of the Potomac, August 12, 1861; 
 First Brigade, Hooker 's Division, Army of the Potomac, Octo- 
 ber 3, 1861; First Brigade, Second Division, Third Army 
 Corps, March 16, 1862; Department of the East, March 3, 
 1863; Casey's Division, Twenty-second Army Corps, May 27, 
 1863; Third Brigade, Second Division, Third Army Corps, 
 June 14, 1863; District of St. Mary's, Department of Virginia 
 and North Carolina, July, 1863 ; Second Brigade, Second Divi- 
 sion, Eighteenth Army Corps, April 23, 1864; Eighteenth 
 Army Corps (Corps Headquarters), June, 1864; First Bri- 
 gade, First Division, Eighteenth Army Corps, August 13, 
 1864; Department of Virginia and North Carolina, September 
 1, 1864; Third Brigade, First Division, Eighteenth Army 
 Corps, October 7, 1864; Third Brigade, Third Division, 
 Twenty-fourth Army Corps, December 2, 1864; First Inde- 
 
12 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 pendent Brigade, Twenty-fourth Army Corps, July 10, 1865 ; 
 Sub-district of Essex, District Northeast Virginia, Depart- 
 ment of Virginia, August, 1865. 
 
 The following is a list of the engagements in which the Sec- 
 ond Regiment took part, and gives some idea of the work done 
 by the medical and surgical corps : 
 
 Bull Run, Va., July 21, 1861. 
 Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 11 to May 4, 1862. 
 Williamsburg, Va., May 6, 1862. 
 Skirmish at Fair Oaks, Va., June 23, 1862. 
 Oak Grove, Va., June 25, 1862. 
 Skirmish near Fair Oaks, Va., June 28, 1862. 
 Peach Orchard, Va., June 29, 1862. 
 Glendale, Va., June 30, 1862. 
 Malvern Hill, Va., July 1, August 5, 1862. 
 Kettle Run, Va., August 27, 1862. 
 Bull Run (second), August 29, 1862. 
 Chantilly, Va., September 1, 1862. 
 Fredericksburg, Va., December 14, 1862. 
 Gettysburg, Penn., July 2, 1863. 
 Wapping Heights, Va., July 23, 1863. 
 Swift Creek, Va., May 9, 1864. 
 Drewry's Bluff, Va., May 16, 1864. 
 Cold Harbor, Va., June 1-9, 1864. 
 Port Walthall, Va., June 16, 1864. 
 Petersburg, Va., August 18 to September 1, 1864. 
 Reconnoissance near Williamsburg road, Va., October 27, 
 1864. 
 
 Richmond, Va., occupation of, April 3, 1865. 
 
 surgeons. 
 
 George H. Hubbard, ]M. D., James M. IVIerrow, M. D., 
 William P. Stone. M. D. 
 
8EC0ND NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 13 
 
 ASSISTANT SURGEONS. 
 
 George P. Greeley, M. D. William P. Stone, j\I. D., 
 
 (not mustered, see 4th Reg.), William G. Stark, 
 James M. Merrow, M. D., Sylvanus Bunton, M. D. 
 Oscar Worthley, M. D., (see 7th Reg.), 
 
 Willard C. Kempton, M. D. 
 
 regimental nurse. 
 H.VRRIET P. Dame. 
 
 SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 George Harris Hubbard, M. D. 
 Lansingburg, N. Y. 
 
 (2 N. H. V.) 
 
 HuBBAKD, Geoege H. F. and S.; b. Hopkinton; age 37; res. Man- 
 chester; app. Surg. May 3, '61; not must.; resigned appointment 
 June 3, '62; re-app. June 4, '61; must, in June 10, '61; disch. Sept. 
 30, '61. See Miscel. Organizations. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 59.) 
 
 (Miscel. Organizations.) 
 
 Hubbard, George H. U. S. V.; b. Hopkinton; age 37; res. Man- 
 chester; app. Major and Surg. Sept. 30, '61; disch. Oct. 7, '65; Bvt. 
 Lt. CoL, U. S. v., to date Oct. 6, '65, for faithful and meritorious 
 services. Died Jan. 19, '76, Lansingburg, N. Y. See 2 N. H. V. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1056.) 
 
 Surgeon Hubbard was born in Hopkinton, N. H., June 8, 
 1823, and was the son of John and Lucy (Kimball) Hubbard. 
 His preliminary education was received in the public schools 
 and at academies in New London, Hopkinton, N. H., and 
 Lowell, Mass. He commenced the study of medicine in 1840 
 with Dr. Davis of Sutton, N. H., and continued the same with 
 Professors Henry H. Childs, Alonzo Clark, Charles Dewey, 
 B. Rush Palmer, Elisha Bartlett and Edwin M. Morse, at 
 Woodstock, Vt. At this period they were considered 
 peers in the profession with those of any schools in the coun- 
 
14 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 try. Surgeon Hubbard was graduated from the Vermont 
 Medical College in 1845. First located in Bradford, N. H., 
 where he remained for four years; was in East Washington, 
 N. H., five years; Manchester, N. H., from 1855 to 1861, when 
 his patriotism led him to sacrifice private interest to endure 
 the hardships of campaign life in the field. After the war 
 he located in Lansingburg, N. Y., from 1864 to the time of his 
 death in 1876. 
 
 He was a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, 
 of the New York Medical Society, of the Rensselaer County 
 Medical Society, of which he was once the president. From 
 1855 until he entered the army he was editor of the New 
 Hampshire Journal of Medicine. He was a Sir Knight in 
 the Masonic fraternity. 
 
 He was appointed surgeon of the Second New Hampshire 
 Volunteers June 3, 1861, and September 30, 1861, was ap- 
 pointed brigade surgeon of the United States Volunteers, and 
 assigned to Burnside's Division of the Army of the Potomac. 
 Afterwards, he became medical director for the district of 
 Northern Missouri, surgeon in charge of general hospital at 
 Tipton, Mo. ; surgeon in charge of the hospital steamer 
 ''Louisiana"; chief surgeon of the third division, district of 
 West Tennessee; chief surgeon of the second division of the 
 Army of Tennessee; chief surgeon of sixth division of the 
 Army of Tennessee; chief surgeon of the United States gen- 
 eral hospital at Paducah, Ky. ; medical director of the 
 Army of the Frontier; medical director of the district of 
 Southwest Missouri; medical director of the frontier of Ar- 
 kansas ; medical director of the Army of Arkansas, and finally 
 medical director commanding the United States army general 
 hospital at Troy, N. Y., where he was mustered out of the ser- 
 vice, and at the conclusion of the war settled in Lansingburg, 
 taking immediately a leading position in the profession and 
 securing a good practice. 
 
 Surgeon Hubbard was in the first battle of Bull Run, at 
 Pittsburgh Landing, Prairie Grrove and Moscow, Ark. ; 
 also at Prairie d'Arm and Jenkins' Ferry, Ark. He 
 
SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 15 
 
 was made brevet lieutenant-colonel, U. S. V., October 6, 1865, 
 and was mustered out of the United States service October 13, 
 1865. 
 
 In 1868, the honorary degree of master of arts was con- 
 ferred upon him by Dartmouth College. 
 
 Dr. H. B. Whiton of Troy, N. Y., reported to the New York 
 State Medical Society as follows: "Dr. Hubbard's death was 
 a shock to the community. He had received quite a serious 
 cut on the left knee from a fall in getting out of a horse-car. 
 Sewing it up himself, he continued with his usual energy to 
 visit patients for several days. Inflammation, the formation 
 of pus, blood poisoning and heart clot were the results of 
 this imprudence. Dr. Hubbell of Troy, in connection with 
 his former assistant. Dr. Rice, gave him their untiring care 
 and skillful attention. 
 
 ' ' Dr. Hubbard was a physician all through. His enthusiasm 
 for his profession was something remarkable. He was always 
 on the alert for information. I do not find that his early 
 opportunities for education were more than ordinary, but* we 
 do know that few of the many who had all these surpassed 
 him in the accuracy and extent of his attainments. A man 
 more prompt to keep an engagement I never knew. Who 
 else might delay a consultation or operation, he could ever 
 be relied upon for council or assistance. His loss is deeply 
 felt by the community and profession. He will live in the 
 memory of his associates as a generous, high-minded man, 
 an enlightened and progressive physician. 
 
 "He leaves a widow and one son who will always have 
 the sympathy of the community for their great loss." 
 
 Married, September 26, 1844, to Sally W. Jones of Brad- 
 ford, N. H. 
 
 Children: George J., Lucy A., Mary L., Harry and Flor- 
 ence M. 
 
16 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 James M. Merrow, M. D. 
 
 Meerow, James M. F. and S.; b. Newfield, Me.; age 32; res. Rol- 
 linsford; app. June 10, '61; must, in June 10, '61, as Asst. Surg.; 
 app. Surg. Oct. 2, '61; must, out June 21, '64. Died 1870, New- 
 field, Me. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 70.) 
 
 Surgeon Merrow was the son of Joseph and Lucy (Davis) 
 Merrow, and was born in Newfield, in the county of York, Me., 
 in 1835. His preliminary education was received in the 
 common schools and at Parsonsfield Seminary and Limerick 
 Academy, Maine. His professional education commenced in 
 1855 under the direction of his brother, Augustus D. Merrow, 
 M. D., then located in the practice of medicine at Acton, 
 Me., and is now located in Freedom, N. H. (since deceased). 
 This was continued under the direction of Prof. E. R. Peas- 
 lee of New York, and at the medical department of Bow- 
 doin College, from which Surgeon Merrow was graduated 
 M. D. in the class of 1858. He located in the practice of 
 medicine at Salmon Falls, N. H., where he remained for 
 two years. He was appointed assistant surgeon of the Sec- 
 ond Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers June 10, 1861, 
 and was promoted to surgeon of the same regiment October 
 2, 1861. Later he was detailed to act as brigade surgeon, 
 and at one time served as medical director with the corps under 
 General Butler. He was mustered out June 21, 1864, and 
 returned to his native town, Newfield, Me., and located in the 
 practice of his profession. His health was very much im- 
 paired, and in 1867, in company with his uncle, Joseph B. 
 Davis, went to Florida and purchased a plantation, where he 
 remained for two years. No improvement in his health occur- 
 ring, he returned to Newfield, Me., and died in that town Jan- 
 uary 10, 1870, about thirty-five years of age. 
 
 His biographer says of him : 
 
 "He was possessed of a very quick, active mind, keen 
 perceptions, bold without rashness and daring without reck- 
 lessness, united with ingenuity and ready adaptability of 
 means to ends, which made him a surgeon of unusual skill 
 and a medical practitioner of enviable repute. 
 
SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 17 
 
 "His early death was a great loss and a cause of sincere 
 sadness and regret, not only to his immediate family and 
 those more distantly connected by ties of consanoniinity, but 
 to the citizens of the different towns where his worth was 
 so well known and so highly appreciated." 
 
 William Payson Stone, M. D. 
 
 Danbury, N. H. 
 
 Stone. Yv'^illiam P. F. and S.; age 53; res. Banbury; app. Asst. 
 Surg. Oct. 22, '62; must, in Oct. 28, 'G2; must, out June 21, '64; app. 
 Surg. July 6, '64; must, in Aug. 5, '64; must, out Dec. 19, '65. Died 
 1872, Danbury. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 87.) 
 
 Martin A. Haynes, historian of the Second New Hampshire Regi- 
 ment, gives Dr. Stone's death as the 16th of October, 1872, at 
 Burke, N. Y. 
 
 E. S. Stearns' History of Ashburnham, Mass., page 469, 
 gives the following regarding Surgeon Stone: 
 
 "Dr. William P. Stone, son of David and Lydia (Perkins) 
 Stone and a brother of Rev, Benjamin P. Stone, D. D., late of 
 Concord, N. H., was born in Reading, Vt., July 23, 1809. 
 A few years after this date the family removed from Reading 
 to Enosburg, Vt. Dr. Stone graduated at Dartmouth Medical 
 School in 1835 and came to this town (Ashburnham, Mass.) 
 in 1837, where he was successfully employed eight years. 
 From the first he was well received. Beneath a modest and 
 unassuming manner, there was no failure in the discovery of 
 an intelligent mind and a faithful and competent physician. 
 He had many friends and no enemies. In the spring of 1845 
 he removed to Boston, and previous to 1850 he removed to 
 Danbury, N. H., where he remained several years. In Octo- 
 ber, 1862, he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the Sec- 
 ond New Hampshire Volunteers, and was promoted to surgeon 
 of this regiment July 6, 1864. He remained in the service 
 until the regiment was mustered out December 19, 1865. 
 
 2 
 
18 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Soon after the war he removed from Danbury to Westminster, 
 Vt., where he continued the practice of his profession a few 
 years. ' ' 
 
 Hon. Martin A. Haynes, historian of the Second New 
 Hampshire Regiment, page 28, says of Dr. Stone: 
 
 "Dr. Stone was a physician of ripe years and experience 
 in practice in Danbury, who joined the regiment as assistant 
 surgeon in October, 1862. He was mustered out with the 
 original members in June, 1864, but was recommissioned as 
 surgeon in July, rejoining the regiment in August, and 
 remained until the full regiment was mustered out in 1865." 
 
 For many years he was the only physician in Danbury, 
 N. H., and was highly esteemed as a citizen and received 
 the confidence of the people as a physician. He held many 
 offices of trust while a resident of that town and was a prom- 
 inent member of the Congregational Church. In 1849 Dr. 
 Stone became a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society. 
 
 Was twice married. 
 
 Oscar Worthley, M. D. 
 Lancaster, N. H. 
 
 WoETirLEY, Oscar. F. and S.; b. Washington, Vt; age 34; res. 
 Stewartstown ; app. Asst. Surg. Dec. 4, '61; must, in Dec. 5, '61; 
 resigned Sept. 17, '62. Died July 2S, 1890, Lancaster. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 96.) 
 
 Surgeon Worthley was born in Washington, Orange county, 
 Vt., August 10, 1831, and was the son of Samuel and Sallie 
 (Oilman) Worthley. His preliminary education was received 
 in the public schools and at Lancaster Academy, New Hamp- 
 shire. He commenced his professional studies with Dr. Albert 
 Winch of Whitefield, N. H., and continued with Dr. John 
 W. Barney of Lancaster, subsequently at Concord, N. H. ; 
 attended medical lectures at the Vermont Medical College 
 in Woodstock, Vt., and subsequently at the College of Phy- 
 sicians and Surgeons in New York, and was graduated from 
 
SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS, 19 
 
 the Vermont Medical College. He located in the practice of 
 medicine at Stewartstown, N. H., subsequently was at Cole- 
 brook and Lancaster, N. H. 
 
 He was appointed, December 4, 1861, assistant surgeon 
 of the famous Second New Hampshire Volunteers, which 
 was commanded by Gen. G-ilman Marston. His service was 
 mostly in the Peninsula campaign. The regiment passed a 
 portion of the winter of 1861 and '62 at Budd's Ferry, Md. ; 
 came to Washington and went to Yorktown, Va., the first 
 of April, 1862, where it joined Heintzelman 's third corps 
 and was engaged in the battle of Williamsburg. The last of 
 May the Second was at Fair Oaks, and June 28 at Savage 
 Station, also at Glendale. It is understood that Surgeon 
 Worthley became disabled from exposure to malarial influ- 
 ences during this Peninsula campaign, and he resigned and 
 was discharged, disabled, September 17, 1862. He never 
 fully recovered his health and died July 28, 1890, at Lan- 
 caster. 
 
 He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the 
 Grand Army of the Republic, and surgeon of the Grand Army 
 post in Lancaster until his death. 
 
 Married : First, Miss Jennette Clark of Carroll, N. H. ; 
 second, August 10, 1886, Miss Annie A. Briggs, Lawrence, 
 Mass. 
 
 Children by first marriage : Fred and Charles Worthley. 
 
 William Garrison Stark. 
 Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Stabk, William G. Co. D; b. Canaan; age 24; res. Manchester; 
 enl. May 10, '61; must, in June 1, '61, as Priv.; app. Hosp. Steward 
 Sept. 29, '61; re-enl. and must, in Jan. 1, '64; app. Asst. Surg. June 
 24, '64; must, out Dec. 19, '65. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 86.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Canaan, N. H., 
 November 12, 1837, and was the son of Daniel Fuller and 
 Fannie Dennet (Blake) Stark. The family removing to 
 
20 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Manehester, he received his preliminary education in the 
 public schools of Manchester and he was employed in a 
 drug store in 1861 at the commencement of the Rebellion. 
 He enlisted from Manchester May 10, 1861, and was mus- 
 tered as a private in Co. D of the Second Regiment. Sep- 
 tember 29, 1861, he received an appointment as hospital stew- 
 ard of the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, 
 and served in that capacity until the expiration of his three 
 years' term of enlistment. Re-enlisted January 1, 1864, and 
 was appointed assistant surgeon June 24, 1864, at the request 
 of the field and staff officers of the regiment, and was mus- 
 tered out of the service December 19, 1865. 
 
 Before he enlisted in the United States service, he com- 
 menced the study of medicine with his father, and later 
 with Dr. E. H. Davis of Manchester. After the expiration 
 of his service, it was his intention to continue his professional 
 education, but circumstances were such that he was obliged 
 to take up business and returned to an engagement in the 
 drug store, where he was formerly employed and where he 
 continued until his death, which occurred in Manchester 
 November 10, 1880. He was a member of the Masonic fra- 
 ternity. 
 
 Married, August 5, 1859, to Abbie A. Bullard of Green- 
 ville, N. H. 
 
 One child, William F. Stark, Braintree, Mass. 
 
 Sylvanus Bunton, M. D. 
 See Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers. 
 
 "WiLLARD ClOUGH KeMPTON, M. D. 
 
 Springfield, N. H. 
 
 (15 N. H. V.) 
 
 Kempton, Willard C. Non.-Com. Staff; b. Croydon; age 21; res. 
 Plainfield, cred. Plainfield; enl. Sept. 11. '62; must, in Oct. 10, '62, 
 as Hosp. Steward; must, out Aug. 13, '63. P. O. ad., Sanford, Me. 
 See 2 N. H. V. and U. S. C. T. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 749.) 
 
SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 21 
 
 (U. S. C. T.) 
 
 Kemptox. Willaed C. F. and S. 7 H. Art.; b. Croydon; age 23; 
 res. Plainfield; app. Asst. Surg. Oct. 24, '64; must, in Dec. 22, '64; 
 disch. Feb. 27, '65. P. O. ad., Sanford, Me. See 2 and 15 N. H. V. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1021.) 
 
 (2 N. H. V.) 
 
 Kemptox, Willabd C. F. and S.; b. Croydon; age 24; res. Plain- 
 field; app. Aug. 10, '65; must, in Aug. 26, '65, as 2 Asst. Surg.; 
 must, out Dec. 19, '65. P. O. ad., Sanford, Me. See 15 N. H. V. and 
 U. S. C. T. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 62.) 
 
 Willard C. Kempton, son of Calvin and Rachel R. (Clough) 
 Kempton, was born in Croydon, N. H., October 13, 1840. 
 He received his preliminary education at Newport and Kim- 
 ball Union Academies. Commenced his professional educa- 
 tion with Dr. Willard Clough of Pittsfield, Mass., in 1861 and 
 attended lectures at the Berkshire Medical Institute the same 
 year. He was hospital steward of the Fifteenth New Hamp- 
 shire Volunteers in 1862 and '63 for about eleven months, 
 and was appointed assistant surgeon of the Seventh United 
 States Hea\y Artillery (colored), serving from October 24, 
 
 1864, until February 27, 1865; appointed second assistant 
 surgeon of the Second New Hampshire Regiment in August, 
 
 1865, and was mustered out December 19, 1865, his last work 
 in the army being acting assistant surgeon in the United 
 States army at Lynchburg, Va. 
 
 It will be seen by the above that he had considerable ex- 
 perience in the service, being connected with three military 
 organizations, and experienced considerable service in each. 
 In the interval between his appointments he attended a course 
 of medical lectures at Dartmouth Medical College, and after 
 being mustered out of the service in 1865 took up the study 
 of medicine again, attending another course of lectures in the 
 medical department of Dartmouth College, and was grad- 
 uated from the same in the class of 1872. 
 
 After the war he was located for a time in Missouri, in 
 Kansas and at Lynn, Mass., also in Sanford, Me., but finally 
 returned to New Hampshire and was located in Grantham 
 
22 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 and West Springfield. He was a member of Mount Vernon 
 Lodge of Free Masons in Newport, N. H., and of the Willard 
 Post of the G. A. R. of Springvale, Me. 
 
 He was stricken with pneumonia and died in Lancaster, 
 N. H., December 21, 1895. 
 
 Married, July 31, 1865, Alvira H., daughter of James and 
 Abigail (Colcord) Johnson of West Springfield, N. H., where 
 the widow was residing in 1898. 
 
 Children, six: three sons and three daughters. 
 
 Miss Harriet Patience Dame. 
 
 Nurse to the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers during 
 its entire service. 
 
 "Harriet P. Dame, daughter of James Chadbourne and 
 Phebe Agnes Dame, was born at Barnstead, N. H., January 
 5, 1815. (Her parents moved to North Barnstead about 
 the year 1797; they then had one son. Five children were 
 born in Barnstead, of whom Harriet was the youngest.) In 
 1843 she removed with her parents to Concord, N. H., where 
 she resided until the breaking out of the war. That event at 
 once aroused her enthusiasm and patriotism, and she anxiously 
 desired to aid the Union cause. Not being permitted to carry 
 a musket, she decided to become an army nurse and joined the 
 Second New Hampshire Regiment, as hospital matron, in 
 June, 1861, and remained with the regiment until it was 
 finally mustered out of the service in December, 1865, four 
 years and eight months." 
 
 ****** 
 
 "She was inside the trenches at Fair Oaks while the rebels 
 were bombarding them and a shell tore through the tent just 
 as she left it, and another burst overhead while she was cook- 
 ing some broth. In the ambulance and hospital she was a 
 ministering angel and saved the lives of many men by careful 
 nursing. After that battle, the troops having retreated, she 
 
SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 23 
 
 walked a long distance and assisted the sick and wounded on 
 the march. One very dark night she passed in the thick of 
 the woods, not knowing whether she was near friends or foes, 
 and for that reason not attempting to proceed. 
 
 "At this time she was the only woman in the brigade, and 
 frequently nursed the sick and wounded of other regiments. 
 She was well known to all the soldiers of the brigade and 
 those of other regiments seemed to rival the Second New 
 Hampshire in the respect shown her. 
 
 "At the second battle of Bull Run she was taken prisoner, 
 but was given a pass and guard through the lines, in recogni- 
 tion of her attentions to Confederates and Unions alike. She 
 soon joined her regiment at Harrison 's Landing, where she re- 
 mained until the 15tli of August, 1862, when by universal con- 
 sent she assumed charge of the supplies sent from New Hamp- 
 shire for the sick and wounded from the state, and distributed 
 them to the most needy of the different hospitals. During 
 this winter the Second New Hampshire Regiment was home 
 recruiting. Upon its return to active duty Miss Dame re- 
 joined them and was at the battle of Gettysburg. Here she 
 lost all her effects. She remained after the battle in the 
 corps hospital until the sick and wounded were removed to 
 the general hospitals. 
 
 "She then rejoined the regiment at Point Lookout, where 
 they were for a few weeks guarding prisoners of war. At 
 this time Miss Dame was worn out by exposure and incessant 
 duty, and it was decided that she should go south to investi- 
 gate the sanitary condition of the New Hampshire troops 
 stationed near Charleston, S. C. She subsequently rejoined 
 the regiment and was at the battle of Cold Harbor. Soon 
 after that battle the original three-year men of the regiment 
 who had not re-enlisted, were mustered out. She remained 
 with the re-enlisted and was for a time in front of Petersburg, 
 and then at Chapin's farms near Richmond. About this 
 time the army was so continuously on the march that corps 
 hospitals were established and the wounded sent to them until 
 they could be safely removed to hospitals further north. 
 
2-4 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 ' ' Miss Dame was appointed matron of the Eighteenth Corps 
 hospital in September, 1864, and had supervision of the nurses 
 on duty and of the cooking for the sick and wounded, who 
 at times numbered not less than four thousand. She re- 
 mained there till the close of the active operations of the war, 
 then rejoined the Second New Hampshire Regiment at Man- 
 chester, Va., opposite Richmond, and went with them to 
 Fredericksburg. They were then sent to Richmond county on 
 the northern neck between the Potomac and Rappahannock 
 rivers. 
 
 "The regiment while there suffered more from sickness and 
 death than at any equal time during its service. On the 25th 
 of December, 1865, the regiment was mustered out of the 
 service, and Miss Dame's army record ended with theirs. 
 
 "Of her service Gen. Gilm^an Marston, formerly colonel of 
 the Second New Hampshire Volunteers, has said : 
 
 " 'Miss Dame, on the breaking out of the war for the Union, 
 was at the capital of the state in the quiet of home life. When 
 the drums sounded for the First New Hampshire Regiment, 
 under the call for three months' service, she began to con- 
 sider what a woman could do for her imperiled country, and 
 when the next regiment, enlisting for three years or during 
 the war, was formed, she attached herself to it as a volunteer 
 nurse and followed its fortunes in defeat and victory until 
 the end of the war, except when on special service, at the 
 request of high officials, in the inspection of hospitals, in- 
 cluding that too often neglected, yet very important section, 
 known as the hospital kitchen. Many an officer who neglected 
 the men under his command felt the power of her honest 
 criticism, whether he knew it or not. 
 
 " 'The sound of hostile guns is well known to her, for her 
 services were not generally in post hospitals, but in field hos- 
 pitals and upon the battleground itself, where danger did not 
 deter but where the opportunity for friendly help determined 
 her presence. 
 
SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 25 
 
 " 'In this field work she was the pioneer American nurse, 
 and is entitled to the credit and honor of that service, and to 
 the renown which her heroic example and patriotic devotion 
 confer. 
 
 '* 'Time will not permit even a brief recital of her special 
 army w^ork, but I cannot close this general statement of her 
 public life without adding that there was no shadow upon 
 her reputation and no doubt of her disinterested patriotism. 
 She is always a welcome guest at veterans' reunions, and at 
 the annual encampment at The Weirs, in my state, no guest 
 receives greater honor. At the headquarters of the Second 
 New Hampshire, the best guest chamber is always at her ser- 
 vice, and is Imown as her room. No old soldier fails to give 
 her cordial greeting and respectful homage. Could those who 
 have answered the last roll-call speak, they would call her 
 blessed. ' 
 
 "With the soldiers she is entitled to wear the cross of the 
 Eighteenth Corps, w^hich she accompanied; the diamond of 
 the Third Corps of Hooker's Division; the heart of the 
 Twelfth Corps and a gold badge given by the Second New 
 Hampshire. 
 
 ' * Miss Dame was given a vote of thanks by the New Hamp- 
 shire legislature and presented with five hundred dollars 
 ($500). She accepted both, but gave the money towards 
 founding a home for the veterans of her regiment. 
 
 "She is a pensioner of the United States, but has always 
 given the money to the poor and needy. 
 
 "Miss Dame's life has been one of charity, and when she 
 passes to her reward the world, which has been the better for 
 her living, will have lost one of its noblest women. 
 
 "Miss Dame says: 'I remember an incident of one morning 
 on the Chickahominy. The men came to me and v/anted me 
 to make them some tea, which I did. It seemed to refresh 
 them greatly. I walked away from the fire and saw a man 
 sitting on a stump at the edge of the woods. His face was 
 in his hands, he acted greatly fatigued. I asked if he were 
 ill. He said, 'No,' but he had been in the saddle for a whole 
 
26 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 day. As he looked up, I saw that he was a major-general, 
 and offered him some tea, which he gladly accepted. I did 
 not know the man, but years afterward, in looking at some 
 pictures, I came across that of Kearney, and he was the man 
 on the stump.' 
 
 "In 1867 Miss Dame was appointed to a clerkship in the 
 treasury department, which position she filled continuously 
 till February, 1895, a period of twenty-eight years, when she 
 fell on the icy sidewalk, sustaining a fracture of her leg. 
 Though eighty years old, her recovery was rapid, and she was 
 soon back at her desk in the treasury department. 
 
 "On the night of November 27, 1895, Miss Dame left her 
 home to visit and comfort a sick friend; in crossing a street 
 she was run into by a woman bicyclist, breaking her thigh, 
 thus having been twice within a year confined to a fracture 
 bed. Her recovery was remarkable." (Miss Dame died in 
 Concord, N. H., April 24, 1900.) 
 
 In the introduction to "Our Army Nurses," Col. Jack Ad- 
 ams says : " To no class of people are the soldiers of the late 
 war more indebted than to the army nurses. How the eyes of 
 the old veteran fill with tears when, at our camp-fires, some 
 old lady is introduced, and the presiding officer says, 'Boys, 
 she was an army nurse.' For a moment, the distinguished 
 officers present are forgotten, and they gather around the 
 dear old lady, eager to grasp her hand and say some kind and 
 loving word in appreciation of her services. I have often 
 witnessed such a greeting at the annual reunion of New 
 Hampshire veterans at The Weirs, when Aunt Harriet Dame 
 has been presented." (From "Our Army Nurses," by Mary 
 A. Gardner Holland.) 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 THIRD NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, 
 
 By Daniel Eldredge, 
 
 First Lieutenant Third Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer 
 Infantry and Historian of the Regiment. 
 
 "This regiment was the second to be raised in the state for 
 a three years' term. It was brought together and wholly or- 
 ganized and mustered in during August, 1861, at Concord." 
 
 "The Third New Hampshire Volunteers was attached to 
 First Brigade, Sherman's Division, Expeditionary Corps, Sep- 
 tember 18, 1861 ; Headquarters Brigade, First Division, May 
 23, 1862; Second Brigade, Second Division, June 21, 1862; 
 First Brigade, July 26, 1863; detached from First Brigade 
 to perform provost duty, October 19, 1863; First Brigade, 
 November 23, 1863 ; Second Brigade, First Division, Tenth 
 Army Corps, May, 1864; Second Brigade, First Division, 
 Twenty-fourth Army Corps, December 3, 1864; Tenth Army 
 Corps, March 27, 1865." 
 
 The work of the medical and surgical corps can be briefly 
 enumerated in the following engagements in which the regi- 
 ment participated: 
 
 Port Royal, S. C, November 7, 1861. 
 James Island, S. C, June 8-15, 1862. 
 Seeessionville, S. C, June 16, 1862. 
 Pinckney Island, S. C, August 21, 1862. 
 Pocotaligo, S. C, October 22, 1862. 
 Morris Island, S. C, July 10, 1863. 
 Fort Wagner, S. C, (first assault), July 11, 1863. 
 Fort Wagner, S. C, (second assault), July 18, 1863. 
 Siege of Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S. C, July 10 to Sep- 
 tember 6, 1863. 
 
28 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Siege of Fort Sumter, S. C, September 7, 1863, to February 
 29, 1864. 
 
 Chester Station (or Port Walthall Junction), Va., May 9, 
 1864. 
 
 Drewry's Bluff, Va., May 13-16, 1864. 
 
 Bermuda Hundred, Va., May 18, June 2, 1864. 
 
 Near Petersburg, Va., June 9, 1864. 
 
 Ware Bottom Church, Va., June 16, 1864. 
 
 Deep Bottom, Va., August 16, 1864. 
 
 Siege of Petersburg, Va., August 24 to September 28, 1864. 
 
 New Market Heights, Va., September 29, 1864. 
 
 Near Richmond, Va., October 1, 1864. 
 
 New Market (or near Laurel Hill), Va., October 7, 1864. 
 
 Darbytown Road, Va., October 13, 27, 1864. 
 
 Fort Fisher, N. C, January 15, 1865. 
 
 Sugar Loaf Battery, N. C, February 11, 1865. 
 
 Wilmington, N. C, February 22, 1865. 
 
 It will be observed that almost three years of their service 
 was in South Carolina. 
 
 SURGEONS. 
 
 Albert A. Moulton, M. D., Andrew J. H. Buzzell, M. D., 
 Franklin B. Kimball, M. D. 
 
 assistant surgeons. 
 
 Benjamin F. Eaton, M. D., Andrew J. H. Buzzell, M.D., 
 Charles A. Burnham, M. D., Daniel Farrar, M. D., 
 George W. Manter, 11. D., Franklin B. Kimball, M. D. 
 
 THIRD NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 Albert A. Moulton, M. D. 
 
 Late of Tilton, N. H. 
 
 MouLTOx, Albert A. P. and S. ; b. Meredith; age 33; res. Concord; 
 app. Surg. Aug. 22, '61; must, in Aug. 26, '61; disch. disab. to date 
 Oct. 31, '62. Died Apr. 26, '90, Sanbornton. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 135.) 
 
THIRD NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 29 
 
 Albert A. Moulton, M. D., was appointed surgeon of the 
 Third New Hampshire Volunteers August 23, 1861, his resi- 
 dence at that time being in the city of Concord. He was 
 born in Tuftonborough, N. H., October 6, 1827. His prelim- 
 inary education was in our common schools and academies of 
 New Hampshire, and he received the degree of ]M. D. from the 
 medical department of Dartmouth College with the class of 
 1850. He located in jNIeredith soon after graduation and 
 afterwards removed to Concord, forming a co-partnership 
 with the late Dr. Charles P. Gage. 
 
 The regimental historian says: "Surgeon Moulton was a 
 man of considerable energy, well educated in his profession, 
 and was considered far above the average physician." 
 
 In January, 1862, Dr. Moulton was promoted to the position 
 of brigade surgeon, but no record appears of how long he 
 filled that office, the inference being until he was discharged. 
 While the regiment was at James island, S. C, Surgeon Moul- 
 ton obtained a leave of absence for a few days. He was 
 away from the regiment and brigade when an engagement 
 with the enemy took place, in which the Third New Hamp- 
 shire Volunteers took a prominent part and suffered severely. 
 It was an unfortunate circumstance that Surgeon Moulton 
 was away at this time, as the surgical work all fell upon As- 
 sistant Surgeon Eaton, who was ill and unable to perform so 
 much additional labor. It also caused a good deal of com- 
 ment and Colonel Jackson censured him for being absent 
 without leave, but Surgeon Moulton was entirely exculpated 
 by General Williams, who had given him permission to be 
 away. The leave of absence had been granted the brigade 
 surgeon without the knowledge of Colonel Jackson. 
 
 Surgeon Moulton 's health was much impaired and the sum- 
 mer of 1862 was a very trying one for Northern men who 
 were in camp in the rice and cotton lands of South Carolina. 
 About August 6, 1862, he obtained a leave of absence and 
 started for New England. Not improving in health, his leave 
 of absence was extended, and he was discharged for disability 
 on surgeon's order October 31, 1862. 
 
30 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 He never fully recovered his health, but did some profes- 
 sional work for a few years in Concord and afterwards in 
 Tilton, N. H. While in Concord he was pension examiner and 
 for a time city physician, until his duties during an epidemic 
 of smallpox became too great a task upon his strength and 
 he resigned the position. Member New Hampshire Medical 
 Society in 1856. 
 
 About three years before his death his health became so 
 impaired that he was unable to do even office practice and he 
 found a home with friends in Sanbornton, N. H., where he 
 died April 28, 1890. 
 
 Married, about 1850, Anna M., daughter of R. H. and 
 Martha R. Sawyer of Bristol, N. H. His wife died June, 1871, 
 while he resided in Concord. 
 
 Children: Two sons, one of whom survived his father's 
 death. 
 
 Andrew J. H. Buzzell, M. D. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel United States Volunteers, by brevet. 
 
 Late of Dover, N. H. 
 
 Buzzell, Andrew J. H. F. and S.; b. New York city; age 31; res. 
 Dover; app. Asst. Surg. July 29, '62; must, in July 29, '62: app. 
 Surg. Nov. 17, '62; Bvt. Lt. Col. U. S. V. for gallant and meritorious 
 conduct at the storming of Ft. Fisher, N. C, to date from Mar. 13, 
 '65. Died, dis. Mar. 28, '65, Wilmington, N. C. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 108.) 
 
 "Surgeon Andrew J. H. Buzzell was born in the city of 
 New York, March 31, 1831. His father, Dr. Aaron Buzzell, soon 
 removed to Norfolk, Va., where he resided until his death, 
 which occurred some ten years subsequent, and, upon his 
 death-bed, expressed a wish that his son and only child might 
 be sent North and educated to the medical profession. 
 
 "As soon as affairs could be arranged, Mrs. Buzzell came to 
 New Hampshire, her native state, to carry out the last wish of 
 her husband relative to their son. His opportunities for edu- 
 cation in Virginia were far from favorable ; but, after coming 
 to New England, with a ready mind and by close application 
 
THIRD NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 31 
 
 to his studies, he completed his preparatory course and 
 entered the office of Dr. L. G. Hill of Dover, where he read 
 medicine the usual term, attended lectures at Hanover and 
 Philadelphia, and was graduated at the former place in 1854. 
 
 ' ' In the following winter he opened an office in Dover, where 
 he secured the confidence of the community, obtained a 
 good practice and was highly esteemed as a good physician, 
 citizen and Christian gentleman. 
 
 "Always an ardent lover of his country and her institutions 
 (except slavery which, when a boy and living in its midst, he 
 abhorred and condemned), he was ready when the Rebellion 
 broke out to aid her in any capacity, and early tendered his 
 services to the government. In July, 1862, a vacancy occur- 
 ring, he was offered an assistant surgency in the Third Regi- 
 ment New Hampshire Volunteers, which he at once accepted, 
 closed his office, bade adieu to his family and friends, and 
 hastened to join his regiment at Hilton Head, S. C, where 
 he arrived on the fifth of September and found the command 
 in a most lamentable condition. Surgeon Moulton had gone 
 home, some six weeks previous, on account of serious illness, 
 which finally compelled him to resign, and the whole care of 
 the regiment had devolved upon Assistant Surgeon Eaton, who 
 labored with untiring energy, yet was unable to stay the rav- 
 ages of disease which had crept into the regiment while doing 
 outpost duty on that and adjacent islands since the massacre 
 of James island in June, and, at the time of Dr. Buzzell's 
 arrival, was himself prostrated with disease and soon re- 
 signed." 
 
 Dr. Buzzell "was promoted to surgeon November 17, 1862, 
 and became one of the most popular medical officers in the 
 department. He shared alike the confidence of officers and 
 men, and at different times occupied the position of member 
 of medical examining boards, brigade surgeon, medical director 
 and medical inspector, having on one occasion to inspect 
 twelve brigades, beside artillery and cavalry. When not on 
 special duty he was always with his regiment ; always devoted 
 
32 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 to the sick and wounded, and often rising from a sick bed to 
 stand all night at the operating table. Indeed, if sick him- 
 self, he would arise to attend sick-call or perform any neces- 
 sary operation. He accompanied the army through all the 
 battles before Charleston, and was often found in the thickest 
 of the fight, cheering the men, and always doing his utmost to 
 alleviate the sufferings of the wounded. At one time a shell 
 passed between his legs, covering himself and assistants with 
 sand and fragments of earth, while performing an operation 
 on the field. 
 
 "In the spring of 1864 he was ordered with his regiment to 
 the department of Virginia, under General Butler, and in the 
 operations before Petersburg and Richmond he often had 
 superintendence of the whole medical department under Gen- 
 eral Gilmore and, while not acting as such, had charge of the 
 'Flying Hospital,' and was chief operating surgeon. 
 
 "In January, 1865, he accompanied General Terry on his ex- 
 pedition against Fort Fisher, as staff surgeon, and had charge 
 of the prisoners retaken in that neighborhood. After the cap- 
 ture of that stronghold, a portion of the army moved on Wil- 
 mington, which place they entered about the twenty-second of 
 February. Many of the prisoners (there were some ten thou- 
 sand in all) were sick with diarrhoea and typhoid fever, and 
 Surgeon Buzzell's labors were incessant and trying; but, 
 with the ardor of his temperament and his intense desire to 
 do all he could for his country and her defenders, he toiled 
 night and day until he was himself prostrated with fevei*. 
 He was conveyed to the residence of a Mrs. "Walker, where he 
 was cared for v/ith much assiduity and kindness, and, although 
 for a time it was hoped he might recover, he had the opinion 
 he should not. In remarks to friends and in letters to his 
 family, he showed the most perfect resignation, and assured 
 them 'all would be well.' He died at Wilmington, N. C, 
 of 'typho-malarial fever,' March 27, 1865, and his remains 
 were brought to Dover and buried with Masonic honors on 
 the fourth of April, the whole community lamenting the loss 
 of a Christian, patriot and fellow citizen. 
 
THIED NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 33 
 
 "Soon after his death, his widow received from the secretary 
 of war his appointment as lieutenant-colonel, United States 
 Volunteers, by brevet, for gallant and meritorious conduct at 
 the storming of Fort Fisher, N. C, to date from March 13, 
 1865. 
 
 "A nobler man never lived; a Christian and a patriot, de- 
 voted thoroughly to his duties and ambitious to serve the best 
 interests of the cause. In his death the country lost a true 
 man and soldier, the regiment a noble benefactor. God bless 
 his memory, will be the prayer of every soldier of the Third 
 New Hampshire." 
 
 Franklin B. Kimball, M. D. 
 
 Kimball, Fbanklin B. F. and S.; b. Bridgton, Me.; age 34; res. 
 Dover; app. 2 Asst. Surg. June 3, '63; must, in June 24, '63; app. 
 Surg. Apr. 20, '65; must, out July 20, '65. Died Dec. 13, '89, An- 
 dover, Mass. 
 
 Surgeon Franklin B. Kimball, the subject of this sketch, 
 was born March 27, 1829, in Bridgton, Me., but made his resi- 
 dence in Dover while he was engaged in the study of medicine. 
 He was a student in Harvard Medical College in 1858 and was 
 engaged in the study of medicine from 1855 to 1858. It is 
 understood that he practiced medicine in Maine and New 
 York until he went into the service. He joined the regiment 
 June 25, 1863, on the resignation of Dr. Farrar. The regi- 
 ment was then stationed at St. Helena island and was engaged 
 in active preparations for the proposed move on Charleston, 
 S. C. 
 
 The regimental historian says: 
 
 ****** 
 
 "Dr. Kimball was early set at work in his new position 
 (Drs. Buzzell and Burnham his associates), as on the morn- 
 ing of July 10, 1863, his services were especially called into 
 requisition, the wounded being taken back to Folly island for 
 treatment. Again on the eighteenth of July (charge on 
 "Wagner), his services were again proven of value. This lat- 
 
 3 
 
34 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 ter event showing that a siege must be undertaken (the de- 
 mand for surgeons elsewhere being great), Dr. Kimball was 
 detached about the twenty-third of July and sent to the hos- 
 pitals at Beaufort, S. C, from which he returned about the 
 twenty-fifth of December (Morris island). 
 
 "He went with the four companies (A, D, H and K) to 
 Palatka, from Jacksonville, Fla. In the Virginia campaign. 
 Dr. Kimball performed valuable service and at one time was 
 on special duty with the provost guard of the First Division, 
 Tenth Army Corps. In the memorable 16th of August, 
 1864, fight, he, with Hospital Steward Kittredge, was near by 
 in the woods to render temporary aid to the wounded, who 
 were immediately sent farther to the rear to an improvised 
 hospital. In November he accompanied the regiment in its 
 New York Harbor campaign. 
 
 *'At Fort Fisher, Dr. Kimball operated all night (15 Jan.), 
 indiscriminately, upon all brought to him, no regimental lines 
 being observed. Soon after the occupation of Wilmington, 
 N. C, Dr. Kimball was placed in charge of the Marine Hos- 
 pital, where he had a corps of surgeons as assistants, and 
 plenty to do, the hospital being a sort of dumping ground 
 for sick and wounded (including rebels). This service proved 
 detrimental to his health, and in March, 1865, he was given a 
 leave of absence. This, the writer is informed, was in the 
 form of an order (S. 0. 25, Dist. Hdqrs.) to proceed North on 
 some nominal duty. 
 
 "On the 23d of May, 1865, he was mustered as surgeon, 
 vice Buzzell, deceased, as of 22d of May, his commission 
 being dated 20th of April, and he was mustered 'for the 
 unexpired term of the regiment.' He was at the time of this 
 muster in charge of the post hospital (identical with marine 
 hospital), by S. 0. 60, District Headquarters. At the end of 
 June, 1865, the regimental return shows him on detached ser- 
 vice at post hospital. Though the regiment was at that date 
 at Goldsboro, it is presumed that a post hospital had been 
 established there, as the authority is quoted as S. O. 109, Dis- 
 trict Headquarters. When Lieutenant Marshall was wounded 
 
THIRD NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 36 
 
 Dr. Kimball performed upon him what is technically termed 
 're-section of the shoulder joint.' Dr. Kimball accompanied 
 the regiment on its trip home after its final muster out. 
 
 "He practiced his profession after the war, locating in 
 New Hampshire, Maine and lastly in Andover, Mass. On 
 November 8, 1882, Dr. Kimball met with a sad bereavement, 
 his wife being instantly killed by the cars at Andover. 
 
 "The Doctor suffered from the close of the war to his death 
 with sclerosis of the nervous system and was for several years 
 a helpless invalid. His mental powers, however, continued 
 good to within a short time of his death, which occurred at 
 Andover, December 13, 1889. He left two daughters, who 
 faithfully administered to his every want to the last sad 
 moment. 
 
 "Note. — The writer called on him at Andover about 1887, 
 and was only permitted to see him about five minutes. He 
 then lay helpless upon his couch, and was barely able to articu- 
 late, though his mental powers were exceedingly active. ' ' 
 
 It is understood that on account of disease contracted in 
 the army he was perfectly helpless for about two years before 
 he died. 
 
 Benjamin F. Eaton, M. D. 
 
 (1 N. H. V.) 
 
 Eatox, Benjamin F. Co. I; b. Grantham; age 30; res. Hanover; 
 enl. May 8, '61; must, in May — , 'Gl, as Muse; must, out Aug. 
 9, '61. See 3 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 8.) 
 
 (3 N. H. V.) 
 
 Eaton, Benjamin F. F. and S.; b. Grantham; age 30; res. Hanover; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Aug. 22, '61; must, in Aug. 26, '61; resigned Oct. 
 1, '62. Died Mar. 1. '82, Hartford, Vt. See 1 N. H. V. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. IIC.) 
 
 Surgeon Eaton was born in Grantham, N. H., November 9, 
 1831. He began the study of medicine about 1852 with Dr. 
 John Baker of Meriden, N. H., and later was in the office of 
 Dr. L. C. Bean of Lebanon, N. H., in the mean time attending 
 a course of medical lectures at Woodstock, Vt. In 1854 he 
 
36 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 was a clerk in Dr. J. A. Smith's drug store at Hanover, N. 
 H., and was still pursuing his medical studies under the tutor- 
 ship of Dr. Dixi Crosby of Hanover. He was graduated from 
 Dartmouth Medical College in the class of 1860. He served 
 as hospital steward with his friend, Dr. A. B. Crosby, sur- 
 geon, in the First New Hampshire Volunteers, and soon after 
 his return and muster-out he received his appointment as as- 
 sistant surgeon in the Third New Hampshire. The report 
 of Lieut.-Col. John H. Jackson, commanding the Third New 
 Hampshire at the battle of James island, says : 
 
 "We went into the fight with 26 officers and 597 enlisted 
 men, and 104 were killed and wounded. Surgeon Moulton 
 was absent from the regiment from Sunday morning, the 
 fifteenth instant, until Wednesday morning, the eighteenth, 
 without my consent, and therefore the whole duty of the hos- 
 pital department devolved upon Assistant Surgeon B. F. 
 Eaton, who faithfully performed his duties to the sick and 
 wounded soldiers." 
 
 The regimental historian gives the following record of the 
 services of Surgeon Eaton: 
 
 "Surgeon Eaton will long be remembered for his untiring 
 energy and persistent efforts to alleviate the sufferings of the 
 wounded of our first battle (June 16, 1862). Surgeon Moul- 
 ton, his immediate superior, was absent, and Surgeon Eaton 
 had to struggle with the fearful conditions of that day, as- 
 sisted (ably, too) by his nurses and hospital attendants and 
 the members of the band. Practically the wounded and dead 
 of all the regiments were gathered in one place and Dr. Eaton 
 went at his v/ork coatless and with his sleeves rolled up. 
 Noble and efficient work he did that day, but it was his last, 
 so far as duty following a battle was concerned. His duties 
 did not end until near midnight and then he ceased from 
 sheer exhaustion." 
 
 * * * ^ ^ •* 
 
 "The Doctor's health rapidly declined after the James 
 Island campaign, and he resigned in the September follow- 
 ing. Being accepted, he was discharged October 1, 1862. 
 He was succeeded by Dr. Buzzell. ' ' 
 
THIRD NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 37 
 
 "After his return home in 1862, he rested awhile from his 
 labors. The next year, however, we find him practicing 
 medicine in Barnet, Vt., and thus continued for about seven 
 years, when he went to Hartford, Vt., remaining there to the 
 end of his life." 
 
 He left a widow. No children. 
 
 Charles A. Burnham, M. D. 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 (2 N. H. V.) 
 
 BuBNHAji, Charles A. Co. C; b. Pembroke; age 25; res. Haverhill, 
 Mass.; enl. Nov. 1, '61; must, in Nov. 5, '61, as Priv.; disch. to 
 accept promotion, Nov. 18, '62. P. O. ad., Boston, Mass. See 3 N. 
 H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 37.) 
 
 (3 N. H. V.) 
 
 Burnham, Charles A. F. and S.; b. Pembroke; age 25; res. Haver- 
 hill, Mass.; app. Asst. Surg. Nov. IS, '62; must, in Jan. 6, '63; 
 disch. disab. Sept. 22, '64. P. O. ad., Boston, Mass. See 2 N. H. V. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 108.) 
 
 Charles A. Burnham, M. D., now of Boston, Mass., was born 
 in Pembroke, N. H., August 27, 1837, and was the son of 
 Charles G. and Mary A. Burnham. His preliminary educa- 
 tion was received in the common schools and Pembroke Acad- 
 emy. He commenced his professional studies in 1859 with 
 Edward B. IMoore, M. D., of Boston, and graduated at the 
 Harvard Medical School in March, 1865. While a student 
 at Harvard IMedical College, he joined the Second New Hamp- 
 shire as a recruit, was mustered the 5th of November, 
 1861, and detailed for duty in the regimental hospital, where 
 he served until after the battle of Fredericksburg, the 
 13th of December, 1862. He was discharged from the Sec- 
 ond when appointed assistant surgeon of the Third New 
 Hampshire, when he was mustered the 9th of January, 
 1863, and continued to serve until October, 1864. After this 
 he was assistant surgeon of Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. 
 C, until the end of the war. 
 
 The regimental historian says: 
 
38 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 ' ' The regiment lost a valuable man when Dr. Burnham left 
 it. Though the connection was officially severed, yet the 
 Doctor has been of great service to the boys since the war in 
 assisting them to obtain pensions. He has a remarkable mem- 
 ory and, with a few leading incidents as a basis, he can re- 
 call almost every case of disease or wounds that came under 
 his treatment or observation. This has been made use of in 
 numberless instances and in many cases where the evidence 
 was supposed to be lost (i. e. beyond proof), the Doctor has 
 readily and cheerfully furnished the requisite link in the 
 chain of evidence desired and required by the Pension De- 
 partment. Many a pensioner of the Third New Hampshire 
 will have good cause to remember the genial doctor and his 
 kindly and valuable service, both during and since the war." 
 
 He has been located in Boston since 1865 and has been 
 surgeon of the John A. Andrews Post, No. 150. He was un- 
 married. 
 
 Dr. Burnham died in Haverhill, February 21, 1903. 
 
 Daniel Farrar, M. D. 
 
 Farbar, Daniel. F. and S.; b. Troy; age 26; res. Troy; app. 2 Asst. 
 Surg. Aug. 13, '62; must, in Aug. 13, '62; resigned May 4, '63. 
 Died June 3, '75, Leominister, Mass. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 118.) 
 
 Surgeon Daniel Farrar was born in Troy, N. H., May 29, 
 1836, and was the son of Col. Daniel "Warren Farrar. With 
 an ordinary preliminary education he commenced the study 
 of medicine with Dr. A. M. Caverly of his native town in 
 1855 and 1856 and was graduated an M. D. from Harvard 
 Medical School in the spring of 1862. It seems, as was the 
 custom in those days, that he practiced medicine somewhat 
 in his native town before he was graduated. His appointment 
 as assistant surgeon of the Third New Hampshire dates Au- 
 gust 13, 1862. Referring to the regimental history, we find 
 that in the spring of 1863 the regiment was scattered over 
 considerable space, as Companies G and H were at Hilton 
 
THIRD NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 39 
 
 Head, seven companies at Pinckney island and one company 
 at Pope's on Hilton Head. Surgeon Farrar remained at Hil- 
 ton Head with Companies G and H. 
 
 "April 15, 1863, (after regiment had gone to Edisto 
 island) Surgeon Farrar was ordered to special duty, taking 
 charge of the sick at the outposts of Hilton Head (Seabrook, 
 Fort Mitchel, Pope's, Jenkins island and Spanish "Wells), 
 with headquarters at Pope's. He had scarcely entered upon 
 these duties when he was relieved by an order relieving every- 
 body in the brigade of which the Third New Hampshire was 
 a part. He rejoined the regiment while it lay at Edisto 
 river. April 27, the writer's data says, 'Surgeon Farrar re- 
 signed ; not accepted, ' but this act of his was repeated at once, 
 and he was honorably discharged May 4 after we had landed 
 
 on Botany Bay island. 
 
 ****** 
 
 "Upon his return to civil life he practiced a short time 
 in Troy and from there went to Boston, Mass., tarrying but 
 a short time at the latter place, and thence to Leominster, 
 Mass., where he died June 3, 1875, leaving a widow and two 
 children." 
 
 In compiling the surgical service of the medical corps of 
 this regiment, the biographical sketches by its historian, Capt. 
 Eldredge, have been consulted, and very much has been 
 quoted. 
 
 George W. ]\Ianter, M. D. 
 
 Maxter, George W. F. and S.; b. Londonderry; age 40; res. Man- 
 chester; app. Asst. Surg. Apr. 24, '65; must, in May 22, '65; must, 
 out July 20, '65. Died July 7, '70, Wellfleet, Mass. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 131.) 
 
 "Dr. Manter was appointed from civil life. He came to us 
 the 22d of May, 1865, at Wilmington, N. C, being appointed 
 to the place of Assistant Surgeon Kimball, who had been sur- 
 geon, vice Dr. Buzzell, deceased. His commission was dated 
 twenty-fourth of April and he was mustered in the twenty- 
 third of ^lay, as of twenty-second of May. 
 
40 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 "Dr. Manter attended to the medical wants of the regiment 
 substantially from the time he joined to muster-out, Dr. 
 Kimball being detached at the Marine Hospital, Wilming- 
 ton. From the time Dr. Burnham was discharged, forward to 
 final muster-out, the regiment had but one assistant surgeon, 
 Dr. George W. Manter. 
 
 "Dr. Manter was educated as a physician at Castleton, Vt., 
 about 1852 and soon after began practice in Manchester, N. 
 H. At the close of his service with the regiment he resumed 
 practice in Manchester. He remained there a short time only, 
 going thence to Wellfieet, Mass., where he died. 
 
 "He was born in Londonderry, N, H., 22d of August, 1825, 
 and died 7th of July, 1870, of paralysis. He left a widow, two 
 sons and a daughter." 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 By Francis W. Parker. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel, Fourth Regiment New Hampshire 
 Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 The organization of the Fourth Regiment quickly followed 
 the departure of the Third from the state. 
 
 "Two hundred men were left over in organizing the Third 
 Regiment, and they were ordered from Concord to Manches- 
 ter to form the nucleus of the Fourth Regiment. 
 
 ****** 
 
 "The regiment was mustered into service at Manchester the 
 eighteenth of September, just two wrecks after the Third had 
 left the state. The regiment left Manchester for Washington 
 the twenty-seventh of September. There it remained until the 
 ninth of October, when it joined Gen. T. W. Sherman's expe- 
 dition to Port Royal, S. C. It embarked on one of the great 
 ships of the fleet, the Baltic, a side-wheel steamer, suffered a 
 terrible storm of three days off Hatteras and a severe fright in 
 striking on Frying Pan Shoals ; arrived at Port Royal Novem- 
 ber 4 and saw from the ship's masts the attack upon Port 
 Royal, the demolition of Fort Walker and the capture of Hil- 
 ton Head. 
 
 "Here, upon the sands on the beach of Hilton Head, close 
 to the roaring surf, the regiment remained for three months, 
 varying the monotony of camp life by an expedition to Tybee 
 island on the third of December. On the twenty-sixth of Jan- 
 
42 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 uary the regiir.ent embarked on ships and started for the ex- 
 pedition on the Southern coast. It took part in the capture of 
 Fernandina, Jacksonville and St. Augustine. Seven com- 
 panies garrisoned at St. Augustine, while the other three com- 
 panies remained at Jacksonville during part of the summer. 
 
 "In September the regiment was ordered to Beaufort, S. 
 C, and General Mitchell assumed command of the depart- 
 ment. Active operations began, which resulted in the battle 
 of Pocotaligo on the twenty-second of October. The regiment 
 went into winter quarters at Beaufort. The monthly return 
 of the regiment for September, 1862, after a year's service, 
 shows 630 men and 21 officers present for duty, the actual loss 
 for the year being 189, or nearly one-fifth of the actual num- 
 ber." 
 
 The work of the medical and surgical corps was very much 
 varied on account of the unhealthy locations in which they 
 were obliged to camp for longer or shorter periods, a part 
 of which was in South Carolina and Florida. 
 
 "The regiment was in the two expeditions against Fort 
 Fisher, the first under General Butler and the second under 
 Gen. A. H. Terry. In the second and successful attack on 
 Fort Fisher the Fourth Regiment did some brave fighting. 
 Colonel Bell, commanding the brigade, was killed on the cor- 
 duroy road leading to the gate of the fort. In the long 
 struggle in the fort under command of General Ames, the 
 flag of the Fourth New Hampshire was locked with the Con- 
 federate flag on the top of a mound for twenty minutes. 
 Capt. John H. Roberts was in command of the regiment 
 during the fight. The night of the victory a number of the 
 Fourth New Hampshire were killed by the explosion of a 
 magazine. ' ' 
 
 The active surgical work may be summed up in the follow- 
 ing list of engagements : 
 
 Port Royal, S. C, November 7, 1861. 
 
 James Island, S. C, June 10, 1862. 
 
 Pocotaligo, S. C, October 22, 1862. 
 
FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 43 
 
 Siege of Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S. C, July 10 to 
 September 6, 1863. 
 
 Siege of Fort Sumter, S. C, September 7, 1863, to January 
 15, 1864. 
 
 Swift Creek (or Arrowfield Church), Va., May 9, 1864. 
 
 Drewry's Bluff, Va., May 14-16, 20, 1864. 
 
 Near Bermuda Hundred, Va., May 17-19, 21-28, 1864. 
 
 Cold Harbor, Va., June 4-12, 1864. 
 
 Petersburg, Va., June 16, 1864. 
 
 Siege of Petersburg, Va., June 23 to July 29, 1864. 
 
 Mine Explosion, Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864. 
 
 Deep Bottom, Va., August 14-16, 1864. 
 
 New Market Heights (Fort Gilmer), Va., September 29, 
 1864. 
 
 Fort Fisher, N. C, January 15, 1865. 
 
 Fort Anderson, N. C, February 18, 1865. 
 
 SURGEONS. 
 
 JosiAH C. Eastman, M. D., George P. Greeley, M. D., 
 David P. Dearborn, M. D. 
 
 assistant surgeons. 
 
 George P. Greeley, M. D., Tristram Rogers 
 David L. M. Comings, M. D., (not mustered), 
 
 Charles C. Beckley, M. D., Henry F. Wardwell, M, D., 
 David P. Dearborn, M. D., James P. Wal-ker, M. D. 
 
 FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 JosiAH Calef Eastman, M. D. 
 Hampstead, N. H. 
 
 Eastman, Josiah C. F. and S.; b. Loudon; age 50; res. Hampstead; 
 app. Surg. Aug. 20, '61; must, in Sept. 18, '61; resigned Oct. 7, '62. 
 P. O. ad., Hampstead. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 169.) 
 
44 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 The following biographical sketch is taken from the "Phy- 
 sicians and Surgeons of America," compiled by Dr. Irving 
 A. Watson, 1896 : 
 
 "Josiah Calef Eastman of Hampstead, N. H., was born in 
 Loudon, N. H., April 22, 1811, and was the son of Dr. Joseph 
 and Miriam (Calef) Eastman, grandson of Timothy and 
 Abigail (Gale) Eastman, and of Joseph and Miriam (Bart- 
 lett) Calef; and a great grandson of Colonel Gale of East 
 Kingston, and of Hon. Josiah Bartlett, a signer of the Declara- 
 tion of Independence, and who was president 1790- '91 and 
 first governor of New Hampshire, 1792- '93. Joseph Eastman 
 was graduated from Dartmouth Medical College in 1806 and 
 died at Meredith, N. H., at the age of thirty-three years. 
 
 "Josiah C. Eastman obtained a preliminary education at 
 the Kingston and the Atkinson (N. H.) and the Saco (Me.) 
 Academies; taught in district schools; commenced the study 
 of medicine in 1833 with Drs. L. S. Bartlett and Thomas Bas- 
 sett of Kingston, N. H. ; attended three courses of lectures at 
 Dartmouth Medical College and was graduated M. D. there- 
 from in 1837. 
 
 "Dr. Eastman practiced medicine for a time at Newmarket, 
 N. H., and about 1839 located at Hampstead, where he has 
 since been in active practice when not in the military service. 
 In August, 1861, he was appointed by Governor Berry sur- 
 geon of the Fourth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer In- 
 fantry, with rank of major. He w^as in service with the regi- 
 ment at Washington, Annapolis, Port Royal, Hilton Head, 
 St. Augustine and Jacksonville until 1863, when he resigned 
 his commission on account of illness in his family and returned 
 to Hampstead. Soon after this he was offered the colonelcy, 
 which was declined. When a youth he was chosen by Hon. 
 Levi Woodbury for a cadetship at West Point Military Acad- 
 emy but the opposition of his widowed mother prevented its 
 acceptance. 
 
 "In 1845 he was county treasurer of Rockingham county, 
 declining renomination in 1847; represented Hampstead in 
 the legislature in 1847- '50 and was state senator in 1853- '54, 
 Democratic. 
 
FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 45 
 
 "Dr. Eastman is one of the oldest members of the New 
 Hampshire Medical Society, president in 1860 ; was a member 
 of the Rockingham ]\Iedical Society and an ex-president of 
 the same ; also was a member of the American Medical Associa- 
 tion and was one of the three representatives from New Hamp- 
 shire to the International Medical Congress, held in Phila- 
 delphia, 1876. Dr. Eastman has been twice nominated for 
 councilor for his district ; was a delegate to the national con- 
 ventions which nominated General McClellan and Hon. 
 Horatio Seymour for the presidency and vice-presidency. In 
 1849, while a member of the legislature, Dr. Eastman intro- 
 duced the bill, entitled ' An act providing for the establishment 
 of public libraries,' which became a law under the signature 
 of Governor Dinsmore, and New Hampshire was the first state 
 in the Union to empower towns and cities to maintain free 
 public libraries by taxation, as a result of the passage of that 
 bill. Dr. Eastman was largely instrumental in the building 
 of the Nashua and Rochester Railroad and served as director 
 after its completion. 
 
 "Married, first. May 3, 1841, Miss Ann A., daughter of 
 Capt. Leonard (a pensioner of 1812) and Elizabeth Gregg 
 (Warner) Wilgon. Their children are: Mary Bartlett, wife 
 of Lavosier Hill of New York City, and Miss Ella Eastman. 
 Dr. Eastman married second, February 5, 1860, Miss Mary 
 Ellen, daughter of Dr. Jarome and Mary (Tewksbury) Harris 
 of Amesbury, Mass. Their children are : Josiah Bartlett and 
 Susie A. Eastman." 
 
 Dr. Eastman died in Hampstead, N. H., November 27, 1897. 
 
 George Preston Greeley, M. D. 
 
 Nashua, N. H. 
 
 (2 N. H. V.) 
 
 Gbeeley, George P. F. and S.; b. Nashua; age 28; res. Nashua; 
 
 app. Asst. Surg. May 3, '61; resigned June 3, '61. See 4 N. H. V. 
 
 (4 N. H. V.) 
 Gbeeley, Geoeoe P. F. and S.; b. Nashua; age 28; res. Nashua; app. 
 Asst. Surg. Aug. 20, '61; must, in Sept. 18. '61; app. Surg. Oct. 8, 
 '62; disch. Oct. 23, '64. Died Dec. 27, '92, St. Augustine, Fla. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, pp. 53 and 174.) 
 
46 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Surgeon Greeley was born in Nashua, N. H., April 9, 1833, 
 and was the son of Ezekiel and Sarah (Pollard) Greeley. His 
 paternal grandfather, Josiah Greeley, was born in 1756 in 
 that part of the state called Hudson at the present time, served 
 in the Revolutionary War and was wounded at Bunker Hill. 
 During the Revolution he enlisted three times, in 1875, '76 and 
 '77, and was present at the surrender of Burgoyne at Sara- 
 toga. 
 
 Surgeon Greeley received his preliminary education at the 
 schools in that part of Nashua that was called Nashville, and 
 was two years in Norwich University, Vermont. He com- 
 menced the study of medicine with Dr. George Gray of Nashua 
 in 1854, attending lectures at the Vermont Medical College, 
 Woodstock, and at the medical department of Dartmouth Col- 
 lege. This was at the period when Professors John C. Dal- 
 ton, William Henry Thayer and Eben K. Sanborn were of 
 the faculty of the Vermont Medical College. (All of these 
 men were afterwards in the army and Professor Thayer served 
 as surgeon of the Fourteenth New Hampshire Regiment.) 
 He continued his professional education at the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons of New York, when Willard Parker, 
 Joseph Smith and Alonzo Clark were doing their best work, 
 and was graduated M. D. from the same in 1857. He com- 
 menced the practice of medicine in Hoilis, N. H., in 1858, 
 remaining four years, and continuing his professional work 
 at the close of the war in Nashua, N. H., until from failing 
 health he was obliged to give up professional work, after 
 which he spent most of his time in Florida, where he owned a 
 large orange grove. 
 
 He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 
 also of the New Hampshire Medical Society, and was a mem- 
 ber of the various Masonic societies, including the Scottish 
 Rite or thirty-second degree. After being mustered out of the 
 service, he took a post-graduate course in New York, spending 
 considerable time in the Bellevue Hospital. He had a large 
 practice in Nashua and vicinity until his health was such 
 that he had to relinquish it. 
 
FOUETH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 47 
 
 Prior to his professional education, he took a long voyage 
 as supercargo in a sailing vessel, the barque Daniel Webster, 
 to Australia, visiting many ports in the Pacific and Indian 
 oceans. It was during this voyage that he determined upon 
 the profession of medicine. This vessel carried no surgeon 
 and he saw a great deal during the time that was suggestive 
 of the necessity of medical treatment. 
 
 "As early as 1860 he became captain of the Hollis Pha- 
 lanx, First Regiment, Second Division, Third Brigade of 
 Militia in the"*'state of New Hampshire, his commission being 
 signed by Ichabod Goodwin, Governor, showing that the an- 
 cestral patriotism was still burning in his day and generation. 
 He commenced his military service by being commissioned 
 assistant surgeon of the Second New Hampshire Regiment, 
 May 3, 1861, by Governor Goodwin, but the sickness of a 
 member of his family prevented his serving and he resigned 
 this position June 3, 1861. He was appointed assistant sur- 
 geon of the Fourth New Hampshire August 20, 1861, was 
 promoted surgeon October 8, 1862, and was discharged Oc- 
 tober 23, 1864, having served a little more than three years 
 with the regiment. During this period of service he was sur- 
 geon in charge of hospital No. 4 at Beaufort, S. C, from 
 November, 1862, until the spring of 1863. In 1864 was in 
 the field near Richmond until he was mustered out by reason 
 of the expiration of three years' service. February, 1865, he 
 was made surgeon of the Ninth Regiment, U. S. Veteran 
 Volunteers, First Corps, and served until May 8, 1866, when 
 the war was over. This service was in Indianapolis, Ind. " 
 
 A record of the services of Surgeon Greeley from a mem- 
 orandum kept by himself is so complete a history of the ser- 
 vice of the Fourth New Hampshire Regiment that it is here- 
 with appended. 
 
 "The Fourth New Hampshire Regiment left Manchester, 
 N. II., September 27, 1861, and proceeded direct to Washing- 
 ton, D. C, encamped and remained there eight days, when 
 it was ordered to Annapolis, Bid., and assigned to Gen. T. 
 W. Sherman's Expeditionary Corps. October 17 the regi- 
 
48 SUKGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 ment went by steamer ' Baltic ' to Hampton Koads. November 
 7, 1861, landed at Hilton Head, S. C, and went into camp 
 on the beach. In December, 1861, an expedition was sent to 
 Tybee island, Ga. 
 
 ''January 21, 1862, the regiment went aboard steam trans- 
 port 'Delaware' and remained at anchor in Broad river five 
 days. In February, 1862, were landed upon Warsaw island, 
 Ga., and there pitched their camp. Here they remained about 
 one week, when they again went aboard the 'Empire City' 
 and in the course of a week proceeded to Fernandina, Fla. 
 The campground upon Warsaw island was low, wet and ex- 
 ceedingly unhealthy. March 10, 1862, eight companies of the 
 regiment went aboard the 'Boston' and immediately proceeded 
 to the mouth of the St. John's river, Fla., where Company I 
 was transferred to the gunboat 'Huron,' which proceeded to 
 St. Augustine, Fla., and held the town by occupying Fort 
 Marion. Company C was landed at Mayport ]\Iills, Fla., and 
 occupied Fort Steele. The other companies of the Fourth 
 were transferred to various gunboats which went up the river 
 to Jacksonville, which place they occupied until about the 
 middle of April, 1862. In Jacksonville the troops were quar- 
 tered in stores, which afforded fine accommodations. Upon 
 evacuating the place, the steam transport ' Belvidere ' conveyed 
 the command to the mouth of the river where Company C 
 joined it. Companies B, H and K were conveyed by trans- 
 port steamer to Fernandina, Fla., where they occupied Fort 
 Clinch until June 8, 1862, and then were conveyed to James 
 island, S. C; June 12 to Beaufort, S. C, where they were 
 divided and put upon plantations as guards. The four com- 
 panies that were left at the mouth of the St. John's river on 
 board the ' Belvidere ' immediately proceeded to St. Augustine, 
 Fla., where there were then stationed three companies of the 
 regiment, the two companies left at Fernandina when the 
 regiment started for the St. John's river having been sent 
 there. The seven companies stationed at St. Augustine were 
 quartered as follows: Three in Fort Marion; one at the 
 court house; one at the barracks; and two were encamped 
 
FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 49 
 
 on the northwesterly side of the fort in the immediate vicinity 
 of the same. September 10, 1862, the Fourth New Hamp- 
 shire Regiment was relieved at St. Augustine by the Seventh 
 New Hampshire and went to Beaufort, S. C, by steamer ' Ben 
 Denford,' where they joined the three companies from which 
 they had been separated nearly five months. Here they re- 
 mained until October 21, 1862, when they were conveyed by 
 steamer 'Boston' to Mackies Point, S. C. October 22, 1862, 
 the regiment was in the battle of Pocotaligo, and that even- 
 ing returned to Beaufort, S. C. They remained here until 
 April 4, 1863, when they were ordered into camp at Hilton 
 Head. The regiment did not remain long in this unhealthy 
 locality, for on April 29 they went to Stons Inlet and that 
 evening they landed upon Folly island. The tents were 
 pitched upon the most southerly point of the island, but in 
 May the camp was moved to within a mile and a half of the 
 northern extremity of the same island. "While there the 
 rebels endeavored to shell their camp and their batteries 
 replied, day after day, firing. On June 17 no firing by the 
 enemy. The Fourth and adjacent regiments celebrated with 
 music and speeches. June 18 Hurd of Company B wounded 
 in the leg by a shell." 
 
 Dr. Greeley was very sick later in June and in July came 
 North on the ' ' Arago. ' ' By slow stages reached Nashua, after 
 remaining in New York City in bed a week or more until able 
 to leave. He was expecting to resign but at the earnest re- 
 quest of his friends and Col. Louis Bell he returned to his 
 regiment in October after months of suffering. (In August 
 he tendered his resignation on account of disability contracted 
 in the service, but his leave was extended and the resignation 
 not accepted.) 
 
 The following general orders are given as showing the pro- 
 fessional ability of Surgeon Greeley, as well as the regard and 
 esteem with which he and his fellow officers were held by their 
 superiors : 
 
50 SUKGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 In January, 1864, at the "Headquarters U. S. forces, Mor- 
 ris Island, S. C. January 26th by general orders No. 9, a 
 Medical Board for this Post is hereby appointed to consist 
 of the following named officers : 
 
 ''Surgeon, M. L. Kittenger, 100 N. Y. 
 H. F. Kobinson, 104 P. V. 
 George P. Greeley, 4th N. H. V. 
 and will meet at the office of Surgeon Kittenger at 11 o'clock 
 on Tuesday and Friday of each week until otherwise ordered. 
 "By order of Col. W. H. Davis, 104th Penn. Commanding 
 Post. 
 
 "Jno. H. McCoy, 
 
 ''1st Lt. and A. A. A. Gen'V 
 
 "In March, 1864, Surgeon Greeley was granted leave of 
 absence for thirty-five days to go North with his regiment, 
 who have been furloughed on re-enlistment as Veteran Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 ' ' By Command of 
 
 "Major General Q. A. Gilmore.^' 
 
 "Head Quarters, Dep't of the South, 
 "Hilton Head, S. C, March 1, 1864. 
 
 "1864, May 3d 
 
 "Head Quarters 10th Army Corps. 
 
 "Gloucester Point, Virginia. 
 "Special orders 
 
 No. 12 "Directing medical officers of this command 
 
 to turn over all surplus medical stores to the Quarter Master. 
 "By order of 
 
 "Gen'l a. H. Terry." 
 
 "Head Quarters 3d Division 10th Army Corps 
 "Near "Weir Botton Church, Va. 
 
 "May 25, 1864. 
 "Surgeon George P. Greeley, 4th N. H. Vols. 
 " Alden D. Palmer, 9th Maine. 
 
 " H. C. Levenstaler, 8th Maine. 
 
 are appointed a medical examining Board for the purpose of 
 examining all officers and enlisted men, candidates for dis- 
 charge of this command by reason of physical disability. The 
 Board will meet on Tuesdays and Fridays of each week at 9 
 (o'clock) A. M. 
 
 "By order of 
 
 "Brig. Gen'l Ames.'' 
 
FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 51 
 
 "Head Quarters 18th Army Corps 
 
 "In the Field, Va., June 8th, 1864. 
 ** Special order 
 
 Xo. 43 ' ' Surgeon Greeley 4th X. H. Vols, is hereby 
 
 detailed as assistant operator at the Corps Battle-field Hos- 
 pital, and will report to Surgeon Richardson for instructions. 
 "By command of 
 
 "Major General Smith." 
 
 "Head Quarters 18th Army Corps 
 
 "In the Field, Va., June 12th 1864. 
 "Special orders 
 
 X^o. 47. "The following nam.ed medical officers are 
 
 hereby detailed as Operating Surgeons in the Battle Field 
 Hospital of this Corps and will report to Surg. Geo. Luckley, 
 Medical Director. 
 
 "Surgeon George P. Greelej^ 4th X. H. Vols. 
 "By command of 
 
 "Major Gen'l Smith. '^ 
 
 "Head Quarters 3d Brig. 2d Div. 10th A. C. 
 
 "Bermuda Hundred, Va., Aug. 1, 1864. 
 "General orders 
 
 Xo. 2. "Surgeon George P. Greeley, 4th X. H. Vols. 
 
 is hereby announced as Chief Medical Officer of this Brigade 
 and will be obeyed and respected accordingly. 
 "By order of 
 
 "Col. Louis Bell, 
 "Commanding Brigade." 
 
 "Head Quarters 10th Army Corps, 
 
 "Before Petersburg, Va., Aug. 31, 1864. 
 "Special order 
 
 No. 113 (Extract.; 
 
 "The following named medical officers will re- 
 port to the Medical Director 10th A. C. for assignment to 
 temporary duty in Base and Flying Hospitals. 
 "Surg. George P. Greeley. 
 
 "By command of 
 
 "Major Gen'l Birney." 
 
52 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION, 
 
 The following service is not a part of the records of Adju- 
 tant-General Ayling's Register: 
 
 "In February, 1865, Surgeon Greeley was enrolled with 
 the Ninth Regiment, U. S. Veteran Reserve Corps, W'hich was 
 assigned to the First Army Corps. March 2, 1865, he was 
 appointed in the First Army Corps; March 28, 1865, he was 
 ordered to report in person to the Provost Marshal General 
 in Washington, D. C. Having reported as ordered, he was 
 assigned to duty in Washington from April 3 and requested 
 to report to Surgeon J. H. Baxter, late Surgeon General, U. 
 S. A., for further instructions. April 7th, Surgeon G. P. 
 Greeley, 1st A. C, was ordered to report to Maj. A. T. Lee, 
 Second U. S. Infantry, acting Assistant Provost Marshal of 
 General Western Division, Elmira, N. Y. He remained there 
 on duty until ordered 'to assume the duties of acting surgeon 
 of board of enrollment of the 29th District at Lockport, N. Y. ' 
 The above special order Avas dated April 26, 1865. June 14, 
 1865, he was relieved from duty at Lockport, N. Y., and 
 'ordered to report in person, without delay, to the Provost 
 Marshal General at Washington, D. C June 23, 1865, Sur- 
 geon Greeley was again assigned to the Ninth Regiment and 
 ' ordered to report for duty in person to Brevet Major-General 
 Carroll, commanding First Division, First Corps, at Camp 
 Stoneman, District of Columbia; this was by order of Major- 
 General Hancock. ' He remained on duty at Camp Stoneman 
 until October 5, 1865, when he was ordered to relieve Acting 
 Assistant Surgeon Harvey at post hospital, Burnside Bar- 
 racks, Indianapolis, Ind. He remained on duty at Indian- 
 apolis, Ind., until mustered out of the service May 3, 1866.'* 
 
 In the winter of 1866 and 1867 Dr. Greeley took a post- 
 graduate course in New York, and in the autumn of 1867 lo- 
 cated in Montpelier, Vt., where he remained in the practice 
 of his profession about one year. In 1868 he removed from 
 Montpelier to Boston, Mass., taking up his professional work, 
 and was medical examiner in Boston of the National Life 
 Insurance Company (Montpelier, Vt.) and of the Empire 
 Mutual Life Insurance Company, and became a member of 
 
FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 53 
 
 the Massachusetts Medical Society. In 1873 he removed from 
 Boston to Nashua, where he was county and city physician 
 for several years. He practiced his profession in Nashua 
 until the winter of 1883, when he went to Florida for the 
 winter and, investing in land, continued to spend each suc- 
 ceeding winter in that state, on or near his orange grove, only 
 going North for a few months in the summer. His death 
 occurred at St. Augustine, Fla., December 26, 1892. 
 
 Married, January 10, 1861, j\Iary P. Dewey of Montpelier, 
 Vt., only daughter of Dr. Julius Y. Dewey, and a sister of 
 Admiral DevvTy. No children. 
 
 David P. Dearborn, M. D. 
 Late of Brattleboro, Vt. 
 
 Deabborx, David P. Co. F; b. Sanbornton; age 25; res. Weare; enl. 
 Sept. 20, '61; must, in to date Sept. 18, '61; as Priv.; app. 2 Lt. 
 Co. G, March 22, '62; resigned Nov. 4, '62; app. 2 Asst. Surg. Dec. 
 16, '62; Asst. Surg. May 2, '64; Surg. Nov. 9, '64; must, out Aug. 
 23, '65. Died April 2, '88, Brattleboro, Vt. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 167.) 
 
 Surgeon Dearborn was born in Sanbornton, N. H., Octo- 
 ber 21, 1836, and was the son of Rev. Daniel M. and Mary 
 Jane (Gordon) Dearborn, a grandson of Josiah Dearborn. 
 He received his preliminary education in the common schools 
 of New Hampshire and at the literary institute at New Hamp- 
 ton. He commenced his professional education in 1858 w4th 
 Dr. James Peterson of Weare, N. H. He attended medical lec- 
 tures at the Hahnemann Tvledical College, Philadelphia, taking 
 three courses, and was graduated in 1861. 
 
 Dr. Dearborn enlisted in the army as a private of Company 
 F, Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers, September 20, 1861, 
 at which time he was a medical student. He was assigned 
 to duty in the hospital department as hospital steward and 
 was detailed as acting assistant surgeon in March, 1862, was 
 commissioned second assistant surgeon December 19, 1862, 
 
54 ' SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 was commissioned first assistant surgeon May 2, 1864, and 
 November 9, 1864, lie was commissioned surgeon of the regi- 
 ment on account of the illness of Surgeon George P. Greeley. 
 Dr. Dearborn had acted as surgeon for some time previous to 
 his being commissioned as surgeon. Surgeon Dearborn was 
 mustered out with the regiment November, 1864. He located 
 in Brattleboro, Vt., in January, 1865, remaining there until 
 his death, which occurred April 2, 1888. He was a member 
 of the Vermont Homeopathic Medical Society, a member of 
 the Odd Fellows, Masons and the Grand Army of the Repub- 
 lic in Brattleboro, Vt. 
 
 Married, January 8, 1865, Miss Harriet S. White of Con- 
 cord, N. H. 
 
 Children : Charles E., Mary and Harriet Gordon Dearborn. 
 
 David L. M. Comings, M. D. 
 Late of Swanzey, N. H. 
 
 Comings, David L. M. F. and S.; b. Cornish; age 37; res. Swanzey; 
 cred. Swanzey; app. 2 Asst. Surg. Aug. 13, '62; must, in Aug. 21, 
 '62; app. Asst. Surg. Oct. 8, '62. Died, dis. Aug. 1, '63, Swanzey. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 165.) 
 
 Surgeon Comings was born October 14, 1825, in Cornish, 
 N. H., and was the son of Uriel and Sarah (Robinson) Com- 
 ings, and was the grandson of Leonard Comings. His pre- 
 liminary education was received in the common schools and at 
 the academy in Meriden; afterwards he was two years in the 
 Norwich University at the time this celebrated institution was 
 under the charge of the late lamented Gen. Truman B. Ran- 
 som. Commenced his professional education at Claremont, N. 
 H., with the late Dr. Samuel Jarvis in the year 1847, and 
 received the degree of M. D. from Castleton Medical College, 
 Castleton, Vt., in 1850. He located for the practice of his 
 profession in Plainfield, N. H., in 1850, remaining there for 
 one year, and removed to West Swanzey, where he remained 
 until his death, which occurred the 1st of August, 1863. 
 
FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 55 
 
 He was a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society 
 and the Connecticut River jMedical Society, and represented 
 the town of Swanzey in the legislature, and had much to do 
 with the educational department of the town of Swanzey. His 
 biographer says of him : 
 
 "Those who knew him best during his active practice in 
 this vicinity remember him not merely for his devotion to his 
 profession. They remember him as the upright and consci- 
 entious citizen, Avho did not turn from the path of duty 
 through fear or favor, but interested himself in whatever per- 
 tained to the peace and good order of the society. He was 
 ever found faithful to the great cause of education, temper- 
 ance and social improvement. His kindly and Christian bear- 
 ing in the domestic circle can be fully appreciated only by 
 those few who had the opportunity to observe him at his own 
 fireside, surrounded by those whom he most loved and trusted. 
 The perfect control which he maintained over his feelings, 
 the self-discipline which never allowed an angry or unkind 
 word to escape his lips, gave him a serenity of temper which 
 hardly belonged to his ardent temperament. 
 
 "At the breaking out of the Rebellion, although not in 
 political sympathy with the administration, he cheerfully put 
 forth his efforts to put down armed treason and to uphold 
 the government of his country. He did not stop to inquire 
 what course others intended to pursue but chose his position 
 promptly and maintained it to the end. And nothing gave 
 him more pain on his dying bed than what he deemed to be 
 the folly and madness of some of the men of the North as 
 evinced in the riots in New York. 
 
 "When further surgical assistance was required in the de- 
 partment of the South in the spring of 1862, he cheerfully 
 offered his services and he was commissioned as assistant sur- 
 geon of the Fourth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. 
 He remained in sole charge of that regiment for some time, 
 much to the satisfaction of the soldiers and officers, as the 
 writer of this has reason to know, when he was ordered to the 
 general hospital at Hilton Head. After some months of faith- 
 
56 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 ful and devoted service to the sick and wounded, his health 
 failed and he was reluctantly compelled to leave the scene 
 of his active and useful labors. After a protracted and pain- 
 ful journey, he reached his former home in Swanzey, accom- 
 panied by his faithful companion in life, who was at his side 
 from the first of his illness. After a lapse of some weeks of 
 suffering and weakness, which medical skill could not over- 
 come, he closed his earthly career without a murmur and with 
 a full consciousness of his condition. Dr. Comings died on 
 the first day of August, 1863, leaving to the world the example 
 of a man who had performed his duties with integrity and 
 fidelity. In the language of one who knew him best and Avas 
 with him to the last, 'He died as he had lived, a Christian.' " 
 Married Eliza W. Taylor of Plainfield, November 27, 1851. 
 
 Charles Chester Beckley, M. D. 
 Late of Plainfield, N. H. 
 
 Beckley, Charles C. P. and S.; b. Weathersfield, Vt. ; age 34; res. 
 Plainfield, cred. Plainfield; app. 1 Asst. Surg. Oct. 1, '63; must, in 
 Dec. 11, '63; resigned Mar. 26. '64. Died Feb. IS, '86, Plainfield. 
 (Record, Ayliiig's Register, 1895, p. 159.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Weathersfield, Vt., 
 June 20, 1829, and v/as the son of Chester and Eunice K. 
 (Field) Beckley, and a grandson of Josiah Beckley of Ver- 
 mont. His preliminary education was received in the common 
 schools and academies of Vermont and New Hampshire. He 
 commenced his professional education under the direction of 
 Dr. S. G. Jarvis of Claremont and the late Prof. Edward E. 
 Phelps of Windsor, Vt., of the medical department of Dart- 
 mouth College. He continued the same by attending lectures 
 at Ann Arbor, Mich., and Hanover and was graduated M. D. 
 from the medical department of Dartmouth College in the 
 class of 1854. He located in the practice of medicine in Plain- 
 field, N. H., the same year. October 1, 1863, he v/as appointed 
 from the town of Plainfield first assistant surgeon of the 
 
FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 57 
 
 Fourth Regiment New Hampsliire Volunteers. Not being of 
 strong constitution his health suffered in consequence of his 
 service and he felt compelled to resign March 26, 1864. He 
 returned to Plainfield and remained there until his death, Feb- 
 ruary 18, 1886. As far as his health would permit, he took 
 up general practice but never fully recovered from disease 
 contracted in the army. 
 
 iMarried, June 11, 1867, Kate Ellen, daughter of William H. 
 and Fanny W. Daniels of Plainfield, N. H. 
 
 Children, two; Annie M. Beckley, deceased, and Chester C, 
 Beckley. 
 
 Tristram Rogers. 
 (Not mustered.) 
 
 Rogers, Tbistp.am. F. and S.; b. Walden, Vt.; age 30; res. New 
 Hampton; app. Asst. Surg. Dec. 1, '64; not must.; declined ap- 
 pointment Jan. 9, '65. P. O. ad., Plymouth. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1S95, p. 193.) 
 
 Henry Frost Wardwell, M. D. 
 
 Late of Berlin, N. H. 
 
 Wabdwell, Henby F. Unas'd; b. Albany, Me.; age 37; cred. Gor- 
 ham; enl. Mar. 31, 'C5, for one year; must, in Mar. 31, '65, as Priv.; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Apr. 11, '65; must, out Aug. 23, '65. Died Dec. 26, 
 '01, Berlin Falls. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 201.) 
 
 Surgeon Wardwell was born jMarcli 9, 1828, at xVlbany in 
 the state of Maine, and was the son of James and Fanny 
 (Frost) Wardwell, and a grandson of Peter Wardwell. He 
 received his preliminary education at the common schools and 
 at North Bridgton and Paris (Maine) Academies. Com- 
 menced his professional education in 1849 at Windham, Me., 
 under the direction of Luther W. Houghton, M. D., as precep- 
 tor. Attended three courses of medical lectures at Harvard 
 and the medical department of Bowdoin College and was 
 graduated from the latter in 1853. He located the same year 
 at Gorham, N. H., where he remained for twenty-six years, 
 
68 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 including his service in the army, and then removed to Ber- 
 lin and remained there nearly thirteen years until his death, 
 which occurred December 26, 1891. 
 
 He became a member of the Fourth New Hampshire Regi- 
 ment in March, 1865, and was appointed assistant surgeon 
 April 11, 1865, remaining in the service until the regiment 
 was mustered out of the United States service August 23, 
 1865. His place of residence being isolated from any large 
 centers, he never became a member of medical societies but 
 he was a member of Masonic lodges in Gorham and Berlin 
 and also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He 
 was also a member of the board of education in 1885, as well 
 as examining surgeon for the Pension Department. His 
 biographer says of him : 
 
 "Although not a member of any medical society to my 
 knowledge, his influence among his medical brethren was most 
 potent. Being a keen observer and possessing rare judgment, 
 his opinions vvhen given were always considered of much im- 
 portance. ' ' 
 
 Married, first, November 6, 1854, Miss Almira E. Head of 
 Shelburne, N. H., who died about twenty years since; second, 
 June 31, 1881, Miss Mary A. Wilson of Berlin, who survives 
 him. 
 
 Children: Charles H., a member of the legal fraternity, 
 now practicing in Boston ; Fanny, who married Alfred E. 
 Bean of Berlin, and ]\Iaiy Elizabeth, who graduated from 
 Wellesley in 1891 and is now teaching in the State Normal 
 School in Connecticut. 
 
 James Parker Walker, M. D. 
 
 Late of Manchester, N. H. 
 
 (4 N. H. V.) 
 
 Walkee, James P. F. and S.; b. Manchester; age 36; res. Manches- 
 ter; app. 2 Asst. Surg. May 2, '64; must, in May 15, '64; disch. 
 disab. Nov. 2, '64. P. O. ad., Manchester. See 6 N. H. V. (Rec- 
 ord, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 200.) 
 
FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 59 
 
 (6 N. H. V.) 
 
 Walkeb, James P. F. and S.; b. Manchester; age 36; res. Manches- 
 ter; app. 2 Asst. Surg. Dec. IC, 'G3; not must.; resigned commis- 
 sion Feb. 8, '64. P. O. ad., Manchester. See 4 N. H. V. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 342.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in that portion of Bed- 
 ford, which was afterwards annexed to ^Manchester, February 
 7, 1828, and was the son of James and Betsey (Parker) Walker, 
 a grandson of James Walker. Eeceived his early education 
 in the public schools of ^Manchester and at the Literary In- 
 stitute at Xew Hampton, N. H. He commenced his profes- 
 sional education in Manchester in 1853 under the direction of 
 the late Josiah Crosby, M. D., and William D. Buck, M. D., 
 both of that city. He attended medical lectures at Harvard 
 University and was graduated ]M. D. from the same in the 
 class of 1856. He located in ^Manchester and made that his 
 home until his death, which occurred May 6, 1897. He was a 
 member of the Harvard Alumni Association. He was ap- 
 pointed second assistant surgeon of the Sixth New Hampshire 
 Regiment December 16, 1863, but on account of business en- 
 gagements was obliged to decline the commission. Later he 
 was appointed second assistant surgeon of the Fourth New 
 Hampshire Regiment May 2, 1864, and was discharged for 
 disability November 2, 1864. He returned to Manchester 
 and resumed the practice of medicine. At one time he was 
 representative for two terms in the New Hampshire legis- 
 lature. 
 
 ^Married, December 31, 1863, Rowena L. Hamblett. No 
 children. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FIFTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 By WiLLLVM Child, Surgeon and Historian. 
 
 ' ' The one regiment in all the Union armies which sustained 
 the greatest loss in battle during the American Civil War was 
 the Fifth New Hampshire Infantry. * * * It served in the 
 First Division, Second Corps. This division was commanded 
 successively by Generals Richardson, Hancock, Caldwell, Bar- 
 low and Miles; and any regiment that followed the fortunes 
 of these men was sure to find plenty of bloody work cut out 
 for it. The losses of the Fifth New Hampshire occurred en- 
 tirely in aggressive, hard, stand-up fighting; none of it hap- 
 pened in routs or through blunders. Its loss includes eighteen 
 officers killed, a number far in excess of the usual proportion, 
 and indicates that the men were bravely led. Its percentage 
 of killed is also very large, especially as based on the original 
 enrollment. The exact percentage of the total enrollment 
 cannot be definitely ascertained, as the rolls were loaded down 
 in 1864 with the names of a large number of conscripts and 
 bounty men who never joined the regiment. * * * Known to 
 the corps and division commanders as a reliable regiment, 
 it was the more often called upon to face the enemy's fire 
 or assigned to the post of danger." 
 
 The above quotation gives in truthful vrords the estima- 
 tion of its high character as held by corps, division and brigade 
 commanders. Its field of work was largely in Virginia, as 
 twenty out of twenty-three engagements were in that state, 
 one of which, the siege of Petersburg, was almost continuous 
 from June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. 
 
FIFTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 61 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 Eappahannock River, Va., March 28, 1862. 
 
 Yorktown, Va., April 25 to May 4, 1862. 
 
 Fair Oaks, Va., June 1, 1862. 
 
 Peach Orchard, Va., June 29, 1862. 
 
 Savage's Station, Va., June 29, 1862. 
 
 "White Oak Swamp (G-lendale or Charles City Cross Roads), 
 Va., June 30, 1862. 
 
 Malvern Hill, Va., July 1, 1862. 
 
 Boonsborough, Md., September 15, 1862. 
 
 Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862. 
 
 Snicker's Gap, Va., November 2, 1862. 
 
 Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862. 
 
 Chancellorsville, Va., May 1-5, 1863. 
 
 Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 3, 1863. 
 
 Cold Harbor, Va., June 2-12, 1864. 
 
 Siege of Petersburg, Va., June 16 to July 26; July 30 to 
 August 12; August 21 to December 7, 1864; December 10, 
 1864, to April 2, 1865. 
 
 Jerusalem Plank Road, Va., June 22, 1864. 
 
 Deep Bottom, Va., July 27, August 16, 1864. 
 
 Ream's Station, Va., August 25, 1864. 
 
 Reconnoissance to Hatcher's Run, Va., December 8, 9, 1864. 
 
 Fort Stedman, Va., March 25, 1865. 
 
 Dinwiddie Court House, Va., March 31, 1865. 
 
 Sailor's Creek, Va., April 6, 1865. 
 
 Farmville, Va., April 7, 1865. 
 
 surgeons. 
 
 Luther M. Knight, M. D., John W. Bucknam, M. D., 
 William Child, M. D. 
 
 assistant surgeons. 
 
 John W. Bucknam, M. D., Don A. Robinson, M. D., 
 William Child, M. D., Charles M. Trask, M. D. 
 
 John Wheeler, M. D. 
 
 (not mustered), 
 
62 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 FIFTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 Luther M. Knight, M. D. 
 
 Late of Franklin, N. H. 
 
 Knight. Luther M. F. and S.; b. Franconia; age 49; res. Franklin; 
 app. Surg. Sept. 13, '61; must, in Oct. 26, '61; resigned May 28, '63. 
 Died Feb. 3, '87, Franklin. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 247.) 
 
 Surgeon Luther M. Knight was born in Franconia, N. H., 
 April 11, 1810, and was the son of Thomas and Abigail 
 (Knapp) Knight. His early education was received in the 
 common schools and at New Hampton Academy. He com- 
 menced the study of medicine in Franconia with Dr. Colby 
 as a preceptor, and attended lectures at Dartmouth Medical 
 College, where he was graduated in 1834. He first located in 
 Thornton, N. H., where he remained ten years, afterwards 
 removing to Franklin, N. H., in 1845, where, with the ex- 
 ception of the time passed in the army, he remained until 
 his death. 
 
 He early attained high rank in the profession and for fifty 
 years did a large and successful practice. He became a mem- 
 ber of the New Hampshire Medical Society while residing in 
 Thornton, was its president in 1878 and remained a member 
 until his death. He represented the tovm of Franklin in the 
 legislature in 1854 and 1855. He was also an Odd Fellow and 
 a member of the Congregational Church at Franklin. The 
 regimental historian. Dr. Child, gives the following record of 
 the services of Surgeon Knight, as well as paying a fitting 
 tribute to his private and professional character : 
 
 "In September, 1861, he was commissioned surgeon of the 
 Fifth Regiment and continued in the service until late in 
 1863, when impaired health compelled his resignation. Sur- 
 viving veterans of the old Fifth will readily recall to memory 
 his well known figure mounted on his beautiful white mare, 
 riding from one hospital to another, looking to the welfare of 
 the disabled boys and inspecting the sanitary condition of the 
 
FIFTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS, 63 
 
 camps. He was early promoted to brigade surgeon and subse- 
 quently to chief medical officer of the First Division, Second 
 Army Corps, on the staff of Ma j. -Gen. "W. S. Hancock, and 
 gained an enviable record for skill, bravery and efficiency. 
 
 "When he first tendered his resignation his superior offi- 
 cers, from regimental to corps headquarters, were reluctant 
 to accept, and endorsed his application, advising that 'this 
 officer, efficient and faithful, be granted an indefinite leave 
 of absence and his valuable services thereby be not lost to the 
 service. ' But Manassas, Fair Oaks, the Chickahominy swamps, 
 Malvern Hill, Antietam and Fredericksburg had done their 
 work, and his enfeebled system refused to respond to further 
 demands for active service. 
 
 "For many years after the war he held the position of exam- 
 ining surgeon for the pension bureau. He w^as a member 
 of the George F. Sweatt Post, No. 38, G. A. E., Franklin, 
 and took great interest in the welfare of that organization. 
 He was proud of his connection with the Fifth and any com- 
 rade, no matter what his rank, w^as assured of a hearty wel- 
 come at his hospitable home in Franklin. To them he never 
 wearied of rehearsing the oft-told tale of the Potomac cam- 
 paigns, and his hand, purse and influence were always ready 
 to assist a deserving and needy comrade. 
 
 "Surgeon Knight was married in 1842 to Miss Charlotte C, 
 daughter of James P. and Mary G. Tilton, whom he survived 
 scarcely two years. Of his four children, the eldest, Edwin 
 A. Knight, entered the service as hospital steward in the same 
 regiment as his father, and served until the end of the war. 
 He succeeded his father as a practitioner of medicine and 
 resides at Newton, IMass. 
 
 "Surgeon Knight died at his home in Franklin, February 3, 
 1887, at the age of seventy-seven years. Dr. J. J. Berry of 
 Portsmouth, in a beautiful eulogy of the deceased, delivered 
 before the New Hampshire Medical Society, said : 
 
 " 'Seldom has this society been called upon to pay tribute 
 to the memories of so many departed ones and to bring hither 
 its willing gifts of rosemary for those who have gone down 
 
64 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 into the dark valley. Dr. Knight was one of the oldest and 
 best known of the physicians of this society, and one who 
 was held in universal respect. His high professional acquire- 
 ments and his wealth of experience, which he was enabled to 
 present on all occasions, rendered him a valuable friend and 
 counselor. He was a man of high moral courage and con- 
 victions. He was a friend of the poor and needy, a shining 
 light of a profession for which he made so many personal 
 sacrifices and an honor to this society which mourns his loss. ' ' 
 ' ' Comrade Knight lies still in death by the side of his com- 
 panion on the banks of the beautiful Pemigewasset at Frank- 
 lin, but his precious memory is forever fragrant in the hearts 
 of his children, and liis surviving friends, and neighbors 
 treasure with affection a remembrance of the kind physician 
 and faithful citizen. Husband, father, friend, patriot, hail 
 and farewell!" 
 
 John Wingate Bucknam, M. D. 
 
 Late of Somersworth, N. H. 
 
 Bucknam, John W. F. and S.; b. Lancaster; age 27; res. Lancas- 
 ter; app. Asst. Surg. Oct. 22, '61; must, in Oct. 26, '61; app. Surg. 
 June 1, '63; disch. Oct. 26, '64. Died Dec. 18, '70, Somersworth, 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 219.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Lancaster, N. H., 
 December 4, 1833, and was the son of Edwards and Sarah 
 Brackett (Weeks) Bucknam. He came of excellent New 
 England stock and his ancestors served in the Revolution. 
 He received his preliminary education at the common schools, 
 at Lancaster Academy and Newbury (Vt.) Seminary. He 
 commenced the study of medicine in 1856 at Lancaster, N. H., 
 with Dr. John W. Barney as preceptor. This was continued 
 at Hanover with the late Prof. Dixi Crosby and other mem- 
 bers of the medical faculty of Dartmouth Medical College. 
 He attended medical lectures at Hanover and Burlington, Vt., 
 and was graduated M. D. from Dartmouth Medical College 
 in the class of 1860. He commenced the practice of medi- 
 
FIFTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 65 
 
 cine in Guildhall, Vt., removing to Lancaster in 1861, and in 
 1865 removed to Great Falls, now the city of Somersworth, 
 N. H. 
 
 He was appointed assistant surgeon of the Fifth New Hamp- 
 shire Volunteers October 21, 1861, and was promoted to the 
 office of surgeon of this regiment June 1, 1863. He was 
 with the regiment in every engagement during his term of 
 service. Colonel Cross of the Fifth Regiment was mortally 
 wounded in the battle of Gettysburg. Surgeon Bucknam took 
 care of him and was with him when he died. He made ar- 
 rangements for the removal of his body to New Hampshire. 
 His biographer says of him in the "Transactions of the New 
 Hampshire Medical Society," of which Dr. Bucknam was an 
 honored member, that: 
 
 "The brave men under his medical and surgical inspection 
 often speak of him with warm affection, as a kind and at- 
 tentive advisor, and well adapted, both by his knowledge and 
 constant solicitude for their welfare, for campaign work. 
 He was ever ready to alleviate pain and willing to administer 
 to the sufferings of those under his charge. He had no favor- 
 ites, but every one in need of his services was treated with 
 attention and skill. While in this field of action he contracted 
 chronic diarrhcea and this continued to afflict him, more or 
 less, after he left the army. 
 
 "As a physician he was successful — a man of good judg- 
 ment and judicious in the means employed to thwart the 
 ravages of diseased action." 
 
 Surgeon Bucknam died in Somersworth, December 18, 1870, 
 at the age of thirty-seven years, just as he was entering upon 
 a life of usefulness. 
 
 Married June 12, 1861, to Annie Celia Buckland of Ware- 
 house Point, Conn. Mrs. Bucknam was ill at the time of the 
 Doctor's death and died nearly at the same time, as she was 
 buried only five days after her husband. 
 
 Children : One, Annie Weeks Bucknam. 
 
66 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 William Child, M. D, 
 
 Piermont, N. H. 
 
 Child, William. F. and S.; b. Bath; age 28; res. Bath; cred. Bath; 
 app. 2 Asst. Surg. Aug. 13, '62; must, in Oct. 19, '62; app. Asst. 
 Surg, to date Aug. 13, '62, Surg. Oct. 28, '64; must, out June 28, 
 '65. P. 0. ad., Concord, N. H. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 222.) 
 
 Surgeon William Child was born in Bath, N. H., February 
 4, 1834, the son of D wight Pennel and Nancy (Morse) Child. 
 His grandfather was John Child, born in 1766 in Thompson, 
 Conn., and his grandmother was Martha Hutchins, born in 
 1773 in Haverhill, Mass. His father was a direct descendant 
 of Dorothy Dwight, a daughter of one of the Dwights of 
 educational fame. His mother was a near relative of Professor 
 Morse, the inventor of the magnetic telegraph, and his ma- 
 ternal grandmother was a sister of the Rev. Jedediah Morse, 
 the father of American geography. Dr. Child was reared on 
 one of the fine hill farms in the western part of the town of 
 Bath, a farm which had been owned and occupied by his 
 grandfather and which is still owned by his brother, John D. 
 Child. Amid physical surroundings among the finest in 
 Northern New Hampshire, he lived the life of the average 
 farmer's boy until the age of sixteen when he entered upon 
 a four years' course at Bath Academy, three miles distant 
 from his home, walking to and from his school each day. He 
 pursued and finished the regular college preparatory course 
 under the tuition of such instructors as the Rev. Edward 
 Cleveland, Nathan Lord, Jr., and the late Chief Justice A. P. 
 Carpenter. Prevented by circumstances from pursuing a col- 
 lege course, he began in 1854 the study of medicine with David 
 B. French, M. D., at Bath, and during the next three years 
 attended two courses of lectures at the medical department of 
 Dartmouth College and one at Bowdoin. Previous to taking 
 his medical degree at Dartmouth in 1857, he served six months 
 in the Deer Island Hospital, Boston, and six months in a New 
 York City dispensary, also taking a full course in anatomy in 
 
FIFTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 67 
 
 that city. After taking his degree, he was with Dr. John 
 McNab of Wells River, Vt., until October, 1857, when he 
 opened an office at Bath, his native town, where he practiced 
 his profession for twenty-six years, interrupted only by his 
 three years ' service in the War of the Rebellion with the Fifth 
 New Hampshire Volunteers. In 1883 he removed to New 
 Hampton, N. H., in order to promote the education of his 
 children and practiced his profession there for thirteen years, 
 having charge in the meantime for nearly ten years of ' ' Hous- 
 ton Narcotic Cure" at Concord and at Milford, N. H., and 
 for a time at Watertown, Mass. 
 
 August 13, 1862, he was commissioned as second assistant 
 surgeon of the Fifth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, 
 and was subsequently promoted surgeon of the same regi- 
 ment. He served for nearly three years, until the end of the 
 war, a service which was a notable one, as must be evident 
 from the history of that famous regiment. Some of the time 
 he was absent from the regiment on detail service. He served 
 three months in a hospital on the battlefield of Antietam ; one 
 month in hospital after the battle of Gettysburg; six months 
 in prisoners-of-war camp at Point Lookout, i\Id., and while 
 there examined prisoners of war to be recruited into the 
 United States service. He did field service at the battles of 
 South ^Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, 
 Brandy Station, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, during 
 the whole siege, at Deep Bottom, Charles City, Ream's Sta- 
 tion and Hatcher's Run; was frequently detailed to accom- 
 pany difficult and dangerous expeditions. At the close of the 
 war he was division surgeon of the First Division, Second 
 Army Corps. He was honorably discharged with his regi- 
 ment June 29, 1865, having served two years, ten months and 
 sixteen days. It was during the winter of 1863- '64 that the 
 Fifth Regiment was on duty at Point Lookout, Md. There 
 w^ere thirteen thousand Confederate prisoners in camp here 
 and Dr. Child was in charge of the hospital, having fifteen 
 hundred sick reported each week. He had as assistants eight 
 
68 SUEGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Confederate surgeons — good men. At the same time he ex- 
 amined upwards of eight hundred of these prisoners who were 
 recruited into the United States service. 
 
 After the war Dr. Child resumed his practice at Bath and 
 entered upon the quiet duties of citizenship, and never sought 
 political preferment, but was twice elected to the state legis- 
 lature from his native town and also filled various to^vn offices. 
 He has been an active member of the G. A. R. of New Hamp- 
 shire and has been often called upon by his comrades to of- 
 ficiate as orator on Memorial Day. Since 1880 he has served 
 G. A. R. posts as orator of the day once each year, sometimes 
 twice and once at three different places the same day. He has 
 served more than twenty years as single examining surgeon 
 or as one of a board of examiners for United States pen- 
 sioners. He is the historian of his regiment and has told its 
 immortal story in the 600-page octavo volume brought out in 
 1893, profusely illustrated, an invaluable addition to the mil- 
 itary history of the state. Dr. Child is a fraternal member 
 of the Masonic order and during his military service was an 
 active member of one of the war lodges. Upon the formation 
 of the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers a dispensation was 
 granted to the Masonic members of the organization to meet 
 and transact business as a lodge. James B. Perry was the 
 first Worshipful Master. He was killed at Fredericksburg. 
 In November, 1863, Dr. Child was elected Worshipful Mas- 
 ter, and served as such until the close of the war. Thirty-six 
 applicants were received in this Fifth Regiment lodge, one 
 from the state of Maryland. Dr. Child is not only a Mason but 
 is a member of the order of Odd Fellows, of the G. A. R. and 
 is also a Granger. He is a great-grandson of a soldier of the 
 Revolution and a direct descendant of a soldier in the Colonial 
 service. He maintains a just pride in his own military record. 
 It is no small thing to be a survivor of the Fifth New Hamp- 
 shire. He was with his regiment in thirteen battles and in as 
 many minor engagements and expeditions. He was with the 
 expedition sent to learn of the initial movements of General 
 Lee in the Gettysburg campaign. He was present at the 
 assassination of Lincoln. 
 
FIFTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 69 
 
 His professional life has been in the main the quiet, un- 
 eventful one of the country practitioner. He is a member of 
 the New Hampshire State Medical Society, has twice been 
 its anniversary chairman, and once its president. He has 
 prepared and read many papers before the society, and for 
 years was an active participant in its proceedings and dis- 
 cussions, as the published reports of the transactions of the 
 society bear testimony. These published papers show that he 
 held advanced views on sanitary matters, had little faith in 
 drugs, no faith in so-called disinfectants, claiming that to be 
 "clean" was the essence of modern sanitation and surgery. 
 He held strongly to the theory that diseases are not inherited. 
 He does not claim to have made discoveries or advancements; 
 does not suppose that the profession has arrived at perfection ; 
 expects that there will be much greater progress, that much 
 useless medical and surgical lumber will be abandoned and 
 that we shall finally have a practice based upon knowledge of 
 the human body and mind and common sense, and that all 
 "shades and shadows" will be eliminated from the profession. 
 
 In 1895 he purchased a farm on the banks of the Connecti- 
 cut in Piermont, N. H., where he now resides, having aban- 
 doned active practice on account of disabilities contracted in 
 the war of 1861- '65. Here among haunts and scenes similar 
 to those of his boyhood he hopes to live his appointed days. 
 
 Dr. Child married, first, Caroline Lang, by whom he had 
 issue of William Clinton, born 1859, died 1880; Kate, born 
 1860 ; Bernard V., born 1862 ; Susan W., born 1865. He mar- 
 ried, second, Luvia Lang, daugter of Sherburn Lang, Esq., 
 of Bath, by whom he had issue of John L., born 1870; James 
 D., born 1875. His children were prepared for college at New 
 Hampton Institution. Kate and Bernard V. took courses sub- 
 sequently at Oberlin, O. ; Susan W. was graduated at "Welles- 
 ley; James D. at Dartmouth, class of 1899; and John L. is 
 business manager for Lord Bros. IManufacturing Company at 
 Tilton, N. H. 
 
70 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Don Alonso Eobinson, M. D. 
 Coaticook, P. Q., Canada. 
 
 Robinson, Don A. F. and S.; age 28; res. Milan; app. Asst. Surg. 
 Feb. 28, '65; must, in Apr. 25, 'G5; must, out June 28, '65. (Rec- 
 ord, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 263.) 
 
 Surgeon Robinson was born February 29, 1836, in West 
 Charleston, Vt., and was the son of Elijah and Eliza Ann 
 (Smith) Robinson, a grandson of Jasper Robinson of the 
 same town. He received his preliminary education at the 
 common schools and at Derby Academy, Vermont; took up 
 his classical education with private teachers. He commenced 
 his professional education at "West Charleston, Vt., in 1856 
 under the direction of his father. Dr. Elijah Robinson. This 
 was continued by a course of medical lectures at Dartmouth 
 College in 1858 and a second course at the medical depart- 
 ment of the University of Vermont in 1859, and he was grad- 
 uated M. D. from the latter institution in 1859. He located 
 in Milan, N. H., in January, 1860, and remained there until 
 1866, when he removed to Island Pond, Vt. In September, 
 1874, he removed to Coaticook, P. Q., where he has been in 
 the practice of his profession ever since. 
 
 "While a resident of New Hampshire he enjoyed the confi- 
 dence of the people of the town in which he resided, being 
 made a justice of the peace and a member of the board of 
 education. He was a successful practitioner in medicine, be- 
 ing a good student and progressive in his work. He discov- 
 ered a method of arresting severe nasal hemorrhage by com- 
 pression of the submaxillary arteries in the year 1862, and 
 during an epidemic of diphtheria in the year 1861 was un- 
 usually successful in the use of mercurials. The Doctor ob- 
 serves: "That the above methods may have been used simul- 
 taneous with myself by other physicians, but, if so, I am not 
 aware of it." 
 
 He is a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
 of the Province of Quebec ; St. Francis Medical Society of the 
 Province of Quebec; while residing in Vermont was a 
 
FIFTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 71 
 
 member of the State Medical Society and the Orleans County 
 Medical Society of Vermont ; and he is a fraternal member of 
 the Masons and Odd Fellows. About the time of his removing 
 to Canada, he took a post-graduate course in clinical and di- 
 dactic medicine at the McGill Medical College, Montreal. 
 
 While a resident of New Hampshire he was appointed as- 
 sistant surgeon of the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers and 
 was with the regiment until it was mustered out in 1865. 
 
 Married, December 25, 1864, to Sarah M. Noyes, Norway, 
 Me. 
 
 Children, three : Winefred Gertrude and Bernard Noyes, 
 and Blanche Louise, deceased. 
 
 Chakles M. Trask, M. D. 
 Late of White River Junction, Vt. 
 
 Tbask, Charles M. Co. D.; F. and S.; b. Brookfield, Vt.; age 24; 
 res. Stewartstown; enl. Nov. 28, '61; must, in Jan. G, '62, as Priv.; 
 app. Hosp. Steward, Feb. 8, '63; 2 Asst. Surg. June 1, '63; disch. 
 Dec. 27, '64. Died June 27, '91, White River Junction, Vt. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 274.) 
 
 Surgeon Trask was born in Brookfield, Vt., November 30, 
 1836, and was the son of William and Sarah Mitchell (Clark) 
 Trask, and a grandson of Hon. William Dodge Trask, an 
 English emigrant settling in Beverly, Mass. His preliminary 
 education was received in the common schools of Vermont and 
 Derby (Vt.) Academy. His professional education com- 
 menced in the spring of 1857 at Stewartstown, N. H., under 
 the direction of Dr. Worthley of Stewartstown and Prof. Wal- 
 ter Carpenter of Burlington, Vt. He attended three courses 
 of medical lectures in Burlington and New York and was 
 graduated M. D. from the medical department of the Univer- 
 sity of Vermont in June, 1861. 
 
 The commencement of the War of the Rebellion found Dr. 
 Trask a medical student in the town of Stewartstown, from 
 which place he enlisted as a private in Company D, Fifth New 
 Hampshire Volunteers, the 28th of November, 1861. It was 
 
72 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 understood that he was to be appointed hospital steward, 
 but for various reasons he did not receive that appointment 
 until February 8, 1863. June 1, 1863, he was commissioned 
 second assistant surgeon of the Fifth, in which position he 
 served until mustered out of the service December 27, 1864. 
 After more than three years' service in the United States 
 Volunteers he returned to Stewartstown, N. H., where he prac- 
 ticed medicine for two years ; he then removed to Wells River, 
 Vt., where he remained until 1872, when, on account of fail- 
 ing health, he entered the drug business in Boston. In 1882 
 he removed to White River Junction, Vt., carrying on the 
 same business until his death, which occurred June 27, 1891, 
 from disease contracted in the United States service. 
 
 Married in the spring of 1866 to Lewellen Morrison, who 
 died April 11, 1869 ; and in 1882 he married Susie Stimpson, 
 who survived him and now resides in Massachusetts. 
 
 No children. 
 
 His biographer says of him: 
 
 "He was a faithful, noble man who performed every duty 
 without a murmur. Probably no man in the Fifth did his 
 duty more fully, without any desire for promotion, sensa- 
 tional attention and display, than did Dr. Traslv. He was 
 honest, able, kind, attentive and cheerful under all circum- 
 stances. As a physician and surgeon he possessed all those 
 qualities that command the love and respect of officers and 
 men. His death occurred in the very prime of life, beloved 
 and respected by all who knew him. His place of business 
 was always the resort of those who knew him best in the ser- 
 vice or later in his business life. He was made a Master 
 Mason at Point Lookout, Md., in the winter of 1863 and 1864, 
 in the Masonic lodge belonging to the Fifth New Hampshire 
 Volunteer Regiment, by his friend and comrade and almost 
 constant tent-mate. Dr. William Child, then Worshipful Mas- 
 ter of the lodge. He was an honest man, an agreeable com- 
 panion and a true patriot. ' ' 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SIXTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, 
 
 By Lyman Jackman, 
 
 Captain of the Sixth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, 
 and Historian. 
 
 * ' The Sixth Regiment was organized at Keene, in November, 
 1861, the men coming from all parts of the state. The regi- 
 ment camped on the Cheshire Fair Ground, about a mile and 
 a half out from the city, the camp being called ' Camp Brooks. ' 
 Company B was the first on the ground, reporting November 
 9. The men were mustered in November 27 to 30, the regi- 
 mental organization being completed on the thirtieth. 
 
 "The Sixth New Hampshire Volunteers was attached to 
 General Casey's Provisional Brigade, near Washington, D. C, 
 December 28, 1861; General Burnside's Expedition to North 
 Carolina, January 6, 1862; Fourth Brigade, Department of 
 North Carolina, March 6, 1862 ; First Brigade, First Division, 
 Department of North Carolina, June, 1862; First Brigade, 
 Second Division, Ninth Army Corps, July 22, 1862; District 
 of Kentucky, Department of Ohio, September 9, 1863; on 
 Veteran Furlough, January 16, 1864; in Ninth Army Corps, 
 unassigned, March, 1864; Second Brigade, Second Division, 
 Ninth Army Corps, April 20, 1864. 
 
 ' ' The regiment during its term of service served in seventeen 
 different states; meeting all the requisitions of duty, however 
 onerous or perilous, with cheerful and ready efficiency. While 
 it is not asserted that the Sixth was the best regiment sent out 
 from New Hampshire, the claim may be made, and can be 
 
74 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 maintained, that it was equal to the best. Its record has 
 added a brilliant chapter to the history of New Hampshire's 
 always glorious achievements in war. ' ' 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 Camden, N. C, April 19, 1862. 
 
 Bull Run, Va., August 29, 30, 1862. 
 
 Chantilly, Va., September 1, 1862. 
 
 South Mountain, Md., September 14, 1862. 
 
 Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862. 
 
 White Sulphur Springs, Va., November 15, 1862. 
 
 Fredericksburg, Miss., June 14 to July 4, 1863. 
 
 Jackson, Miss., July 10-16, 1863. 
 
 Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864. 
 
 Spottsylvania, Va., May 8-20, 1864. 
 
 North Anna River, Va., May 23-26, 1864. 
 
 Totopotomoy, Va., May 30, 31, 1864. 
 
 Bethesda Church, Va., June 2, 3, 1864. 
 
 Cold Harbor, Va., June 4-12, 1864. 
 
 Siege of Petersburg, Va., June 16, 1864, to April 3, 1865. 
 
 Mine Explosion, Petersburg, Va., (assault) July 30, 1864. 
 
 Weldon Railroad, Va., August 20-22, 1864. 
 
 Poplar Springs Church, A^a., September 30, October 1, 1864. 
 
 Hatcher's Run, Va., October 27, 1864. 
 
 Petersburg, Va., April 1, 2, 1865. 
 
 SURGEONS. 
 
 William A. Tracy, M. D., Sherman Cooper, M. D., 
 James H. Noyes, M. D. 
 
 assistant surgeons. 
 
 Sherman Cooper, M. D., James P. Walker, M. D. 
 
 James H. Noyes. M. D., (not mustered), 
 
 Marshall L. Brown, M. D., Elihu P. Pierce, M. D. 
 
SIXTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 75 
 
 SIXTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 William Azro Tracy, M. D. 
 Late of Nashua, N. H. 
 
 (6 N. H. V.) 
 
 Tbact, William A. F. and S.; b. Tunbridge, Vt.; age 35; res. 
 Nashua; app. Surg. Oct. 25, 'Gl; must, in Nov. 28, '61; resigned 
 March 15, '63. See Miscel. Organizations. (Record, Ayling's Reg- 
 ister, 1895, p. 341.) 
 
 (Miscel. Organizations.) 
 
 Tbacy, William A. U. S. V.; b. Tunbridge, Vt; age 37; res. Nashua; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Dec. 7, '62. Died Mar. 15, '04, Nashua. See 6 N. 
 H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1081.) 
 
 Surgeon Tracy was born May 3, 1826, in Tunbridge, Vt., 
 and was the son of Elisha Lily and Laura A. (Peabody) 
 Tracy, and grandson of Cyrus Tracy. His preliminary edu- 
 cation was received in the common schools and academies of 
 Vermont, and his professional education commenced in 1849 
 under the direction of Dr. Charles B. Chandler at Tunbridge, 
 Vt. He attended medical lectures at Castleton, Vt., Boston, 
 Mass., Dartmouth Medical College and the Vermont ]\Iedical 
 School at Woodstock, Vt., graduating from the latter 
 September 24, 1852. He located for the practice of medicine 
 in Hollis, X. H., in 1852, but removed to Nashua prior to the 
 War of the Rebellion. Doctor Tracy was appointed surgeon 
 of the Sixth New Hampshire Volunteers, November 28, 1861, 
 and resigned ]\Iarch 15, 186.3. The following is a copy of his 
 letter tendering his resignation : 
 
 "Hd. Qrs. 6thN. H. Vols. 
 
 "Newport News, Va., 
 "March 10, 1863. 
 
 "I respectfully resign my commission as Surgeon 6th N. H. 
 Vols, on account of prolonged and increasing disability. 
 "I am, 
 
 "Very resply, 
 
 "Wm. a. Tracy, 
 
 "Surgeon 6th N. H. Vols." 
 
76 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 His resignation was accepted and he returned to Nashua. 
 At the time of his resignation he was acting brigade surgeon 
 at Newport News, Va. After his return to Nashua, his health 
 somewhat improved, and the records of the surgeon-general's 
 office show that Surgeon Tracy again tendered his services to 
 the government and was nominated by the president and his 
 name sent to the senate for appointment as assistant surgeon of 
 volunteers with the rank of captain, January 11, 1864, to date 
 from December 7, 1863. This nomination was confirmed by the 
 senate March 30, 1864, and his commission was made out April 
 12, 1864, and forwarded through the office of the surgeon- 
 general April 12, 1864. On April 18, 1864, this department 
 was informed that Dr. Tracy had died at Nashua, N. H,, 
 March 15, 1864. 
 
 Surgeon Tracy was a member of the New Hampshire Med- 
 ical Society, and for a period prior to his entering the army 
 was city physician of the City of Nashua. He was also a 
 fraternal member of Rising Sun Lodge of Masons in the City 
 of Nashua. 
 
 Married, May 1, 1853, Mariah Gould. 
 
 Children, three: Mary Louisa, William Hamilton and 
 William Azro. 
 
 Sherman Cooper, M. D. 
 Westfield, N. J. 
 
 CooPEK, Sherman. F. and S.; b. Cornish; age 29; res. Claremont; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Oct. 17, '61; must, in Nov. 28, '61; app. Surg. Mar. 
 20, '63; must, out Nov. 27, '64. P. O. ad., Westfield, N. J. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 298.) 
 
 Surgeon Cooper was the son of Hon. Lemuel Cooper, and 
 was born in Croydon August 20, 1833. He received an 
 academic education, graduating from the Kimball Union 
 Academy at Meriden, N. H., in 1855, received the degree of 
 M. D. at the University of Vermont in 1857. He immediately 
 took the position of deputy resident physician of Blackwell's 
 Island Hospital, and attended lectures at the New York Med- 
 ical College. Leaving there, he settled in Claremont in 1858 
 
SIXTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 77 
 
 and entered the array as assistant surgeon of the Sixth Regi- 
 ment New Hampshire Volunteers October 17, 1861, and w^as 
 promoted to the rank of surgeon in March, 1863. At the end 
 of three years ' service, he returned to Claremont and resumed 
 the practice of his profession. Afterwards removed to West- 
 field, N. J., where he has been in practice ever since. 
 
 During the "War of the Rebellion, as surgeon and assistant 
 surgeon of the Sixth Regiment, he was present at every engage- 
 ment in which the regiment participated, until he was mus- 
 tered out in November, 1864. , 
 
 Married Celia Purson, Westfield, N. J., June 23, 1869. 
 
 James H. Notes, M. D. 
 Ogden, Iowa. 
 
 (6 N. H. V.) 
 
 Notes, James H. Non-Com. Staff and F. and S.; age 25; res. 
 Nashua; enl. Nov. 29, '61; must, in Nov. 29, '61, as Hosp. Steward; 
 app. 2 Asst. Surg. May 13, '62; captd. Sept. 1, '62, Chantilly, Va.; 
 released Sept. 9, '62; app. Asst. Surg. Mar. 20, '63; Surg. Jan. 2, 
 '65; must, out July 17, '65. Supposed identical with James H. 
 Noyes, Co. B, 4 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 326.) 
 
 (4 N. H. V.) 
 
 Notes, James H. Co. B.; b. Gardner, Mass.; age 25; res. Nashua; 
 enl. Sept. 16, '61; must, in Sept. 18, '61, as Priv. ; disch. disab. Oct. 
 19, '61, Annapolis, Md. Supposed identical with James H. Noyes, 
 Non.-Com. Staff, 6 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 
 188.) 
 
 Surgeon Noyes of the Sixth New Hampshire Volunteers was 
 born in G-ardner, Mass., July 20, 1835, and was the son of 
 Henry J. and Jane L. (Gates) Noyes. He received his pre- 
 liminary education at the common schools of Gardner, Mass., 
 a short time at Burr Seminary, Vermont, and three years' at- 
 tendance at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, N. H. Com- 
 menced the study of medicine in 1857, at Hollis, N. H., with 
 Dr. Henry Boynton, now of Woodstock, Vt., afterwards assist- 
 ant surgeon of the Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers; con- 
 tinued the same at Nashua, N. H., in 1858, with Dr. J. G. 
 
78 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Graves. Attended medical lectures at the University of Ver- 
 mont and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New 
 York City, and was graduated M. D. from the latter in 1860. 
 Commenced the practice of medicine in Nashua, N. H., a few 
 months after graduating, and removed to Clarence, Iowa, the 
 first year after the war. Located at Ogden, Iowa, in 1866, 
 where he has been in the active practice of medicine ever since. 
 
 He is a member of the District and State Medical Societies 
 of Iowa, and at the present time, 1900, is serving as mayor of 
 the City of Ogden, Iowa. He has been president of the Dis- 
 trict Medical Society and health officer of the City of Ogden 
 for the last twenty years. Is a fraternal member of the Odd 
 Fellows and Masons. 
 
 His service with the Sixth New Hampshire commenced with 
 an enlistment November 21, 1861, in which he served as hos- 
 pital steward, and was appointed second assistant surgeon 
 May 13, 1862. In that capacity was captured at Chantilly, 
 Va., (second battle of Bull Run,) remaining a prisoner a few 
 days. He was appointed first assistant surgeon March 20, 
 1863, and commissioned surgeon of the Sixth New Hampshire 
 Regiment January 2, 1865, and was mustered out of the ser- 
 vice July 17, 1865. He was in nearly all the battles in which 
 the regiment took any part. 
 
 Married, in 1866, to Sarah F. Stone of Nashua, N. H. 
 
 One child, Mary S. Noyes. 
 
 The following is a beautiful tribute to his courage and devo- 
 tion to the men in his regiment, which was contributed by one 
 of his comrades, Captain Jones of Company F : 
 
 "He was one of the most faithful men I ever knew, also 
 one of the most fearless. Whenever there was a fight, he was 
 always at the front, administering to the wants of the 
 wounded. It used to be a joke with the boys that he was 
 always on the picket line looking for a patient. He was young 
 and had not practiced much before entering the service, but 
 he made himself a very useful man and was much admired 
 for his great courage and devotion to the men of his regi- 
 ment. He served his country in time of need faithfully and 
 to the best of his ability, and enjoyed the respect and love 
 of his comrades." 
 
SIXTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 79 
 
 JVLvRSHALL Lebanon Brown, M. D. 
 Allston, Mass. 
 
 Bbowx, Marshall L. Co. E; b. New Ipswich; age 24; res. Keene; 
 enl. Nov. 12, '61; must, in Nov. 28, '61, as Priv.; app. Hosp. Stew- 
 ard Jan. 2, '63; re-enl. and must, in Dec. 29, '63; app. Asst. Surg. 
 June 1, '65; must, out July 17, '65. P. 0. ad., Allston, Mass. (Rec- 
 ord, Ayling's Register, 1S95, p. 293.) 
 
 Surgeon Brown was born April 18, 1837, in New Ipswich, 
 N. H., and was the son of Lebanon and Marenda (Blanchard) 
 Brown, and a grandson of Abner Brown of New Ipswich, N. 
 H. Received his preliminary education in the common and 
 high schools and at the Keene Academy, and was graduated 
 from the scientific department of Dartmouth College in 1861 ; 
 he afterwards attended classical courses in Paris and Vienna. 
 Commenced the study of medicine while in the scientific school 
 with Dr. A. B. Crosby of Hanover, attended medical lectures 
 at the Dartmouth iMedical College and was graduated from 
 the same in 1866. Commenced the practice of medicine in 
 the army in 1864 and 1865, being hospital steward in 1864, 
 and promoted to assistant surgeon of the Sixth New Hamp- 
 shire in 1865. A summary of his service as a United States 
 Volunteer would be as a private and acting hospital steward 
 from November, 1861, until his re-enlistment in 1864, after 
 which he was appointed assistant surgeon in June, 1865, and 
 mustered out in July, 1865. 
 
 Since the war. Surgeon Brown has been in practice in 
 Winchendon, Mass., six years, Natick, Mass., six years, and in 
 Boston eighteen years. He is a member of the ^Massachusetts 
 Medical Society, Boston Gynecological Society, Cambridge So- 
 ciety for Medical Improvement. Has written various articles 
 for different societies, that have been published. He has 
 been much interested in the work of veterans' organizations 
 and is surgeon of John A. Logan Post, No. 186, G. A. R., De- 
 partment of Massachusetts ; is a member of the Baptist Church 
 and society in Allston, Mass., as well as of the Home Circle 
 connected with this church. 
 
80 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 In regard to his early education, Dr. Brown says of himself : 
 
 "Previous to entering college, gave four years in learning 
 the printer's trade in the office of the New Hampshire States- 
 man of Concord, N, H." 
 
 Married, November 10, 1869, Helen Adams Childs, daugh- 
 ter of Capt. Oliver Adams, Winchendon, Mass. 
 
 Three children : Mary Francis, Fidelia Adelaide and Helen 
 Adams Brown. 
 
 Elihu Proctor Pierce, M. D. 
 Springfield, Mass. 
 
 Pierce, Elihu P. F. and S.; b. Winchester; age 28; res. Manches- 
 ter; app. 2 Asst. Surg. Mar. 11, '64; must, in Mar. 12, '64; must, 
 out July 17, '65. P. O. ad., Springfield, Mass. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 328.) 
 
 Surgeon Pierce was born in Winchester, N. H., June 4, 
 1836, and was the son of Hosea and Verlina (Putnam) Pierce. 
 He received his preliminary education in the common schools 
 of Winchester, N. H., with an academic education received 
 at Westmoreland, Vt., and Shelburne Falls, Mass. He com- 
 menced the study of medicine with his father. Dr. Hosea 
 Pierce, at Winchester in 1854, attending medical lectures at 
 Woodstock, Vt., and Pittsfield, Mass., graduating after four 
 courses of lectures at the Berkshire Medical College, Pittsfield, 
 Mass., in 1857. He first located in Winchester, N. H., in 1858, 
 where he remained one year, and then removed to Fitzwilliam, 
 N. H., where he remained eighteen months. Entered United 
 States service as contract surgeon June 2, 1862, and was in 
 the field in West Tennessee, Northern Mississippi and Ala- 
 bama until May, 1863. March 11, 1864, was commissioned 
 assistant surgeon of the Sixth New Hampshire Regiment, and 
 was discharged with the regiment July 17, 1865. Returning 
 to Winchester, N. H., he remained there from August, 1865, 
 until 1877, when he located in Northfield, Mass., where 
 he remained until 1885, since which time he has been in 
 Springfield, Mass. 
 
SIXTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 81 
 
 He is a member of E. K. Wilcox Post, No. 16, G. A. R., 
 Springfield, Mass., also a member of Philesian Lodge, No. 40, 
 Free and Accepted Masons, Winchester, N. H. 
 
 Married, in 1878, Mrs. Emma E. Scknell. 
 
 One child, Hosea Dean Pierce. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 By Henry F. W. Little, 
 
 Second Lieutenant, Seventh Re^ment New Hampshire Volun- 
 teers, and Historian of the Regiment. 
 
 *'The recruitment and organization of the Seventh Regi- 
 ment was somewhat different from that of any other force 
 raised in the state during the War of the Rebellion of 1861. 
 Although the regiment was credited to New Hampshire, the 
 authority to accept and provide for recruits, and the privilege 
 to make all official appointments, was by direction of the War 
 Department at Washington, D. C, under date of September 
 2, 1861, vested in Joseph C. Abbott, who, at the commencement 
 of the war and for some years previous, had been adjutant- 
 general of the state, and who, desiring active service, had 
 made application to the secretary of war to raise a regiment 
 of infantry. The acceptance of this regiment was with the 
 distinct understanding that the War Department would revoke 
 the commissions of all officers who might be found incompetent 
 for the proper discharge of their duties, and one of the re- 
 quirements was that the regiment should be ready for march- 
 ing orders thirty days subsequent to September 9, 1861. 
 
 "It was the understanding from the outset that the gov- 
 ernor and council would commission such officers as were des- 
 ignated by General Abbott, he waiving the position of colonel 
 only on the condition that it should be given to some graduate 
 of West Point. The colonelcy was accordingly bestowed on 
 
SEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 83 
 
 First Lieut. Haldimand S. Putnam of the United States Topo- 
 graphical Engineers, who was considered the ablest and most 
 accomplished soldier commissioned from New Hampshire. 
 Gen. Joseph C. Abbott was commissioned as lieutenant-colonel ; 
 Daniel Smith of Dover, as major; Andrew H. Young of the 
 same city, as quartermaster; Thomas A. Henderson, also of 
 Dover, as adjutant; Dr. W. W. Brown of Manchester, as sur- 
 geon; and R€V. J. C. Emerson of Fisherville (now Penacook), 
 as chaplain. The captains and subalterns were selected where 
 they could best contribute to the speedy enlistment of the 
 men. The organization was fairly completed and the officers 
 and men all mustered into service by December 14; and on 
 the 14th of January, 1862, the regiment left New Hampshire 
 under orders to proceed to New York City. 
 
 !jF ^ -SF ^ -w- IP 
 
 "The first experience of the Seventh was as different from 
 
 that of other regiments as the manner of its organization. It 
 
 had already spent a month in camp at Manchester since its 
 
 completion engaged in drill, and upon its arrival in New York, 
 
 the morning after its departure, it was ordered into quarters 
 
 at White Street barracks, where it passed another month of 
 
 comparative inactivity, relieved only by an occasional dress 
 
 parade or drill in one of the city squares. 
 
 * ^-> * # * * 
 
 "Three hundred and twenty men and twenty-two officers 
 returned. Of these, less than one hundred were among those 
 who left the state in 1861. Of the original field and staff only 
 one remained. The first colonel and the second lieutenant- 
 colonel had fallen in battle. 
 
 "As soon as possible the regiment was paid and the men at 
 once proceeded to their homes, separating, after a long and 
 arduous service, never again to feel the old familiar touch of 
 'elbow to elbow'; and with saddened hearts comrade bade fare- 
 well to comrade, and the noble ranks of the old Seventh Regi- 
 ment were broken for the last time, never again to be re- 
 formed, and the organization of one more of New Hampshire's 
 gallant regiments ceased to exist — except in history. The 
 
84 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 people of our state will ever hold in grateful remembrance the 
 names of the noble patriots recorded on these rolls, and will 
 carefully preserve and guard the war-worn and tattered flags 
 of our old command returned to the state." 
 
 The regiment had a varied experience, as will be shown in 
 the following assignments: 
 
 ' ' The Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers was at Fort Jef- 
 ferson, Fla., March 9 to June 16, 1862 ; at Port Royal Island, 
 S. C, June 22 to September 1, 1862; at St. Augustine, Fla., 
 September 3, 1862, to May 10, 1863 (five companies under 
 Colonel Putnam were attached to Second Brigade, Terry's 
 Division, Tenth Army Corps, April 4 to 12, 1863) ; at Fernan- 
 dina, Fla., May 10 to June 7, 1863; at Hilton Head, S. C, 
 June 8 to 16, 1863; attached to First Brigade, Vogdes' Divi- 
 sion, Tenth Army Corps, June 20, 1863 ; Third Brigade, First 
 Division, Tenth Army Corps, July 19, 1863 ; First Brigade, 
 First Division, Tenth Army Corps, November 23, 1863 ; with 
 United States forces at St. Helena Island, District of Hilton 
 Head, S. C, December 21, 1863, to February 4, 1864 ; attached 
 to Second Brigade, First Division, District of Florida, Feb- 
 ruary 4, 1864; Third Brigade, First Division, Tenth Army 
 Corps, April 23, 1864; Second Brigade, First Division, Tenth 
 Army Corps, May 3, 1864; Second Brigade, First Division, 
 Twenty-fourth Army Corps, December 4, 1864; Second Bri- 
 gade, First Division, Tenth Army Corps, March 27, 1865." 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 Morris Island, S. C, July 10, 1863. 
 Fort Wagner, S. C, (first assault) July 11, 1863. 
 Fort Wagner, S. C, (second assault) July 18, 1863. 
 Siege of Fort Wagner. 
 
 Morris Island, S. C, July 10 to September 6, 1863. 
 Siege of Fort Sumter, S. C, September 7 to December 20, 
 1863. 
 
 Olustee, Fla., February 20, 1864. 
 Chester Station, Va., May 9, 1864. 
 Dempster Hill (or near Chester Station), Va., May 10, 1864." 
 
SEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 85 
 
 Drewry's Blufle, Va., May 13-16, 1864. 
 
 Bermuda Hundred, Va., May 18, 20, 21, June 2-4, 18, 1864. 
 
 Near Petersburg, Va., June 9, 1864. 
 
 Ware Bottom Church, Va., June 16, 1864. 
 
 Deep Bottom, Va., August 16, 1864. 
 
 Siege of Petersburg, Va., August 24 to September 28, 1864, 
 
 New Market Heights, Va., September 29, 1864. 
 
 Near Richmond, Va., October 1, 1864. 
 
 New Market Road (or near Laurel Hill, or near Chafiin's 
 Farm), Va., October 7, 1864. 
 
 Darbytown Road, Va., October 13, 27, 28, 1864. 
 
 Fort Fisher, N. C, January 15, 1865. 
 
 Half Moon Battery, Sugar Loaf Hill, near Federal Point, 
 N. C, January 18, 19, 1865. 
 
 Sugar Loaf Battery, N. C, February 11, 1865. 
 
 Wilmington (or Northeast Ferry), N. C, February 22, 1865. 
 
 surgeons. 
 William W. Brown, M. D., Sylvanus Bunton, M. D. 
 
 assistant surgeons. 
 
 Henry Boynton, M. D., Moses S. Wilson, M. D., 
 
 Daniel A. Wendall, M. D., Sylvanus Bunton, M. D., 
 William H. Smart, Jr., M. D.,George T. Perry, M. D. 
 
 SEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 William Whittier Brown, A. M., M. D. 
 Late of Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Bbow.v, Wiixiam W. F. and S. ; b. Vershire, Vt.; age 57; res. Man- 
 chester; app. Surg. Oct. 19, 'CI; must, in Dec. 14, '61; resigned 
 July 22, '64. Died Jan. 6, '74, Manchester. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 360.) 
 
 Surgeon Brown was born in Vershire, Vt., in 1805. He 
 attended the common schools of this town; the academies of 
 
86 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Bradford and Randolph, Vt., and, in 1825, lie attended the 
 academy in Hudson, N. Y. He taught school in New York 
 state in 1827 and in 1828, and, at the age of twenty-three, 
 began the study of medicine with John Poole, M. D., at Brad- 
 ford, Vt. He attended medical lectures at Hanover and was 
 graduated from Dartmouth Medical College in 1830. He 
 located at once in the practice of medicine at Poplin, now 
 Fremont, N. H., and remained in this town until 1835, when 
 he removed to Chester, N. H., where he remained ten years, 
 enjoying the confidence of the people and having an extensive 
 practice. 
 
 Desiring to supplement his early education by further study 
 and observation by the practice of others, that would now be 
 termed a post-graduate course, he visited New York in 1843 
 and attended a course of lectures, diligently following the 
 best clinical teachers through the hospitals. In 1846 he moved 
 to Manchester, and soon had an extensive practice, many of 
 his old patrons in Chester and the neighboring towns having 
 removed to the city before him, and many more still insisting 
 that he should be their medical adviser when in physical dis- 
 tress. 
 
 He was appointed surgeon of the Seventh New Hampshire 
 Volunteers October 19, 1861, and served until July 22, 1864, 
 when he was obliged to resign on account of ill health. He 
 had malarial fever, followed by chronic diarrhoea, and his 
 health was never so vigorous after as it was before his army 
 service. He also received an injury for which he might have 
 readily obtained a permanent pension, but he never applied 
 for it. He was appointed pension examining surgeon in Man- 
 chester, but resigned ere long on account of the smallness of 
 the fees allowed. 
 
 He received the honorary degree of A. M. in 1872 from 
 Dartmovith College, a merited compliment to his professional 
 ability, patriotism, business capacity and personal worth. He 
 became a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society in 
 1836 and was its president in 1869. He was very constant in 
 his attendance and his biographer says of him: 
 
SEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 87 
 
 "As a practitioner he was eminently good. Although 'a 
 member of the old school,' he was on the alert for improved 
 methods of practice, and he employed the new remedies as 
 soon as they were proved to be really such. He had great 
 faith in energetic treatment when the symptoms were severe, 
 and in medicine judiciously administered. He did not sit 
 down with folded arms and wait to see if nature would not, 
 by and by and some how or other, do something. He believed 
 he could aid her efforts, and yet he was careful to follow and 
 not to thwart her methods. He stated his opinion on this 
 point very plainly in his address to the society when he was 
 president, and cited, in proof, a case of pneumonia in which 
 very prompt relief was given by a full bleeding, and he has 
 related other cases to the writer of this to prove that in some 
 cases of pneumonia and puerperal convulsions venesection is 
 an invaluable remedy. ' ' 
 
 He was a member of the Washington Lodge of Masons; of 
 the Grand Army Post of Manchester, a director in national and 
 savings banks, and was universally beloved by the citizens 
 generally. The following is a copy of the resolutions adopted 
 by the Louis Bell Post, No. 3, G. A. R. : 
 
 " IVIanchester, Jan. 6, 1874. 
 
 "Whereas, In the mysterious dispensation of Divine Provi- 
 dence it has pleased Almighty God to remove from our midst 
 our friend and comrade, William W. Brown, surgeon of the 
 Post, therefore, 
 
 "Resolved, That in his death our organization has lost a 
 beloved and faithful comrade, whose loyalty and devotion to 
 his country's cause shone brightly in the darkest days of her 
 history. 
 
 "Resolved, That, recognizing the irreparable loss of a de- 
 voted husband, we tender to the widow our heart-felt sym- 
 pathy, and earnestly pray that the God of the widow may 
 strengthen and sustain her in this hour of trial, feeling that 
 human sympathy is of but little avail. 
 
88 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 "Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be published 
 in the daily papers of our city." 
 
 He died January 6, 1874, at the age of 68 years. 
 
 Married, first, Miss Jackson ; second, Miss Olive Lawrence ; 
 no children ; third, Caroline Gerrish ; fourth, Kebecca Gerrish 
 Ames. 
 
 Two sons, Charles Brown, died in the army, and William 
 Brown, died in Manchester soon after he returned from the 
 army. 
 
 May 12, 1846, Dr. Brown married, fifth, Martha Wheeler 
 Ames. 
 
 Children, three: George Ames, born in Manchester, April 
 29, 1848, died April 13, 1849 ; Frederic Whittier Brown, born 
 April 29, 1853, died February 20, 1855; and Grace Foster, 
 born August 7, 1857, died October 15, 1862. 
 
 Martha Wheeler Ames, born December 24, 1823, died 
 November 27, 1895. Mrs. Brown bequeathed to Dartmouth 
 Medical College $26,000, and the same to the Children's Home 
 in Manchester. 
 
 Sylvanus Bunton, M. D. 
 Late of Mont Vernon, N. H. 
 
 (7 N. H. V.) 
 
 Bunton, Stlvanus. F. and S.; b. Allenstown; age 52; res. Man- 
 chester; app. 2 Asst. Surg. June 24, '64; must, in July 21, '64; app. 
 Surg. Aug. 24, '64; must, out July 20, '65. Died Aug. 13, '84, Mont 
 Vernon. See 2 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 360.) 
 
 (2 N. H. V.) 
 
 Bunton, Sylvanus. F. and S.; b. Allenstown; age 50; res. Man- 
 chester; cred. Manchester; app. July 29, '62; must, in July 29, '62, 
 as 2 Asst. Surg.; must, out June 21, '64. See 7 N. H. V. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 36.) 
 
 Surgeon Sylvanus Bunton was born in Allenstown, N. H., 
 March 8, 1812, and was the son of Andrew and Lavinia 
 (Holden) Bunton. His family was of Scotch-Irish deriva- 
 tion, and was undoubtedly represented among the stalwart 
 defenders, in the early times, of Londonderry, N. H. The 
 
SEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 89 
 
 grandfather of Dr. Bunton enlisted as a soldier early in the 
 Kevolutionary War ; was present at the battle of Bunker Hill, 
 and was afterwards killed at the battle of White Plains, in 
 1776. Dr. Bunton 's mother was the daughter of David 
 Holden, who served as a first sergeant during the French and 
 Indian War before the Revolution, and who settled in Town- 
 send, Mass., but afterwards removed to Hollis, N. H. 
 
 Doctor Bunton acquired his early education in the common 
 schools of Goffstown, N. H., and at the age of seventeen went 
 to Quincy, Mass., and learned the trade of stone-mason, and 
 during his apprenticeship taught in district schools in winter. 
 About this time a severe attack of typhoid fever prostrated 
 him so that he was obliged to abandon the hard manual labor 
 incumbent upon the stone-mason's trade, and in the fall of 
 1833 he attended Pembroke Academy (N. H.), for the purpose 
 of preparing himself for college. In 1836 he entered Dartmouth 
 College and was graduated in 1840. Impaired health at that 
 time necessitated a change of climate, and in 1841 he went to 
 Georgetown, D. C., and for several years was a teacher in 
 select classical schools at Georgetown, D. C, Eldridge Land- 
 ing and Queen Anne, Anne Arundel county, Md. While at 
 the latter place he commenced the study of medicine at the 
 Washington University of Baltimore, Md. Here he was grad- 
 uated in 1845 and was elected a resident physician to their 
 hospital, fulfilling these duties for more than a year. 
 
 Returning to New Hampshire in 1846, he was married on 
 the seventeenth of December of that year to Clara Elnora, 
 daughter of Josiah and Lucy ( Jewett) Conant of Hollis, N. H., 
 and located in Manchester, N. II., where he established a large 
 practice, and also held many of the responsible offices of the 
 city until the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion. 
 While residing in Manchester, he became connected with the 
 state militia, and as early as 1848 was commissioned as sur- 
 geon of the Ninth Regiment, with the rank of major, which 
 position he held for two years. 
 
 At the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion his pa- 
 triotism led him to volunteer his services to the national cause; 
 
90 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 he was commissioned by Governor Berry, July 29, 1862, as 
 assistant surgeon of the Second New Hampshire Volunteers, 
 with the rank of first lieutenant, and at once started for the 
 front; but on reaching Washington he was detained by the 
 surgeon-general and was put on duty at the Mount Pleasant 
 General Hospital, where he remained for several months, car- 
 ing for the wounded from the battlefields of Antietam and 
 South Mountain. In December, 1862, he finally joined his 
 regiment near Fredericksburg, and was closely identified with 
 the active service of the Second New Hampshire until June, 
 1864. After the battle of Gettysburg he remained at that place 
 for a number of weeks on detached hospital duty, finally rejoin- 
 ing his regiment at Point Lookout, Md., where a large camp 
 for Confederate prisoners of war had been established. To 
 Doctor Bunton was assigned the organization of the medical 
 department of this prison camp, and for several months he 
 was its surgeon-in-chief. A smallpox epidemic of a virulent 
 form broke out about this time among the prisoners, and by 
 reason of his previous experience, especially with that disease 
 while in Baltimore, Dr. Bunton was relieved from duty at the 
 prison camp and placed in charge of the smallpox hospital, 
 where he continued until the ravages of the disease had ceased. 
 
 In May, 1864, he rejoined his regiment in Virginia, partici- 
 pating with them in the battle of Cold Harbor, and upon the 
 expiration of the three years' term of the regiment he was 
 nmstered out of the service and returned to New Hampshire. 
 He was immediately appointed by Governor Gilmore as assist- 
 ant surgeon of the Seventh New Hampshire, June 24, 1864, 
 and upon the resignation of Surgeon William W. Brown, he 
 was promoted to surgeon with the rank of major, to date from 
 August 24, 1864. He was with the regiment during the re- 
 mainder of its service, and was mustered out of service with 
 his regiment, July 20, 1865, at Goldsboro, N. C. 
 
 Upon returning North after the war, he located in Hollis, 
 N. H., where he resided for about two years, and then removed 
 to Mont Vernon, N. H., where he continued in the active prac- 
 
SEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 91 
 
 tice of his profession until failing health and disability, occa- 
 sioned by his army service, compelled him to retire. His wife 
 died at ]\Iont Vernon in 1873, and he was subsequently mar- 
 ried, in 1874, to Miss Sarah Jane, daughter of James Thompson 
 and Sally (Gillis) Trevitt, of that town, who survives him. 
 
 His death occurred August 13, 1884, of paralysis. A son also 
 survives him, Henry S. Bunton, who served as hospital stew- 
 ard of the Seventh New Hampshire during the latter part of 
 its service, and now resides at Hyde Park, Mass. 
 
 Dr. Bunton was a man of humane and benevolent disposi- 
 tion, which qualities were peculiarly marked in his con- 
 scientious discharge of his duties during his army service. 
 Every member of the Seventh New Hampshire will remember 
 the kind and fatherly devotion shown by him in administering 
 to their wants, and his self-sacrifice and kindness shown in 
 behalf of the sick and wounded Avill never be forgotten. To 
 them he invariably displayed the utmost devotion. 
 
 While at Point Lookout, Md., he was highly respected and 
 beloved by the Confederate prisoners who came under his care, 
 and for years after the war and, in fact, during the remainder 
 of his life, he was in constant receipt of letters from different 
 parts of the South, expressive of the affection and regard in 
 which he was held by those whom he had befriended in a pro- 
 fessional way, and whom he had so kindly cared for in sickness, 
 while they were prisoners of war. He was a man of sincere 
 religious convictions and of unquestioned integrity. Indeed, 
 the estimation in which he was held by those who knew him 
 best may be fully expressed in the words, "He was a true. 
 Christian gentleman." 
 
 Henry Boynton, A. M., M. D. 
 Woodstock, Vt. 
 
 Boynton, Henry. F and S. ; b. Pepperell, Mass.; age 35; res. Wood- 
 stock, Vt; app. Asst. Surg. Oct. 15, '61; must, in Dec. 14, 'Gl; re- 
 signed Jan. 4, '64. P. O. ad., Woodstock, Vt. (Record, AyUng's 
 Register, 1895, p. 358.) 
 
92 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Surgeon Boynton was born in Pepperell, Mass., December 
 2, 1823, and was the son of Isaac and Sybil (Lawrence) Boyn- 
 ton. His preliminary education was received in the common 
 schools and at Pepperell and Townsend Academies, Mass., with 
 a short period at Black River Academy, Vermont. Was in 
 Williams and Dartmouth Colleges for two years, when he 
 dropped a classical course and commenced the study of medi- 
 cine at Pepperell, Mass., in 1849, under the direction of Dr. 
 Nehemiah Cutter, and afterwards with Prof. Benjamin Rush 
 Palmer, president of the Vermont College of Medicine, at 
 Woodstock, Vt. He attended four courses of lectures, three 
 of them being at the Vermont College of Medicine and one at 
 the Pittsfield College, Pittsfield, Mass., and was graduated 
 M. D. from the Vermont Medical College in June, 1852. He 
 commenced the practice of medicine in Hollis, N. H., in April, 
 1854, and was in that place at the commencement of the war. 
 He was assistant surgeon of the Seventh New Hampshire Vol- 
 unteers from September, 1861, to March, 1864. 
 
 The regiment was first ordered to Fort Jefferson, on the Dry 
 Tortugas in the Gulf of Mexico. Smallpox having broken 
 out on shipboard during the voyage from New York, Dr. 
 Boynton was detailed, soon after arriving at Fort Jefferson, 
 to open a hospital camp, and, after obtaining leave to occupy 
 one of the coral islands in the vicinity, he had his men trans- 
 ported there, forty or more in number, water and fuel scarce, 
 sand and hot sun plenty, no shelter but pieces of canvas set up 
 on stakes to cover one man, on the sand. Here it was neces- 
 sary to minister to mind and body, v/rite the home letters and 
 read the simple burial service, when the soldier was borne to 
 the little line of graves by the shore at the landing. But so 
 successful was the open air treatment that the actual per- 
 centage of recovery of the smallpox patients under his charge 
 is said to have exceeded any former record, either in this coun- 
 try or Europe. Later, he was ordered to St. Augustine as 
 health officer. 
 
 At Fort Jefferson, while in charge of this hospital, which 
 was a desolate place, there is a tradition that the seagulls from 
 
SEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 93 
 
 Bird Key and the turtles found upon the shores furnished a 
 portion of the food supplies, and conch shells, which are to 
 be picked up almost everywhere in that section, made fine 
 crockery in which to serve the same. 
 
 In 1862 and 1863, while at St. Augnstine, Fla., was ap- 
 pointed by General David Hunter, department commander, 
 commissioner to transfer rebel families across the line, and 
 was in hospital ser\ace during the summer of 1862 and 1863, 
 at Beaufort, S. C. 
 
 Dr. Boynton was on Morris Island, with his ambulance corps, 
 during the fearful storming of Fort Wagner, and acted as 
 operating surgeon for ten days after that battle. 
 
 In the autumn of 1863, he came North on his first furlough, 
 but was seized with congestive chills, and after an extension 
 was finally obliged to apply for a discharge. He contracted 
 a form of malarial poison from the marshes around Beaufort, 
 from which he suffered the remainder of his life, and which 
 finally caused his death. 
 
 He removed to Woodstock, Vt., at the close of the war and 
 has made that his home ever since. He took a post-graduate 
 course in New York in 1872, and has given much attention to 
 educational matters, being a member of the New England 
 Educational League. He is a member of the Vermont State 
 Medical Society, of the White River Vallej'^ Medical Society 
 and corresponding member of the New England Gynecological 
 Society, He has been a member of the Vermont legislature 
 for three terms, commissioner of the insane, and examiner and 
 supervisor of the State Normal Schools of Vermont, also mem- 
 ber of Pension Examining Board of Surgeons for Woodstock 
 district. 
 
 He has traveled extensively, having twice spent considerable 
 time in Europe, traveling through England, Ireland, Scotland 
 and Wales, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, 
 Italy and Greece. 
 
 In 1889, Dr. Boynton received an honorary degree of A. M, 
 from Dartmouth College. Dr. Boynton gave lectures on 
 "Gettysburg," "From Marathon to Waterloo," and Vesuvius 
 
94 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 and Pompeii," "From the Thames to the Tiber," and "Rome 
 and Her Ruins," which were always well received. An il- 
 lustrated sketch of Woodstock, Vt., was published in the New 
 England Magazine, and a monograph on General Stark at 
 Bennington by Dr. Boynton was published in the Granite 
 Monthly. 
 
 Married, June, 1854, Sarah W. Gushing of Woodstock, Vt. 
 
 Children, two: John Henry, died May 22, 1898, and Sybil 
 Verona Boynton. 
 
 Died at Woodstock, January 30, 1905, at the age of eighty- 
 one. 
 
 Daniel Arthur Wendell, M. D. 
 Late of Dover, N. H. 
 
 (7 N. H. V.) 
 
 Wendell, Daniel A. F. and S.; b. Dover; age 24; res. Dover; app. 
 Asst. Surg. May 5, '64; not must. Died Mar. 27, '71, Dover. See 
 4 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 398.) 
 
 (4 N. H. V.) 
 
 Wendell, Daniel A. Co. F; b. Dover; age 22; res. Dover; enl. Sept. 
 20, '61, as Priv.; tr. to Co. G, Sept. 1, '62; disch. Sept. 26, '64, Con- 
 cord, tm. ex. See 7 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 
 201.) 
 
 Surgeon Wendell was born August 26, 1839, in Dover, and 
 w&s the son of Daniel H. and H. J. ( Jenness) Wendell. Mrs. 
 Wendell was a daughter of Deacon Solomon Jenness of Dover. 
 Dr. Wendell's preliminary education was received in the 
 schools of Dover, graduating from the Dover High School 
 July, 1857, and subsequently attended the literary institute at 
 New London and the New Hampshire Conference Academy at 
 Northfield, now the town of Tilton, and a term at an academy 
 at Fort Edward, New York. In 1859, he took his examination 
 to enter college in the sophomore year, but gave this up and 
 commenced the study of medicine with Dr. A. H. J. Buzzell, 
 afterwards surgeon of the Third New Hampshire. In 1860, 
 he attended a course of lectures at the medical department of 
 Dartmouth College. September 20, 1861, Surgeon Wendell 
 
SEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 95 
 
 enlisted in the Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers as hospital 
 steward. The regiment rendezvoused at Manchester, N. H., 
 and was afterwards in camp at Washington, Annapolis and 
 Fortress Monroe, and August 29, 1861, was attached to the 
 naval fleet under the command of General Sherman and was 
 placed upon the Baltic and assigned to duty at Hilton Head, 
 S. C. From a diary kept by Surgeon Wendell, it seems that 
 the fleet encountered very bad weather and found it difficult 
 to make a landing, which was only accomplished after a bom- 
 bardment of several forts and earthworks about Port Eoyal. 
 A landing wias efi:'ected November 7, 1861. The historian of 
 the Fourth Regiment says: 
 
 "Here upon the sands on the beach of Hilton Head, close 
 to the roaring surf, the regiment remained for three months, 
 varying the monotony of camp life by an expedition to Tybee 
 island on the third of December. On the twenty-sixth of 
 January the regiment embarked on ships and started for the 
 expedition on the Southern coast. It took part in the capture 
 of Fernandina, Jacksonville and St. Augustine. Seven com- 
 panies garrisoned at St. Augustine, while the other three com- 
 panies remained at Jacksonville during part of the sununer. ' ' 
 
 The diary of Surgeon Wendell shows that the regiment 
 landed at Fernandina, Fla., JNIarch 6, 1862. On the eighth, 
 he says, "The regiment left here this morning for St. Johns 
 river. I am left here at Fernandina in charge of all our 
 sick and am using the former abode of Colonel Dale for a 
 hospital, which makes splendid quarters." 
 
 The regiment remained in Florida a part of the summer and 
 came back to Beaufort, S. C, in September. The doctor 
 shared the fortunes of the regiment during the bombardment 
 of Fort Wagner, Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter, much of 
 the time doing the duty of an assistant surgeon. In December, 
 1863, the regiment went from Hilton Head, S. C, to St. Augus- 
 tine, Fla., where Surgeon Wendell remained until the follow- 
 ing March. His diary says: "March eighteenth received a 
 furlough from the pleasantry of war for three months to at- 
 tend medical lectures. ' ' He immediately came to New Harap- 
 
96 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 shire and entered the medical class of Bowdoin College, Maine. 
 On the sixth of May, he says: "Received letters from home 
 informing me that I had been commissioned assistant surgeon 
 of the Seventh New Hampshire Regiment, and on the sixteenth 
 of May left Dover for Fortress Monroe. On the twenty- 
 second of May reported to Col. Abbott of the Seventh Regi- 
 ment at Bermuda Hundred, and learned that it had been so 
 reduced in numbers that I could not be mustered as an assist- 
 ant surgeon." He was assigned to duty at White House 
 Landing, in the Eighteenth Army Corps Hospital. At this 
 time. White House Landing being the base of supplies for 
 the Army of the Potomac, all the sick and wounded going 
 to the rear came to that point. He continued duty at this 
 point until the twentieth of September, when he was granted a 
 short leave of absence and went home for two weeks. October 
 13, 1864, he again went to the front and on the nineteenth 
 made a contract with General Butler, whose headquarters were 
 on the north side of the river, as acting assistant surgeon, U. 
 S. A., and was assigned to duty in the general hospital of the 
 Army of the James. He continued on duty at this point until 
 May 20, 1864, when he was assigned to duty with the army in 
 front of Petersburg, Va. September 26, 1865, he was assigned 
 to duty at an outpost of that city. November 8, 1865, he was 
 ordered to report at Richmond, Va., and there being no further 
 duty. Surgeon Wendell was honorably discharged, having been 
 four and one-half years in the service of the United States. 
 
 He reached home in December and during the winter and 
 spring took up his medical work, attended lectures at the med- 
 ical department of Bowdoin College and received his degree 
 in June, 1866. In August, 1865, he opened an office in Taun- 
 ton, Mass., and practiced medicine with good success in that 
 city for nearly three years, was universally respected, and 
 took an active part in the work of the Grand Army and was 
 surgeon of the post in that city. 
 
 The exposure Avhich he had endured during his army life 
 had laid the foundation for organic disease that was pro- 
 
SEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 97 
 
 gressive in its character, and the doctor was obliged to relin- 
 quish practice of his profession and return to his father's 
 home in Dover, N. H., where he remained until he died, March 
 27, 1871, at the age of thirty-one years and seven months. 
 
 The Dover Inquirer, March 30, 1871, says: "He was a 
 studious and well-read physician, invariably pleasant and 
 courteous in his habits and highly respected by all. A disease 
 of the liver contracted in the army was the cause of his death. ' ' 
 
 The W. H. Bartlett Post, No. 3, G. A. K., of Taunton, Mass., 
 under the date of April 24, 1871, passed resolutions of con- 
 dolence which were sent to the irmnediate friends of the de- 
 ceased, and which were published in the daily Gazette of 
 Taunton, Mass. Surgeon Wendell never married. 
 
 William Hutchins Smart, Jr., M. D. 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Smabt, William H., Jb. F. and S.; b. Hopkinton; age 28; res. Clare- 
 mont; app. 2 Asst. Surg. Aug. 13, '62; must, in Aug. 27, '62; disch. 
 disab. Nov. 24, '62. P. O. ad., Boston, Mass. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 392.) 
 
 Surgeon Smart was born in Hopkinton, N. H., September 
 28, 1833, and was the son of William Hutchins and Nancy 
 (Farrington) Smart, and a grandson of Col. Benning Smart 
 of New Hampshire. His preliminary education was received 
 in the district schools and private instruction. His father 
 being a physician, he commenced the study of medicine under 
 his father's direction, also with Dr. Timothy Haynes, Dr. 
 Chadbourne of Concord and Prof. Middleton Goldsmith of 
 Castleton, Vt. He attended four courses of medical lectures 
 at Castleton Medical College, Vermont, and also at Bellevue 
 Medical College in New York. He was graduated M. D. from 
 Castleton Medical College November 26, 1857. A portion of 
 the time during his professional studies he acted as teacher 
 and superintendent of public schools. His professional work 
 in civil life commenced in North Conway, N. H., May 13, 
 
98 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 1858, continuing for two years. He was at Newcastle, N. H., 
 eight years, Concord, N. H., two years, and two years in New 
 York City. 
 
 His military service began in the Seventh New Hampshire 
 Regiment, when he was appointed second assistant surgeon, 
 August 13, 1862, and discharged on account of disability 
 November 24, 1862. Aside from this service with the Seventh 
 New Hampshire Regiment, Dr. Smart was a contract surgeon 
 in the United States Army, having service at different points, 
 spending considerable time as quarantine, health and custom- 
 house officer in Portsmouth harbor, N. H. On account of 
 impaired vision he retired from the United States service in 
 1868, and has devoted himself to other pursuits since that time. 
 He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and the F. and A. M. 
 societies. 
 
 Married, May 12, 1858, Helen Mar Handerson. 
 
 Two children living : Elizabeth Parker, who married Lucius 
 Aurelius Bigelow, and Annie Wentworth Smart. 
 
 Grandchildren : Lucius Aurelius Bigelow, Jr., and Edmund 
 Clarence Stedman Bigelow. 
 
 Moses Stephens Wilson, M. D. 
 Salisbury, N. H. 
 
 Wilson, Moses S. F. and S.; b. Salisbury; age 27; res. Salisbury; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Jan. 12, '63; must, in Jan. 12, '63; resigned June 
 17, '64. Died Feb. 26, '73, Griggsville, 111. (Record, Ayling's Reg- 
 ister, 1895, p. 400.) 
 
 Assistant Surgeon Wilson was the son of Thomas W. and 
 Amanda M. (Sawyer) Wilson, and was born in Salisbury, 
 N. H., in 1836. Received his preliminary education in the 
 common schools of New Hampshire ; spent two years in a drug 
 store in Lowell, Mass. ; commenced his professional education 
 with his father in Salisbury; attended lectures at Dartmouth 
 Medical College, at Castleton, Vt. , and at Harvard Medical 
 School, and was graduated from the latter in March, 1859, 
 
SEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 99 
 
 Surgeon "Wilson was a grandson of Job Wilson, who was grad- 
 uated Bachelor of Medicine from Dartmouth Medical College 
 in 1804. That was eight years before it was able to confer the 
 degree of M. D., and was the seventh class in the medical de- 
 partment to confer degrees. Job Wilson received the degree 
 of M. D. from the same college in 1823. 
 
 From the History of Salisbury is obtained the following 
 information : 
 
 "Dr. Moses S. Wilson opened an office in Warner, where he 
 continued until the death of his father in 1861, when he 
 returned to the homestead in Salisbury, where he remained 
 until his appointment as assistant surgeon in the Seventh 
 New Hampshire Regiment, which was stationed at St. Augus- 
 tine, Fla. His health failing, he resigned in the summer of 
 1864, and in the following September removed to Galesburg, 
 111., where he died November 14, 1873. Dr. Wilson was thor- 
 oughly at home with his business, and was in sympathy with 
 the present liberal and progressive spirit of the profession, 
 and charitable in his expressions. ' ' 
 
 Married, November 28, , Mary S., daughter of Ira 
 
 Harvey of Warner. 
 
 George Thompson Perry, M. D. 
 Late of Natick, R. I. 
 
 Peeby, George T. F. and S.; b. Warwick, R. I.; age 25; res. Man- 
 chester; app. 2 Asst. Surg. Aug. 24, '64; must, in Sept. 18, '64; 
 must, out July 20, '65. P. 0. ad., Naticli;, R. I. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 387.) 
 
 Surgeon Perry was born in Apponaug, R. I., February 18, 
 1839, and was the son of William Gorton and Nancy Ann 
 (Shrieves) Perry, and a grandson of George C. Perry. Re- 
 ceived his preliminary education at the common schools and 
 at the academies at Greenwich (R. I.), Middleboro (Mass.), 
 and New London ( N. H. ) . Commenced his professional educa- 
 tion in Manchester, N. H., in 1859, under the direction of 
 William D. Buck, M. D., Dr. Valentine Mott and Professor 
 
100 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Barker of New York. Attended medical lectures at Dartmouth 
 Medical College and at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and 
 was graduated from the latter in the class of 1864. He was 
 appointed second assistant surgeon of the Seventh New Hamp- 
 shire Regiment from Manchester, August 24, 1864, and was 
 mustered out with the regiment July 20, 1865. He was 
 located in Lynn, Mass., for three years, when he removed to 
 Natick, R. I., remaining there twenty years. 
 
 He was a member of the Rhode Island Medical Society; 
 town physician of Warwick, R. I., and state institutions for 
 eight years ; surgeon of the Rhode Island state militia for four 
 years, and a member of the governor's staff. He was also 
 state senator for two years , and a member of the Masonic and 
 Odd Fellows fraternities. 
 
 Died August 28, 1892, at the age of fifty-three years. Un- 
 married. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 EIGHTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 (Known as First Xew Hampshire Cavalry, December 16, 
 1863, to February 29, 1864, and as Second New Hampshire 
 Cavalry, March 1 to July 25, 1864.) 
 
 By the late John M. Stanyan, 
 
 Captain and Historian of the Eighth Regiment New Hamp- 
 shire Volunteers. 
 
 "Enlistments for the Eighth Regiment began early in the 
 month of September, 1861. The first company went into 
 'Camp Currier' at Manchester, N. H., on October 12, and on 
 the ninth of December the regiment was full. On January 
 25, 1862, it was transferred from 'Camp Currier' to Fort 
 Independence in Boston harbor. On February 16 six com- 
 panies, under the command of Col. Hawkes Fearing, em- 
 barked on the ship, 'E. Wilder Farley,' destined on the 
 'Butler Expedition' to reach Ship island in Mississippi 
 sound. On the eighteenth day of February the four re- 
 maining companies, Lieut.-Col. O. W. Lull commanding, 
 left for the same destination on the ship, 'Eliza and Ella.' 
 On March 18, 1862, the first named arrived at Ship island; 
 and on March 29, after a very stormy and uncomfortable 
 passage, the 'Eliza and Ella' anchored at the rendezvous, 
 and the regiment pitched its camp at about two miles from 
 the landing, and the nearest of any to a passable drill area 
 on a sandy patch. 
 
 Near the close of the year 1863, the exigencies of the ser- 
 
102 SUKGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 vice required a cavalry corps to be used in scouting duty. 
 ''On December 21 General McMillan issued an order, detach- 
 ing the Eighth from his brigade in order that it be changed 
 into cavalry. Horses and saddles had been drawn on the thir- 
 teenth, and on January 1, at Franklin, talk of re-enlistment 
 had begun. On the sixth the regiment was ordered to New 
 Orleans through 'snow two inches deep.' On the ninth, at 
 Brashear City, on the tenth at Algiers, and on the thirteenth 
 at Steam Cotton Press in New Orleans. 
 
 "February 19 General Order No. 25 was issued, directing 
 that the names of battles, 'Georgia Landing,' 'Bisland,' 
 and 'Port Hudson,' be inscribed upon the regimental colors. 
 For the space of two months the regiment was drilled in cav- 
 alry tactics for eight hours a day. The men were armed with 
 sabres, Sharpe's breech-loading carbines and Remington re- 
 volvers. 
 
 ****** 
 
 "On March 2, 1864, at 4 p. m., the regiment crossed the river, 
 and on the sixth reached Labadieville, passed through Thibo- 
 deaux on the seventh, Tigerville on the eighth, and reached 
 Brashear City on the ninth, there remaining until the thir- 
 teenth. On that date the advance force of cavalry under Gen. 
 A. L. Lee left Franklin, and the Second New Hampshire Cav- 
 alry with it, arrived at Alexandria on the nineteenth. It then 
 advanced to Bayou Rapids, where, still skirmishing lightly 
 with the enemy daily, the regiment remained until the twenty- 
 sixth. It then marched to Henderson's Hill, on the twenty- 
 ninth moved to Cane river, and on the thirtieth entered the 
 town of Natchitoches, still driving the Confederates. On the 
 second of April it made a reconnoissance to Crump 's Hill, re- 
 turning at night ; and on the third and fourth advancing to- 
 wards Pleasant Hill. At this date General Lee ordered to re- 
 port to Brigadier-General Franklin until further orders, and 
 the cavalry to advance towards Shreveport. General Frank- 
 lin refused 'to support Lee with a brigade of infantry,' and on 
 
EIGHTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 103 
 
 the seventh the Second New Hampshire Cavalry reached Wil- 
 son 's Farm, where a sharp engagement ensued, resulting in its 
 
 holding the ground. 
 
 ****** 
 
 ''On March 18, 1864, General Lee was relieved of his com- 
 mand, also Colonel Dudley, General Arnold and Colonel Davis 
 assuming their places. The duty of the regiment was on 
 picket each day. On the eighteenth Lieutenant-Colonel Flan- 
 ders returned from the North and took command. April 
 21 broke camp and started in the direction of Alex- 
 andria. On the twenty-third occurred the fight at Cane river. 
 The Second New Hampshire Cavalry protected the column, 
 fell back and repulsed the enemy at Nonett's Bluff; and at 
 noon on the twenty-fourth, occupied Henderson's Hill, and 
 went on picket line, repulsed attacks, and at 4 p. m. joined 
 the brigade on the retreat as rear guard. This was continued 
 without intermission until April 29, when they reached the 
 suburbs of Alexandria. Instantly, without rest, the Second 
 New Hampshire Cavalry was ordered to march on scout across 
 the Red river, proceeded in that direction twenty-four miles, 
 and had a brush with a large force of rebels, estimated at two 
 thousand, imder the command of General Liddell. It was not 
 until Sunday, May 9, that the regiment had even a partial 
 rest, and General Arnold officially protested against such 
 arduous service. 
 
 ****** 
 
 "On May 24, 1864, the regiment was assigned for duty as 
 cavalry in the Nineteenth Army Corps, Col. E. J. Davis, First 
 Texas Cavalry, commanding. It Avas employed in scouting on 
 the Atchafalaya and Mississippi rivers. On June 10, in obedi- 
 ence to orders, the horses were turned over to the proper 
 authorities, preparatory to going on the promised veteran fur- 
 lough. On the fourteenth all the troops were reviewed by 
 Maj.-Gen. D. E. Sickles; and on the fifteenth, by order of the 
 department commander, the regiment turned over all arms and 
 eciuipraents, and started on the sixteenth for New Orleans, 
 
104 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 which city it left on July 11, arriving in Concord, N. H., on 
 the twenty-third. On the twenty-fifth official orders were 
 
 issued, returning it to infantry organization. 
 
 * mf * * * * 
 
 "On March 6, 1865, the battalion was ordered back to 
 Natchez to do provost duty, with headquarters at the court 
 house. 
 
 "The news of the capture of Richmond and the surrender 
 of Lee was received with glad enthusiasm, and a triumphal 
 procession occurred ; but the exultation was of short duration, 
 for soon came the news of the assassination of the president, 
 and a sad column passed through the streets following the 
 roll of the muffled drums, while the great guns of the fort 
 struck the half -hours during the day. 
 
 "On October 17, 1865, Special Order No. 6 v/as issued. 
 Extract: 'The Eighth New Hampshire Veteran Battalion 
 will be put en route for Vicksburg, preparatory to its muster- 
 out. ' Accordingly, on October 29, the muster-rolls having 
 been signed, the battalion, under the command of Capt. D. 
 W. King, embarked for Cairo. There the renmant of the 
 Eighth took the cars for home, and at 10 p. m. on Tuesday, 
 November 7, reached Concord, N. H., where the veterans were 
 received by Adjutant-General Head, and Governor Smyth 
 welcomed them to the hospitalities of the old Granite state. 
 At ' Camp Gilmore, ' on November 9, the battalion was paid off 
 and discharged. 
 
 "This closes a brief account of the campaigns of a regi- 
 ment that passed almost the whole of its term of service 
 in an extreme southern state, its record of time being, from 
 its muster-in to its final discharge, three years, ten months 
 and nineteen days." 
 
 Captain Stanyan says, "This sketch would be incomplete 
 if it failed to record the enforced absence of fifty-five mem- 
 bers of the old Second New Hampshire Cavalry, who were 
 captured in the Red River campaign, and spent six months 
 in the rebel prison at 'Camp Ford,' Tyler, Texas. Twenty- 
 five were captured on April 8, 1864, at Sabine Cross Roads, 
 
EIGHTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 105 
 
 and thirty more were added to their number during that 
 campaign. They were exchanged on October 23 and rejoined 
 the regiment at Natchez, Miss., on November 13, 1864. From 
 there expeditions went out occasionally, capturing stores and 
 stock, and the enemy were scarcely ever encountered." 
 
 ASSIGNMENTS. 
 
 "The Eighth New Hampshire Volunteers were at Ship 
 island. Miss., attached to First Brigade, Department of the 
 Gulf, March 18 to May, 1862; at "Camp Parapet," near 
 Carrollton, La., in Department of the Gulf, May to October, 
 1862; attached to Reserve Brigade, Department of the Gulf, 
 October, 1862 ; Second Brigade, Third Division, Department 
 of the Gulf, January- 13, 1863 ; Second Brigade, Third Di- 
 vision, Nineteenth Army Corps, August 29, 1863; Fourth 
 Brigade, Cavalrj' Division, Department of the Gulf, January, 
 1864; on Veteran Furlough, July, 1864 (the men who did not 
 re-enlist and recruits remaining at Carrollton, La.) ; at 
 Natchez, Miss., in District of Vicksburg, September to De- 
 cember, 1864. 
 
 "The Veteran Battalion, Eighth New Hampshire Volun- 
 teers, was at Natchez, ^liss., January 1 to October 28, 1865." 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 Labadieville (or Georgia), La., October 27, 1862. 
 
 Bayou Teche, La., (Co. B), January 14, 1863. 
 
 Port Hudson, La., March 14, 1863. 
 
 Bisland, La., April 12-14, 1863. 
 
 Siege of Port Hudson, La., :\Iay 23 to July 9, 1863. 
 
 Sabine Pass, La., September 8, 1863. 
 
 Henderson's Hill (or Bayou Rapides), La., March 21, 1864. 
 
 Natchitoches, La., March 31, 1864. 
 
 Crump's Hill (or Piney Woods), La., April 2, 1864. 
 
 Wilson's Farm, La., April 7, 1864. 
 
 Sabine Cross Roads, La., April 8, 1864. 
 
 Monett's Bluff (or Monett's Ferry), La., April 23, 1864. 
 
 Cane River, La., April 24, 1864. 
 
106 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Near Alexandria, La., April 25, 1864. 
 Alexandria, La., April 26, 1864. 
 Near Alexandria, La., April 27 to May 7, 1864. 
 Snaggy Point (or Pineville), La., May 1, 1864. 
 Governor Moore's Plantation, La., May 2, 1864. 
 Moreauville (or Mansura, or Marksville), La., May 14-16, 
 1864. 
 
 Bayou de Glaize, La., May 17, 1864. 
 Yellow Bayou, La., May 18, 1864. 
 
 SURGEONS. 
 
 Samuel G. Dearborn, M. D., Andrew J. Thompson, M. D., 
 Ellery C. Clarke, M. D. 
 
 assistant surgeons. 
 
 William B. Reynolds, M. D., Ellery C. Clarke, M. D., 
 (not mustered, see 2 U. S. Charles A. Moulton, 
 Sharpshooters), Hosea H. Smith, M. D., 
 David P. Stowell, M. D. 
 
 EIGHTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 Samuel G. Dearborn, M. D. 
 
 Late of Nashua, N. H. 
 
 (8 N. H. V.) 
 
 Deaebobn, Samxjel G. F. and S.; b. Northfield; age 34; res. Milford; 
 app. Surg. Oct. 15, '61; must, in Dec. 25, '61; resigned Aug. 19, '62. 
 P. O. ad., Nashua. See 18 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 419.) 
 
 (18 N. H. V.) 
 
 Deabbokn, Samuel G. F. and S.; b. Northfield; age 37; res. Milford; 
 app. Surg. Sept. 29, '64; not must.; declined appointment March 
 14, '65. P. O. ad., Nashua. See 8 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's 
 
 . Register, 1895, p. 809.) 
 
 Surgeon Dearborn was born in Northfield, N. H., August 
 10, 1827, and was the son of Edmund and Sarah (Gerrish) 
 
EIGHTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 107 
 
 Dearborn, a grandson of Edmund Dearborn of New Hamp- 
 shire. His early education was received in the public schools 
 at Sanbomton Bridge, now Tilton, N. H., and at the New 
 Hampshire Conference Seminary at the same place. Com- 
 menced the study of medicine at Sanbornton Bridge, now 
 Tilton, in 1846, under the direction of Mark R. Woodbury, 
 M. D., of that place. He attended medical lectures at Dart- 
 mouth Medical College, the University of New York and at 
 Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, and was graduated 
 from Dartmouth Medical College in the class of 1850. Com- 
 menced the practice of medicine at Sanbornton Bridge, was 
 at East Tilton a few months, in Mont Vernon three years, 
 Milford twenty years, and Nashua thirty years. Was a mem- 
 ber of the New Hampshire Medical Society and the Nashua 
 Medical Association. 
 
 Dr. Dearborn resided in Milford when he w-as appointed 
 surgeon of the Eighth New Hampshire Regiment, October 
 15, 1861, and was discharged for disability August 19, 1862. 
 He was again appointed surgeon in the Eighteenth New 
 Hampshire Regiment in 1865, but was not mustered into the 
 service. While surgeon of the Eighth New Hampshire Regi- 
 ment he was for three months connected with the Army of 
 the Potomac. 
 
 Surgeon Dearborn was an extensive traveler, visiting nearly 
 all the states of the Union, and Europe, Cuba and Mexico. 
 
 Married, in 1853, Henrietta M. Starrett. 
 
 Children, now living: Frank A. and Sam S. Dearborn, 
 M. D. ; Sarah Maria, deceased. 
 
 Dr. Dearborn died May 8, 1903. 
 
 Andrew Jackson Thompson, M. D. 
 
 Formerly of Laconia, N. H. 
 
 Thompson, Andrew J. F. and S.; age 29; res. Laconia; app. Surg. 
 Aug. 12, '62; must, in Aug. 19, '62; resigned June 13, '63; re-app. 
 Surg. Sept. 5, '64; must, in to date Sept. 5, 'C4; tr. to Vet. 
 Batt'l. 8 N. H. v., Jan. 1, '65; disch. Nov. 17, '65. to date Oct. 28, 
 '65, Natchez, Miss. (Record, Ayltng's Register, 1895, p. 449.) 
 
108 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Surgeon Thompson was born in Gilford, N. H., July 23, 
 1833, and was the son of Levi B. and Mehitable (Brown) 
 Thompson, and a grandson of David Thompson. His pre- 
 liminary education was received in the common schools of 
 Gilford, N. H., and prepared for college at the New Hamp- 
 ton Literary Institute, from which he was graduated in 1854, 
 also A. B. from Bowdoin College in 1858 ; afterwards received 
 the degree of A. M. from the same college and M. D. from 
 Harvard Medical College in 1861. Commenced the practice 
 of medicine in Laconia, N. H., in 1861 and was appointed 
 surgeon of the Eighth New Hampshire Regiment, August 
 12, 1862. 
 
 His army service, as recorded by his biographer in the 
 Salem Observer of May 3, 1879, is as follows : 
 
 "In 1862 he received a commission as surgeon in the 
 Eighth New Hampshire Volunteers and went with the regi- 
 ment to Ship island and New Orleans. He saw hard and 
 continuous service in the field, suffering much from disease, 
 and only escaping death from bilious remittent fever, in 
 the spring of 1863, by an immediate transfer to New Eng- 
 land. As soon as he was fit for duty he returned to his 
 regiment and passed through the hardships of the siege of 
 Port Hudson. When the regiment was mustered out in 
 January, 1865, he was transferred to staff duty, first serving 
 as post surgeon at Natchez, Miss., and president of the board 
 of health, and afterwards as surgeon-in-chief on the staff of 
 Major-General Davidson. ' ' 
 
 He practiced medicine with great success in Laconia for 
 fifteen years, when he removed to Salem, Mass., where he 
 was in practice three years, and died at that place April 26, 
 1879. He was examining surgeon for pensions, city physician 
 of Salem, surgeon of Post 34, G. A. R., Salem, a mem- 
 ber of the New Hampshire and Massachusetts Medical so- 
 cieties, and the New Hampshire Historical Society. He was 
 a very active member of various Masonic associations, having 
 taken all the degrees to the thirty-second, and was a Past 
 Grand High Priest of the Royal Arch Masons of New Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
EIGHTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 109 
 
 Married, May 21, 1861, Eveline "Wilson of Topsham, Me. 
 Children: Fred Thompson, M. D., and Willis Thompson of 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Ellery Channing Clarke, M. D. 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Claeke, Ellebt C. F. and S.; b. Winchester; age 25; res. Hollis; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Jan. 18, '62; must, in Jan. 18, '62; app. Surg. June 
 5, '63; disch. disab. Aug. 29, '64. P. O. ad., Shirley, Mass. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 416.) 
 
 Surgeon Clarke of the Eighth New Hampshire was born 
 March 21, 1836, in Winchester, Cheshire county, New Hamp- 
 shire, and was the son of Rev. Stillman and Susannah 
 (Spaulding) Clarke, and a grandson of Hon. Ephraim Clarke. 
 Received his preliminary education in the common schools of 
 Cheshire county and fitted for college at the Appleton Acad- 
 emy of New Ipswich and Phillips Academy at Exeter, N. H. 
 Entered Harvard University, but, owing to ill health of his 
 father, he did not graduate. He commenced his professional 
 education under the direction of Albert Smith, M. D., of 
 Peterborough, N. H., in 1857. Attended two courses of medi- 
 cal lectures at Hanover and Burlington, Vt., and was grad- 
 uated from the University of Vermont in the class of 1860. 
 Located the same year at Wilton, N. H., and was in Hollis, 
 N. H., in 1862, when he entered the army. His record of 
 service was in the Eighth Regiment from January, 1862, to 
 August, 1864, pa.ssing through the grades of assistant and 
 full surgeon of the regiment. From 1864 to 1866 he was 
 located in Pepperell, Mass. ; from 1867 to 1870, in HoUiston, 
 Mass. ; 1870 to 1880, in Westfield, Mass. ; and 1880 to 1887, in 
 Norwalk, Conn. ; from 1887 to 1889, in Brooklyn and New 
 York City, since which time he has been a medical examiner 
 in the Bureau of Pensions at Washington, D. C. 
 
 Married, first, in 1860, to Sarah Kendrick Danforth of 
 Amherst, N. H., who died, leaving one daughter, Edith; 
 
no SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 second, in 1867, to Carrie Loring MeCammon of Pepperell, 
 Mass., children, Carrie Loring, Grace Virginia, Ellery Chan- 
 ning, Loring MeCammon Clarke; third, in 1891, to Mary E. 
 Arthur of Baltimore, Md. 
 
 Charles A. Moulton. 
 Hopkinton, N. H. 
 
 Moulton, Chaeles A. F. and S.; b. Loudon; age 24; res. Hopkinton; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Sept. 7, '63; must, in Oct. '63. Died, dis. Sept. 24, 
 '64, New Orleans, La. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 438.) 
 
 Surgeon Moulton was born in Hopkinton, N. H., April 12, 
 1839, and was the son of Caleb and Mary (Mardin) Moulton. 
 He received his preliminary education in the common schools 
 and Hopkinton Academy. He commenced his professional 
 studies with the late Alexander Rogers, M. D., of Hopkinton, 
 and took one or more courses of medical lectures at the 
 medical department of Dartmouth College, but left college 
 to enter the military service of the United States before 
 receiving his degree of M. D. This was a period when there 
 was a call for patriots, and nobly did they respond. Charles 
 A. Moulton was among those who dropped their books and 
 prepared to go to the front. Surgeon Moulton was appointed 
 assistant to Surgeon Clarke in the Eighth Regiment New 
 Hampshire Volunteers, September 7, 1863, and died in the 
 service in New Orleans, La., September 24, 1864, at the age 
 of twenty-five. 
 
 He was unmarried. 
 
 HosEA H. Smith, M. D. 
 Meredith, N. H. 
 
 (8 N. H. V.) 
 
 Smith, Hosea H. F. and S.; b. Meredith; res. Meredith; app. 2 Asst. 
 Surg. July 29, '62; must, in Aug. 19, '62; disch. Aug. 7. '63, to 
 accept promotion. See Miscel. Organizations. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 447.) 
 
EIGHTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. Ill 
 
 (Miscel. Organizations.) 
 
 Smith, Hosea H. F. and S.; 1 La. Cav.; b. Meredith; res. Meredith; 
 app. Surg. July 17, '63; must, in Aug. 8, '63; disch. Dec. 18, '65. 
 Died Dec. 3, '66, Detroit, Mich. See 8 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 1077.) 
 
 Surgeon Smith was born in Meredith, N. H., June 1, 1832, 
 and was the son of Daniel F. and Lydia B. Smith. He com- 
 menced his preliminary education in the common schools 
 and the high school at Gilford, and afterwards at the academy 
 in Gilford, now Laconia. His professional education was 
 directed by Drs. Garland and Ayer of Laconia, and he at- 
 tended medical lectures at Dartmouth Medical College and 
 at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and was 
 graduated M. D. from the latter in 1855, locating in Mere- 
 dith, where he remained until he entered the service. His 
 service was with the Eighth Regiment New Hampshire Vol- 
 unteers, and with the First Regiment Louisiana Cavalry (U. 
 S. C. T.). 
 
 He was appointed assistant surgeon of the Eighth Regi- 
 ment New Hampshire Volunteers, July 29, 1862, and was 
 discharged August 7, 1863, to accept promotion. Appointed 
 surgeon of the First Louisiana Cavalry July 17, 1863, and 
 received his discharge December 18, 1865. 
 
 Copy of appointment of Hosea H. Smith as acting medical 
 director : 
 
 "Headquarters Cavalry Forces 
 ' ' Mil. Division of the Southwest 
 "Shreveport, La., June 30, 1865. 
 
 "Special Order 
 
 No. 6. "Surgeon Hosea H. Smith, 1st La. Cavalry, is 
 
 hereby appointed Acting Medical Director of the Cavalry 
 Forces of the Mil. Division of the Southwest, and will be 
 obeyed and respected accordingly. 
 
 "By order of 
 
 "Major General Merritt. 
 
 "C. H. Dyer, 
 "A. A.Genrl. 
 "Surgeon Smith, 
 "1st La. Cavalry." 
 
112 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELUON. 
 
 Surgeon Smith was a member of the New Hampshire Med- 
 ical Society in 1857. After receiving his discharge from the 
 United States service, he located at Detroit, Mich., where he 
 died December 3, 1866. 
 
 David Porter Stovtell, M. D. 
 239 Main Street, Waterville, Maine. 
 
 Stowell, David P. Co. F; b. Massachusetts; age 25; cred. Brook- 
 line; enl. Nov. 25, '63; must, in Nov. 25, '63, as Priv.; app. 2 Asst. 
 Surg. Nov. 25, '63; disch. June 24, '64. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 448.) 
 
 Surgeon Stowell was born in Townsend, Mass., September 
 22, 1838, and was a son of David and Emily Caroline (Star- 
 rette) Stowell, a grandson of David Stowell. He received 
 his preliminary education in the common schools, fitted for 
 college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and received 
 the degree of A. B. from Amherst College, Massachusetts. 
 He commenced his professional education at Milford, N. H., 
 in 1859, under the direction of Samuel G. Dearborn, M. D., 
 afterwards surgeon of the Eighth Regiment. He continued 
 his professional education in the medical department of Dart- 
 mouth College and also at the University of New York, grad- 
 uating from the latter March 7, 1862. He located at once in 
 Brookline, N. H., where he remained for a few months, and in 
 November, 1862, he was made assistant surgeon, U. S. A., 
 under contract; in June, 1863, he enlisted as a private 
 in Company F, Eighth New Hampshire, and November 25, 
 1863, was promoted to assistant surgeon of the same regiment, 
 and was discharged from the service June 24, 1864. He re- 
 turned to Brookline in 1864 and remained there until 1866, 
 when he removed to Mason Village, now Greenville, N. H. ; 
 in 1871 he removed to Mercer, Me., remaining there until 1878, 
 when he located at Waterville, where he has since resided. 
 
 He is a member of the Waterville Clinical Society, of the 
 Kennebec Medical Association, and also of the Maine Medical 
 
EIGHTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 113 
 
 Association. He is a fraternal member of the Masonic Associa- 
 tion, A. 0. U. W., G. A. R. and the Union Veterans' Union. 
 Supervisor of schools and justice of peace while in New 
 Hampshire, and member of the board of education in Water- 
 ville, also of the city council of Waterville; medical director 
 of the Department of Maine, G. A. R. ; adjutant-general, with 
 the rank of colonel, in the Union Veterans ' Union ; commander 
 of the W. S. Heath Post, Department of Maine, G. A. R. 
 Married, May 21, 1863, Miss Sarah Elizabeth Batchelder. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 By George L. "Wakefield, 
 
 Sergeant, Company C, Ninth Regiment New Hampshire 
 
 Volunteers. 
 
 "The record of the Ninth New Hampshire is one of arduous 
 campaigns, followed by comparative rest. It suffered in 
 battle at Antietam and Fredericksburg, and in the mud at 
 Falmouth ; was cheered by the comforts of Newport News and 
 feasted in Kentucky; had its ranks depleted by disease in 
 Mississippi, and, returning to the Blue Grass region, recuper- 
 ated for the hazardous march over the mountains of East 
 Tennessee. At Annapolis it welcomed recruits and conva- 
 lescents, in preparation for the bloody ordeals of Spottsyl- 
 vania, the 'JMine,' and Poplar Springs Church, and for the 
 wearisome waiting before Petersburg. * * * 
 
 "May 10 the divsion marched to the front, near Spottsyl- 
 vania, and came under artillery fire. * * * At daybreak, 
 on the twelfth, after an all-night exposure to a violent rain- 
 storm, the Ninth, occupying the extreme right of its corps 
 and numbering about five hundred muskets, took part in the 
 charge that was ordered along the whole line; Companies I 
 and G deployed as skirmishers, capturing about fifty prisoners. 
 On account of the unevenness of the ground, the regiment 
 became separated from its brigade and advanced beyond it 
 into 'Bloody Angle,' just in time to meet the enemy's advance 
 and save the left of the Second Corps. 
 
NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 115 
 
 "Here the Ninth became involved in its fiercest conflict. 
 * * * Though bullets were rapidly thinning its ranks and 
 the left was wholly unprotected, yet, rallying around its 
 colors, the Ninth met this onslaught with such a stubborn re- 
 sistance that the enemy was thrown back to his works. * * * 
 In this engagement the Ninth sustained a loss in killed, 
 wounded and missing, of over two hundred. The survivors 
 were placed on picket at the apex of the angle formed by the 
 lines of the Second and Ninth Corps. * * * 
 
 **In June came two long months before Petersburg. Every 
 alternate two days was passed in the trenches; most of the 
 time in front of the fort, which was then being undermined 
 for the Battle of the Mine, in which engagement the Ninth 
 bore a conspicuous part. It was the first to assault and to 
 float its colors over the enemy 's work at the ' Crater. ' 
 ****** 
 
 "The regiment performed its last active service April 8, 
 when, with two others, it was detailed to g-uard several thou- 
 sand prisoners captured by Sheridan. On the eleventh it 
 was relieved, and rejoined the Second Brigade at Burkesville 
 Junction. Thence it started, on April 20, for City Point, Va., 
 reaching that place on the twenty-third. On the twenty- 
 sixth it embarked for Alexandria, arriving the next morning 
 and going at once into camp, where it remained nearly a 
 month. May 23 it participated in the grand review at Wash- 
 ington, and on June 10 — the muster-out rolls having been 
 completed and signed on the tenth — the regiment broke camp 
 and returned to New Hampshire. The regimental colors were 
 delivered to the governor at Concord on June 14, 1865, and 
 that same day the regiment, having deposited its arms in the 
 military depot, was paid and discharged. ' ' 
 
 ASSIGNMENTS. 
 
 "The Ninth New Hampshire Volunteers were attached to 
 "Whipple's Division, Defenses of Washington, August 28, 1862; 
 First Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps, Septem- 
 
116 - SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 ber 6, 1862; in District of Kentucky, Department of Ohio, 
 September 9, 1863, to January, 1864; unassigned, in Depart- 
 ment of Ohio, January to March, 1864; attached to First 
 Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps, March 26, 1864 ; 
 Second Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps, April 
 27, 1864." 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 South Mountain, Md., September 14, 1862. 
 
 Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862. 
 
 White Sulphur Springs, Va., November 15, 1862. 
 
 Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862. 
 
 Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., June 14 to July 4, 1863. 
 
 Jackson, Miss., July 10-16, 1863. 
 
 Wilderness, Va., May 6, 7, 1864. 
 
 Spottsylvania, Va., May 10-18, 1864. 
 
 North Anna Kiver, Va., May 24-26, 1864. 
 
 Totopotomoy, Va., May 31, June 1, 1864. 
 
 Bethesda Church, Va., June 2, 3, 1864. 
 
 Cold Harbor, Va., June 5-12, 1864. 
 
 Siege of Petersburg, Va., June 16, 1864, to April 3, 1865. 
 
 Petersburg, Va., (assault at the Shand house) June 17, 1864. 
 
 Mine explosion, Petersburg, Va., (assault) July 30, 1864. 
 
 Weldon Railroad, Va., August 20, 21, 1864. 
 
 Poplar Springs Church, Va., September 30, October 1, 1864. 
 
 Hatcher's Run, Va., October 27, 1864. 
 
 Petersburg, Va., April 1, 2, 1865. 
 
 SURGEONS. 
 
 William A. Webster, M. D., Francis N. Gibson, M. D. 
 
 assistant surgeons. 
 
 John S. Emerson, M. D. Francis N. Gibson, M. D. 
 
 (see 18 N. H. V.), 
 
NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 117 
 
 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 William A. Webster, M. D. 
 
 Websteb, WiixiAii A. F. and S.; b. Rochester; age 32; res. Man- 
 chester; cred. Manchester; app. Surg. July 1, '62; must, in July 2, 
 '62; disch. disab. Jan. 5, '65. Died Feb. 7, '87, Manchester. (Rec- 
 ord, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 506.) 
 
 Surgeon William A. Webster was the son of William G. 
 and Susan A. Webster, and was born in the town of Roches- 
 ter, N. H., June 13, 1830. His early education was received 
 at the public schools of his native town and completed at the 
 State Normal School in Bridgewater, Mass. In 1853, — three 
 years after his removal to ]\Ianchester, — he was appointed prin- 
 cipal of one of the grammar schools and served in this capacity 
 eight years. In the mean time he had given some attention 
 to the study of medicine under the direction of the late Dr. 
 William D. Buck of ^Manchester, and for the completion of 
 this course he matriculated at the Long Island College Hos- 
 pital, from which he graduated in 1862. During the following 
 summer he was appointed surgeon of the Ninth Regiment 
 New Hampshire Volunteers, which, a few days later, left for 
 the seat of war and was engaged in its first action at the battle 
 of South Mountain in September, 1862. Dr. Webster re- 
 mained with his regiment until the spring of 1864, when he 
 was appointed chief surgeon, or medical director, of the Second 
 Division of the Ninth Army Corps, which position he held for 
 something over a year, when ill health compelled him to 
 resign and return to the North. Immediately upon his arrival 
 in Manchester, he was appointed surgeon in the military hos- 
 pital of that city, where he served until it was discontinued 
 by reason of the close of the war. 
 
 He then located in Groveton, Mass., where he remained in 
 practice three years. From Groveton he removed to Westford, 
 ^Ia.ss., where he followed his professional work for ten years. 
 In the spring of 1878 he returned to Manchester, where he 
 was actively engaged in professional work as long as his health 
 permitted. 
 
118 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 He was for several years a member of the board of United 
 States pension examiners, the late Drs. How and Wilkins being 
 his associates. For a long time he was interested in educational 
 matters, having been a member of the city school board for 
 many years in succession. At the time of his death was con- 
 nected with Lafayette Lodge, F. & A. M., and Louis Bell 
 Post, G. A. R. 
 
 Dr. Webster was twice married. His first wife was Miss 
 Mary A. Haime of Pittsfield, Mass. She died in 1855, and in 
 August, 1858, he was married to Miss Marion M. Ladd of 
 Middlesex, Vt. 
 
 His death resulted from malaria, which he contracted during 
 his army service and from which he had been an almost con- 
 stant sufferer for twenty years. Although practically an in- 
 valid, he attended to practice up to within a week of his 
 death, which occurred February 7, 1887. 
 
 Francis N. Gibson, M. D. 
 
 Lincoln, Neb. 
 
 Gibson, Fbancis N. F. and S.; b. Londonderry, Vt.; age 23; res. 
 Alstead; cred. Alstead; app. 2 Asst. Surg. Aug. 6, '62; must, in 
 Aug. 6, '62; app. Surg. Jan. 18, '65; must, out June 10, '65. P. O. 
 ad., Lincoln, Neb. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 478.) 
 
 Surgeon Francis N. Gibson, now a resident of Lincoln, Neb., 
 was born in Londonderry, Vt., October 18, 1839. He was the 
 son of Reuel and Emily (Barnard) Gibson, and a grandson 
 of Arrington Gibson. His preliminary education was ob- 
 tained at Burr Seminary of Manchester and Ward Seminary of 
 Westminster, both in Vermont. He commenced the study of 
 medicine at Alstead, N. H., in 1858, under the direction of 
 William M. French, M. D., and Edward E. Phelps, M. D., 
 LL. D. of Windsor, Vt. ; taking three courses of lectures at 
 Dartmouth Medical College, he received his degree from the 
 same November 6, 1861, and became assistant physician for 
 the Asylum for the Insane at Concord, N. H., where he re- 
 mained until August 8, 1862, when he was commissioned as- 
 sistant surgeon of the Ninth New Hampshire Volunteers. 
 
NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 119 
 
 He became a resident of New Ipswich, N. H., at the close 
 of the war and remained there until September, 1887, when 
 he removed to Nebraska. While a resident of New Ipswich, 
 he represented the town in 1871 and '72; was United States 
 pension examiner in that district from 1865 to 1887. He 
 published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal a case 
 of "Fractures of Both Femurs, of the Left Tibia and Fibula, 
 of the Eight Humerus and Right Radius, with Right Radio- 
 Carpal Dislocation in the Same Subject, with Recovery." 
 This report can be found in Volume CIV, No. 3, page 61, of 
 the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, under date of 
 January 20, 1881. The case is one of unusual severity in con- 
 sequence of the multiple fractures, and the fact of getting 
 complete recovery with non-impairment of motion shows the 
 extraordinary care and attention given her by the surgeon 
 and friends. 
 
 His services in the United States army were assistant sur- 
 geon. Ninth New Hampshire Volunteers, from August 6, 1862, 
 until promoted surgeon of the same regiment January 18, 
 1865, remaining as surgeon until the regiment was mustered 
 out of ser\ace June 10, 1865. 
 
 Married, November 23, 1867, Mary A. Bellows of New Ips- 
 wich, N. H. Three children have been born, namely: Ellen 
 C. Gibson, born July 21, 1871, at New Ipswich, N. H., died 
 November 17, 1897, at Lincoln, Neb. ; the other two children, 
 Charles Bellows and Charles Osgood, died in infancy at New 
 Ipswich. 
 
 John S. Emerson, M. D. 
 See Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 TENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, 
 
 By James A. Sanborn, 
 
 Captain, Tenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, 
 and Historian of the Regiment. 
 
 "The regiment was organized under the call of July 1, 
 1862, for 300,000 men. One company was recruited at 
 Nashua and vicinity; one at Portsmouth; one at Andover 
 and Wilmot ; one at Farmington and Dover, while Manchester 
 furnished the larger part of six companies. Capt. Michael 
 T. Donohoe, then an officer of the Third New Hampshire, was 
 appointed colonel, and Hon. John Coughlin, who resigned 
 his seat in the New Hampshire legislature to accept, was ap- 
 pointed lieutenant-colonel. Manchester was selected as the 
 rendezvous and the camp was named 'Camp Pillsbury. ' 
 Companies began to arrive on the twentieth of August, and 
 on the 5th of September, 1862, the regiment was mustered 
 into the service of the United States. 
 
 "September 22 the regiment embarked by rail and arrived 
 at Washington on the twenty-fifth; en route one man was 
 killed and several injured by a collision of trains near Bal- 
 timore. 
 
 4f; 4e; ^ 4t % ^ 
 
 "October 26, 1864, the regiment was withdrawn from the 
 works and moved to the rear. On the next day the corps 
 moved to the Williamsburg road. Near Fair Oaks the rebels 
 made a stand but were driven into their works. The Second 
 
TENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 121 
 
 Brigade charged the entrenchments but was repulsed with 
 great loss. The Tenth went into the fight with ten officers 
 and one hundred and twenty-four men and came out with 
 two officers and twenty-five men. Many were captured here 
 and afterwards died in rebel prison. On the twenty-eighth 
 the troops returned to the vicinity of Fort Harrison (now 
 called Fort Burnham), where the winter was spent. 
 
 "On the fourth of December the Tenth was assigned to the 
 Second Brigade (Col. Joseph H. Potter), Third Division (Gen. 
 J. B. Carr), Twenty-fourth Army Corps (Gen. Alfred H. 
 Terry commanding during the absence of Gen. E. 0. C. Ord). 
 Gen. Charles Devens subsequently commanded the division. 
 The exposure to cold and frequent and extended terms of 
 picket duty made the winter one of hardship. The Tenth 
 was among the first of the Union regiments to enter Rich- 
 mond on the 3d of April, 1865. Following this, it remained 
 in Manchester, opposite Richmond^ doing provost duty. On 
 the twenty-first of June it was mustered out of the United 
 States service, and the next day, with the Twelfth and Thir- 
 teenth New Hampshire, started for home, arriving at Concord 
 on the twenty-seventh, and was paid on the first of July. 
 The record of the regiment is one of brave deeds and heroic 
 sacrifices. No regiment fought more bravely or discharged 
 more faithfully the duty which devolved upon it. ' ' 
 
 ASSIGNMENTS. 
 
 "The Tenth New Hampshire Volunteers was attached to 
 Casey's Division, Defenses of Washington, September 27 to 
 30, 1862; First Brigade, Third Division, Ninth Army Corps, 
 October 7, 1862; Getty's Divi.sion, Department of Virginia, 
 March 13, 1863; Getty's Division, Department of Virginia 
 and North Carolina, July 18, 1863 ; for a time the regiment 
 was attached to the Third Brigade, Second Division, Seventh 
 Army Corps, Department of Virginia and North Carolina; 
 Heckman's Division, Department of Virginia and North Caro- 
 lina, January — , 1864; Second Brigade, First Division, 
 
122 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Eighteenth Array Corps, April 22, 1864; Second Brigade^ 
 Third Division, Twenty-fourth Army Corps, December 4, 
 1864." 
 
 The engagements in which the Tenth New Hampshire par- 
 ticipated, all of which were in Virginia, will give the reader 
 a fairly clear idea of the work of its surgeons. 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 White Sulphur Springs, Va., November 15, 1862. 
 
 Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862. 
 
 Siege of Suffolk, Va., April 11 to May 4, 1863. 
 
 Hill's Point, Va., April 19, 1863. 
 
 Littlepage's Bridge, Va., July 4, 1863. 
 
 Port Walthall, Va. (Richmond and Petersburg Railroad), 
 May 7, 1864. 
 
 Swift Creek, Va., May 9, 1864. 
 
 Proctor's and Kingsland Creeks, Va., May 12, 13, 1864. 
 
 Drewry's Bluff, Va., May 14-16, 1864. 
 
 Cold Harbor, Va., June 1-12, 1864. 
 
 Battery Five, Petersburg, Va., June 15, 1864. 
 
 Petersburg, Va., (assault by Companies A, E, K) June 
 16, 1864. 
 
 Siege of Petersburg, Va., June 16 to August 27, 1864. 
 
 Mine Explosion, Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864. 
 
 Fort Harrison, Va., capture of, September 29, 1864. 
 
 Fort Harrison, Va., defense of, September 30, 1864. 
 
 Fair Oaks, Va., October 27, 1864. 
 
 Richmond, Va., occupation of, April 3, 1865. 
 
 surgeons. 
 John Ferguson, M. D., Horatio N. Small, M. D. 
 
 assistant surgeons. 
 
 Henry J. Harwood, ]\I. D., Albert Plummer, M. D., 
 Thomas R. Clement, M. D., John Haynes, M. D., 
 
 WlLLL\M W. WiLKINS, M. D. 
 
TENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 123 
 
 TENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 John Ferguson, M. D. 
 
 Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Febgusox, John. F. and S.; b. Ireland; age 30; res. Manchester; 
 app. Surg. Aug. 7, '62; must, in Aug. 7, '62; resigned Aug. 15, '63. 
 P. O. ad., Manchester. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 528.) 
 
 "Surgeon John Ferguson, a resident of Manchester, was 
 born in Ireland in 1829, son of David and Catherine Fergu- 
 son. He received his English and classical education from the 
 order of Jesuits, of which his uncle, Charles Ferguson, was 
 president. After completing his medical and surgical studies 
 in Ireland, he obtained a position as surgeon on an Atlantic 
 mail steamer. Those in the old country had then but a crude 
 idea of the United States and Dr. Ferguson's first visit to 
 New York surprised and pleased him greatly. Visiting one 
 of the medical colleges, he went to the dissecting room, always 
 a favorite place with him, and introduced himself to the 
 students, then at work upon a cadaver. Venturing some 
 criticisms and suggestions upon their work, which they took 
 with perfect good nature, he was overheard by the demon- 
 strator, who questioned him in regard to himself and offered 
 him the position of assistant demonstrator should he decide 
 to settle in the States. His contract with the steamer expiring 
 soon after, Dr. Ferguson took this position and afterwards 
 became post-mortem examiner for the coroners of New York. 
 He remained in this capacity until the civil war began, when 
 he became surgeon of a New York regiment and went to the 
 front. Later he served in the same capacity in the Tenth 
 New Hampshire Regiment. His heath partially failing in 
 a year or more, he resigned, and, removing to ]\Ianchester, 
 he commenced the practice of his profession in that city and 
 has since remained there." (Men of Progress in New Hamp- 
 shire, '98.) 
 
124 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 "Dr. John Fer^son, one of Manchester's oldest physicians 
 and the oldest Irish doctor of the city, died at his home, 245 
 Merrimack street, April 6, 1901, of paresis, after an illness 
 covering a period of more than two years. Notwithstanding 
 his long physical affliction, he was able to be out, having 
 been confined to his bed but two days before his demise. 
 
 ' ' John Ferguson was born in Rathkeale, county of Limerick, 
 Ireland, October 28, 1829. His ancestors were Scotch, who 
 settled in the north of Ireland and were engaged generally 
 in the linen manufacture. His grandfather moved to the 
 south of Ireland, became a merchant in Rathkeale, and reared 
 a family of five sons and two daughters. Four of the sons 
 chose the learned professions of law, divinity and medicine, 
 one of them becoming judge for the southern district of 
 Ireland. 
 
 "Dr. Ferguson was the eldest of four children. He was 
 instructed by a private tutor in his early age and received his 
 classical education from the order of Jesuits, of which his 
 uncle, Charles Ferguson, was president. He graduated in 
 1847 and then immediately commenced the study of medi- 
 cine with his uncle. Dr. Philip O'Hanlon, in Rathkeale, and 
 in 1850 was graduated from the Hall of Apothecaries in 
 Dublin. His continued association with his uncle enabled him 
 to acquire a practical knowledge of medicine, surgery, phar- 
 macy and dispensary practice. Some time afterwards he ac- 
 cepted a position as surgeon on an Atlantic mail steamer. 
 
 "Those in the old country had but a crude idea of the 
 United States, and Dr. Ferguson's first visit to New York 
 surprised and pleased him greatly. While engaged as sur- 
 geon on the boat, he became associated with many distin- 
 guished persons among the traveling public and made many 
 valuable friends. 
 
 "In 1861 he came to Manchester, being the firet Irish phy- 
 sician to settle here, and shortly afterwards Governor Berry 
 appointed him surgeon of the Tenth New Hampshire Volun- 
 teers. He left for the front with his regiment in the fall of 
 
TENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 125 
 
 1862. During his residence in New York lie was surgeon 
 on the staff of Colonel Corcoran of the famous Sixty-ninth 
 Regiment, and saw service in the quarantine riots of Staten 
 Island, which fitted him all the better to fill the position of 
 brigade surgeon during the civil war. 
 
 ' ' Near the close of the Rebellion he returned to Manchester, 
 where he built up a large and lucrative practice. He w^as 
 elected to the legislature in 1881. Dr. Ferguson was -a mem- 
 ber of the New Hampshire Medical Society, and, up to the 
 time of his illness, stood high among his professional brethren 
 as a skilful practitioner. 
 
 "In 1861 he was united in marriage to Eleanora Hughes 
 of New York City, who belonged to an old and wealthy fam- 
 ily. Four children were born, three of whom, with his widow, 
 survive. They are Mrs. W. H. Goggin, Miss Mary C. Fer- 
 guson and Dr. John D. Ferguson. One grandson, Alfred W. 
 Goggin, two sisters, Mrs. Anna McCarthy of Staten Island, 
 N. Y., and Mrs. Katherine Merrick of Brookljm, N. Y., and 
 two brothers, William Ferguson of Paterson, N. J., and 
 Charles Ferguson of Orange, N. J., also survive." (Man- 
 chester Union, April 8, 1901.) 
 
 Horatio Nelson Small, M. D. 
 Late of Portland, Me. 
 
 (10 N. H. V.) 
 
 Small, Horatio N. F. and S.; b. Buxton, Me.; age 23; res. Lan- 
 caster; app. Surg. Aug. 20, 'G3; must, in to date Aug. 20, '63; must, 
 out June 21, '65. Died Dec. 28, '86, Portland, Me. See 13 and 17 
 N. H. V. (Record, AyUng's Register, 1895, p. 547.) 
 
 (13 N. H. V.) 
 
 Small, Horatio N. F. and S.; b. Buxton, Me.; age 23; res. Lan- 
 caster; app. Asst. Surg. April 16, '63; must, in May 7, '63; disch. 
 Aug. 27, '63, to accept promotion. See 10 and 17 N. H. V. (Record 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 684.) 
 
 (17 N. H. V.) 
 
 Small, Horatio N. F. and S.; b. Buxton, Me.; age 23; res. Lan- 
 caster; app. Asst. Surg. Nov. 4, '62; must, in Nov. 14. '62; must, 
 out April 16, '63. See 10 and 13 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Regis- 
 ter, 1895, p. 799.) 
 
126 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Surgeon Small was born in Buxton, Me., November 10, 1839, 
 and was the son of Eichard and Abbie A. (Jose) Small. His 
 parents moved to Guildhall, Vt., while he was very young, 
 where he received a common school education, which was 
 supplemented by the advantages of attending the academies 
 at Lancaster, N. H., and St. Johnsbury, Vt. He commenced 
 his professional education with Dr. John W. Barney at Lan- 
 caster, and attended medical lectures at Dartmouth Medical 
 College, from which he was graduated M. D. in the class of 
 1863. 
 
 Horatio Small was appointed assistant surgeon of the Thir- 
 teenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, April 16, 1863, 
 and was discharged to accept promotion August 27, 1863. He 
 was then commissioned surgeon of the Tenth Regiment New 
 Hampshire Volunteers, being mustered in to date August 20, 
 1863, and was discharged when the regiment was mustered 
 out June 21, 1865, his last service being acting brigade sur- 
 geon of the Eighteenth and Twenty-fourth Army Corps. 
 
 Soon after being mustered out of the United States service 
 in 1865, he located in Portland, Me., where he remained until 
 his death, December 29, 1886. He built up a large and in- 
 creasing practice in Portland, became connected with the 
 Maine General Hospital, being attending physician on house 
 staff from 1870 until his death; was instructor of obstetrics 
 in the Portland School of Medicine from 1874 until his death. 
 In 1879 he published a pamphlet on ''The Use of Obstetrical 
 Forceps," and in 1882 another paper on "How Obstetrical 
 Forceps should be Used." He was surgeon-general on the 
 staff of Governor Connor; a member of the United States 
 Pension Examining Board from 1866 to 1885, and was a 
 prominent Mason, being a member of Greenleaf Chapter, 
 Portland Council, Portland Commandery and the Maine Con- 
 sistory. 
 
 His death was sincerely mourned by the profession in Port- 
 land and a special meeting of the local society was called, 
 which unanimously passed resolutions of confidence and re- 
 
TENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 127 
 
 spect, from which the following is selected, that is a record 
 to which his descendants can point with pride, as it ex- 
 presses an ideal of citizenship, patriotism and honor : 
 
 **In every position of trust and responsibility to which he 
 was called — as army officer, examiner of pensioners, teacher, 
 practitioner, husband, citizen — his conduct was marked by 
 the qualities which ever distinguish a pure, noble and exem- 
 plary life." 
 
 Married, November 27, 1862, Harriet, daughter of Charles 
 C. and Flora W. Newell of East Burke, Vt. 
 
 No children. 
 
 Henry J. Harwood, M. D. 
 
 Habwood, Henby J. F. and S.; b. Lowell, Mass.; age 25; res. Salem; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Aug. 19, '62; must, in Aug. 19, '62. Died, dis. 
 March 17, '63, Suffolk, Va. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 
 532.) 
 
 No further record has been obtained. 
 
 Thomas Runnells Clement, M. D. 
 Osterville, Mass. 
 
 (State Service.) 
 
 Clement, Thomas R. Milford Volunteers; b. Landaff; age 38; res. 
 Mont Vernon; enl. April 25, '61, as Muse; disch. July 12, '61, as 
 of Capt. George H. Gillis' Co., Ft. Constitution; re-enl. July 22, 
 '61, for 3 yrs.; paid as Priv. to Oct. 12, '61, as of Capt. James 
 Davidson's Co. P. O. ad., Osterville, Mass. See 8, 10 and 18 N. 
 H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1202.) 
 
 (8 N. H. V.) 
 
 Clethent, Thomas R. Co. B; b. Landaff; age 38; res. Mont Ver- 
 non; enl. July 22, '61; must, in Dec. 26, '61, as Priv.; disch. disab. 
 July 5, '62; CarroUton, La. P. O. ad., Osterville, Mass. See 10 
 and 18 N. H. V. and State Service. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 416.) 
 
 (10 N. H. V.) 
 
 Clement, Thomas R. Co. A; substitute; b. Landaff; age 40; res. 
 Mason; cred. Mason; enl. Oct. 6, '63; must, in Oct. 6, '63, as Priv.; 
 
128 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 app. Asst. Surg. Oct. 26, '63; disch. disab. Sept. 17, '64. P. O. ad., 
 Osterville, Mass. See 8 and 18 N. H. V. and State Service. (Rec- 
 ord, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 523.) 
 
 (18 N. H. V.) 
 
 Clement, Thomas R. F. and S.; b. Landaff; age 41; res. Mont Ver- 
 non; app. Asst. Surg. Jan. 18, '65; declined appointment Mar. 28, 
 '65. P. O. ad., Osterville, Mass. See 8 and 10 N. H. V. and State 
 Service. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 808.) 
 
 Surgeon Clement was born in Landaff, N. H., March 19, 
 1823, and was the son of Thomas Runnells and Betsey (Peck- 
 ett) Clement and a grandson of Richard Clement. His pre- 
 liminary education was received in the common schools and 
 in Tyler Academy; no college course. His professional edu- 
 cation Avas commenced about 1846 at Tilton, N. H., under the 
 direction of ]\lark R. Woodbury, M. D., and Samuel G. Dear- 
 born, M. D., late of Nashua, N. H. He attended medical lec- 
 tures at Dartmouth Medical College and also at the medical 
 department of the University of Vermont at Burlington, grad- 
 uating from the latter in June, 1863. He located at Mason, N. 
 H., in 1865, in the practice of medicine, where he remained 
 for six months; was at Enfield, N. H., four years and has 
 been in Barnstable twenty-five years. Is a member of Barn- 
 stable District IMedical Society and also of the Massachusetts 
 Medical Society. Is a member of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic and chairman of the board of health. 
 
 Surgeon Clement's army service commenced April 25, 1861, 
 when he enlisted as musician in the Milford Volunteers; dis- 
 charged July 12, 1861, and July 22, 1861, he enlisted as pri- 
 vate in the Eighth New Hampshire Regiment, where he served 
 until October, 1863, when he was discharged from the Eighth 
 to become assistant surgeon of the Tenth New Hampshire, and 
 was discharged from the same September 17, 1864, to accept 
 a promotion to surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty- 
 fourth United States Colored Troops; afterwards he was 
 acting assistant surgeon, serving in Preedman's Bureau and 
 having charge of the Freedman's Hospital at Savannah, Ga., 
 and closing his work in the United States service October, 
 1868. 
 
TENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 129 
 
 It seems that at the time he was appointed assistant surgeon 
 of the Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers he was serving 
 as surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth United 
 States Colored Troops, and chose to remain rather than to 
 resign and accept a new appointment. 
 
 Surgeon Clement became a member of the New Hampshire 
 Medical Society in 1872. 
 
 Married Juliett M. Hartshome, May 2, 1855. 
 
 One child, Lizzie Prince Clement. 
 
 Died, Sept. 18, 1898, at Osterville, Mass. 
 
 Albert Plummer, M. D. 
 Racine, Mower County, Minn. 
 
 Plummeb, Aibert. Co. A; b. Auburn; age 21; res. Auburn; cred. 
 Auburn; enl. Aug. 8, '62; must, in Aug. 20, '62, as Priv.; app. Hosp. 
 Steward Aug. 11, '64, to date July 1, '64; app. Asst. Surg. Jan. 4, 
 '65; must, out June 21, '65. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 
 543.) 
 
 Surgeon Plumer was bom in Auburn, N. H., September 7, 
 1840, and was the son of Nathan and Mehitable (Dinsmore) 
 Plummer, a grandson of Nathan Plummer, who served in a 
 New Hampshire regiment during the war for independence, 
 and was wounded during that war. He served under General 
 Stark and was enrolled from Londonderry. 
 
 Surgeon Plummer received his preliminary education in 
 the common schools of Roclringham county and fitted for col- 
 lege at Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H. He com- 
 menced the study of medicine in Auburn in 1862 under the 
 direction of his father. Dr. Nathan Plummer. He attended 
 medical lectures at the medical department of Dartmouth 
 College and also at the medical department of Bowdoin Col- 
 lege, graduating from the latter in June, 1867. Enlisted 
 Augu.st 8, 1862, in Company A of the Tenth New Hampshire 
 Regiment. He did full duty as a private until detailed as 
 acting hospital steward during the summer of 1863. Appointed 
 hospital steward August 11, 1864. This was to date from 
 
130 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 July 1, 1864, for the reason that he had been doing duty in 
 the hospital department for many months prior to receiving 
 the appointment of hospital steward. Dr. Plummer was act- 
 ing as assistant surgeon most of the time from August, 1864, 
 until January 4, 1865, when he received the appointment of 
 assistant surgeon of the Tenth New Hampshire, and was on 
 duty with that regiment with the exception of the months of 
 February and March, 1865, when he was on detached duty at 
 Point of Rocks Hospital, until mustered out of the service 
 June 21, 1865. It will be noticed that he was appointed as- 
 sistant surgeon before he received his degree in medicine. 
 This was not uncommon during the War of the Rebellion, 
 as many men, having commenced the study of medicine, passed 
 through the hospital department, and after ha\dng passed an 
 examination before an army board organized for that pur- 
 pose. Dr. Plummer received a commission as assistant surgeon 
 of the Tenth New Hampshire Volunteers. 
 
 After graduating at the medical department of Bowdoin 
 College, he removed to Racine, Slower county, Minn., where 
 he has been in the practice of his profession for more than 
 thirty years. He is a member of the Fillmore Medical So- 
 ciety as well as the Southern ^Minnesota Medical Society; 
 was a member of the Minnesota legislature in the years 1882 
 and 1883; is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, 
 Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities. 
 
 Married, October 10, 1872, Isabelle Steere. 
 
 Children : Henry S. and William A. Plummer. 
 
 r^ ■ John Haynes, M. D. 
 
 ( ■■ • 
 
 rr Late of Londonderry, N. H. 
 
 (2 N. H. V.) 
 
 Haynes, John. Co. K; b. Newbury; age 31; enl. May 21, '61; must, 
 in June 8, '61, as Priv.; disch. disab. Aug. 7, '61, Washington, D. 
 C. Supposed identical with John Haynes, F. and S., 10 N. H. V. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 56.) 
 
TENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 131 
 
 (10 N. H. V.) 
 
 Hatxes, Johx. F. and S.; b. Newbury; age 31; res. Londonderry; 
 app. 2 Asst. Surg. Sept. 1, '62; must, in Sept. 9, '62; resigned July 
 6, '63. Died May 3, 74, Londonderry. Supposed identical with John 
 Haynes, Co. K, 2 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 
 532.) 
 
 Surgeon Haynes was born December 9, 1830, in Newbury, 
 and was the son of James and Sally (Clark) Haynes. He 
 received his preliminary education in the common schools 
 and at Colby Academy, New London. His professional edu- 
 cation commenced in 1851 under the direction of the late S. 
 M. Whipple, M. D., of New London, and was continued by 
 attending two courses of medical lectures at Woodstock, Vt., 
 and was graduated M. D. from the same in 1855. This was 
 at a period when the Woodstock Medical College enjoyed the 
 distinction of having a distinguished corps of teachers, among 
 whom were Prof. Alonzo Clark of New York, E. M. Moore 
 of Rochester, N. Y., Henry Childs of Massachusetts and B. 
 Rush Palmer of Vermont. 
 
 Dr. Haynes first located in the practice of medicine at 
 Washington, N. H., and removed to Londonderry in 1860, 
 which was his residence the remaining years of his life. He 
 was a good citizen, respected by all, and enjoyed the confidence 
 of the profession and his patrons. 
 
 His military record commenced as a private in Company 
 K of the Second New Hampshire Volunteers, but ill health 
 compelled his discharge after a few months' service. In 
 1862 he received the appointment of assistant surgeon of the 
 Tenth New Hampshire Volunteers, which position he held 
 until July 6, 1863, when ill health compelled him to resign. 
 During his service he was on detached hospital duty a con- 
 siderable portion of the time. This was in consequence of his 
 delicate health. 
 
 March 10, 1863, he was ordered by Medical Director Gil- 
 bert of the Department of Virginia to report for duty at the 
 Chesapeake General Hospital. The order was dated at For- 
 tress Monroe and the Chesapeake General Hospital was lo- 
 
132 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 cated on the beautiful grounds of the present Soldiers' Home. 
 April 11, 1863, he was ordered by the same medical director 
 to report to Surgeon Blaney for duty at Norfolk, Va. In 
 ■June of the same year he was in charge of the Balfour General 
 Hospital, where he remained until by reason of ill health he 
 was obliged to resign. 
 
 He returned to Londonderry and after a time was able to 
 resume his professional labors, but he was always in feeble 
 health and therefore was unable to endure but a small part of 
 the arduous duties of the country physician. 
 
 He was a member of the board of education and a fraternal 
 member of the Masonic order, being a member of Harmony 
 Lodge of Hillsborough. 
 
 Died in Londonderry, N. H., May 3, 1874, aged 43 years. 
 
 Married, first, in 1855, Miss Mary M. Morse of Newbury, 
 N. H., who died in 1869 ; second, July 3, 1871, Almira J. An- 
 derson of Londonderry. 
 
 No children. 
 
 William W. "Wilkins, M. D. 
 Late of Manchester, N. H. 
 
 (2 N. H. V.) 
 
 WiLKiNS, William W. Co. I; b. Heuvelton, N. Y.; age 30; res. Man- 
 chester; enl. May 9, '61; must, in June 7, '61, as Priv. ; disch. 
 disab. to date Sept. 28, '61. See 10 N. H. V. and U. S. N. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 94.) 
 
 (U. S. Navy.) 
 
 WiLKiNS, William W. Volunteer officer; b. Heuvelton, N. Y.; age 
 31; res. Manchester; app. Act. Asst. Surg. Oct. 21, '61; served on 
 U. S. S. "Shepard Knapp"; resigned Dec. 22, '62. See 2 N. H. V. 
 and 10 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1177.) 
 
 (10 N. H. V.) 
 
 WiLKiNS, William W. F. and S.; b. Heuvelton, N. Y.; age 33; res. 
 Bedford; app. 2 Asst. Surg. Aug. 19, '63; must, in Sept. 11, '63; 
 resigned July 21, '64. Died Sept. 1, 1892, Manchester. See 2 N. H. 
 V. and U. S. N. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 551.) 
 
TENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 133 
 
 Surgeon Wilkins was born in the town of DePeyster, St. 
 Lawrence county, N. Y., June 17, 1829, and was the son 
 of Daniel and Elizabeth (McMurphy) Wilkins of London- 
 derry, N. H. He was a descendant of Rev. Daniel Wilkins, 
 one of the first settlers of the town of Amherst and the first 
 settled minister over the Presbyterian Church in that town. 
 His mother was a daughter of Archibald McMurphy, a prom- 
 inent resident of Londonderry. 
 
 Dr. Wilkins' preliminary education was received in the 
 public schools, supplemented by academical courses at Derry, 
 N. H., and Fitchburg, Mass. His professional education was 
 under the direction of Drs. E. H. Davis and S. W. Jones of 
 Manchester, and he attended medical lectures at the Ver- 
 mont Medical College, Woodstock, Vt., where he was grad- 
 uated in June, 1855. In the fall of that year he located in 
 Henniker, where he practiced medicine until the spring of 
 1861, when he returned to Manchester and took the office 
 vacated by Dr. George H. Hubbard, surgeon of the Second 
 New Hampshire Regiment. He remained here only a few 
 months, and May 9, 1861, enlisted as a private in Company I 
 of the Second New Hampshire Regiment. He remained with 
 the regiment until September 28, 1861, vrhen he was dis- 
 charged to accept promotion. October 21, 1861, he was ap- 
 pointed acting assistant surgeon. United States Navy, and 
 assigned to duty on the U. S. S. "Shepard Kaiapp." During 
 his service with the Second New Hampshire he was with the 
 regiment at the first battle of Bull Run. While in the navy, 
 the "Shepard Knapp" was sent to the West Indies to cruise 
 for blockade runners and for privateers. The following May 
 the ' ' Shepard Knapp ' ' returned to New York and after taking 
 necessary stores was assigned to take part in the blockade off 
 Charleston, S. C. The summer and fall of 1862 were spent 
 at this point and off St. Helena Sound, returning to New 
 York again in the winter. On arriving in New York, Surgeon 
 Wilkins heard of the death of his daughter and of the dan- 
 gerous illness of his son. As his ship was to return immediately 
 to the blockade, he resigned his commission and came home, 
 
134 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 and soon after located in Bedford and resumed the practice 
 of medicine. In August, 1863, he was commissioned second 
 assistant surgeon of the Tenth New Hampshire, which at that 
 time was encamped at Julius Creek, Va. He immediately 
 joined the regiment and remained in Virginia during the fall 
 and winter months. July 21, 1864, his health having failed, 
 he resigned and returned to New Hampshire. As soon as he 
 was able, he resumed the practice of his profession in the town 
 of Bedford, where he remained for eight years, and then re- 
 moved to Manchester where he practiced until obliged to give 
 up work on account of his health. He never fully recovered 
 from his exposure and several years before his death gave up 
 general practice and devoted himself to the treatment of dis- 
 eases of the eye. 
 
 He was a member of the local medical society of Manchester ; 
 of the New Hampshire Medical Society and of the Louis Bell 
 Post, No. 3, G. A. R. ; for many years he was a member of 
 the board of pension examiners for the city of Manchester; 
 was the first Knight of Honor in the state of New Hampshire, 
 being a charter member of Alpha Lodge, of Alpine Lodge, and 
 for many years was medical examiner of the order. He was 
 the first past grand dictator of New Hampshire, having re- 
 ceived that honor in 1876, and was also the past supreme 
 representative. He was a member of Hillsborough Lodge, No. 
 2, I. 0. 0. F., joining that order in 1854, and was also a 
 member of Washington Lodge, No. 61, F. and A. M. He was 
 a member of the New England Provident Association at Con- 
 cord and a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, 
 having read several valuable papers before that body. 
 
 Married, August 5, 1852, Miss Persis L. Morse, daughter of 
 Johnson Morse of Manchester. He is survived by one daugh- 
 ter, Mrs. C. H. Carroll of Concord, and a brother. Rev. Elijah 
 R. Wilkins, who was chaplain of the Fifth New Hampshire 
 and is now chaplain of the state prison. 
 
 Surgeon Wilkins died in Manchester, September 1, 1892. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ELEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 By Leaxder W. Cogswell, 
 
 Captain and Historian of the Eleventh Regiment New Hamp- 
 shire Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 "The Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment of Volunteer In- 
 fantry was recruited in August, 1862, under the call of Presi- 
 dent Abraham Lincoln of July, 1862, for 300,000 men for 
 three years. The field and staff consisted of Col. Walter Har- 
 riman, ]\Iaj. Moses X. Collins, Adjt. Charles R. Morrison, Q. 
 M. James F. Briggs, Surg. Jonathan S. Ross, Asst. Surg. John 
 A. Hayes, Chaplain Frank A. Stratton, and were mustered 
 into the service of the United States September 2, 1862 ; and on 
 the ninth of the same month Moses N. Collins was mustered 
 as lieutenant-colonel and Evarts W. Farr was mustered as 
 major. 
 
 ' ' The several companies of the regiment were mustered into 
 the service from August 28 to September 3, 1862, and the 
 officers of the companies received their commissions September 
 
 4, 1862. The regiment consisted of 1,006 officers and men." 
 
 ****** 
 
 "March 22, 1864, having sent the sick men and the baggage 
 North, via Chattanooga and Nashville, the regiment commenced 
 its return march over the mountains, reaching 'Camp Parke' 
 April 1, 1864, having marched 175 miles in eleven days over 
 the woi'st of roads, in the severest weather, carrying all their 
 rations and equipments. The regiment passed through Cin- 
 cinnati April 3, arriving at Annapolis, ]\Id., April 7, there 
 rejoining the Ninth Corps. 
 
136 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 ''April 23 the regiment broke camp at Annapolis and com- 
 menced its march to the front, passing through Washington 
 the twenty-fifth, at which time the Ninth Corps was reviewed 
 by President Lincoln and Major-General Burnside, and on 
 May 6, 1864, at two o'clock in the morning, the regiment 
 formed a line of battle in the Wilderness. 
 
 "From this time until the war ended, the regiment par- 
 ticipated in all the marches, skirmishes, battles and sieges of 
 the campaign, and on April 3, 1865, it marched into Peters- 
 burg with colors flying. It participated in the pursuit of 
 General Lee and his army and after the surrender it was 
 moved to City Point, fourth of April, remaining there until 
 the twenty-fifth of April, when it embarked for Alexandria, 
 Va., which place it reached on the twenty-seventh; partici- 
 pated in the grand review in Washington, D. C, on May 23 
 and 24, and on Sunday, June 4, 1865, it was mustered out of 
 the United States service and reached Concord June 7, 1865. 
 At Concord the regiment was paid in full on Saturday, June 
 10, 1865, and was formally discharged from the service that 
 day, having been in the service two years and nine months. ' ' 
 
 ASSIGNMENTS. 
 
 "The Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers was attached 
 to First Brigade, Casey's Division, Defenses of Washington, 
 September 16 to 29, 1862; Second Brigade, Second Division, 
 Ninth Army Corps, October 6, 1862, to June 4, 1865." 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 White Sulphur Springs, Va., November 15, 1862. 
 Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862. 
 Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., June 15 to July 4, 1863. 
 Jackson, Miss., July 10-17, 1863. 
 
 Siege of Knoxville, Tenn., November 17 to December 4, 
 1863. 
 
 Strawberry Plains, Tenn., January 21, 1864. 
 Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864. 
 
ELEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 137 
 
 Spottsylvania. Va., May 9-18, 1864. 
 North Anna River, Va., May 23-27, 1864. 
 Totopotomoy, Va., May 28, 31, 1864. 
 Bethesda Church, Va., June 2, 3, 1864. 
 Cold Harbor, Va., June 5-12, 1864. 
 
 Siege of Petersburg, Va., June 16, 1864, to April 3, 1865. 
 Petersburg (assault at the Shand House), Va., June 17, 
 1864. 
 
 Mine Explosion, Petersburg, Va., (assault) July 30, 1864. 
 Weldon Railroad, Va., August 18, 19, 21, 1864. 
 Poplar Springs Church, Va., September 30, 1864. 
 Hatcher's Run, Va., October 27, 1864. 
 Petersburg, Va., April 1-3, 1865. 
 
 SURGEONS. 
 
 Jonathan S. Ross, M. D., John A. Hayes. M. D. 
 
 ASSISTANT SURGEONS. 
 
 John A. Hayes, M. D., Dr. Charles M. Jones, 
 
 Edward R. Hutchins, M. D., John C. W. Moore. M. D. 
 
 ELEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 Jonathan Smith Ross, M. D. 
 
 Late of Somersworth, N. H. 
 
 Ross, Jonathan S. F. and S.; b. Bath; age 40; res. Somersworth; 
 cred. Somersworth; app. Surg. Aug. 14, '62; must, in Aug. 22, '62; 
 disch. disab. Dec. 7, '64; died Nov. 22, '77, Somersworth. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 590.) 
 
 Surgeon Ross was born in Li.sbon, N. H., April 12, 1822, 
 and was the son of Sanuiel and Fanny Putnam (Smith) 
 Ross. His mother was the daughter of Jonathan Smith of 
 Bath, N. H., and his paternal grandfather was Jonathan Ross, 
 who emigrated from Scotland. According to his college report. 
 
138 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 his prelirainaiy education was, "fitted for college at Holmes 
 Academy, Plymouth, N. H., under those eminent educators, 
 Rev. S. R. Hall and T. D. P. Stone," and was graduated A. B. 
 from Dartmouth in the class of 1843. From the same report 
 we learn that his professional education w^as commenced at 
 Littleton, N. H., in 1843, Avith Adams Moore, M. D. (Dart- 
 mouth, 1822), and that from November, 1843, to October, 1844, 
 he was with Dr. Timothy Haynes of Concord giving a portion 
 of his time to dissections, and attended medical lectures in 
 the University of Pennsylvania in the winters of 1844 and 
 '45. 
 
 "Returning to New England, he continued his studies with 
 Dr. Moore and attended his second course of lectures at Dart- 
 mouth IVIedical College in 1845. Returning again to Phila- 
 delphia in October, 1845, he pursued his medical studies 
 there and received the degree of M. D. from the University of 
 Pennsylvania in April, 1846." 
 
 He first located in Boston, Mass., remaining a few months. 
 From November, 1846, to the autumn of 1852, he was in Bath, 
 N. H., and in partnership with Dr. John French. From that 
 period until 1855 he was in Rollinsford, N. H. He then 
 went to Great Falls (now Somersworth), where he resided 
 until his death, which occurred November 22, 1877. 
 
 He was appointed surgeon of the Eleventh Regiment New 
 Hampshire Volunteers, August 14, 1862, and was afterwards 
 made brigade surgeon of the Second Brigade, Second Division, 
 of the Ninth Army Corps (Gen. S. G. Griffin's Brigade). 
 In 1865 he was assigned to duty at the post hospital in Con- 
 cord, N. H., although he had been mustered out of active 
 service with his regiment December 7, 1864, the reason being 
 given as physical disability, and it is understood that he 
 never fully recovered. Surgeon Ross always took an active 
 interest in public affairs, being for two years a member of 
 the board of education in Somersworth, and represented the 
 town of Rollinsford in the New Hampshire legislature in 1855. 
 He was an active society man in college, being secretary of 
 the Gamma Sigma Society. 
 
ELEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 139 
 
 Married, March 31, 1S47, Martha Ann Brackett, daughter 
 of Maj. Aaron Brackett of Littleton, N. H. 
 
 One child, "Winfred Smith Ross, born December 3, 1865. 
 
 John Alfred Hayes, ^I. D. 
 
 Somersvv'orth, N. H. 
 
 Hayes. John A. F. and S.; b. Berwick, Me.; res. Concord; app. 
 Asst. Surg. Aug. 26, '62; must, in Sept. 2, '62; app. Surg. Jan. 2, 
 '65; must, out June 4, '65; Bvt. Lt.-CoL, U. S. V., to date Mar. 13, 
 '65, for faithful and meritorious services. P. O. ad.. Great Falls. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 575.) 
 
 John A. Hayes was born in Berwick, Me., March 27, 1839, 
 He received his education in the common schools of his na- 
 tive town, at the academy in Lebanon, Me., and the New 
 Hampton (X. H.) Institution. He graduated from Dart- 
 mouth Medical College in the autumn of 1861 and was located 
 at the Asylum for the Insane in Concord for a year as as- 
 sistant physician. He was commissioned assistant surgeon 
 of the Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers August 26, 1862, 
 and was mustered out with the regiment June 4, 1865. He 
 was on detached service a good portion of the time in different 
 hospitals connected with the Ninth Army Corps, and partici- 
 pated in all the battles and skirmishes in which his regiment 
 was engaged, whether with the regiment or otherwise, and 
 won a hitrh reputation as a physician and surgeon. 
 
 After leaAing the army he practiced his profession for three 
 years in Biddeford, Me., then removed to Great Falls, N. H., 
 where he has since resided. Was a member of the New Ilamp- 
 .shire Medical Society, of the Grand Army of the Republic, 
 and examining surgeon for pensions from 1869 until 1890, 
 and town physician for fifteen years. 
 
 He was brevetted a lieutenant-colonel of the United States 
 Volunteers March 13, 1865, "for faithful and meritorioiLS ser- 
 vice," upon the following recommendation, a copy of which 
 is here appended : 
 
140 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 "This is to state that Dr. John A. Hayes, late surgeon of 
 the 11th N. H. Vols., served for a year under my immediate 
 supervision, in connection with the Depot Field Hospital of 
 the Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg, White House 
 and City Point, and that he finally acted as executive officer 
 at Burkeville, Va. 
 
 "He was a first-rate officer, and was entrusted with most 
 responsible duties, in the performance of which he was most 
 reliable and untiring. I cordially recommend him as deserv- 
 ing the brevet of lieutenant-colonel. 
 
 "Ed. B. Dalton, 
 "Late Surg. U. S. V. Br't-Vol. 
 
 '' {Formerly in charge Depot Field Hospital, Army of Po- 
 tomac.) " 
 
 Married, March 11, 1869, ISIary A. Eollins. 
 
 Children : Frederick L., John E. R., Mary and Helen L. 
 
 Edward R. Hutchins, M. D. 
 Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 (Miscel. Organizations.) 
 
 Hutchins, Edward R. Co. I, 1 Mass. Inf.; b. Concord; age 20; res. 
 Concord; enl. May 23, '61, for 3 yrs.; must, in May 24, '61, as Priv.; 
 disch. Aug. 31, '61; app. Medical Cadet, U. S. A., Oct. 3, '61, to 
 date Aug. 30, '61; disch. Aug. 21, '62, Washington, D. C. P. O. 
 ad., Des Moines, la. See 11 N. H. V. and U. S. Navy. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1057.) 
 
 (11 N. H. V.) 
 
 Hutchins, Edward R. F. and S.; b. Concord; age 21; res. Concord; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Sept. 2, 'G2; must, in Sept. 2, '62; resigned Dec. 
 25, '62. P. O. ad., Des Moines, la. See U. S. N. and Miscel. Organ- 
 izations. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 577.) 
 
 (U. S. Navy.) 
 
 Hutchins, Edward R. Volunteer officer; b. Concord; age 21; res. 
 Concord; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Dec. 19, '62; served on U. S. 
 S. "Port Royal" and "Massachusetts"; disch. Dec. 1, '65. P. O. ad., 
 Des Moines, la. See 11 N. H. V. and Miscel. Organizations. (Rec- 
 ord, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1133.) 
 
 Surgeon Hutchins was born in Concord, N. H., October 21, 
 1841, and was a son of George and Sarah (Tucker) Hutchins, 
 a grandson of Abel Hutchins of Concord, N. H. He re- 
 
ELEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 141 
 
 ceived his preliminary education in the schools of Concord, 
 at New Hampton, N. H., scientific department of Dartmouth 
 College and Williams College, Massachusetts, He commenced 
 his professional education in 1859 under the direction of Dr. 
 J. P. Bancroft of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane 
 at Concord, N. H., continuing the same with three courses 
 of lectures at Harvard and Philadelphia, and was graduated 
 from Jefferson Medical College in 1866. Commenced the 
 practice of medicine in Philadelphia, remaining there for 
 six yeare. Continued practice at Ames, la., two years and at 
 Des Moines three years, since which time he has practically 
 retired from the practice of medicine, giving his attention to 
 various other pursuits. 
 
 He has devoted considerable time to literary work; con- 
 tributed many articles to medical journals; was professor of 
 chemistry at the Iowa Agricultural College and assistant sec- 
 retary of the Iowa senate ; commissioner of labor statistics 
 for Iowa; secretary of the Iowa senate; commissioner to at- 
 tend the Atlanta exposition ; member of the various orders, 
 and commander of Post No. 12, G. A. R. 
 
 His military service was that of private soldier, medical 
 cadet, assistant surgeon Eleventh New Hampshire, acting as- 
 sistant surgeon in the navy, and extended over a period from 
 May 23, 1861, to December 5, 1865, and at one time was a 
 special agent of the Interior department of the United States 
 government. His biographer says: "He has been somewhat 
 closely identified with the Republican party, always taking 
 an interest in politics, has spoken for the party in every 
 county in the state of Iowa, as well as in ten or twelve other 
 states, during three presidential campaigns. He has always 
 been an active worker in the department of the Grand Army 
 of Iowa and has made many addresses at Grand Army encamp- 
 ments, state and national." 
 
 Married, April 5, 1897, Mrs. M. C. Smith of Philadelphia. 
 
 Children, four: Sarah Tucker, George, Jennie Douglas and 
 Edward Ridgeway Hutchins. 
 
 During the Spanish- American War he served in Florida and 
 also in the Philippines. 
 
142 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Dr. Charles Mortimer Jones. 
 Grand Rapids, Mich. 
 
 Jones, Charles M. Non-Com. Staff; b. Great Falls; age 20; res. 
 Somersworth ; cred. Somersworth; enl. Aug. 17, '62; must, in Aug. 
 30, '62, as Hosp. Steward; app. Asst. Surg. Jan. 2, '65; must, out 
 June 4, '65. P. O. ad., Muskegon, Mich. (Record, Ayling's Reg- 
 ister, 1895, p. 578.) 
 
 Assistant Surgeon Jones was born October 15, 1842, at 
 Great Falls, now the city of Somersworth, N. H., and was the 
 son of Daniel and Harriet Augusta (Stanton) Jones. His 
 preliminary education was received in the common and high 
 schools of Somersworth, and he commenced his professional 
 education with Dr. Jonathan S. Ross of Somersworth in 1857. 
 He gave his attention largely to Materia Medica and for twen- 
 ty-five years was a druggist and apothecary. Did not grad- 
 uate in medicine but became a member of the Eleventh New 
 Hampshire at the age of twenty years, being assigned to the 
 position of hospital steward August 30, 1862. January 2, 
 1865, upon the petition of the officers and men of the Eleventh 
 Regiment, he was commissioned assistant surgeon and remained 
 with the regiment until mustered out June 4, 1865. 
 
 About eighteen years ago he went West and engaged in 
 general business, largely in connection with railroads, and at 
 the time of the publication of the History of the Eleventh 
 Regiment he wrote to the historian, saying: "I like the life 
 very much; it is more like the army life than anything else." 
 
 Married Mercy A. Hill and has three children: Bishop M., 
 Theodore S. and Harriet E. 
 
 John Calvin Webster Moore, M. D. 
 Late of Concord, N. H. 
 
 (2 N. H. V.) 
 
 Moore, John C. W. Co. B; b. Wells, Me.; age 24; res. Concord; enl. 
 May 27, '61; must, in June 1, '61, as Priv.; disch. to accept pro- 
 motion Feb. 21, '63, near Falmouth, Va. P. O. ad., Concord. See 
 11 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 71.) 
 
ELEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 143 
 
 (11 N. H. V.) 
 
 Moore. John C. W. F. and S.; b. Wells, Me.; age 2G; res. Concord; 
 app. 2 Asst. Surg. Jan. 3, '63; must, in Feb. 21, '63; disch. Oct. 8, 
 '64. P. O. ad.. Concord. See 2 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Regis- 
 ter, 1895, p. 584.) 
 
 John C. W. Moore was born at Wells, Me., January 30, 1837. 
 Later, his father, Dr. E. G. INIoore, was an eminent physician 
 of Concord, X. H., and his mother, Eliza (Hidden) Moore, was 
 a daughter of Rev. Samuel Hidden, a noted divine of Tam- 
 worth, N. H. John C. W. Moore graduated at Yale University 
 in 1859 and took the degree of M. D. at Bowdoin College, 
 iMaine, in July, 1865. He was a medical student when the 
 war broke out and June 5, 1861, he was mustered into the 
 United States service as a member of Company B, "Goodwin 
 Rifles," Second New Hampshire Volunteers; was detailed to 
 the hospital department and participated in all of the cam- 
 paigns of the Second New Hampshire. He was at Williams- 
 burg and on the Peninsula, under McClellan; was present at 
 the Second Bull Run and Fredericksburg battles up to Jan- 
 uary 3, 1863, when, upon recommendation of all the officers 
 of the gallant Second New Hampshire Volunteers, Governor 
 Nathaniel S. Berry commissioned him assistant surgeon of 
 the Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers. He joined the 
 regiment in ^larch, 18G3, at Baltimore, Md., when en route 
 to Kentucky-. He participated in the Mississippi campaign 
 in the summer of 1863 and accompanied the regiment over 
 the Cumberland mountains in October following. He assisted 
 in organizing the Knoxville Court House United States Hos- 
 pital, had charge of several wards and was highly compli- 
 mented by Medical Director Shippen for his executive ability. 
 He was one of the surgeons in charge of 1,000 convalescents 
 of the Ninth Army Corps, who went by rail from Knoxville, 
 Tenn., to Annapolis, Md., in March, 1864. Dr. Moore was 
 an assistant surgeon in the battles of the Wilderness, Spott- 
 sylvania. Cold Harbor, Mine Explosion, July 30, 1864, and 
 in front of Petersburg, Va. He was detailed to take charge 
 of the sick of the Ninth Corps army train, and after a service 
 of three years and three months resigned October 8, 1864. On 
 leaving the service he practiced his profession at Andover and 
 
144 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Manchester, Mass., for a short period and then removed to 
 Concord, N. H., where he resided until his death, November 
 29, 1897. 
 
 Dr. Moore was surgeon of E. E. Sturtevant Post, No. 2, at 
 the time of his death. 
 
 "Sturtevant Post, G. A. R., adopted the following resolu- 
 tions upon the death of their late comrade and brother, Dr. 
 J. C. W. Moore : 
 
 "Whereas, To the beat of the drum we have followed an- 
 other comrade to the grave, and with a salute of musketry we 
 left him with the dead, 
 
 "This is a soldier's tribute to a dead comrade — Dr. J. C. W. 
 Moore, late member of this post. His association with the Vet- 
 erans' Club and his devotion to the post was such a source of 
 pleasure and satisfaction to him that he could faithfully say, 
 'I have loved thy habitation,' for to him it was home, and 
 family and friends, and here he found that sympathy and fra- 
 ternal consideration which were the delight of his latter years. 
 
 ' ' His position on the medical staff of the army brought him 
 in close contact with all of pain and horror incident to war, — 
 to a nature far too sympathetic for this duty, and under this 
 strain his health became shattered beyond the possibility of 
 complete repair. 
 
 "He sacrificed his early manhood, his health, his opportu- 
 nities, to the cause of home and country, and for thirty years 
 thereafter was a constant sufferer from the effects of faithful 
 and devoted service in an unfriendly climate. As a sympa- 
 thetic and helpful soldier and comrade let us remember him. 
 He is now at rest in a patriot's grave, and the honors and 
 tributes we pay our dead are now his. 
 
 "As a mark of respect let the colors of the post be draped 
 in mourning for a period of thirty days. Let this tribute be 
 entered in a separate page of the journal and a copy thereof 
 issued to his bereaved wife and daughter. ' ' 
 
 Married Fannie S. Hall. 
 One child, Edith Moore. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 TWELFTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 By Asa W. Bartlett, 
 
 Captain and Historian of the Twelfth Regiment New Hamp- 
 shire Volunteers. 
 
 ' ' The fact that this regiment sprang into potential existence 
 in about three days and that for three years, lacking only 
 three months, it served in the armies of the Potomac and the 
 James, where, by a loss of more than one-third of its members 
 in killed and wounded, it made for itself a record of valor 
 and sacrifice unsurpassed, if equaled, by any other regiment 
 of infantry in the Union army, is convincingly suggestive to 
 the reader how inadequate and incomplete must be the brief 
 skeleton sketch that can be given it in the limited space allotted 
 here. 
 
 "To the memory and honor of Cols. George W. Stevens 
 and Thomas J. Whipple of Laconia, more than any other two 
 or ten persons, belongs the credit of raising the regiment — 
 to the former for originating the idea of raising it in Belknap 
 county and adjoining towns, upon certain conditions precedent 
 to be granted by Governor Berry, provided it should be 
 ready for muster within ten days; and to the latter, assisted 
 by his able coadjutor, for his great and successful efforts, as 
 an orator, in so arousing the people to a proper sense of their 
 duty and danger as to raise it in so short a time. ' ' 
 
 "May 2, 1863 — a day never to be forgotten by a survivor 
 of the Twelfth — the campaign for that year with the Array of 
 
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146 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 the Potomac opened with terrible earnestness at Chancellors- 
 ville, Va., where the regiment suffered severely, being the last 
 regiment of the Third Corps — which bore the brunt of the 
 fight — to retreat, and leaving nearly all its officers and more 
 than half of the men dead Or wounded on the field. 
 
 "In this most desperate conflict, of the five hundred and 
 forty-nine musket-bearers who went into the fight, only two 
 (so far as the writer, after long and diligent search, has been 
 able to find) escaped untouched. Those who were not killed 
 or wounded had their clothes, blankets, or equipments torn 
 with pieces of shell or pierced with bullets. 
 
 "Two months later, after making one of the most trying 
 marches of the war, found the regiment oa the decisive battle- 
 field of Gettysburg, where it was again baptized in blood. Its 
 monument, now standing there, close by the Emmittsburgh 
 road, truthfully proclaims to the passer-by that out of two 
 hundred and twenty-four officers and men engaged on July 
 2, 1863, twenty were killed and seventy-nine wounded, six 
 mortally. The regiment was then in Carr's Brigade and Hum- 
 phrey's Division of the Third Corps, commanded by General 
 Sickles." 
 
 "July 4, 1863, on the field of Gettysburg, Capt. Thomas 
 
 E. Barker first took command of the regiment, and, from that 
 date until it was disbanded at Concord, July 3, 1865, except 
 for the time above referred to, he had both the honor and the 
 responsibility of leading the regiment into every battle in 
 which it was engaged, from Gettysburg to Richmond, and 
 into the city itself. 
 
 "It should also be stated that Lieut. Edwin E. Bedee com- 
 manded awhile upon, and took what was left of the regiment 
 from, the field of Chancellorsville, and that Capt. William 
 
 F. F. Fernal acted a similar part in the engagement of the 
 regiment on the second day at Gettysburg. 
 
 ' ' The organizations in which the regiment served during the 
 war, with dates of assignments, etc., are concisely stated as 
 follows : 
 
TWELFTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 147 
 
 "The Twelfth New Hampshire Volunteers was attached 
 to Wright's Brigade, Casey's Division, Defenses of Washing- 
 ton, September 30, 1862; Whipple's Division, Defenses of 
 Washington, October 5, 1862; with Whipple's Division to 
 Twelfth Army Corps, October 22, 1862; detached with 
 Whipple's Division from Twelfth Army Corps, October 29, 
 1862; attached with Whipple's (Third) Division to Third 
 Army Corps, November 16, 1862; Second Brigade, Third Di- 
 vision, Third Army Corps, January 17, 1863 ; First Brigade, 
 Second Division, Third Army Corps, June 11 to July 26, 1863 ; 
 in District of St. Mary's, Department of Virginia and North 
 Carolina, July 31, 1863, to April 23, 1864 ; attached to Wis- 
 tar's Brigade, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, 
 April 12, 1864; Second Brigade, Second Division, Eighteenth 
 Army Corps. April 23, 1864; Potter's Pro\'isional Brigade, 
 Defenses of Bermuda Hundred, Army of the James, Septem- 
 ber 20, 1864 ; Third Brigade, First Division, Eighteenth Army 
 Corps, October 8, 1864; Potter's Provisional Brigade, De- 
 fenses of Bermuda Hundred, Army of the James, October 14, 
 1864; Second Brigade, Third Division, Twenty-fourth Army 
 Corps, December 4, 1864." 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15, 1862. 
 
 Chancellorsville, Va., May 2, 3, 1863. 
 
 Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 3, 1863. 
 
 Wapping Heights, Va., July 23, 1863. 
 
 Swift Creek, Va., May 9, 1864. 
 
 Drewry's Bluff, Va., May 12-16, 1864. 
 
 Relay House (or Fort Stevens), Va., May 14, 1864. 
 
 Port Walthall, Va., May 26, 1864. 
 
 Cold Harbor, Va., June 1-11, 1864. 
 
 Siege of Petersburg, Va., June 15 to August 25, 1864. 
 
 Mine Explosion, Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864. 
 
 Bermuda Hundred, Va., November 17, 1864. 
 
 Richmond, Va., occupation of, April 3, 1865. 
 
148 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 SURGEON. 
 
 Hadley B. Fowler, M. D. 
 
 assistant surgeons. 
 
 Charles W. Hunt, M. D., Samuel P. Carbee, M. D., 
 
 John H. Sanborn, M. D. 
 
 TWELFTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 Hadley B. Fowler, M. D. 
 
 Late of Bristol, N. H. 
 
 FowLEB, Hadley B. F. and S.; b. Bridgewater; age 37; res. Bristol; 
 cred. Bristol; enl. Aug. 20, '62, as Priv.; app. Surg. Aug. 28, '62; 
 must, in Aug. 28, '62, as Surg.; must, out June 21, '65. Died 
 Jan. 11, '93, Bristol. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 621.) 
 
 Surgeon Hadley B. Fowler of Bristol, N. H., was the son 
 of Capt. Blake and Ruth (Sleeper) Fowler, and was born in 
 Bridgewater, N. H., March 22, 1825, and died in Bristol, Jan- 
 uary 11, 1893, aged 68. 
 
 His preliminary education was received in the admirable 
 high school system in New Hampshire, and his professional 
 studies were pursued at the medical department of Dartmouth 
 College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1850. 
 
 He practiced his profession in Alexandria and Bristol until 
 he entered the service of his country and was commissioned 
 as surgeon of the Twelfth New Hampshire Volunteers, being 
 the first officer to receive a commission in this regiment. His 
 father and son went with him to the front, the former as cap- 
 tain of Company C, though nearly three-score years of age, 
 and the latter as his father's private orderly, though scarcely 
 in his teens. Moreover, his grandfather, David Fowler, who 
 was a soldier of the Revolution, hired a substitute to take the 
 place that he himself was too old to fill in the ranks of the 
 
TWELFTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 149 
 
 same regiment, thereby making the unique condition of four 
 generations present in person or by representative in one 
 single regiment of the Union army. 
 
 His father, himself and son were all taken prisoners near 
 Warrington, Va., while marching to Falmouth, Va., where he 
 rejoined his regiment by exchange in February following. 
 
 Capt. A. W. Bartlett, regiment historian, says of Surgeon 
 Fowler : 
 
 ' ' He was present, as believed, and acted as surgeon in every 
 battle of the regiment except Fredericksburg, when he was a 
 prisoner of war. At Chancellorsville he had charge of brigade 
 field hospital, and at Gettysburg was operating surgeon of 
 Second Brigade, Second Division, Third Corps, where he was 
 the hero of the amputating table, few, if any, severing more 
 limbs and saving more lives by his courage, alertness and skill. 
 After this he was always recognized as a leader in his pro- 
 fession, and he was placed in many positions of honor and 
 great responsibility. At Drury's Bluff he was made chief 
 operator of the Eighteenth Corps, and on the day of the battle 
 of Cold Harbor was ordered to take charge of the Eighteenth 
 Army Corps hospital, which position he held until he was 
 sent West by the War Department, as one of the board of 
 examiners, to inspect the sick and wounded soldiers of Ohio 
 in the fall of 1864. On his return, two months later, he was 
 ordered by Maj.-Gen. B. F. Butler to erect a hospital for the 
 Army of the James at Point of Rocks, Va. When completed, 
 Dr. Fowler was put in charge and also given command of the 
 post, which position he held until the close of the war. In 
 this position Dr. Fowler's executive capacity was heavily 
 taxed, as the reader may better see by the following words 
 and figures : 
 
 "Number of beds for patients, 3,500; for officers and at- 
 tendants, nearly 500, 34 surgeons, 3 chaplains, a quarter- 
 master and commissary, 5 stewards, 31 ward masters, 25 
 matrons, 300 nurses, 75 cooks, with 85 men and officers con- 
 stantly on guard and all the necessary paraphernalia to ar- 
 range for and look after. 
 
160 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 "In May, 1865, he received an appointment by the War 
 Department to remain in the Freedman's Bureau under 
 Maj.-Gen. 0. 0. Howard, but, owing to impaired health and 
 solicitations of relatives and friends, he returned home with 
 his regiment. 
 
 "He was not one of those who was 'all things unto all 
 men,' but his likes and dislikes for friend and foe were too 
 strongly marked and well defined to be easily misunderstood. 
 His intimate friends were few, though respected by all, and 
 those few were near and dear to him. Yet, such at times 
 were his strange odd ways and moods that they surprised even 
 those who knew him best. But he has left us at the com- 
 mand of Him who made him such, and he will long be re- 
 membered for his noble record for his country and for his 
 many good and rare qualities of head and heart. He was first 
 married, November 25, 1847, to Caroline L. Smith of Nashua, 
 and had by her three children, George H., Charles E. and 
 Edgar 0. Mother and children all dead but George. Febru- 
 ary 19, 1884, he was again married to Sarah, daughter of 
 Orrin Lock of Bristol." 
 
 Died in Bristol, January 11, 1905. 
 
 Charles W, Hunt, M. D. 
 
 Hunt, Charles W. F. and S.; b. Gilford; age 30; res. Laconia; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Sept. 6, '62; must, in Sept. 6, '62; mis. May 3, 
 '63, Chancellorsville, Va.; gd. from mis. Died, dis., Aug. 24, '63, 
 Point Lookout, Md. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 626.) 
 
 Assistant Surgeon Charles W. Hunt was a son of Thomas 
 J. and Julia A. (Blaisdell) Hunt, a grandson of the late Rev. 
 William Blaisdell, and great-grandson of Enoch Hunt, who 
 fougkt on many of the battlefields of the Revolution. He was 
 born in Gilford December 8, 1832, and died of typhoid fever 
 at Point Lookout, Md., August 24, 1863. 
 
 Receiving a liberal education, he commenced the study of 
 medicine and graduated as a physician at Hanover in 1856. 
 He practiced his profession in his native town until he en- 
 listed. As a soldier and physician he was brave and faithful. 
 
TWELFTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 151 
 
 I think it may be truly said of him that no soldier ever suffered 
 because of his indifference or neglect. "If needs be I am 
 willing to die for my country," he said, and his words were 
 verified by his fearless devotion on the field of Chancellors- 
 ville, where, regardless of the shot and shell of the advancing 
 foe, he stood manfully at his post of duty; and when the 
 crumbling walls and kindling flames of the Chancellor House, 
 then crowded with suffering humanity, added new terror and 
 agony to the scene, his heroic efforts to rescue and save his 
 wounded comrades, even after he was taken prisoner, deserved 
 and received the highest praise of his commander, Colonel 
 Potter, who lay a helpless eye-witness to his brave and noble 
 deeds. The writer has been unable to learn how long Dr. 
 Hunt was a prisoner. 
 
 In a letter written home soon after the battle he says : ' ' But 
 soon the alarm was given that the house was on fire. Then 
 I made up my mind to meet death, for I could see no possible 
 way to avoid it. Still I was calm. I thought of my quiet 
 home, my dear friends and the last letter I wrote before leav- 
 ing camp, in which I asked my dear mother to remember me 
 in her prayers in the coming struggle." 
 
 After the battle of Gettysburg, when he again was on the 
 field of death, he remained two or three weeks laboring in the 
 field hospital, where, following his exhausted condition from 
 the days and nights on the field, he contracted, it is thought, 
 the disease of which he soon after died, lamented by all who 
 knew him. 
 
 Samuel Powers Carbee, M. D. 
 
 Late of Haverhill, N. H. 
 
 Carbee, Samuel P. Co. D; b. Bath; age 26; res. Bath; cred. Bath; 
 enl. Aug. 22, '62; must, in Sept. 5. '62, as Priv.; app. Asst. Surg, 
 Oct. 26, '63; must, out June 21, '65. P. O. ad., Haverhill. (Rec- 
 ord, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 612.) 
 
 Assistant Surgeon Samuel Powers Carbee was born in Bath, 
 N. H., June 14, 1836, and was the youngest son of ten chil- 
 
152 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 dren of John H. and Anna (Powers) Carbee. His grand- 
 father, Joel Carbee, was of Scotch-Irish descent, and was a 
 soldier in the Revolution. His brother, William Carbee, was 
 a captain of Company H, Twenty-fourth Regiment, Iowa Vol- 
 unteers, and was killed at the battle of Champion Hills, IVIiss., 
 May 22, 1863. 
 
 Surgeon Carbee 's preliminary education was received in 
 the common schools of his native town and at the seminary in 
 Newbury, Vt. His service in the United States army com- 
 menced by enlisting August 22, 1862, in Company D, Twelfth 
 Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, and from September 25, 
 1862, until the 28th of October, 1863, he served on detached 
 service, being on duty as clerk in the commissary and medical 
 departments, acting for awhile as hospital steward, then 
 he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the same regiment 
 remained in the service until the close of the war. After re- 
 ceiving his commission as assistant surgeon he was all the 
 time with the regiment, except from May to December, 1864, 
 when he was detailed for ser\dce at Point of Rocks Hospital, 
 Virginia, and acted as chief executive officer most of that 
 time. He was present at the battles of Chancellorsville, Get- 
 tysburg, Wapping Heights, Swift Creek, Relay House, Drury 's 
 Bluff, Cold Harbor, Siege of Petersburg and capture of Rich- 
 mond. It has been said that he was the first Union surgeon 
 to enter the city at that time. 
 
 After being mustered out of the United States service, he 
 engaged in the active practice of his profession at Haverhill, 
 N. H. He was an active member of the White Mountain 
 Medical Society, the New Hampshire Medical Society and the 
 American Medical Association ; also a member of Kane Lodge, 
 No. 64, F. and A. M., Franklin Chapter, Omega Council, and 
 Mount Horeb Commandery of Concord, N. H., and of Haver- 
 hill Grange, No. 212, and has held important positions in all 
 these associations. He was one of the county commissioners 
 of Grafton county from 1885 to 1889 and surgeon-general on 
 the staff of Governor Busiel, 1895- '96. 
 
TWELFTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 153 
 
 Surgeon Carbee died at his home in Haverhill, January 
 31, 1900. 
 
 Married, September 30, 1885, to N. Delia Buck, daughter 
 of Lyman Buck of Haverhill. 
 
 No children. 
 
 John H. Sanborn, M. D., 
 
 Franklin Falls, N. H. 
 
 Sanborx, Johx H. F. and S.; b. Meredith; age 32; res. Meredith; 
 cred. Meredith; app. Asst. Surg. Sept. 11, '62; must, in to date 
 Sept. 10, '62; res. July 21, '64. P. O. ad., Franklin Falls. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 639.) 
 
 Surgeon Sanborn is the only survivor of the original three 
 surgeons appointed by the governor of New Hampshire to 
 look after the physical welfare of the Twelfth Regiment, as 
 Dr. Samuel P. Carbee received his appointment at a consid- 
 erably later period. Assistant Surgeon Sanborn is the son 
 of Dr. John and Susan (Hubbard) Sanborn, and was born 
 in Meredith, September 23, 1830. With a common school edu- 
 cation, supplemented with a few terms at Gilmanton Academy, 
 for a preliminary education, he commenced his professional 
 study with his father and his brother, Dr. J. A. Sanborn of 
 Plymouth, afterwards with Benjamin Rush Palmer, M. D., of 
 Woodstock, Vt. He attended medical lectures at the Vermont 
 Medical College in Woodstock, Vt., and at Berkshire Medical 
 College in Pittsfield, Mass., and was graduated from the 
 latter November 23, 1852. Dr. Sanborn practiced medicine 
 in Alstead from 1854 to 1856, was located at INIeredith from 
 1856 to 1874 and has been in Franklin Falls since 1874. 
 
 Patriotism seems to have been hereditary in his family, as 
 his grandfather, Jeremiah Sanborn, and his great-grandfather, 
 John Sanborn, were both in the Revolutionary War, the lat- 
 ter being an officer. Dr. Sanborn was appointed assistant 
 surgeon in the Twelfth New Hampshire Volunteers from the 
 town of Meredith, September 11, 1862, and resigned July 
 21, 1864, returning to Meredith and resuming the practice of 
 medicine. 
 
164 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 He was present at the battles of Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, 
 Drury's Bluff, Siege of Petersburg and Cold Harbor, but 
 was on detached service from January 1 to July 14, 1863, at 
 brigade hospital at Falmouth, Va. 
 
 He is a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, 
 the Centre District Medical Society, of which he has been an 
 honored president. He is a member of various Masonic bodies 
 and has been on the board of education of the city of Franklin. 
 
 Married, Elizabeth H., daughter of Rev. Giles Leach, May 
 16, 1854. 
 
 Children : Giles Leach, born March 26, 1855 ; Harriet Leach, 
 born June 21, 1856; Susan Lillian, born October 13, 1861; 
 Elizabeth Thompson, born October 11, 1872, all of whom are 
 dead except Harriet L., who married Edgar A. Jones and 
 with whom Dr. Sanborn now resides, his wife having died 
 February 18, 1895. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 THIRTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER 
 INFANTRY. 
 
 By S. MiLLETT Thompson, 
 
 Second Lieutenant, Thirteenth Regiment New Hampshire 
 Volunteers, and Historian of the Regiment. 
 
 "This regiment volunteered under the call of July 1, 1862, 
 for 300,000 men. Gathered personally by their officers-to-be, 
 two companies were formed in Rockingham, Hillsborough and 
 Strafford counties, and one each in Grafton, Merrimack, Car- 
 roll and Coos — all coming into Camp Colby, near Concord, 
 between September 11 and 15. The muster-in of the rank and 
 file was completed on the twentieth of September and of the 
 field and staff, with the exception of Assistant Surgeon John 
 Sullivan, on the twenty-third of September. The colors were 
 received on the afternoon of the fifth of October and at the 
 same time a military outfit, including Springfield rifles, muzzle- 
 loading, caliber 58. 
 
 "Space does not admit fairly of extended mention of in- 
 dividuals. This was at first almost wholly a regiment of native 
 Americans and of New Hampshire's representative young men, 
 many of them lineal descendants of the patriots of 1776 who 
 fought in the Revolution. The average age was a little under 
 twenty-five years, average height five feet and eight inches 
 and the most were of the dark blonde type. Its companies 
 were fellow townsmen and its members were in almost every 
 trade and calling — many of whom, too, since the war closed, 
 have gained prominent positions, commercial, professional, and 
 
156 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 in the legislatures of state and nation. The detachments, at 
 the front, of its officers and men, upon special and staff duties, 
 because of their intelligence and efficiency, were very numer- 
 ous, exceeding that of any regiment near and associated with 
 
 it in the service. 
 
 ****** 
 
 ''Soon after daylight on the morning of April 3, 1865, the 
 Thirteenth left the outer Union line, at the New Market Road 
 crossing, and, leading its brigade, marched with all possible 
 speed for and into Richmond, arriving to find that city del- 
 uged in turmoil, riot, ruin and raging fire. The movements 
 of the previous night and the definite official assignments of 
 this morning's hot haste, chase and advance all resulted in 
 these several honors and duties of the Thirteenth Regiment. 
 Capt. William J. Ladd, on the staff of General Devens, com- 
 manding the Third Division, was the first Union officer; the 
 First Brigade pickets, about one hundred men, now advanc- 
 ing as skirmishers under command of Lieut. Royal B. Pres- 
 cott, were the first Union troops; the Thirteenth, commanded 
 by Maj. Nathan D. Stoodley, was the first Union regiment; and 
 the flags of the Thirteenth — its new United States flag, received 
 last December, and its New Hampshire state flag — were the 
 first flags of the Union army to enter Richmond on this event- 
 ful and long-awaited morning. And more: During the ad- 
 vance this morning, by order of General Devens, Capt. Rufus 
 P. Staniels, then an aide on his staff', halted all the colored 
 troops at some distance outside of the city, giving entire prece- 
 dence to the white troops ; and Lieut.-Col. Norman Smith was 
 appointed the first general officer of the day in Richmond, 
 and soon afterwards provost marshal. Extract: 'Richmond, 
 Va., June 22, 1865. The Thirteenth New Hampshire being 
 the first regiment of the army whose colors were brought into 
 the city of Richmond. (Signed) Charles Devens, Brig, and 
 Brev. Maj.-Geu., U. S. V., Comdg.' After returning to civil 
 life. General Devens frequently corroborated the above and 
 asserted that no colored troops entered the city at all that 
 morning until after the city had been occupied by white troops 
 for several hours. 
 
THIRTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 157 
 
 "Immediately after the occupation of the city, the Thir- 
 teenth and other troops of its brigade were engaged in re- 
 storing order, putting out tires, guarding property, and gath- 
 ering into Libby prison above two thousand of the straggling 
 and belated soldiers of Gen. R. E. Lee's army. Remaining on 
 duty in Richmond until the night of the thirteenth of April, 
 the Thirteenth then removed to a camp two miles to the north. 
 Engaged in provost, picket and guard duties in the city and 
 out until the close of its service, it had the honor, with its 
 division, in May to receive and welcome the homing columns of 
 Gen. William T. Sherman's and other armies of the Union, 
 some 200,000 men, as they passed through Richmond. 
 
 "The Thirteenth, leaving the Broad Rock Road camp, sailed 
 down the James river from Richmond at 8 a. m., the twenty- 
 second of June, in a provisional brigade, formed of the Tenth, 
 Twelfth and Thirteenth New Hampshire Regiments; arrived 
 in Bo-ston, Mass., at 9 p. m. of the twenty-fifth of June; was 
 quartered in Faneuil Hall ; left by rail at 9 a. m., the twenty- 
 sixth of June ; arrived at Nashua at noon, having a reception 
 and passing the night there; was given a public dinner at 
 Manchester on the twenty-seventh; and reached Concord be- 
 tween 6 and 7 p. m. on that day ; had a parade and review in 
 the streets. The Thirteenth disbanded about 5 p. m., the first 
 of July, having on its rolls then but 321 officers and men out 
 of the 1,285 who had stood in its battle line. 
 
 ' ' The Thirteenth served in the Defenses of Washington, and 
 in Ninth, Seventh, Eighteenth and Twenty-fourth Army 
 Corps. The actual number of its engagements was above 
 twenty, not to mention days and days of skirmishing, picket- 
 firing and intrenching. No one of its officers deserted, was 
 reprimanded, cashiered or dismissed the service, and it main- 
 tained by its acts that character for efficiency, patriotism, in- 
 telligence, bravery and trustworthiness, which made it surely 
 one of the American nation's most prominent historic regi- 
 ments. 
 
 ASSIGNMENTS. 
 
 "The Thirteenth New Hampshire Volunteers was attached 
 to First Brigade, Casey's Division, Defenses of Washington, 
 
158 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 October 9 to December 1, 1862 ; First Brigade, Third Division, 
 Ninth Army Corps, December 9, 1862 ; Third Brigade, Third 
 Division, Ninth Army Corps, January 5, 1863 ; Third Brigade, 
 Getty's Division, Department of Virginia, March 13, 1863; 
 Third Brigade, Getty's Division, Department of Virginia and 
 North Carolina, July 18, 1863. Continuing in same brigade 
 and division (Getty's), was on duty with the Seventh Army 
 Corps in Department of Virginia from March 13 to June 18, 
 1863, and was attached to Third Brigade, Second Division 
 (Getty's), Seventh Army Corps, in Department of Virginia, 
 and Department of Virginia and North Carolina, June 18 to 
 August 1, 1863; Third Brigade, First (Hechman's) Division, 
 Eighteenth Army Corps, Department of Virginia and North 
 Carolina, January 14, 1864; Second Brigade, First Division, 
 Eighteenth Army Corps, April 22, 1864 ; First Brigade, First 
 Division, Eighteenth Army Corps, July 25, 1864; First Bri- 
 gade, Third Division, Twenty-fourth Army Corps, December 
 4, 1864." 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 Fredericksburg, Va., December 11-16, 1862. 
 Getty's Night Assault, December 13, 1862. 
 Siege of Suffolk, Va., April 10 to May 4, 1863. 
 Providence Church Road, Va., May 3, 1863. 
 Port Walthall, Va., May 6, 7, 1864. 
 Swift Creek, Va., May 9, 10, 1864. 
 Proctor's and Kingsland Creeks, Va., May 12, 13, 1864. 
 Drewry's Bluff, Va., May 14-16, 1864. 
 
 Bermuda Hundred (Front), Va., May 16-27, 1864; August 
 27 to September 28, 1864. 
 
 Cold Harbor, Va., June 1-12, 1864. 
 
 Battery Five, Petersburg, Va., June 15, 1864. 
 
 Siege of Petersburg, Va., June 15 to August 27, 1864. 
 
 Mine Explosion, Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864. 
 
 Fort Harrison, Va., capture of, September 29, 1864. 
 
 Fort Harrison, Va., defense of, September 30, 1864. 
 
 Fair Oaks, Va., October 27, 1864. 
 
THIRTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 159 
 
 Richmond, Va., occupation of, April 3, 1865. 
 The Thirteenth New Hampshire Volunteers furnished the 
 first troops and its colors were the first to enter the city. 
 
 SURGEONS. 
 
 George B. Twitchell. M. D., Samuel A. Richardson, M. D. 
 
 ASSISTANT SURGEONS. 
 
 Samuel A. Richardson, M. D., Jeremiah W. White, M. D. 
 EzEKiEL Morrill, M. D. (not mustered), 
 
 (see 1st N. H. H. A.), Horatio N. Small, M. D. 
 Levi P. Sawyer, M. D. (see 10th N. H. V.), 
 
 (not mustered), Rockwood G. Mather, M. D. 
 John C. Emory, M. D., (not mustered). 
 
 John SuLiiivAN, Jr., 
 
 THIRTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 George B. Twitchell, M. D. 
 Late of Keene, N. H. 
 
 (13 N. H. V.) 
 
 Twitchell, Geobge B. F. and S.; b. Petersburg, Va.; age 41; res. 
 Keene; cred. Keene; app. Surg. Sept. 15, '62; must, in Sept. 16, 
 '62; res. Mar. 21, '63. P. O. ad., Keene, N. H. See Miscel. Organ- 
 izations. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 687.) 
 
 (Miscel. Organizations.) 
 
 Twitchell, George B. U. S. V.; b. Petersburg, Va.; res. Keene; 
 app. Maj. and Surg. Jan. 7, '63; disch. Oct. 15, '63. P. O. ad., 
 Keene, N. H. See 13 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895. 
 p. 1082.) 
 
 Surgeon Twitchell was born in Petersburg, Va., September 
 25, 1820, and was the son of Timothy and Susan (Watson) 
 Twitchell, a grandson of Samuel Twitchell. Surgeon 
 Twitchell's parents moved to Pensacola, Fla., while he was 
 still very young. As Florida then offered no educational ad- 
 
160 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 vantages, at the age of ten he and his sister Mary, a little 
 older, were sent north to their relatives in Keene. Coming as 
 far as Hartford, Conn., in the care of the master of a sailing 
 vessel, they accomplished the remainder of the journey by 
 stage, entirely alone. Dr. Twitchell remained at school at 
 Keene for four years, and after returning to Florida for a 
 short visit came back to Keene to live with his uncle, Dr. Amos 
 Twitchell, and entered upon the study of his profession. His 
 course in medicine and surgery was completed at the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in 1843. He 
 thus received his training at one of the best medical schools 
 in the country, as well as under the direction of his uncle, who 
 was one of the most eminent physicians and surgeons of that 
 period in New Hampshire. 
 
 "In April, 1843, Dr. Twitchell began the practice of his 
 profession in Keene. The position which he w^as to fill was not 
 an easy one. If it had been it would not have pleased him 
 half so well. Possessed with a vigorous phj'^sique, plenty of 
 courage and a clear perception of the path along which his 
 duty lay, he was ready upon the death of his uncle in 1849 to 
 fill the broad mantle which fell upon his shoulders. Already 
 the people of Cheshire county had discovered in the young 
 doctor that resolute and unflinching character, kindness of 
 heart and wide professional knowledge and skill which after- 
 wards characterized his career. Every emergency found him 
 ready and equal to the call which came, and a few years suf- 
 ficed to spread his reputation over that extended territory 
 where he has since been so well known. 
 
 "Dr. Twitchell 's services in the War of the Rebellion were 
 marked by the same success which characterized his profes- 
 sional work at home. Appointed in September, 1862, as surgeon 
 of the Thirteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, he was soon 
 promoted upon the field to brigade surgeon, and in March, 
 1863, was commissioned by President Lincoln a surgeon of the 
 United States Volunteers with the rank of major. He was 
 assigned to the position of surgeon-in-chief of the Sixth and 
 Seventh Divisions of the Seventeenth Army Corps, Depart- 
 
THIRTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 161 
 
 ment of Tennessee, afterwards joining Grant's army before 
 Vicksburg, where the troops endured hardships which were 
 greatly augmented by the fever and malaria which overcame 
 the men from the North. Port Gibson, Jackson, Champion 
 Hills and Vicksburg were among the fields of strife where his 
 strength and resources were taxed to the utmost and where 
 he was able to earn an enviable reputation as the chief sur- 
 geon of a large command. Never sparing himself, he finally 
 broke down under the strain and in October, 1863, was forced 
 to resign on account of continued illness. He reached home 
 so shattered in health that his friends despaired of his re- 
 covery. 
 
 "Dr. Twitchell, when a comparatively young man, achieved 
 an enviable reputation among the foremost New England men 
 in his profession, both as a physician and surgeon, and owing 
 to the unusual vigor of mind and body which he has always 
 retained, he remained a very able and skilful practitioner. 
 He was noted especially for his accuracy in diagnosis and for 
 his fertility of resource in emergencies. His habit of reading 
 and constant study kept him always in touch with the ad- 
 vanced ideas and practice of the profession. Beginning his 
 medical work in the forties as a country physician, called upon 
 to treat almost every form of human ailment or disease, he 
 came to have a very wide experience and knowledge, both in 
 medicine and surgery, and the ability and skill which he pos- 
 sessed, if applied in the field of a specialist, in accordance with 
 the custom which prevails to-day, would have been likely to 
 have made him much more famous. 
 
 "As a citizen, Dr. Twitchell has always been a leader on the 
 side of progress and development. He believed in the ad- 
 vancement of the race in intelligence and mental power and in 
 such surroundings as would tend to aid the development. 
 He was for years a leader in every public, charitable or hu- 
 mane work in Keene, and, although never a seeker for office, 
 he was often called to positions of trust and responsibility, a 
 resume of which would cover the growth of the city of Keene 
 
162 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 for forty years. He was aatively identified with the introduc- 
 tion of a public water supply in town, and it is admitted that 
 Keene would probably never have enjoyed its modern sewerage 
 system but for the courage of Alderman Twitchell. He was 
 one of the founders of Keene public library, and the school 
 system has always felt his vigorous hand guiding it forward ; 
 and manufacturing, railway, charitable, temperance and hu- 
 manitarian movements have always felt his aid. 
 
 "It has been said, and without disparagement to John 
 Elliott, the founder of Elliott City Hospital, that Dr. Twitch- 
 ell's influence was a most potent one in leading to the estab- 
 lishment of that institution, and his invaluable services in its 
 development are recognized by all. He was for a long time 
 president of the board of trustees of the New Hampshire 
 Asylum for the Insane, and was a member of many medical, 
 philanthropic and other associations and societies. 
 
 "Dr. Twitchell was a member of local, state and national 
 medical societies and was always an active worker. To receive 
 an appointment to perform a duty in any medical organiza- 
 tion was always regarded by him as an honor, and his friends 
 well knew he would respond and never say 'not prepared.' 
 He was president of the New Hampshire Medical Society in 
 1857. 
 
 "Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1895, as a mark of un- 
 usual esteem, Dr. Twitchell was presented with a silver loving- 
 cup and salver of handsome design, the gift of nearly three 
 hundred donors, including brother physicians and citizens in 
 every walk of life. This inscription, engraved upon the cup, 
 outlines the sentiment which the gift expressed : 
 
 ' ' ' Presented to Dr. George B. Twitchell in loving apprecia- 
 tion of the good physician, the patriotic citizen and devoted 
 friend, as a token of affectionate admiration of many friends. 
 1895.' 
 
 "Deceased leaves two sons. Dr. George P. Twitchell of 
 Greenfield, Mass., and Dr. Edward T. Twitchell of Ashmont, 
 
THIRTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIBE VOLUNTEERS. 163 
 
 Mass., and two daughters, Elizabeth W. and Margaret W., of 
 Keene. His sister, Miss Mary, who has always lived with 
 him, also survives. 
 
 ' ' The cause of his death was apoplexy. The symptoms of his 
 trouble began on Monday, the twenty-second, but the doctor 
 worked through the week, being extremely busy. He was 
 dressed to go out and make his calls Sunday morning, but 
 found it a physical impossibility to walk about. Symptoms 
 of brain pressure or irritation became more marked from about 
 12 o'clock Monday and he remained unconscious after that 
 time." (From New Hampshire Sentinel, Keene, March 31, 
 1897.) 
 
 Dr. Twitchell died March 30, 1897. 
 
 Married, April 11, 1849, Susan E. Thayer of Boston, Mass., 
 who died October 7, 1893. 
 
 Samuel A. Richardson, M. D. 
 Late of Marlborough, N. H. 
 
 RicHARDSox, Samuel A. F. and S. ; b. Dublin; age 31; res. Marl- 
 borough; cred. Marlborough; app. Asst. Surg. Sept. 16, '62; must. 
 in Oct. 4, '62; app. Surg. Apr. 1, '63; must, out June 21, '65. Died 
 June 19, 1884, Marlborough. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 
 681.) 
 
 Samuel A. Richardson was the only son and the youngest 
 of the four children of Abijah and Mary (Hay) Richardson of 
 Dublin, N. H., where he was born December 23, 1830. His 
 grandfather was Abijah, who came to Dublin from Woburn, 
 Mass., in 1794, and was a representative of the sturdy manhood 
 of those days in possessing honesty, piety, industry and thrift. 
 
 Dr. Richardson's early life was spent upon his father's 
 farm and he assisted in such labors as were usual at that 
 period. His early education and training were obtained in 
 the common schools, mostly in school district No. 2 in his 
 native town, which was later supplemented by such higher 
 advantages as could be obtained at the "Hancock Literary 
 
164 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 and Scientific Institute," which was quite a flourishing insti- 
 tution at that time, and at the "Normal Institute" at Reed's 
 Ferry. 
 
 He early conceived the idea of a medical education and in 
 the intervals of farm work bent his mind and studies in this 
 direction, and in doing so was obliged to rely almost entirely 
 upon his own resources and earnings. He first attended a 
 course of medical lectures at Philadelphia in 1852, and in 
 the spring of the following year became a student in the office 
 of Albert Smith, M. D., LL. D., of Peterborough, N. H., at 
 that time one of the best medical teachers in the state. He 
 attended courses of medical lectures at the Woodstock (Vt.) 
 Medical College in 1854, and at the Albany (N. Y.) Medical 
 College in 1855 and 1856, where he received his degree of Doc- 
 tor of Medicine. He also spent some time as resident phy- 
 sician in the Albany county almshouse hospital. 
 
 He located in Marlborough soon after receiving his degree, 
 taking the place of Dr. James Batcheller, and soon gained 
 the esteem and confidence of the people and soon had an ex- 
 tensive and successful practice. His skill and good judg- 
 ment were recognized and he was called to practice more or 
 less in all the adjoining towns, and once remarked that he 
 had visited patients in seven different towns in one day. 
 
 In addition to the arduous duties of his profession, he was 
 identified to a considerable degree with the manufacturing 
 interests of Marlborough. He never held any public office, 
 although he was urged to allow his name to be used as a can- 
 didate for representative. 
 
 Soon after the breaking out of the civil war. Dr. Richardson 
 offered his services to his country, and in September, 1862, was 
 appointed assistant surgeon of the Thirteenth Regiment New 
 Hampshire Volunteers, of which George B. Twitchell, M. D., 
 of Keene, was surgeon, and Aaron F. Stevens, of Nashua, 
 colonel. In recording his military history the following ex- 
 tract from the army report of Colonel Stevens to the governor 
 of New Hampshire after the battle of Fredericksburg, dated 
 December 13, 1862, will serve to show how soon his sterling 
 
THIRTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 165 
 
 qualities were appreciated by his superior officer : ' ' With par- 
 ticular pride and pleasure I call your attention to the services 
 of Assistant Surgeon Richardson, who in those dreadful days 
 proved himself an honor to his profession and an invaluable 
 aid to the army in its hour of suffering. While I look with 
 shame and horror on the account of men, who, calling them- 
 selves surgeons, attached to other regiments, I am proud to 
 say that, from personal observation, I know that for two days 
 and nights after the battle, and at times when the shells of the 
 enemy were falling around him, Dr. Richardson pursued his 
 arduous duties in the hospital and out of it with a fidelity 
 and ability that has endeared him to me personally, and gained 
 him an enviable distinction among his professional brethren 
 in the army. At this time Dr. Twitchell was unavoidably 
 detained in Washington and did not arrive until several days 
 later." 
 
 In April, 1863, Dr. Richardson was promoted surgeon of the 
 Thirteenth Regiment in place of Dr. Twitchell, who had re- 
 signed. June 23, 1863, he was detailed as operating surgeon 
 to assist Colonel Rivers, Fourth Rhode Island Volunteers. 
 April 25, 1864, he was appointed acting medical director of 
 the Second Brigade, First Division, Eighteenth Army Corps. 
 December 6, 1864, he was assigned to duty with the Flying 
 Hospital, Twenty-fourth Army Corps, as chief operating sur- 
 geon, and June 8, 1865, was appointed surgeon in charge of 
 the same. 
 
 The Marlborough historian says of him: "It is impossible 
 to make any estimate of the extent or magnitude of Dr. Rich- 
 ardson's labors during this fearful period. That must ever 
 be unwritten history ; but from the lips of surviving soldiers, 
 old comrades, and the sick and wounded, who came under his 
 care, there is but one expression and that of gratitude and 
 heartfelt thanks for his unselfish devotion to duty, his tender 
 and skilful ministrations to those in his charge, and, more 
 than all, his never-varying good cheer and light heart in the 
 darkest days, which infused new life and hope into the breasts 
 of many a poor sufferer, and rekindled the spark of life al- 
 most extinguished." 
 
166 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Under date of September 8, 1878, Gen. Aaron F. Stevens 
 of Nashua said of him: "I desire to reaffirm now whatever 
 you may find in my army reports favorable to Dr. Richard- 
 son, or in appreciation of his talents, industry and profes- 
 sional accomplishments, his kindness of heart and ever prompt 
 discharge of his duties in camp, field or hospital. He was a 
 man of superior talent and extraordinary resources, admi- 
 rably adapted to public professional service, as well by his 
 force of character and power of org-anization, as from his 
 professional knowledge and accomplishments. Dr. Richardson 
 was separated from my immediate command, early in his term 
 of service, by well deserved promotion, but not until I had 
 learned to appreciate and love him, and to witness personally 
 his strength and fitness in his line of duty. 
 
 ' * We all deplore his misfortunes ; and I pray you, my dear 
 sir, to see to it that in Marlborough's history ample justice 
 is meted out to my friend and the friend of the soldier. ' ' 
 
 After the close of the war Dr. Richardson returned to his 
 home in Marlborough and resumed the active and arduous 
 work of his profession, which he pursued unremittingly for 
 several years; but the exposure, privations and hardships of 
 army life gave him chronic malarial poisoning as a sequel, 
 and thiS; with the hard work, riding over those rough hills day 
 and night, gradually made inroads upon his health which his 
 naturally rugged constitution could not longer withstand, and 
 the death of his only child, a beautiful young lady, in 1872, 
 was a blow from which his system could not rally and he was 
 obliged to relinquish the active duties of his profession for 
 the remainder of his life, which closed June 19, 1884. 
 
 In speaking of Dr. Richardson as a physician, we cannot 
 do better than to give the following extract from the history 
 of Marlborough : 
 
 "Dr. Richardson inclined toward surgery before the war; 
 and his military life, with its splendid opportunities and prac- 
 tice, brought him, on his return, into the front ranks of New 
 Hampshire surgeons. He was ever firm, self-reliant, withf 
 nerves of steel, all subservient to excellent judgment and dis- 
 
THIRTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 167 
 
 cretion. In the treatment of general diseases he always has 
 had distinguished success, never a great medicine giver but 
 relying much upon the benign influence of nature in the erad- 
 ication and cure of disease. Many times it is the doctor's 
 manner that helps the patient quite as much as the drugs he 
 carries in his medicine ease. Dr. Richardson always gained 
 the confidence of his patients in the outset, then their esteem 
 and regard. They believed in him thoroughly and completely, 
 and got well oftentimes because he assured them they could 
 not die. Dr. Richardson was always jovial, always had a 
 good story to tell and some amusing anecdote to call the sick 
 man's attention from his own ailments, to get him away from 
 and out of himself, so to speak. There was something posi- 
 tively infectious in his hearty laugh and his words of good 
 cheer. Said one, 'I don't know why it is but I always feel 
 better after Dr. Richardson has been here, even though he 
 gives me not a drop of medicine. ' It is true that there is an 
 untold amount of potency in 'the hearty laugh that doeth 
 good like a medicine. ' In those grave and desperate cases, where 
 life and death are equally balanced in the scale, each strug- 
 gling for the mastery, here, too. Dr. Richardson was equally 
 at home — watchful, vigilant, ready to meet any emergency, 
 and combat dangerous symptoms at every turn with all the 
 best chosen weapons of his art. 
 
 " It is something worth living for to have your name deeply 
 graven upon the hearts of those whose sufferings you have 
 alleviated, whose lives you have helped to save, and, more than 
 all, to feel that at all times and in all places, whether at home 
 or upon the battlefield, you have ever done your duty, so 
 lived, been so disinterested, so forgetful of self, so humane, 
 tender, generous and noble that 'the nobleness that lives in 
 other men, sleeping but never dead, will rise in majesty to 
 meet thine own.' " 
 
 Dr. Richardson was a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society and of the Connecticut River Valley Medical Associa- 
 tion. He was also in affiliation with the Masonic order, being 
 
168 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 a member of Social Friends Lodge, F. and A. M., Cheshire 
 Chapter, R. A. M., and Hugh de Payens Commandery, Knights 
 Templar, of Keene. 
 
 Dr. Richardson married, December 18, 1856, Mary J., 
 daughter of Dr. Charles W. and Mary (Griffin) Whitney of 
 Troy, and had one child, Mary Belle, born April 12, 1861, 
 and died December 16, 1872. 
 
 EzEKiEL Morrill, M. D. 
 See First New Hampshire Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Levi P. Sawyer, M. D. 
 
 Sawyer, Levi P. F. and S.; b. Stockbridge, Vt.; age 44; res. Nashua; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Jan. 2, '65; not must.; declined appointment Jan. 
 10, '65. Died Apr. 28, '68, Nashua. ' (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895. p. 683.) 
 
 John C. Emery, M. D. 
 Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 Emory, John C. F. and S.; b. Monroe; age 31; res. New Hampton; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Mar. 1, '65; must, in Apr. 6, '65; must, out June 
 21, '65. P. O. ad., Brooklyn, N. Y. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 667.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in West Lyman, now 
 Monroe, N. H., November 9, 1833, and was the son of Chellis 
 and Martha (Cross) Emery, and a grandson of Samuel Emery, 
 He received his preliminary education in the common schools 
 of Vermont, at Craftsbury (Vt.) and New Hampton (N. H.) 
 Academies. He commenced his professional education at 
 Craftsbury, Vt., under the direction of Dr. R. W. Hill, taking 
 three years' private instruction, and matriculated at the Mad- 
 ison University in 1865. He commenced the practice of medi- 
 cine in Cambridge, Vt., in 1857, was afterwards in Lawrence, 
 Mass., and Waterville, Vt., until September, 1863. He entered 
 the New Hampton Literary and Theological Institute January 
 4, 1863. In 1864 he entered the Union army as volunteer 
 surgeon, being appointed acting assistant surgeon, and in 
 
THIRTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 169 
 
 April, 1865, was appointed first assistant surgeon of the Thir- 
 teenth New Hampshire Volunteers; was mustered in April 
 6, 1865, in Richmond, Va., and was mustered out of the ser- 
 vice in Concord, N. H., June 30, 1865. 
 
 From the Emery Genealogy I find that he began to preach 
 as a licentiate at Hdye Park, Mass., in September, 1866. He 
 has been settled as a minister in Haverhill, Athol and Lowell, 
 Mass., Amsterdam, N. Y., and Hartford, Conn., and is now 
 located in Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 Married, Mary E. Massure, March 18, 1858. She died in 
 Lowell, Mass., July 8, 1888. 
 
 One child, Minnie Frances, born August 6, 1866, in Hyde 
 Park, Mass. 
 
 Jeremiah W. White, M. D. 
 
 White, Jeremiah W. F. and S.; b. Pittsfield; age 40; res. Nashua; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Sept. 3, '62; not must.; declined appointment 
 Sept. 3, '62. P. O. ad., Nashua. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 688.) 
 
 John Sullivan, M. D. 
 56 Magnolia St., Dorchester District, Boston, Mass. 
 
 (2 N. H.) 
 
 Sullivan, John, Jb. Co. E; b. Exeter; age 21; res. Exeter; enL 
 May 27, '61; must, in June 3, '61, as Priv.; disch. Oct. 7, '61, 
 Washington, D. C. P. O. ad., Boston, Mass. See 13 N. H. V. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 88.) 
 
 (13 N. H. V.) 
 
 StJLLivAN, John, Jr. F. and S.; b. Exeter; age 22; res. Exeter; app. 
 Asst. Surg. Sept. 16. '62; must, in Oct. 9, '62; disch. disab. Aug. 
 16, '64. P. O. ad., Dorchester, Mass. See 2 N. H. V. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 686.) 
 
 Surgeon Sullivan was born September 14, 1840, at Exeter, 
 N. H., and was the .son of John and Olivia (Rowe) Sullivan, 
 and grandson of George Sullivan, who was a son of Maj.-Gen. 
 John Sullivan of New Hampshire. He received his early 
 education in the common schools of Exeter and Phillips Exeter 
 
170 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Academy. Commenced the study of medicine in 1859 under 
 the direction of Drs. William and William G. Perry of Exeter, 
 N. II. Attended one course of medical lectures at Dartmouth 
 Medical College, "then dropped my studies and en- 
 listed as private in Company E, Second Regiment New Hamp- 
 shire Volunteers. Examined in the Surgeon General's office, 
 Washington, and in September, 1861, appointed medical cadet, 
 United States army, and ordered to the Department of the 
 West. Served thirteen months in Missouri and Kentucky, 
 when, in October, 1862, a commission as assistant surgeon was 
 sent to me with orders to report to the Thirteenth Regiment 
 New Hampshire Volunteers. I served two years with this 
 regiment, nearly half of the time as acting surgeon, when I re- 
 signed, too feeble to stand more field service. In two weeks 
 after I reached home, an appointment of acting assistant sur- 
 geon. United States army. Department of the East, was sent 
 to me with orders to report for duty at United States army 
 general hospital, Troy, N. Y., where I served as executive offi- 
 cer until the close of the war, ' ' being in the service over four 
 years. 
 
 "Am a Free and Accepted Mason, member of the Grand 
 Army, of the Loyal Legion and the Society of Cincinnati. 
 Am a lieutenant in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- 
 pany of Massachusetts; paymaster of First Battalion Cav- 
 alry, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, also paymaster of the 
 First Battalion Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; 
 have been a member of the finance committee of the Ancient 
 and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, and am 
 now ser\dng a second term of five years." He was in the 
 drug business in Boston for twenty years and retired from the 
 same in 1888. 
 
 Married, December, 1863, to Mary E. Wilkins of Suncook, 
 N. H. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FOURTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER 
 INFANTRY. 
 
 By Francis H. Buffum, 
 
 Sergeant, Company F, Fourteenth Eegiment New Hampshire 
 Volunteers, and Historian of the Regiment. 
 
 * ' The Fourteenth was the last long term regiment furnished 
 by New Hampshire. It was recruited mostly from the central 
 and southwestern sections, Cheshire county raising five com- 
 panies. ' ' 
 
 ****** 
 
 "The men were enlisted mostly in the month of August, 
 many of them expecting to enter earlier regiments. They ren- 
 dezvoused in 'Camp Cheshire,' Concord, September 19. The 
 muster into United States service was completed September 24, 
 but the government recognition dates from October 16. On 
 entering the service the colonel was 51 years old; the lieu- 
 tenant-colonel, 55; the major, 26; surgeon, 40; chaplain, 48; 
 adjutant, 30. The oldest captain was 41, the youngest, 20, and 
 the average age, 27. The youngest member of the regiment 
 was 15; and the eldest, 63, both in Company F." 
 
 ****** 
 
 "This regiment was peculiarly fortunate in its recruits, 
 many of them proving equal to the best of the original ma- 
 terial. 
 
 "While in Augusta the Fourteenth had in custody, for one 
 day, Jeff Davis, just captured by Wilson's Cavalry. 
 
172 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 "The colors of the Fourteenth were waved over Sumter by 
 the writer of this sketch when Anderson raised again the flag 
 he hauled down four years before. 
 
 ' ' The regiment made four sea voyages, traveled fifteen thou- 
 sand miles, and served in seven states of tke Confederacy. ' ' 
 
 In the preface to the History of the Fourteenth Regiment, 
 the author says : ' ' And still it is the first organization of Union 
 Volunteers from the Granite State to issue a work of this kind. 
 In waiting thus long, it is probable that a more satisfactory 
 volume has been produced than would have resulted from an 
 earlier attempt at publication. The committee, upon which the 
 veterans of the Fourteenth devolved the duty now discharged, 
 has striven to present a work free from the crudities and nar- 
 row range of value which attached to so many of the publica- 
 tions immediately following the close of the war. ' ' 
 
 ASSIGNMENTS. 
 
 "Attached to Grover's Independent Brigade, Corps of Ob- 
 servation on the Upper Potomac, Defenses of Washington, 
 October 21, 1862; Twenty-second Army Corps, Military Dis- 
 trict of Washington, April 22, 1863; Third Brigade, Third 
 Division, Sixth Army Corps, February 9, 1864; at Washing- 
 ton, D. C, February 25 to March 1, 1864; en route to New Or- 
 leans, La., March 1 to April 12, 1864; at Camp Parapet, Dis- 
 trict of Carrollton, Department of the Gulf, April 13 to June 
 7, 1864; attached to Second Brigade, Second Division, Nine- 
 teenth Army Corps, June 7, 1864; First Brigade, Second Di- 
 vision, Nineteenth Army Corps, June 26, 1864; in District of 
 Savannah, Department of the South, January 17 to July 8, 
 1865." 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 Deep Bottom, Va. (Right Wing, Companies A, B, C, D, H, 
 I), July 27, 28, 1864. 
 
 Winchester, Va. (Left Wing, Companies E, F, G, K), 
 August 17, 1864. 
 
 Halltown, Va., August 26, 1864. 
 
FOURTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 173 
 
 Berryville, Va., September 3, 1864. 
 
 Lock's Ford, Va., September 13, 1864. 
 
 Opequan (or Winchester), Va., September 19, 1864. 
 
 Fisher's Hill, Va., September 22, 1864. 
 
 Tom's Brook, Va., October 9, 1864. 
 
 Reconnoissance to Strasburg, Va., October 13, 1864. 
 
 Cedar Creek, Va., October 19, 1864. 
 
 SURGEON. 
 
 William H. Thayer, M. D. 
 
 assistant surgeons. 
 
 Marshall Perkins, M. D., Franklin C. Weeks, M. D., 
 Aaron R. Gleason, M. D. (not mustered, 
 
 see Contract Surgeons). 
 
 FOURTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 William Henry Thayer, M. D. 
 
 TnAYER, WiixiAM H. F. and S.; b. Milton, Mass.; age 40; res. 
 Keene; cred. Keene; app. Surg. Sept. 19, '62; must, in Sept. 19, '62; 
 dismissed to date Jan. 8, '64; reinstated Feb. 18, '64; must, out 
 July 8, '65. P. O. ad., Brooklyn, N. Y. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 727.) 
 
 The following obituary notice is taken from the Boston Med- 
 ical and Surgical Journal, dated January 27, 1898 : 
 
 "Dr. William Henry Thayer, whose death at Lanesboro, 
 Mass., on December 22, 1897, was noted in the Journal, was 
 born in Milton, Mass., June 18, 1822. He was educated at 
 Chauncey Hall School, of which his father, Gideon Thayer, 
 was the founder and for a long time the head master. (He was 
 a grandson of Lipheon Thayer, who was born in 1769.) He 
 graduated at Harvard College in 1841 and studied medicine 
 under the preceptorship of Dr. Henry I. Bowditch, and later 
 at the Harvard Medical School, from which he was graduated 
 in 1844. 
 
174 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 "He practiced his profession for five years in Boston, and 
 thence moved to Newton. During his practice in Boston, from 
 1844 to 1849, he was physician to the Boston Dispensary, was 
 connected with the Massachusetts General Hospital, and also 
 with the Boylston Medical School. He was professor of Theory 
 and Practice of Medicine in the Vermont Medical College 
 from 1854 to 1855, and in the Berkshire Medical Institute 
 from 1859 to 1863. 
 
 "He later moved to Keene, N. H., where he remained until 
 1862, when he became surgeon in the Union Army, where he 
 remained until the close of the war, when he was mustered out, 
 having attained the rank of medical director. In 1866, he 
 settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he acquired a large practice 
 and had an enviable reputation. 
 
 ' ' He was a member of numerous medical societies, including 
 the Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut 
 Valley societies, and the New York State Medical Association, 
 and was at various times orator, librarian and president of the 
 Medical Society of the county of Kings. He was one of the 
 organizers of the Brooklyn Pathological Society. 
 
 "Dr. Thayer was married in 1845 to Ellen Henderson of 
 Boston, and had four children, three of whom survive him, 
 one of them, Abbott Thayer, having gained distinction as an 
 artist. 
 
 "In 1892 he was obliged to give up the practice of his pro- 
 fession on account of deafness, and removed to Lanesboro, 
 where two of his daughters had their home. There he spent 
 the last days of his life in the enjoyment of an outdoor life 
 and of the company of his children and grandchildren." 
 
 His biographer, Arthur Mathewson, M. D., in the Brooklyn 
 Medical Jmirnal (September, 1898), says of him: 
 
 "He early joined the Medical Society of Kings County in 
 1866, filling various offices therein from 1867 to 1878, and 
 holding its presidency in 1872-73. In 1869 or 1870, he, with 
 his long-time friend and associate in teaching, Dr. R. C. Stiles, 
 and nine others, laid the foundation of that useful and im- 
 portant scientific organization, the Brooklyn Pathological So- 
 
FOURTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 175 
 
 ciety. In this venture, feeble at the outset, he was greatly 
 interested, was frequent in his attendance and participation 
 in the discussions. Respecting his many contributions to 
 medical literature and his affiliations with medical bodies, 
 which were very numerous, I am enabled through the courtesy 
 of Dr. William Schroeder, to supply very complete lists, which 
 are appended to this note. 
 
 "In 1892, he was obliged to give up the practice of his pro- 
 fession on account of deafness and removed to Lanesboro, 
 Mass., where two of his daughters had their home. There he 
 spent the last years of his life in the enjoyment of an outdoor 
 life, and of the company of his children and grandchildren. 
 His life in the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts was one of 
 serenity and repose, but those five years were active, cheery 
 and fruitful to their close. 
 
 "The portal through which Death's processional has filed in 
 1897, has opened to few choicer spirits than our long-time 
 friend and honorary associate. He came of a cultured and 
 refined strain of New England stock, such as that about which 
 his former teacher and friend. Dr. Holmes, delighted to dis- 
 course and to illustrate. Dr. Thayer's father was an in- 
 structor and Dr. Thayer was all his life long a student, a pro- 
 fessor during several years, and with a readiness to impart of 
 his knowledge and learning to others during all his years. 
 
 "Dr. Thayer's mind was of fine fiber, his was a warm and 
 friendly temperament, with high ideals, seeking ever the best, 
 and with a devotion to principle and a firmness not always so 
 clearly manifested among the refined and scholarly of our 
 profession. 
 
 "I will close this note by quoting briefly from an estimate of 
 our deceased fellow's worth by one of his most valued friends: 
 *Dr. Thayer was a good physician. He was thoroughly edu- 
 cated for the work of his profession and devoting himself to it 
 with untiring zeal, jealous of its honor, regarding it as a sacred 
 trust, proud of its illustrious names and great examples, grate- 
 ful for the opportunities it furnished him to serve his fellow 
 men. Yet the professional relation with him tended almost 
 
176 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 inevitably to become a personal and friendly one. There is 
 no calling that so makes for friendship as that of the phy- 
 sician, but Dr. Thayer was exceptional among physicians in 
 the degree to which he grappled his patients to his heart. It 
 was hard to imagine how he could have been more engrossed 
 in his profession than he was ; yet he was not made selfish by 
 his engrossment, nor careless of domestic ties, nor indifferent 
 to literature and art, nor unmindful of his duties as a citizen. 
 In all these particulars he was remarkable for the fullness of 
 his life. 
 
 " * I have known no other man of such a uniformly cheerful 
 disposition. He saw the bright side of everything that had a 
 bright side; the silver lining to every cloud. The severest 
 trial that his optimism ever encountered was a chronic deaf- 
 ness, which obliged him to abandon his profession. Worse, if 
 possible, was its curtailment of his social satisfactions. For a 
 long time he kept on hoping against hope, but when the inevi- 
 table could not be escaped, he adapted himself to it with a 
 wonderful patience and sweetness, and well nigh convinced 
 himself that his misfortune brought him more of gain than 
 loss, a country life all the year round and the daily satisfac- 
 tion and delight of having his children and their children close 
 about him. He had hosts of friends. 
 
 ' ' ' To hear him speak of them was to feel the human world 
 better and more kind. To hear them speak of him was to be 
 astonished and delighted that any man could be loved by so 
 many and so much. His name was like a password admitting 
 many, who, but for that, were strangers, into immediate and 
 vital sympathy. Their love for him united them in a de- 
 lightful fellowship which had its orders and degrees, but, even 
 for the outer planets of the system, counted much. I could 
 not easily exaggerate my sense of the good influences that have 
 irradiated from this happy life.' 
 
 ' * Membership in medical societies : 1 844 — Massachusetts 
 Medical Society ; 1845 — Medical Improvement Society, Boston ; 
 1845 — Suffolk District Society, Massachusetts; 1846 — Medical 
 Observation Society, Boston ; 1855 — Vermont Medical Society ; 
 
FOURTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 177 
 
 1857 — New Hampshire ^ledical Society; 1859 — Berkshire 
 District Society, Massachusetts; 1860 — Connecticut Valley 
 Society, New Hampshire; 1860- '62 — Delegate American Med- 
 ical Association, New York Physicians' Mutual Aid Asso- 
 ciation; 1866 — Medical Society, County of Kings, N. Y., cen- 
 sor, 1867; orator, 1869; librarian, 1878; president, 1872- '73; 
 1870 — Honorary member Medical Society of New York ; 1870 
 — Brooklyn Pathological Society, one of the organizers ; 1884 — 
 New York State Medical Association; 1887 — Honorary mem- 
 ber Kings County Medical Association. 
 
 "Subjects of medical papers: 1861 — Edited, with Dr. K. C. 
 Stiles, The Berkshire Medical Journal; 1872 — Inaugural ad- 
 dress, president Medical Society, County of Kings; 1874 — 
 Carbonic Acid and Its Fatal Effects; 1885 — Report on Chol- 
 era, Medical Society, County of Kings ; 1885 — Umbilical Hem- 
 orrhage; 1885 — Chronic Catarrhal Gastritis; 1886 — History 
 of Malarial Fevers in Brooklyn ; 1890— Fatty Heart ; 1892— 
 Errors in Ventilation ; 1897 — Veratrum Viride in Puerperal 
 Convulsions. ' ' 
 
 In the same journal is the tribute of a friend, Arnold W. 
 Catlin, M. D. 
 
 "To the words so tenderly recorded by others, giving the 
 life history and beautiful character of our dear professional 
 brother, William Henry Thayer, there is nothing to be added 
 in the way of loyal testimony to the memory of a loyal man, 
 but in the passing of such a one from among his fellows there 
 must be in the hearts of the few who stood close to him, and 
 to whom he revealed his inner self, a sense of peculiar loss and 
 a most natural desire to bear their testimony, not of praise, 
 but of honest recognition. 
 
 "By right of birth he was the thoughtful man. By right 
 of training, the cultured man. By right of an inborn manli- 
 ness of character, the brave, sincere Christian man, command- 
 ing the respect and winning the love of all who knew him. 
 Many were the qualities that would naturally draw men to 
 his side, but among them all none so winsome and abiding as 
 
178 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 his unflinching integrity and sincerity in thought, word and 
 action. His absolute honesty of statement at all times made 
 every one absolutely restful in such statement. He was sin- 
 cere through and through. He hated shams and quackeries of 
 all kinds. He was eager to get the truth, and to impart it, 
 while coupled with this was great tenderness and gentleness of 
 expression. His presence in the sick room was a benediction, 
 his voice a renewal of confidence, his touch one of healing, 
 his mission that of the comforter and counselor combined. 
 The silent influence of such a life in a community is great 
 indeed, for such natures realize the dignity, the duty, the privi- 
 lege of service, and suffering humanity is ever in their debt. 
 The life of such a one is his creed, and all who come in touch 
 with such nobility are necessarily ennobled and uplifted. 
 Purity of thought, motive and diction were also his, to look into 
 his face was to have the full assurance of his pure life, and to 
 hear him speak was to know at once that he was clean. Blessed 
 are the pure in heart for they shall not only at last see God, 
 but in their lives here they reflect much of the divine nature, 
 and by their presence raise the moral tone of the community 
 in which they live. This also accounts for his universally 
 sunny disposition. His was a happy heart, and at no time 
 could the shadows of life make him believe that there was not 
 brightness close at hand ready to be revealed. Even in his 
 personal trials, and when the world of sound was closed to him 
 forever, still it was not that he was deprived of something 
 very precious, as much so that in this way he was to enter into 
 some larger experience and greater joy. His unselfish nature 
 had a wellspring of happiness within itself, and the storms of 
 life could not disturb this anchorage. Forced to resign his 
 chosen calling, which was to him a divine business, peacefully 
 he set sail into the harbor of loving hearts, and there, inex- 
 pressibly happy in the atmosphere of a devoted affection, rest- 
 ing for a time from the turmoil of life, at length he laid down 
 to rest. Tenderly and mercifully the summons came, and 
 
 ** 'Death's quick translation 
 
 ** 'Taught the brief summation 
 " 'Of it all.' " 
 
fourteenth new hampshire volunteers. 179 
 
 Marshall Perkins, M. D. 
 Marlow, N. H. 
 
 Pebkixs. Marshaix, F. and S.; b. Croydon; age 40; res. Marlow; 
 cred. Marlow; app. Asst. Surg. Sept. 23, '62; must. In Sept. 24, '62; 
 must, out July 8, '65. P. O. ad., Marlow. (Record, Ayling's Reg- 
 ister, 1895, p. 720.) 
 
 Surgeon Perkins, the subject of this sketch, was born May 
 13, 1823, in Croydon and was the son of James and Anna 
 (French) Perkins. After attending the common schools of 
 his native town, Unity and Kimball Union Academies in New 
 Hampshire, he then took a course at Norwich University, Nor- 
 wich, Vt., and commenced the study of medicine in 1849 in 
 Plainfield, N. II., under the direction of Dr. Baker, and en- 
 tered Tremont ]\Iedical School of Boston, attending two courses 
 of lectures at Harvard Medical School, and was graduated 
 from Harvard in July, 1850. Immediately settled in Marlow, 
 N. H., where he has remained for forty-six years. 
 
 September 23. 1862, he was appointed assistant surgeon of 
 the Fourteenth New Hampshire Kegiment, remaining with the 
 regiment for three years. At the close of his service he re- 
 turned to Marlow and is still in active practice. He enjoys the 
 respect and confidence of his fellow-townsmen, and, while 
 never seeking office, has been elected by his fellow-citizens to 
 various offices in the gift of the towTi. 
 
 Married, in December, 1852, Harriet A. Fiske. 
 
 Nine children, namely: James M., Annie E., Hattie F., 
 Waldo H., Martha, Daniel H., Kate L., Charles A. and Jessie 
 M. Perkins. 
 
 Died at his home in Marlow, June 11, 1902. 
 
 Franklin C. Weeks. 
 
 Week.s, Franklin C. F. and S.; b. Chester; age 27; res. Chester; 
 cred. Chester; app. Asst. Surg. Sept. 23, '62; must, in to date Sept. 
 16, '62. Died, dis. March 28, '64, New York City. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 729.) 
 
 The regimental historian has the following in regard to Dr. 
 Weeks : 
 
 "Franklin C. Weeks was born in Chester, N. H., August 27, 
 1835. He lived on a farm until seventeen years of age, having 
 
180 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 the benefit of a good commoii school education. He then at- 
 tended school at Hampton and got a good academical training. 
 Afterward, he was for some time under a private tutor and 
 then attended medical lectures and continued his studies until 
 fitted for practice. When the war began Dr. Weeks had begun 
 a medical practice which promised to be successful, and had 
 opened an office in Chester some year and a half before he en- 
 tered the military service. He applied for the position of 
 assistant surgeon of the Eighth New Hampshire Volunteers, 
 but it was not until the organization of the Fourteenth that he 
 secured an appointment. He went out with Colonel Wilson's 
 regiment, but he was in no physical condition for ' roughing it, ' 
 and the first winter was too much for his weak powers of 
 endurance. In the early spring of 1863, Dr. Weeks did his 
 last work in the regiment and was henceforth absent on fur- 
 lough until March, 1864, when he attempted to return to the 
 regiment, but was prostrated in New York City with a severe 
 attack of diphtheria and died at the New England rooms on 
 the twenty-fourth of that month. His remains were taken 
 to his native town for interment, 
 
 * ' Surgeon Weeks was noted in his regiment for his punctil- 
 ious execution of duty and he was as particular in his attention 
 to each case as though it were in his private practice. In his 
 manner he was very retiring and had none of that self-asser- 
 tion that pushes for place. He revealed enough of his real self 
 while serving in the regiment to become popular with all who 
 came into official contact with him. He had no successor in 
 the Fourteenth. ' ' 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FIFTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 By Charles McGregor, 
 
 Corporal, Company H, Fifteenth Regiment New Hampshire 
 Volunteers, and Historian of the Regiment. 
 
 "The Fifteenth New Hampshire Regiment was mustered 
 into the United States service in the state-house yard at Con- 
 cord, Governor Berry presenting the colors, on November 12, 
 1862. This was the very darkest period of the war. It was the 
 first regiment of New Hampshire 's quota in response to Presi- 
 dent Lincoln's call for 300,000 nine-months' men. A reference 
 to the roster of the regiment will show that it included many 
 men who were too young to enter the service at the outbreak 
 of hostilities, but who had since become of military age. It 
 will also show that many^ at the expiration of their term, who 
 possessed adequate health, immediately re-enlisted and re- 
 turned to the front. It is understood that the nine-months' 
 men were raised for a special purpose — as an auxiliary to our 
 struggling armies already in the field and to enable them to 
 strike the rebellion a staggering and fatal blow. How well this 
 work was done and at what a cost is already recorded in his- 
 tory." 
 
 ****** 
 
 "In May, 1863, the Fifteenth Regiment formed a part of a 
 large army which had now invested Port Hudson, a part hav- 
 ing approached from the North and a part from the South, 
 and gradually drawing in upon the enemy's works and en- 
 closing them from the river above to the river below. The 
 
182 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 works thus invested consisted of a parapet, some seven miles in 
 extent, built in a generally semi-circular form, and enclosing 
 a large tract around the outside bend of the river at this place, 
 where the land lay some eighty feet above the water level, with 
 beetling bluffs facing the river. The enemy's water batteries, 
 for blockading the river, were planted along the brink of this 
 bluff, and the seven miles of parapet were for their protection 
 against an army approaching from the land^ as ours had now 
 done. 
 
 "July 16, 1863, the regiment marched into the works and 
 there remained till Sunday, the twenty-sixth, when it boarded 
 the steamer ' City of Madison, ' for Cairo, 111., which place was 
 reached at daylight of August 3 ; thence to Chicago, arriving 
 at 2 a. m. of Wednesday, the fifth, and leaving at 8 a. m. ; 
 thence home by the Michigan Southern and Lake Shore line. 
 From Chicago and through New York, the regiment enjoyed a 
 continuous ovation. Arrived at Concord at about noon of 
 Saturday, the eighth, and was mustered out on the thirteenth. ' ' 
 
 ASSIGNMENTS. 
 
 ''The Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteers was with 
 United States forces at Carrollton^ La., Department of the 
 Gulf, December 24, 1862, to January 27, 1863; attached to 
 First Brigade, Second Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, Jan- 
 uary 27 to July 11, 1863; Second Brigade, Third Division, 
 Nineteenth Army Corps, July 11 to July 18, 1863; Second 
 Brigade, United States forces, Port Hudson, La. (Nineteenth 
 Army Corps), July 18, 1863, to date of muster out." 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 Siege of Port Hudson, La., May 27 to July 9, 1863. 
 
 surgeons. 
 Jeremiah F. Hall, M. D., Carl H. Horsch, M. D. 
 
 assistant surgeons. 
 Benjamin N. Towle, M. D., Joseph E. Janvrin, M. D. 
 
FIFTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 183 
 
 FIFTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 Jeremiah Forest Hall, M. D. 
 
 Hall, Jeremiah F. F. and S.; b. Northfield; age 43; res. Wolfebor- 
 ough; cred. Wolfeborough; app. Surg. Oct. 28, '62; must, in Nov. 
 1, '62; resigned Jan. 19, '63. Died, March 1, '88, Portsmouth. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 747.) 
 
 Surgeon Hall was born in Northfield, N. H., December 2, 
 1816; received his preliminary education at Sanbornton and 
 Franklin Academies, and his medical education from the Medi- 
 cal Department of Dartmouth College. He located in Wolfe- 
 borough in 1837, and resided in that town twenty-four years. 
 
 "On the 28th of October, 1862, Dr. Hall was commissioned 
 surgeon of the Fifteenth New Hampshire Infantry, Colonel 
 Kingman, and joined his regiment at New York City. Here 
 he was taken ill, but proceeded with his command to Carroll- 
 ton, La., the voyage by transport serving to aggravate his com- 
 plaint. Finding no relief during his stay in Louisiana, he 
 was offered leave of absence, which he declined, preferring 
 to leave the service, his muster-out dating January 19, 1863. 
 He therefore resigned and came home to Wolfeborough. 
 Shortly after, he went South, to Washington and Virginia, 
 for the benefit of his health. 
 
 "While at the capital, he was appointed surgeon of the 
 Board of Enrollment of the First District of New Hampshire, 
 his commission dating May 6, 1863, and ordered to this city, 
 arriving in Portsmouth shortly afterward. He remained in 
 this position until the dissolution of the board, and was dis- 
 charged to date August 1, 1865, his first discharge being for 
 disability, the second being for the close of the war. 
 
 "A few years later the doctor was appointed examining 
 surgeon of pensioners, a position which he held at the time of 
 his death. He was a member of the New Hampshire State 
 Medical Society, and was its president in 1872 ; was formerly 
 a member of Carroll County Medical Society, and had been 
 its president; and was also an honorary member of the Straf- 
 
184 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 ford County Medical Society. In 1874 he was elected to the 
 New Hampshire senate from this district, and was re-elected 
 in 1875." 
 
 "For eleven years he held the position of director in the 
 Lake National Bank at Wolfeborough, was trustee of the Five 
 Cent Savings Bank at the same place, and president of the 
 board of trustees of Wolfeborough Academy. He has been 
 director and vice-president of the Portsmouth Trust & Guar- 
 anty Company, and was its president at his decease, having 
 held the latter office ten years. He served three complete 
 terms as trustee of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, 
 and was recently reappointed. He was alderman of the city 
 of Portsmouth two years. 
 
 "Dr. Hall was twice married. His first wife was Annette 
 A. Livy of Wolfeborough, whom he wedded December 14, 
 1837. 
 
 "The second marriage was with Miss Frances E., eldest 
 daughter of the late Charles E. Laighton of Portsmouth, Octo- 
 ber 24, 1872." 
 
 Dr. Hall died March 1, 1888, at Portsmouth. 
 
 Carl Herrmann Horsch, M. D. 
 Dover, N. H. 
 
 HoEscH, Carl H. P. and S.; b. Saxony, Ger.; age 40; res. Dover; 
 app. Surg. Jan. 20, '63; must, in Feb. 11, '63; must, out Aug. 13, 
 '63. Died Sept. 22, '91, Dover. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 748.) 
 
 Surgeon Horsch was born July 23, 1822, in the small village 
 of Eythra, about six miles from Leipzig, Saxony. His parents, 
 Johann Gottfried and Christiana Friedericke Horsch, were 
 people of moderate circumstances and Carl was obliged to 
 work his own way upward through the world. 
 
 Surgeon Horsch received his preliminary education from 
 the village schoolmaster, who seems to have been a man of 
 talent, and who directed and developed the mind of his pupil 
 
FIFTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 185 
 
 with a great deal of care and ability. His professional educa- 
 tion commenced soon after he was fourteen years of age, when 
 he went to Altenburg to earn his own living. Here the court 
 surgeon was attracted toward him, advised him to direct his 
 studies toward the profession of medicine, and gave him in- 
 struction in the rudiments of medicine and surgery. It would 
 seem that his good work was amply rewarded, for he had the 
 satisfaction of seeing him fitted for the university before he 
 was twenty years of age. He was six years in the university 
 and was graduated in September, 1848. Returning to his 
 home, he applied for a position in the army, and, having 
 passed the requisite examination, entered the Saxon army 
 October 1, 1848, remaining in the service until 1853, being 
 promoted to the grade of surgeon during that period. 
 
 Surgeon Horsch came to this country in 1853, remained in 
 Boston with his friend, Dr. Wesselhoeft, for about two years, 
 when he located in Dover, N. H., in August, 1855, where he 
 was in active practice when the rebellion was inaugurated. He 
 was appointed surgeon of the Fifteenth Regiment New Hamp- 
 shire Volunteers January 20, 1863. This was on the resig- 
 nation of Surgeon Hall on account of illness, and Surgeon 
 Horsch immediately joined his regiment in New Orleans, La., 
 and was mustered into the service February 11, 1863. This 
 being a nine-months' regiment, he was mustered out of the 
 service with the regiment, August 13, 1863, as the term of en- 
 listment then expired. 
 
 The Fifteenth was in the Port Hudson campaign and 
 suffered severely in battle and from the effects of climate, and 
 Surgeon Horsch came home very much disabled in health, 
 from the effects of over exertion in a malarial climate. From 
 this he never fully recovered. 
 
 He was an indefatigable worker in his chosen profession ; 
 became a member of the American Medical Association, the 
 Medico-Legal Society of New York, and the Strafford District 
 Medical Society, of which he was an honored president in 1887 
 and 1888. He was a prominent member of the American Pub- 
 lic Health Association and throughout his whole medical 
 
186 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 career he always took a deep interest in sanitary work. He 
 was a member of the New Hampshire State Board of Health 
 from its organization in 1881 until ill health compelled him to 
 resign in 1886. He rallied somewhat after this, but in 1891 
 he was prostrated again, and passed away September 22, 
 1891. 
 
 Married, in March, 1858, Miss F. A. Littlefield, who, with 
 two daughters, survives him. 
 
 Benjamin Newell Towle, M. D. 
 
 Charlestown, Mass. 
 
 Towle, Benjamin N. F. and S.; b. Freedom; age 33; res. Newmar- 
 ket; app. Asst. Surg. Oct. 14, '62; must, in Oct. 15, '62; must, out 
 Aug. 13, '63. P. O. ad., Charlestown, Mass. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1S95, p. 758.) 
 
 Surgeon Towle was born in Freedom, N. H., January 17, 
 1829, and was the son of Lovell and Mary (Bennette) Towle, 
 and grandson of Amos Towle. His preliminary education was 
 received at the district school and he fitted for college at Par- 
 sonsfield Seminary, Maine. His professional education was 
 commenced in 1852 under the direction of Dr. Calvin Topliff 
 and Dr. Moses Sweat of Maine. He took three courses of med- 
 ical lectures at Dartmouth and Bowdoin Colleges, and was 
 graduated from the Medical Department of Dartmouth College 
 in the class of 1856. He located in Newmarket, N. H., and it 
 was from that place that he entered the service of the Fif- 
 teenth New Hampshire Regiment October 14, 1864, being ap- 
 pointed assistant surgeon. This was a nine-months' regiment 
 and he was mustered out of the service August 13, 1863. He 
 returned to New^market, and in 1865 removed to Somerville, 
 Mass., where he remained about one year, since which time he 
 has resided in Charlestown, Mass., giving attention especially 
 to catarrhal diseases. He is a member of the Massachusetts 
 Medical Society and of the American Medical Association. 
 
 Married, first. Miss A. L. Demeritt, December, 1856 ; second, 
 to Mary E. Demeritt in June, 1876. 
 
 Children, two. 
 
fifteenth new hampshire volunteers. 187 
 
 Joseph Edward Janvrin, M. D. 
 191 Madison Ave., New York City. 
 
 (2 N. H. V.) 
 
 Janvbin, Joseph E. Co. K; b. Exeter; age 22; res. Exeter; enl. May 
 21, '61; must, in June 8, '61, as Priv.; disch. to date Nov. 30, '62, 
 to accept promotion. P. 0. ad.. New York City. See 15 N. H. V. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 60.) 
 
 (15 N. H. V.) 
 
 Janvbin, Joseph E. F. and S.; b. Exeter; age 23; res. Exeter; app. 
 2 Asst. Surg. Oct. 28, '62; must, in Dec. 1, '62; must, out Aug. 13, 
 '63. P. O. ad., New York city. See 2 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 749.) 
 
 Surgeon Janvrin was born in Exeter, N. H., January 13, 
 1839, and was the son of Joseph Adams and Lydia Ann (Col- 
 eord) Janvrin, a grandson of William Janvrin. Received his 
 preliminary education in the common schools and Phillips 
 Exeter Academy. Commenced his professional education with 
 Dr. William G. Perry of Exeter, N. H., in 1859, and continued 
 the same under the direction of Prof. Edmund Randolph 
 Peaslee of New York City. Attended medical lectures at the 
 Medical Department of Dartmouth College and at the College 
 of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City, and was grad- 
 uated from the latter in the class of 1864. Began the practice 
 of medicine in New York City in 1865, where he has remained 
 ever since. 
 
 While a student in medicine he served eighteen months as a 
 private in Company K, Second New Hampshire Regiment, 
 from which he was discharged to accept promotion and was 
 appointed immediately assistant surgeon of the Fifteenth New 
 Hampshire Regiment, in which he served until the regiment 
 was mustered out of service August 13, 1863. He was also 
 assi.stant surgeon. United States Volunteers, from July, 1864, 
 to January, 1865. 
 
 Dr. Janvrin is a member of the New York Academy of Medi- 
 cine, New York State Medical Association, New York County 
 Medical Association, New York County Medical Society, New 
 York Obstetrical Society, American Gynaecological Society, 
 
188 SURGICAL HISTORr IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 International Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics; cor- 
 responding member of Boston Gynaecological Society. He 
 was president of the New York Obstetrical Society for two 
 years, 1890 and 1891; president of the New York County 
 Medical Association in 1896 and 1897; trustee of the New 
 York Academy of Medicine for five years, and assistant sur- 
 geon in the Woman's Hospital of the State of New York for 
 ten years. He is also a member of the Society of Mayflower 
 Descendants ; Society of Colonial "Wars ; of the Military Order 
 of the Loyal Legion of the United States ; George Washington 
 Post, Grand Army of the Republic ; and the Union League of 
 New York City. At the time this was written he was presi- 
 dent of the New York Medical League and gynaecologist of 
 the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital. 
 
 For a long period Dr. Janvrin has been a frequent con- 
 tributor to medical journalsj of which the following are a part 
 of his contributions : 
 
 "A Case of Interstitial Pregnancy." {American Journal 
 of Obstetrics, New York, November, 1874.) 
 
 "The Simultaneous Closure of the Ruptured Cervix and 
 Perineum, Report of Fifteen Cases." {American Journal of 
 Obstetrics, New York, May, 1884.) 
 
 ' ' Dermoid Cysts of Both Ovaries, with a Diverticulum from 
 the Left Included Within the Rectum — Ovariotomy, Recov- 
 ery." {American Journal of Obstetrics, January, 1886.) 
 
 "A Case of Tubal Pregnancy of Unusual Interest, with 
 some Remarks as to the Treatment of such Cases." (Trans- 
 actions of the American Gynaecological Association for 1886.) 
 
 "On the Indications for Primary Laparotomy in Cases of 
 Tubal Pregnancy." (Transactions of the American Gynae- 
 cological Association for 1888.) 
 
 "A Clinical Study of Primary Carcinomatous and Sarcoma- 
 tous Neoplasms Between the Folds of the Broad Ligaments, 
 with a Report of Cases." (Transactions of the American 
 Gynaecological Association for 1891.) 
 
 "On the Limitations for Vaginal Hysterectomy in Malig- 
 nant Diseases of the Uterus." {New York Medical Record, 
 July 9, 1892.) 
 
FIFTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 189 
 
 "Vaginal Hysterectomy for Malignant Disease of the 
 Uterus." {New York Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 
 September, 1892.) 
 
 ' ' The Paliative Treatment of Such Cases of Malignant Dis- 
 ease of the Uterus and Adnexa as are not Amenable to Radi- 
 cal Operations." {Gaillard's Medical Journal, New York, 
 January, 1893.) 
 
 "The Ultimate Results, in My Own Experience, of Vaginal 
 Hysterectomy for Cancer Originating in the Cervix Uteri." 
 {The Medical News, New York, February 29, 1896.) 
 
 "Two Interesting Cases of Surgery of the Kidney," (Trans- 
 actions of the New York State Medical Association, 1896.) 
 
 "Selection of Operation in Cases of Cancer of the Cervix 
 Uteri and of the Uterus, Also." {American Gynecological 
 and Obstetrical Journal, New York, May, 1897.) 
 
 "The Use of Catgut Sutures in Ventro-Fixation of the 
 Uterus." {The Memphis Lancet, December, 1898.) 
 
 Married, September 1, 1881, to Miss Laura L. LaWall of 
 Easton, Pa. 
 
 Children: Edmund Randolph Peaslee and Marguerite La 
 Wall Janvrin. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SIXTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 By Daniel E. Howard, 
 
 Captain, Sixteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer In- 
 fantry. 
 
 "The Sixteenth New Hampshire Regiment was the second 
 to respond to President Lincoln's call for 300,000 volunteers 
 for nine months. Many of its members were young — sons of 
 those already at the front. Llore were of middle age, and quite 
 a large number of mature years. Nearly all were sons and 
 citizens of New Hampshire. How well they did their work 
 and how much they suffered from the hardships of army life 
 and the effects of the malarial swamps of Louisiana, must be 
 left untold in this brief history. Many years have passed, and 
 the records of the war department, as compiled by the adju- 
 tant-general of this state, will show that few survive. 
 ****** 
 
 ' ' August 1, 1863, the regiment embarked on the stern-wheel 
 transport 'Sallie List' for Cairo. As we passed up the river 
 we called at Natchez, Vicksburg, Helena, Memphis and Co- 
 lumbus. At Vicksburg General Grant ordered his post sur- 
 geon to examine our sick, and by his order many of our sick 
 were left there, to be taken to the fine floating hospital at that 
 place, and from which some were buried by those who kindly 
 cared for them. At Cairo we disembarked, taking our home- 
 ward journey by rail, via Mattoon, Indianapolis, Bellefon- 
 taine, Buffalo, Albany and Worcester, to Concord. 
 
 "The regiment made several stops while en route for home, 
 and the kindness and sympathy of those strangers who so 
 
SIXTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 191 
 
 lovingly eared for and so generously entertained us — weary, 
 sick, and soiled as we were — will never be forgotten. May 
 Grod bless them and theirs forever. The regiment reached Con- 
 cord August 14, and was mustered out the twentieth. 
 
 "It will be noticed that during the short term of this regi- 
 ment 's service, its loss by death is over twenty-three per cent., 
 an extremely high ratio." 
 
 The adjutant of the regiment says of the Sixteenth, when 
 ordered home by reason of expiration of service : 
 
 "It was August 1, 1863, when our regiment stood in line 
 for the last time on Southern soil. The line, however, was a 
 depleted and pitiful one, so much so that the historian hesitates 
 to attempt a description of the men who answered that call. 
 It seemed almost as if death was there with the name of every 
 man on his roll, and that without much delay he was to call 
 their names one by one, and thus break up our ranks without 
 any command from the officers. 
 
 "What contrasts were suggested! At Concord, in New 
 York, and early in the year at CarroUton, La., the ad- 
 jutant had stood with pride before a body of as strong and 
 noble men as ever formed in regimental line. But August 
 first, after fewer than twelve months had passed, the regiment 
 was scarcely more in number than one of the original com- 
 panies had been. 
 
 "As the adjutant looked upon those haggard and pale and 
 bent forms, and as he heard those husky and hollow voices 
 answering to the roll-call, he turned away from the scene with 
 emotions that can find no expression in any tongue spoken by 
 men. ' ' 
 
 The above represents something of the condition attending 
 the arrival of the regiment in Concord when it was mustered 
 out. 
 
 The number of sick was so great that it was necessary to 
 improvise quarters for their care, and the city hall was trans- 
 formed into a hospital for that purpose. Nearly fifty died 
 within a few days after the regiment reached Concord. A 
 few months of the life of a soldier in the swamps of Louisiana 
 
192 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 was sufficient to undermine the most robust constitution, and 
 life went out because of the loss of vitality necessary to resist 
 the encroachments of disease. 
 
 ASSIGNMENTS. 
 
 "The Sixteenth New Hampshire Volunteers was with 
 United States Forces at Carrollton, La., Department of the 
 Gulf, December 27, 1862^ to January 3, 1863; attached to 
 Third Brigade, Third Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, Jan- 
 uary 3 to 14, 1863 ; First Brigade, Third Division, Nineteenth 
 Army Corps, January 14 to July 11, 1863 ; Second Brigade, 
 Third Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, July 11 to 18, 1863 ; 
 Second Brigade, United States Forces, Port Hudson, La. 
 (Nineteenth Army Corps), July 18, 1863, to date of muster 
 out." 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 Port Hudson, La., March 14, 1863. 
 
 Butte-a-la-Rose, La., April 20, 1863. 
 
 Siege of Port Hudson, La., June 3 to July 9, 1863. 
 
 surgeons. 
 Thomas Sanborn, M. D., Cyrus M. Fisk, M. D. 
 
 assistant surgeons. 
 
 Cyrus M. Fiske, M. D., Sylvester Campbell, M. D., 
 
 Hubert Sleeper, M. D. 
 
 SIXTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 Thomas Sanborn, M. D, 
 
 Late of Newport, N. H. 
 
 Sanborn, Thomas. F. and S.; b. Sanbornton; age 51; res. Newport; 
 app. Surg. Nov. 4, '62; must, in Nov. 10, '62; resigned June 13, '63. 
 Died July 23, '75, Newport. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 
 
 784.) 
 
SIXTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 193 
 
 Surgeon Sanborn was born in Sanbornton, N. H., Septem- 
 ber 26, 1811, and was the son of Christopher Sanborn. His 
 preliminary education was received in attending the common 
 schools and occasionally a term at the academy of his native 
 town. Commenced his professional education with Dr. Thomas 
 P. Hill of Sanbornton in 1833, taking courses of medical lec- 
 tures at Bow^doin and Dartmouth. He engaged in other busi- 
 ness some of the time in order to defray expenses, was with 
 Dr. Oilman Kimball of Lowell for a period, also with Dr. W. 
 H. Hosmer of New London for two years and w'as graduated 
 from the Medical Department of Dartmouth College in 1841. 
 He located for the practice of his profession in Goshen after 
 graduation, and was in Newport and New London, N. H., until 
 1848, when he permanently located in Newport. 
 
 He was appointed surgeon of the Sixteenth New Hampshire 
 Volunteers in 1862 and accompanied General Banks' Corps to 
 Louisiana. Here his health failed and, after a few weeks ' dis- 
 ability, he resigned and returned to his home, where he died 
 July 23, 1875. 
 
 He was much beloved by his fellow-townsmen, who had 
 elected him to various offices, and he was a Past Master of the 
 Mount Vernon Lodge of Freemasons and held in high regard 
 by this fraternity. Both as a physician and surgeon for more 
 than a quarter of a century he was engaged in extensive prac- 
 tice and shared in a large measure the confidence of his patrons 
 and the esteem of the community. 
 
 In 1844 he married Miss Harriett, daughter of Hon. David 
 Allen of Newport, to whom there were born two sons and 
 three daughters. One son and one daughter survive. 
 
 Cyrus Mentor Fisk, M. D. 
 
 Late of Bradford, N. H. 
 
 Fisk, Cyrus M. F. and S.; b. Chichester; age 37; res. Bradford; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Nov. 4, '62; must, in Nov. 10, 'G2; app. Surg. June 
 13, '63; must, out Aug. 20, '63. P. O. ad., Lowell, Mass. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 774.) 
 
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194 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Surgeon Fisk was born January 9, 1825, in Chichester, N. 
 H. He was the son of Ephraim and Margaret (Dow) Fiske, 
 who were both born in Concord, N. H., the former April 17, 
 1798, the latter in 1804. "The Fiske (Fisk) family came from 
 England, in the county of Suffolk, so early as the eighth year 
 of the reign of King John (A. D. 1208), in the parish of Lax- 
 field. Daniel Fisc (original orthography) seems to have been 
 the first of that name. Symond Fiske, lord of the manor of 
 Stadhaugh, held lands in Laxfield parish and was probably 
 grandson of Daniel Fisc. There was a coat of arms wdth this 
 motto, ^Macte virtue sic ad astra.' Simon was lord of the 
 manor of Stadhaugh in Laxfield, county of Sufi:'olk, England, 
 in the time of Henry the Sixth. One of the first to emigrate 
 to this country was one Ephraim, who settled in Tewksbury, 
 Mass." Ephraim, the father of Cyrus and the third of this 
 name in the Fisk family, moved from Chichester to Contoocook 
 when the doctor was about four years old. Surgeon Fiske 's pre- 
 liminary education was obtained in the common schools of 
 Hopkinton and in Master John Ballad 's private school for boys 
 in Hopkinton village. This, in its day, was considered one of 
 the best private schools in New Hampshire. His professional 
 education was commenced in 1845 with Dr. Charles A. Savory, 
 then in Hopkinton, afterwards in Lowell, Mass. His early 
 life was one of great perseverance and hard work to procure 
 the necessary means to obtain the desired education of a regu- 
 lar physician, but was unable to graduate at that time. He 
 received an honorary degree from Dartmouth Medical College 
 in 1870. He began the practice of medicine by being licensed 
 by the New Hampshire Medical Society at Contoocook in 1847, 
 and in 1848 located at Bradford, N. H. 
 
 Dr. Fisk resided in Bradford from 1848 to 1872, except the 
 time he was in the army. He became a member of the New 
 Hampshire Medical Society about this time and was soon 
 engaged in a large practice in Bradford and vicinity. In the 
 winter of 1848 there was an epidemic of smallpox in the west- 
 em part of the town. There were between forty and fifty 
 cases of variola, and the older physician. Dr. Ames, being 
 
SIXTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 195 
 
 afflicted with the disease, the work was largely thro"wii upon 
 Dr. Fisk, who went into quarantine with Bradford's afflicted 
 people, earing for and ministering to them as physician and 
 nurse, and, subduing the epidemic, commanded the confidence 
 and respect of the whole community. It is on record that, for 
 this great service to the town and its people, he was remuner- 
 ated by the town at the rate of five dollars a week for his ser- 
 vices. It should be remarked, however, that at this time 
 money was scarce, medical fees were low and a great deal 
 more was done for charity's sake in bringing out the humane 
 side of a physician's life than is required or expected at the 
 present time. 
 
 He was a member of St. Peter's Lodge, F. A. ]\I., Bradford, 
 and Woods Royal Branch Chapter of Henniker, N. H. 
 
 He was appointed assistant surgeon of the Sixteenth Regi- 
 ment New Hampshire Volunteers November 4, 1862, being 
 the first as.sistant surgeon ; upon the resignation of Dr. Thomas 
 Sanborn, he was promoted surgeon, June 13, 1863, and re- 
 mained -s^dth the regiment as surgeon until mustered out 
 of the service, August 20, 1863. This regiment was as- 
 vsigned to the Nineteenth Army Corps of General N. P. Banks 
 and served at New Orleans and various other places in 
 Louisiana and was in the Siege of Port Hudson. The Six- 
 teenth was brigaded with the One Hundred and Tenth and 
 One Hundred and Sixty-second New York and the Fourth 
 Mas.sachusetts, with Colonel Ingraham of the Thirty-eighth 
 ^Massachusetts acting as brigade commander. The division to 
 which they were assigned consisted of twelve regiments under 
 the command of General Emory. "The marches were some- 
 thing terrible and many escapes they had from being captured. 
 One little incident in which Dr. Fisk took part will show the 
 intense feeling of the Southern people at that time. One 
 night after a long day's march through mud and water, the 
 regiment halted in hopes of a night of rest, but were pre- 
 vented by the enemy drawing near and necessitating a retreat. 
 While in consultation with the officers preparing for a retreat, 
 Dr. Fisk, who had been prospecting for drinking water, re- 
 
196 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 ported he had seen a woman at the back of a plantation house 
 near by, giving signals with a candle. Presumably, she was 
 communicating with Confederate troops who were known to be 
 in close proximity to the position they then held. ' ' The effect of 
 climate on these New England and New York men was very 
 debilitating, and the mortality was startling. They were wholly 
 unacclimated, and scarcely any person in the whole brigade 
 that went through those terrible marches through the swamps 
 and lagoons of Louisiana that has not suffered from the eft'ects 
 upon his health ever since. Dr. Fisk's health was so under- 
 mined that he never fully recovered, and for nearly a year 
 after his return he was able to do but little professional 
 work. He was ever afterwards reminded of the effects of 
 malaria, and was unable to do the hard physical work that 
 was necessary to practice medicine in Bradford; therefore, in 
 1872, he removed to Lowell, Mass., where he went into practice 
 in company with his old preceptor. Dr. Charles A. Savory. 
 In 1894 he retired from active practice and returned to Brad- 
 ford, N. H., where he died January 21, 1895. He celebrated 
 his seventieth birthday on the ninth day of January, when his 
 friends and neighbors assembled in his new house to welcome 
 him back to his early home. He was stricken with apoplexy 
 January 17, and remained unconscious until his death. 
 
 While in Lowell, Mass., he belonged to the Massachusetts 
 Medical Society, the Middlesex North District Society, of which 
 at different times he was president and councilor. He was 
 a member of the staff of St. John's Hospital and consulting 
 physician of the Lowell General Hospital. Served on the 
 school board for two years, was chairman of the United States 
 Board of Pension Examiners for twelve years, a trustee of 
 Lowell Institute for Savings, and an active member of the 
 Ladd and Whitney Post, No. 185, Grand Army of the Republic. 
 Feeling that his health would not permit of more active work, 
 he returned to Bradford, where he caused to have fitted up a 
 new home, hoping to be able to enjoy for a few years at least 
 the well-earned rest and quiet among the granite hills and 
 streams of New Hampshire, which he loved so well. "In re- 
 
SIXTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 197 
 
 ligious belief he was a Universalist. Believing in God's su- 
 preme goodness and love, and that ultimately all God 's created 
 ones would attain happiness in a heavenly home. ' ' In polities 
 he was an uncompromising Republican. 
 
 While a resident of Contoocook he married Amanda M. Put- 
 nam, December 8, 1848. 
 
 Children, two: Mary Jane, born June 18, 1850, and died 
 April 19, 1854; Clara Eva, born December 21, 1851, and 
 married, in Lowell, Mass., June 21, 1876, George Henry Blan- 
 chard of Bradford, N. H. 
 
 Sylvester Campbell, M. D. 
 
 Late of Sanborn ton Bridge (Now Tilton, N. H.). 
 
 Campbell, Sylv'esteb. F. and S.; res. Sanbomton; cred. Ports- 
 mouth; app. 2 Asst. Surg. Nov. 6, '62; must, in Nov. 10, '62. Died, 
 dis. Feb. 6, '63, Carrollton, La. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 769.) 
 
 Surgeon Campbell of the Sixteenth New Hampshire was 
 born in Acworth, N. H., February 9, 1834, and was the son 
 of Horace and Sally (Grout) Campbell, a grandson of Hon. 
 Isaac Campbell. His preliminary education was received in 
 the common schools of Sullivan county and at Colby Academy, 
 New London. His professional education commenced in 1854, 
 under the direction of Thomas Sanborn, M. D., of Newport, 
 N. II. He attended lectures at the Medical Department of 
 Dartmouth College and at the University of New York, and 
 received his degree of M. D. from the latter institution in 
 1858. He located for the practice of medicine at Sanbornton 
 Bridge, now Tilton, in 1858, and remained there until he 
 entered the army November 6, 1862. 
 
 He was a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, 
 of the ^Masonic fraternity, and was superintendent of schools 
 in Sanbornton Bridge at the time of his entering the army. 
 He was appointed second assistant surgeon of the Sixteenth 
 New Hampshire Volunteers November 6, 1862, and died at 
 Camp Parapet, Carrollton, La., February 6, 1863. 
 
 Married, July 2, 1858, to Maria L. Manson. 
 
 No children. 
 
198 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Hubert Sleeper, M. D. 
 Meriden, N. H. 
 
 Sleepeb, Hubert. F. and S.; b. Grantham; age 28; res. Grantham; 
 cred. Grantham; app. 2 Asst. Surg. March 18, '63; must, in Mar. 
 23, '63; captured June 28, '63; released; dis. to date Aug. 20, '63. 
 P. O. ad., Meriden. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 785.) 
 
 Surgeon Sleeper was born January 13, 1835, in Grantham, 
 N. H., and was the son of Hiram Lewis and Mary (Leavitt) 
 Sleeper, and was a grandson of Hon. Sanborn Sleeper of 
 Grantham, N. H, Received his preliminary education at the 
 common schools and fitted for college at Kimball Union Acad- 
 emy. Commenced the study of medicine in 1856 in New Jer- 
 sey under the direction of Dr. Kinch, continuing the same 
 with Dr. S. J. Allen of White River Junction and Prof. Al- 
 bert Smith of Peterborough. Attended four courses of lec- 
 tures at Dartmouth Medical College and was graduated M. 
 D. from the same in the class of 1860. He located immediately 
 in the practice of medicine in Grantham, N. H., and was a 
 resident of that town at the commencement of the War of the 
 Rebellion. 
 
 He received an appointment of second assistant surgeon of 
 the Sixteenth New Hampshire Volunteers March 18, 1863, was 
 captured June 28, 1863. Since his service in the army, he has 
 resided in Meriden, N. H. He was a member of the New 
 Hampshire Medical Society, of various Masonic bodies and 
 medical examiner for several life insurance companies. In 
 1865, 1866, and also 1874, he took a post-graduate course in 
 medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New 
 York. He has been a long-time resident of Meriden, N. H., 
 and has enjoyed the respect and confidence of the citizens. 
 Never married. 
 
 Since the above was written. Dr. Sleeper died at Meriden, 
 October 22, 1902. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SEVENTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER 
 INFANTRY. 
 
 By Charles N. Kent, 
 
 First Lieutenant Seventeenth New Hampshire Volunteers, and 
 
 Historian of the Regiment. 
 
 " 'History,' said Gallatin, at a meeting of the Chamber of 
 Commerce in New York City, when troops were pressing to the 
 front in response to President Lincoln's first call for volun- 
 teers, ' History will make a faithful record of our proceedings, 
 and that record will be consulted by future generations for 
 encouragement, for instruction, and for warning throughout 
 all time. ' The gallant and accomplished Theodore Winthrop, 
 who was killed at Great Bethel, with his last breath expressed 
 the hope that some of his country men 'would keep careful 
 record of passing events, as we are making history hand over 
 hand.' By the wise and judicious enactment of New Hamp- 
 shire's Legislature and the approval of His Excellency the 
 Governor, it has been made possible to record and preserve 
 in permanent form the history of each regiment organized 
 within the state, which did its part for the preservation of the 
 nation in the great "War of the Rebellion." 
 
 "But the record of the Seventeenth Regiment is not one of 
 good will without brave deeds. The men who enlisted for 
 that organization went to the war under other commands 
 and their good service reflects credit upon the original or- 
 ganization and the final organizations with which they were 
 
 connected." 
 
 • «*••• 
 
 "Thus it appears that like most of New Hampshire's 
 33,000 soldiers, whose labors, sufferings, perils or deaths. 
 
200 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 through the greatest war of modern times, helped to preserve 
 the national union and to free a race from chattel slavery, 
 the men of this Seventeenth New Hampshire Regiment proved 
 themselves worthy of their birthright as American citizens, 
 and earned for themselves the tender remembrance and 
 eternal gratitude of their fellow-countrymen and of their de- 
 scendants to the latest generation." 
 
 *'The history of the Seventeenth Regiment of Infantry is 
 peculiar, as it tells of patient service and weary waiting for 
 thirty years before it received justice, which finally came by 
 the high authority of an act of the Federal Congress defining 
 its status and recognizing the full rank of its commander. 
 The Seventeenth has been accorded fraternal recognition by 
 the other military organizations of the state, and its name is 
 on the memorial stone at The Weirs. 
 
 "It did its full duty amid surroundings that taxed the 
 patience and zeal of officers and men, and its history should 
 be fully recorded among those of the other commands that 
 upheld the fame of the state during the great contest that 
 saved the Union. Recognizing the propriety and necessity 
 for the preparation of a lasting record relative to this regi- 
 ment, I have reisponded to the request to supply this, so far as 
 to quote from official documents in my possession sufficient to 
 explain its position and service." 
 
 •vP ^ ^ ^ flp ^ 
 
 "The report of the adjutant-general for 1866, in referring 
 to the history of this regiment, closes in the following lan- 
 guage: 
 
 " 'Every indication observable relative to discipline, drill 
 and instruction proved the fitness of the officers of the Seven- 
 teenth for duty; and the excellence of the men, together with 
 their attachment to their original officers and organization, 
 added to the regrets that followed the consolidation. 
 
 " 'In the record of the New Hampshire regiments, the 
 officers and men of the Seventeenth Infantry should have 
 honorable mention, as citizens who performed their entire 
 duty under discouraging circumstances, with steady prompti- 
 tude and consistent patriotism.' " 
 
SEVENTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE YOLUNTEERS. 201 
 
 SURGEON. 
 
 James D. Folsom, M. D. 
 
 assistant surgeons. 
 
 Luther C. Bean, M. D., Horatio X. Small, M. D. 
 
 (see 10 N. H. V.) 
 
 SEVENTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 James D. Folsom, M. D. 
 St. Johnsbury, Vt. 
 
 Folsom, James D. F. and S.; b. Wheelock, Vt.; age 34; res. Lancas- 
 ter; app. Surg. Nov. 4, '62; must, in Nov. 20, '62; must, out April 
 16, '63. P. O. ad., St. Johnsbury, Vt. ' (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 796.) 
 
 Surgeon Folsom wa,s born in Wheelock, Vt., July 3, 1828, 
 and was the son of James and Agnes (Sanborn) Folsom, a 
 grandson of James Folsom. Received his preliminary educa- 
 tion in the common schools of Vermont and supplemented it 
 by an academic course at Lyndon Academy, Vermont. He 
 commenced his professional education in Lyndon, Vt., in 1847, 
 under the direction of Drs. Selim Newell of St. Johnsbury 
 and Beniah Sanborn. He attended medical lectures at Wood- 
 stock, Vt., at Jefferson ^Medical College, Pennsylvania, and 
 at the Medical Department of Dartmouth College, and was 
 graduated from the latter in 1850. He commenced the prac- 
 tice of medicine at Guildhall, Vt., where he remained two 
 years, and then removed to Lancaster, N. H., where he re- 
 mained for eighteen years. Then he removed to St. Johns- 
 bury, where he has since been located. 
 
 Surgeon Folsom is a member of the White Mountain (N. 
 H.) and Caledonia (Vt.) Medical Societies. While a resident 
 of Lanca.ster he was appointed surgeon of the Seventeenth 
 Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers November 4, 1862, 
 and was mustered out of the service at Concord, April 16, 
 
202 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 1863. The men who had enlisted in this regiment were as- 
 signed to fill up other regiments, and therefore the regiment 
 as an organization was disbanded April 6, 1863. 
 
 Surgeon Folsom has been president of the White Mountain 
 Medical Society of New Hampshire, also of the St. Johnsbury 
 Medical and Surgical Club in Vermont, and is a member of 
 the Masonic fraternity, being a Sir Knight in the North Star 
 Commandery at Lancaster, N. H. While a resident of Lan- 
 caster he represented that town in the New Hampshire Legis- 
 lature. 
 
 Married, in 1852, to Flora Newell. 
 
 Children, four: Alice Estelle, James Irving, Nellie E. and 
 Flora M. 
 
 Luther Cummings Bean, M. D. 
 
 Waukegan, Lake County, 111. 
 Bean, Luther C. F. and S.; b. Sanborn ton; age 41; res. Lebanon; 
 cred. Strafford; app. Asst. Surg. Nov. 4, '62; must, in Nov. 20, 
 '62; must, out April IG, 'G3. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 
 794.) 
 
 Surgeon Bean was born in Sanbornton, December 13, 1820, 
 and was the eon of Scribner H. and Elizabeth K. (Harper) 
 Bean. He received his early education in the common and 
 high schools of Sanbornton, which at that time was under the 
 direction of that successful educator. Dyer H. Sanborn. He 
 commenced his professional education in 1846 at Sanbornton 
 Bridge, now called Tilton, under the direction of Dr. Enos 
 Hoyt, who afterwards removed to Framingham, Mass. He 
 continued his professional education under the direction of 
 the faculty of Dartmouth and Vermont Medical College, of 
 Woodstock, attending three courses of lectures and was gradu- 
 ated M. D. from the Woodstock Medical College in 1849. He 
 practiced his profession for a short time in South Weare and 
 Penacook, N. H., removing to Lebanon, N. H., in 1852, where 
 he remained for twenty years, then removed to Chicago, 
 where he remained six years, and has been at his present 
 
SEVENTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 203 
 
 residence in Waukegan since August, 1878. He was a member 
 of the New Hampshire Medical Society, of the Grafton County 
 and Connecticut Valley Medical Societies, and is a member 
 of the Lake County Medical Society of Illinois. He was the 
 last secretary of the Grafton County Medical Society before 
 it disbanded. He belongs to Masonic associations, being a 
 Knight Templar ; has been alderman of the city of Waukegan, 
 member of the Board of Pension Examiners, etc. He was ap- 
 pointed assistant surgeon of the Seventeenth New Hampshire 
 Regiment in November, 1862, and was mustered out of the 
 service April 16, 1863. The history of the Seventeenth Regi- 
 ment was peculiar, as this regiment was kept in camp in Con- 
 cord for a period of about five months and company after 
 company was taken from that organization and placed in other 
 regiments until it became so small that the field and staff 
 was mustered out of the service. This was through no fault 
 of its officers, and afterwards the field and staff were given 
 due recognition by the War Department of the United States. 
 
 Surgeon Bean married, January 27, 1852, Susan Gerrish. 
 
 Born to this marriage, five children : Charles Henry, Susan 
 E., Elizabeth M., Willie A. and Susan A. Of these only one 
 is living, Susie A. Bean. 
 
 Since the above was written. Dr. Bean died at his home in 
 Waukegan, 111., February 22, 1905, at the age of eighty-four 
 years. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 EIGHTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER 
 INFANTRY. 
 
 By Thomas L. Livermore, 
 Late Colonel, Eighteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 ' ' Six companies of this regiment ( A to F) were raised under 
 the call of the president, July 18, 1864. They joined the 
 Engineer Brigade, commanded by General Benham, at City 
 Point, Va., October 4, 1864. Charles H. Bell of Exeter was 
 appointed colonel and James W. Carr of Manchester, lieu- 
 tenant-colonel, but both declined the commissions. October 
 13, Joseph M. Clough of New London, lately a captain in the 
 Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers, was commissioned lieu- 
 tenant-colonel, and William I. Brown of Fisherville, then ad- 
 jutant of the Ninth New Hampshire Volunteers, was com- 
 missioned major, and in the same month they joined the first 
 six companies at City Point. Although the quota of this 
 state, under the call of July 18, was completed, Governor Gil- 
 more, by proclamation, October 13, caused enlistments for the 
 last four companies to proceed in advance of the next call of 
 the president of December 19, under which proclamation and 
 call the regiment was completed. It was composed of excellent 
 material. The members were almost entirely citizens of the 
 state. A good many of them had seen service in other organ- 
 izations, and the remainder were good men, whose delay in 
 volunteering may fairly be presumed to have been justifiable. 
 
 "January 17, 1865, Thomas L. Livermore of Milford, then 
 major of the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers and acting as- 
 
EIGHTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 205 
 
 sistant inspector-general of the Second Army Corps on the 
 staff of Major-General Humphries, was commissioned colonel. 
 His muster was deferred under the regulation of the War 
 Department that a regiment should not be entitled to a colonel 
 until it had ten companies. Companies G and H joined the 
 regiment at City Point in February, and Company I joined at 
 Petersburg in March. The tenth company (K) was mustered 
 into service April 6, but on account of Lee's surrender was 
 detained at Galloup's Island, Boston Harbor, until May 6, 
 when it was mustered out of service. The regiment remained 
 a part of Benham's Brigade until March 19, and was employed 
 for some weeks in labor on the fortifications of City Point. 
 December 10 the brigade moved, in severe weather, to the lines 
 in front of Petersburg, and there occupied the works to the 
 left of Fort Davis for several days. December 18, as a 
 part of a temporary brigade detached under Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Clough, it labored two weeks on the works at Bermuda 
 Hundred, under order of General Ferrero; February 5, in 
 Benham's Brigade, the regiment was marched to the front of 
 Petersburg, and remained there a week. March 19, by order 
 of General Meade, commanding the Army of the Potomac, 
 the regiment was detached from Benham's Brigade, and 
 ordered to report to the commander of the Ninth Army Corps, 
 to be disbanded and distributed among the New Hampshire 
 regiments of that command. The personal intercession of 
 Colonel Livermore at army headquarters caused the order for 
 disbandment to be revoked. Having reported to General 
 Parke, commanding the Ninth Army Corps, March 25, the 
 regiment supported the Eleventh Massachusetts Battery in the 
 engagement in which Fort Stedman was recaptured from the 
 enemy, and on the same day it was assigned to the Third 
 Brigade, First Division, Ninth Army Corps, and was posted in 
 Fort Stedman, where it remained under constant fire until 
 the fall of Petersburg. March 29 the regiment repelled a 
 night attack, in which IMajor Brown was killed and Lieuten- 
 ant-Colonel Clough was slightly wounded, and several enlisted 
 men were killed and wounded. April 2 the regiment made 
 
206 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 • ready for an assault on the enemy 's line, which the division 
 was ordered to make. Captain Greenough was wounded while 
 forming the three companies, which had been placed under 
 his command for the advance party. The assault was counter- 
 manded. Later in the day, a skirmish line from the regiment, 
 supported by three of its companies under Captain Potter, 
 was thrown forward and encountered a strong force, with a 
 loss of one killed and several wounded. April 3 the regiment 
 entered Petersburg, which had been abandoned by the enemy 
 the night before, and then moved up the Southside Railroad 
 to Ford's Station, where it remained until the 20th. 
 
 "Captain Potter was promoted to major April 4, and 
 Colonel Livermore was mustered in and took command April 
 8. On the twentieth the command marched to City Point, 
 where it took steamer and arrived at Alexandria, April 26, 
 and then marched to Tennallytown, D. C, where it went into 
 camp with its brigade, which included also the Twenty-ninth, 
 Fifty-seventh and Fifty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteers and 
 One Hundredth Pennsylvania Volunteers. 
 
 "Soon after arriving at Tennallytown, the Eighteenth was 
 placed on guard in Four and One-Half Street, Washington, 
 from Pennsylvania Avenue to the Arsenal, where the court- 
 martial was sitting for the trial of the conspirators against 
 President Lincoln, and, alternating in tours of four days with 
 a regiment from another army corps, it continued to perform 
 this duty during the entire session of the court. The selection 
 of the Eighteenth as one of the two regiments for this duty, 
 out of the great army then lying around Washington, was 
 high testimony to the character, discipline and soldierly ap- 
 pearance of the regiment. 
 
 "May 19, 1865, Lieutenant Caswell was appointed adjutant, 
 vice Hobbs, discharged for disability. June 10, Companies A, 
 B, C, D, E and F were mustered out, and Companies G, H and 
 I went on duty as provost guard in Georgetown. June 8, Col- 
 onel Livermore was appointed president of a court-martial con- 
 vened by the division commander of the First Division, Ninth 
 Army Corps, and June 15, by his order, was assigned to the 
 
EIGHTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 207 
 
 command of the Third Brigade of that division. He and 
 Major Potter were mustered out June 23, and Companies G, 
 H and I, and Lieutenant-Colonel Clough were mustered out 
 July 29. 
 
 "The Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers was attached 
 to Engineer Brigade, Defences of City Point, Va., Army of the 
 Potomac, October 4, 1864, to March 18, 1865 ; to Ninth Army 
 Corps, March 19 to 26, 1865 ; to Third Brigade, First Division, 
 Ninth Army Corps, March 26, 1865, to date of muster out. 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 Fort Stedman, Ya., March 25, 29, 1865. 
 Petersburg, Ya., April 2, 1865. 
 
 surgeons. 
 
 Samuel G. Dearborn, M. D. John S. Emerson, M. D. 
 (not mustered, see 8th Regt.), 
 
 assistant surgeons. 
 
 Aaron W. Shepard, M. D., Nathaniel C. Parker, M. D. 
 Thomas R. Clement, M. D. (not mustered, see U. S. N.) 
 (not mustered, see 10th Regt.), 
 
 EIGHTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 
 
 John Sherman Emerson, M. D. 
 
 Late of Lynn, Mass. 
 
 (9 N. H. V.) 
 
 Emebson. John S. F. and S.; b. Chester; age 30; res. Sandwich; 
 cred. Sandwich; app. Asst. Surg. July 10, '62; must, in July 12, 
 '62; disch. Apr. 15, '65, to accept promotion. See 18 N. H. V. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 475.) 
 
 (18 N. H. V.) 
 
 Emebson, John S. F. and S.; b. Chester; age 32; res. Sandwich; 
 app. Surg. Mar. 22, '65; must, in Apr. 16, '65, for 1 yr.; must, out 
 July 29, '65. Died Sept. 23, '86. Lynn, Mass. See 9 N. H. V. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 810.) 
 
208 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Surgeon Emerson of the Ninth and Eighteenth Regiments 
 of New Hampshire Volunteers was born in Chester, N. H., 
 July 80, 1832, and was the son of Nathaniel French and Clar- 
 issa Goodhue Emerson, a grandson of John Emerson. This 
 was an old and respected family that had occupied the same 
 farm in the town of Chester for several generations. Dr. 
 Emerson labored upon the farm and received his preliminary 
 education in the common schools of Chester, at Pembroke 
 Academy, Pembroke, N. H., at Thetford, Vt., and Andover, 
 Mass. Having a disposition to study medicine, he directed his 
 academical studies in that direction and commenced his pro- 
 fessional education in 1851 with Dr. James W. C. Ely of Prov- 
 idence, R. I. This was continued under the direction of Drs. 
 Henry J. Bigelow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Morrill Wy- 
 man of the Medical Department of Harvard University, 
 Avhere he attended three courses of lectures, and was grad- 
 uated from the same in the class of 1855. He located for 
 the practice of medicine in Sandwich, N. H., remaining 
 there until he entered the service of the United States as 
 assistant surgeon of the Ninth Regiment New Hampshire 
 Volunteers July 10, 1862, and remained with this regiment 
 in the same capacity until he was discharged April 15, 1865, 
 to accept promotion. April 16, 1865, he was appointed sur- 
 geon of the Eighteenth New Hampshire, and was mustered 
 out of the service with the regiment, July 18, 1865. 
 
 The Ninth Regiment was commanded by Col. E. Q. Fellows 
 of Sandwich, a graduate of West Point and a fellow-towns- 
 man of Dr. Emerson, who was very anxious that Dr. Emerson 
 should accompany him and his regiment to the front. The 
 Ninth Regiment was a part of the Ninth Corps and for a 
 considerable period under the command of General Burnside. 
 Soon after being mustered into the service, he was in the battle 
 of South Mountain, which \yas soon followed by the battle of 
 Antietam. At these battles Dr. Emerson was in charge of a 
 hospital on what was called the Miller's farm, where he did 
 good service, his patients being from both armies. Dr. Emer- 
 son was talking with General Reno at the time he was struck 
 by a shell and killed. The Doctor received a slight wound 
 at the same time. 
 
EIGHTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 209 
 
 Early in June, 1863, the Ninth Corps was ordered to Missis- 
 sippi, and the Ninth New Hampshire went up the Yazoo Kiver 
 to Haines Bluff and were in the siege of Jackson. They were 
 also near Vieksburg at the time of its surrender. The climate 
 and forced marching told heavily upon the men, and August 
 14, 1863, the Ninth, with other regiments, left for Cairo on 
 transports and from there went to Nicholsonville, Ky., where 
 almost every man had become ill with malarial fever, and they 
 were taken to Paris, Ky. At this point Mrs. Emerson joined 
 her husband and rendered valuable assistance as a nurse in 
 looking after the sick men. A large mansion house was con- 
 verted into a hospital, under the charge of Surgeon Emerson, 
 who won the confidence of the inhabitants of the place and 
 was highly appreciated for the skillful manner in which he 
 treated his men and for the strict discipline which was main- 
 tained. The men soon improved, and it was a surprise to 
 those Southern people to find so many common soldiers that 
 were educated ; it was a frequent remark among them, ' ' Why, 
 your men can all read and write." 
 
 In April, 1864, the Ninth New Hampshire Regiment, having 
 been reorganized, was assigned to the First Brigade, Second 
 Division, and sent out, April 23, to join the Army of the Poto- 
 mac. This organization was at Annapolis, Md., and as it passed 
 through Washington, was reviewed on the twenty-fifth by 
 President Lincoln and General Burnside, and joined Grant's 
 array at Bristoe Station, April 25, which at that time was the 
 extreme rear of Grant's army. It left Bristoe Station, on the 
 Orange and Alexandria Railroad, now the Great Southern, 
 jNIay 5, and reached Germania Ford at noon, May 6. The 
 following day it came under fire at the Wilderness and from 
 that time until about June 12 it was constantly at the front 
 and bravely doing its duty. A letter received from Dr. Emer- 
 son, dated June 10, 1864, says: "For thirty-five days we have 
 been at the front under fire." His biographer says: "To say 
 that his men were brave and that the sick and wounded were 
 faithfully cared for is but a just tribute to brave and noble 
 men, ' ' 
 
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210 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 "His strong principle, as well as delight, both in private 
 practice and in the army, was to amputate as seldom as pos- 
 sible, and to save what at first seemed impossible members. 
 Many boys of the Ninth and others of various regiments in 
 hospitals gratefully testify to his skill. 
 
 "In Lynn very severe cases of mutilation by machinery 
 were exceptionally restored. He was absorbed in and devoted 
 to his profession. The exigencies of war appealed to him 
 strongly and from the first he desired to offer his services if 
 the war was to continue." 
 
 The service of the Eighteenth Regiment, in which Dr. Emer- 
 son was commissioned as surgeon, was short but brilliant, the 
 regiment taking part in the battles at Fort Stedman and Pe- 
 tersburg, Va. 
 
 On returning to civil life. Dr. Emerson located in Lynn, 
 Mass., in the year 1866, remaining there until his death, which 
 occurred September 23, 1886. He was a member of the New 
 Hampshire and Massachusetts Medical Societies, also of the 
 local medical association at Lynn. Was a member of the 
 Masonic Fraternity and of the Grand Army Post at Lynn. 
 
 Dr. Emerson gave special attention to surgery and obstet- 
 rics, was a public spirited citizen and very active in establish- 
 ing and promoting the Lynn City Hospital. 
 
 Married, 1855, Mary E. Homer. 
 
 Children : Mary H., Charles Bell and Margaret C. Emerson, 
 of whom only one, Charles Bell Emerson, is now living. 
 
 Aaron Warner Shepard, M. D. 
 126 Willoughby St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 (9 N. H. V.) 
 
 Shepherd, Aarox W. Non-Com. staff; b. Biddeford, Me.; age 21; res. 
 Nashua; cred. Nashua; enl. July 26, '62; must, in July 26, '62, as 
 Hosp. Steward; disch. Dec. 16, '64, to accept promotion. P. O. ad., 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. See 18 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 500.) 
 
EIGHTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 211 
 
 (18 N. H. V.) 
 
 Shepherd, Aaron W. F. and S. ; b. Biddeford, Me.; age 23; res. 
 Nashua; app. Asst. Surg. Nov. 10, '64; must, in Dec. 18, '64, for 1 
 year; must, out July 29, '65. P. O. ad., Brooklyn, N. Y. See 9 N. 
 H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 823.) 
 
 Surgeon Shepard was born in Biddeford, Me., February 17, 
 1841, and was the son of John W. and Eliza (Burns) Shepard. 
 It would seem that his parents removed to New Hampshire, 
 for his preliminary education was received in the public 
 schools of Nashua, N. H., including the high school, and at 
 Gilmanton Academy. His professional education conunenced 
 in 1861 with Drs. Gray and Webster of Nashua, and was con- 
 tinued at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New 
 York City, and at Long Island College Hospital at Brooklyn. 
 After receiving two courses of lectures, he was graduated at 
 Long Island College Hospital, in 1866, since which time he 
 has been in the practice of medicine in that city. He is a 
 member of King's County Medical Society and King's County 
 Medical Association, and has been a member of the Brooklyn 
 Board of Education. For the past thirty years he has been 
 phy.sician to Kings County, N. Y., and post-mortem examiner 
 for the coroner of the same county, making, during the thirty 
 years, more than eight thousand post-mortem examinations 
 for the coroner. He was also house physician and surgeon in 
 Brooklyn City Hospital during the cholera epidemic of 
 August, 1866. His services in the United States army were 
 hospital steward of the Ninth Regiment New Hampshire Vol- 
 unteers from July 26, 1862, to February, 1865, when he was 
 appointed assistant surgeon of the Eighteenth New Hamp- 
 shire Volunteers until the regiment was mustered out of the 
 service August, 1865, by reason of the close of war. 
 
 Never married. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE BATTALION, FIRST REGIMENT 
 NEW ENGLAND VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 
 
 Also known as First Rhode Island Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 By Ezra B. Parker (Littleton, N. H.), 
 
 Late Captain of the First Regiment New England Volunteer 
 
 Cavalry. 
 
 The First New England Cavalry was the first full regi- 
 ment of this arm of the service raised in New England. The 
 regiment was composed of three battalions. The First and 
 Third were enlisted in Rhode Island and the Second in New 
 Hampshire. 
 
 The New Hampshire Battalion — Companies I, K, L and ]\I — 
 was recruited mostly from the northern and central portions 
 of the state, but enlistments for mounted service came quickly 
 from all sections. 
 
 The first rendezvous was at the Fair Grounds, near Concord, 
 east of the river, in the fall of 1861, where the battalion or- 
 ganization was completed, mustered into service and horses 
 supplied. 
 
 The New Hampshire Battalion joined the two Rhode Island 
 Battalions at Pawtucket, R. I., January 22, 1862, where the 
 regimental organization was perfected. 
 
 At the outset the men were armed with sabres, Colt's re- 
 volvers and the Burnside carbine. The carbine was later re- 
 placed by Sharpe's. 
 
FIRST NEW ENGLAND VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 213 
 
 The command, one thousand officers and men, under Col. 
 R. B. Lawton, a captain in the Third United States Cavalry, 
 left Rhode Island March 12, 1862, reached Washington March 
 18, and was assigned to cavalry brigade under General Stone- 
 man on East Capitol Hill. 
 
 On March 31 the name of the regiment was changed from 
 First New England Cavalry to First Rhode Island Cavalry, 
 by order of the War Department, unsupported by any pre- 
 liminary correspondence with Governor Berry of New Hamp- 
 shire. This act, effacing as it did the original character of the 
 regiment, was grievously received by the men and bitterly felt 
 throughout the state; but a prompt disavowal of intended in- 
 justice, combined with the sympathetic and noble spirit dis- 
 played by the officers and men from Rhode Island, did much 
 to heal the wound and fraternize the command. But the camp 
 guidon, inscribed "First New England Cavalry," was cher- 
 ished and preserved to the end. 
 
 The New Hampshire Battalion, however, a little later, on 
 May 30, while temporarily detached from the regiment, had an 
 opportunity at Front Royal, Va., to write their identity with 
 their newly-ground sabres, where, wholly unsupported, they 
 performed one of the most brilliant exploits of the war under 
 the eye of Major-General Shields, who that night published an 
 order reciting the valor of the "brave Granite State Troopers." 
 
 Colonel Lawton and Lieutenant-Colonel Sayles resigned 
 July 8, and were succeeded by Maj. A. N. Duffie as colonel and 
 Capt. J. L. Thompson of the New Hampshire Battalion as 
 lieutenant-colonel. 
 
 The drill and discipline of the six weeks, commencing with 
 this change of field officers, resulted in incalculable benefit in 
 developing the regiment to its celebrated condition of battalion 
 evolution and utility for service. To such prominence did it 
 attain that it was selected by General Hooker, commanding the 
 Army of the Potomac, to display its proficiency before Presi- 
 dent Lincoln at the grand review at Falmouth in the winter 
 of 1862- '63. 
 
214 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 The small force of cavalry attached to General Pope 's Army 
 of Virginia in the fall of 1862 decimated the ranks of the regi- 
 ment by its burdensome duties and frequent conflicts with the 
 enemy. It fired the first shot and received the first artilleiy 
 fire in the four great battles of this campaign, viz. : Cedar 
 Mountain, Groveton, second Bull Run and Chantilly. 
 
 "The regiment was in line on Falmouth Heights all of the 
 first day of the battle of Fredericksburg, waiting orders to 
 cross the river and engage the enemy, and that night a detach- 
 ment was hurried to Dumfries to repel a guerilla attack on the 
 government supplies at that point. Two companies, K and 
 M, were on duty at General Stoneman's headquarters during 
 the Fredericksburg fight. 
 
 " 'Forty winks' was an adult potion for the cavalry in the 
 winter of 1862- '63. They slept in the saddle. 
 
 "Raids on both sides, night attacks in force on the picket 
 line, was the rule, not the exception. It was 'play ball' all 
 the time. 
 
 "The successful initial exclusive cavalry fight, on both sides, 
 at Kelly's Ford, March 17, 1863, resulted in the organization 
 of all the cavalry into one army corps, and its subsequent 
 career furnishes a conspicuous part of the history of the fight- 
 ing. Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania brought it to the front. 
 
 "The perilous and untenable position which the regiment, 
 then numbering less than four hundred, was ordered to carry 
 and hold at Middleburgh, on June 18, is a sample of the de- 
 mands made upon it; but it never faltered or failed. Con- 
 fronted and hemmed in by a force twenty times their number, 
 they heroically cut their way out, with a loss of over two hun- 
 dred in killed, wounded and captured. To add to the unfor- 
 tunate condition of the captured, the cartel for the exchange 
 of prisoners had been recently suspended, and was never again 
 but partially restored. The writer of this sketch, then adju- 
 tant of the regiment, 'boarded' nine months in Libby Prison 
 with many others. 
 
FIRST NEW ENGLAND VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 215 
 
 * ' The regiment did not participate, as an organization, in the 
 battle of Gettysburg, but two men of the New Hampshire 
 Battalion w^ere on mounted duty at Major-General Sickles' 
 headquarters, and both were killed. 
 
 "On January 7, 1864, the following order restored the bat- 
 talion to the custody of its own state : 
 
 War Department, 
 Adjutant-General's Office, 
 Washington, January 7, 1864. 
 
 Special Order No. 9. 
 
 EXTRACT. 
 
 V. Companies I, K, L and M, First Khode Island Cavalry, 
 are hereby permanently detached from that regiment, and 
 will be considered as New Hampshire cavalry companies, they 
 having been enrolled and mustered into service in that State. 
 
 All further appointments of officers for the said companies 
 will be made by the governor of New Hampshire, by whom a 
 proper numerical designation will be given to the force. 
 
 By order of the Secretary of War, 
 
 E. D. TOWNSEND, 
 
 A. A. General. 
 
 "The men were immediately re-enlisted for another three 
 years, forming the four veteran companies of the First New 
 Hampshire Cavalry. 
 
 ASSIGNMENTS. 
 
 "The First Kegiment New England Volunteer Cavalry 
 (also known as First Regiment Rhode Island Volunteer Cav- 
 alry) was attached to Abercrombie's Brigade, Department of 
 the Rappahannock, April 1, 1862; Third (Hartsuff's Brigade, 
 Second Division, Department of the Rappahannock, ]\Iay 2, 
 1862; Department of the Shenandoah, May 24, 1862; Shields' 
 Division, Department of the Shenandoah, June 1, 1862; Third 
 Army Corps, Army of Virginia, June 28, 1862; Cavalry 
 
216 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Brigade, Third Army Corps, Army of Virginia, August, 1862 ; 
 Corps of Observation, Defenses of Washington, September 14, 
 1862; Stoneman's Division, Army of the Potomac, October 28, 
 1862 ; First Cavalry Brigade, Centre Grand Division, Army of 
 the Potomac, November 16, 1862 ; First Brigade, Second Cav- 
 alry Division, Army of the Potomac, February 25, 1863 ; 
 Twenty-second Army Corps, Department of Washington, June 
 21, 1863 ; Second Brigade, Second Cavalry Division, Army of 
 the Potomac, July, 1863 ; First Brigade, Second Cavalry Di- 
 vision, Army of the Potomac, August 13, 1863. Companies 
 I, K, L and M were permanently detached January 7, 1864, 
 and became Companies I, K, L and M, First Regiment, New 
 Hampshire Volunteer Cavalry." 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 Front Royal, Va., May 30, 1862. (The New Hampshire 
 Battalion.) 
 
 Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9, 1862. 
 
 Groveton, Va., August 29, 1862. 
 
 Bull Run (second), Va., August 30, 1862. 
 
 Chantilly, Va., September 1, 1862. 
 
 Mountville, Va. (Cos. L, K and M), October 31, 1862. 
 
 Fredericksburg, Va. (Companies K and M), December 12- 
 14, 1862. 
 
 Hartwood Church, Va., February 26, 1862. 
 
 Kelly's Ford, Va., March 17, 1863. 
 
 Stoneman's Raid, Va., April 27 to May 8, 1863. 
 
 Brandy Station, Va., June 9, 1863. 
 
 Thoroughfare Gap, Va., June 17, 1863. 
 
 Middleburgh, Va., June 18, 1863. 
 
 Rapidan Station, Va., September 14, 1863. 
 
 Culpeper (or White Sulphur Springs, also called Warren- 
 ton Springs), Va., October 12, 1863. 
 
 Bristoe Station, Va., October 14, 1863. 
 
 SURGEON. 
 
 James B. Greeley, M. D. 
 
FIRST NEW ENGLAND VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 217 
 
 FIRST REGIMENT NEW ENGLAND VOLUNTEER 
 CAVALRY. 
 
 James Bonaparte Greeley, M. D. 
 
 Thornton's Ferry, N. H. 
 
 Gbeelet, James B. F. and S.; b. Nashua; age 33; res. Nashua; app. 
 Asst. Surg. Nov. 3, '61; must, in Dec. 3, '61; app. Surg. June 4, 
 '62; resigned Aug. 31, 'G2. P. 0. ad., Thornton's Ferry. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 837.) 
 
 Surgeon Greeley wa.s the sou of Joseph aud Hannah (Thorn- 
 ton) Greeley and was born in Nashua, X. H., July 18, 1830. 
 His preliminary education was received in the common schools 
 and at Crosby Academy in Nashua, Pinkerton Academy in 
 Derry, Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. He commenced 
 his professional education in 1852 in Nashua, N. H., under the 
 direction of Drs. Norman IMorse and George Gray; attended 
 medical lectures at Dartmouth Medical College; at the Ver- 
 mont Medical College at Woodstock, Vt., and was graduated 
 M. D. from the latter in 1856. He also took a post-graduate 
 course at Harvard IMedical College. 
 
 Surgeon Greeley located in Nashua in 1857 and was in that 
 city when the War of the Rebellion occurred. He was for- 
 tunate in his training for army service, as he had six months' 
 training in the Marine Hospital in Chelsea, Mass., as well as 
 one year in the James T. Simpson Hospital in Edinburgh, 
 Scotland , also in London and Paris hospitals. His service in 
 the army was little more than one year, having been ap- 
 pointed assistant surgeon November 3, 1861, and promoted to 
 surgeon June 4, 1862, and resigned August 31, 1862. His 
 resignation was on account of disability cau.sed at the second 
 battle of Bull Run, when he was so unfortunate as to receive 
 three wounds, one in the head, producing a permanent dis- 
 ability, also a wound in the arm and one of the hip. He has 
 been able to do but very little profe.ssional work since his 
 resignation. 
 
218 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Before the war he was city physician of Nashua, member of 
 the New Hampshire legislature and of the board of education 
 in Nashua. He is a 32d degree IMason and a member of John 
 Foster Post, G. A. R., of Nashua. 
 
 Married, June 24, 1858, Arabella McGaw, daughter of Rev. 
 Henry Wood of Hanover, N. H. 
 
 Children, three sons: Harry Wood, James Thornton and 
 Guy Hastings Greeley. 
 
 Died April 20, 1903. 
 
 DARTMOUTH CAVALRY. 
 
 The history of the New England and New Hampshire Cav- 
 alry, as recorded by Captain Parker and Sergeant Smith, is 
 somewhat incomplete, inasmuch as it fails to give a record of 
 one company of the three months' men who served with the 
 regiment w^hen it was commanded by Rhode Island officers. 
 This record should not be lost, for it refers to the famous Dart- 
 mouth Cavalry. The writer most willingly calls attention to 
 their services for the reason that several of its members, after 
 completing their course in Dartmouth College, pursued the 
 study of medicine, and their record will be found in a group 
 of brave volunteers who rendered service as enlisted men, and 
 afterward became well-recognized members of the noble pro- 
 fession of medicine and surgery. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 DARTMOUTH CAVALRY, 
 
 Company B, Seventh Squadron, Ehode Island Volunteer 
 
 Cavalry. 
 
 By John Scales, 
 
 Secretary and Historian of the Class of 1863, Dartmouth Col- 
 lege. 
 
 "The Dartmouth Cavalry stands unique among all the 
 military forces contributed by the colleges of this country to 
 suppress the Great Rebellion. Dartmouth is the only college 
 that furnished anything of the kind, and has just occasion 
 to feel proud of that company of cavalrymen, not only for 
 what they did but also for what they were ready and prepared 
 to do, had more been demanded of them. 
 
 "The idea of forming such a company was conceived by a 
 member of the class of 1863, Mr. Sanford S. Burr, who be- 
 came captain of it after it was organized. In May, 1862, 
 Captain Burr began to talk about raising a company of cav- 
 alry. The war spirit ran high at that time. The North was 
 threatened with an invasion, the capital of the country was re- 
 garded as in great danger of being captured by forces of 
 General Lee, and the whole body of college students was deeply 
 stirred. President Lincoln had issued a call for forty thou- 
 sand men for three months, when Captain Burr took hold of 
 the matter in earnest and got a hundred students pledged to 
 join a company for three months, in response to the presi- 
 dent's call. He then applied to the governor of New Hamp- 
 
220 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 shire to accept such a company when ready to be mustered 
 into the service ; the governor declined. A similar application 
 was made to the governors of Massachusetts and Maine, with 
 no better success. He then applied to Governor Sprague of 
 Ehode Island and obtained a promise to accept the company 
 if raised immediately. This was in June, when Hanover was 
 in all of its beauty of scenery that inspires and delights. The 
 boys were continually discussing the question, but feared they 
 could not get a chance for the company to be accepted. While 
 they were in this state of mind the joy they expressed can bet- 
 ter be imagined than described when Captain Burr received a 
 telegram from Governor Sprague that he would accept the 
 company. The news spread rapidly and the whole college was 
 stirred as never before or since. For a day or two after, it 
 seemed as though the whole college would respond to Presi- 
 dent Lincoln's call. Parents began to be alarmed lest their 
 young sons should enlist and be off for the war before they 
 could reach them with letters forbidding rash and inconsid- 
 erate action. President Lord and the faculty counselled 
 against it also, on the ground that it would be more beneficial 
 to the students to keep to their books than to go to the war. 
 These influences tended to dampen the ardor of many of the 
 students when the time actually came to enroll their names, so 
 finally it was found necessary to admit a few from Norwich 
 University, then just across the Connecticut river from Han- 
 over, a few from Union, Bowdoin, and one or two other col- 
 leges, with a contingent from Woodstock, Vt., not connected 
 with any college; but nearly all were Dartmouth boys. 
 
 "At the time the company was being organized there was 
 no recruiting going on in Vermont. The Sixth Vermont In- 
 fantry had been filled, yet there were plenty of recruits; and 
 when some of the college boys appeared in Woodstock for 
 recruits for the cavalry company, Mr. John S. Eaton of that 
 towTi and Mr. William S. Dewey of Hartford were earnest 
 and enthusiastic in meeting the call, both joining the company 
 and persuading others to join. There being no opportunity to 
 enlist in Vermont at the time and this appearing to be the only 
 
DARTMOUTH CAVALRY. 221 
 
 chance to go to war, the boys thought best to improve it. This 
 seems to be the principal moving cause of what appears at first 
 to be a movement somewhat out of the usuM course on the part 
 of the Woodstock boys. 
 
 "On the evening of June 18, 1862, the company left Han- 
 over for White River Junction, escorted by a large number of 
 students, who wished to see their classmates and friends safely 
 on board the train that was to take them to Providence, R. I., 
 where they were to be mustered into the United States service, 
 preliminary to entering the United States volunteer army. 
 They left White River Junction on the night express and ar- 
 rived in Providence a little past noon of June 19. There they 
 were received by Col. A. C. Eddy of the governor's staff, and 
 treated to a generous lunch of crackers and cheese with hot 
 coffee. They then took the oath of enlistment, and went to 
 the quartermaster's department to get their uniforms. The 
 scene in that large room, where the students were not only 
 uniformed but also transformed from students to soldiers, was 
 ludicrous in the extreme, and at the same time, in many cases, 
 most affecting. It was a shock to them all to look at them- 
 selves in the coarse garbs of troopers, in comparison with the 
 'go-to-meeting suits' they had just taken off. The transition 
 was so sudden and so different from the heroes they had pic- 
 tured in the mind's eye, as they had discussed the question on 
 the campus and beneath the shade trees at beautiful Hanover, 
 that they felt disgusted with themselves; nothing after that 
 in their camp life caused them so much embarrassment. 
 
 "This transformation scene concluded, the company was 
 marched to 'Camp Codman,' pleasantly and conveniently lo- 
 cated on Dexter 's training ground. There they elected their 
 officers. They tossed a cent to decide whether their company 
 or a company of Rhode Island men should be numbered A or 
 B. The Rhode Island company won the choice and was called 
 *A,' the Dartmouth men, *B.' The former company was, for 
 the greater part, made up of men of foreign birth or extrac- 
 tion, but the two companies got along on the most amicable 
 terms throughout the whole campaign, which lasted until the 
 middle of September. 
 
222 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 ''The students received many kindly attentions from the 
 leading citizens of Providence while they remained there. The 
 Providence Journal spoke of the company in highly compli- 
 mentary terms. They attended church on Sunday in a body 
 and listened to Bishop Clark, seats being specially reserved 
 for them. On the evening of Thursday, the twenty-fourth of 
 June, they were tendered a reception and banquet by ex-Gov- 
 ernor Hoppin and Colonel Gardner, at which time the elite of 
 the city were present and Dartmouth College was extolled to 
 the highest degree for the patriotism of its students, as mani- 
 fested by their leaving their studies to defend the honor and 
 preserve the union of the nation." 
 
 After leaving Providence, the company had the usual ex- 
 perience of that period and arrived in Washington June 30. 
 They next pitched their camp at Alexandria, and in August 
 found themselves in the vicinity of Harper's Ferry. 
 
 "August 23, the mail train from Harper's Ferry was 
 sacked and burned by rebel cavalry, about eight miles from 
 camp ; the rebels were pursued by the squadron, but could not 
 be captured ; the men were out scouting all night. On the twen- 
 ty-fifth they charged the rebel cavalry up through Front Royal 
 and returned to camp the next morning. The twenty-sixth of 
 August they went over the same ground. The first of Septem- 
 ber they were out on a foraging expedition. The second of Sep- 
 tember the squadron, under Major Corliss, left camp at 3 p. m. 
 on a reconnoissance and marched over thirty miles, through 
 Middletown and Newtown ; they took four prisoners ; returning 
 to camp they found it deserted, and all the tents, stores, etc., 
 belonging to the squadron burned. They had orders then 
 to form the rear guard of the brigade retreating to Harper's 
 Ferry; marching all night, they reached Harper's Ferry at 
 9 a. m., September 3, having been in the saddle for thirty 
 hours and marched continuously sixty-five miles. The squad- 
 ron camped on Boliver Heights, minus tents and almost every- 
 thing else. The squadron remained there one day and had 
 their horses shod ; then they crossed the Potomac to Maryland, 
 
DARTMOUTH CAVALRY. 223 
 
 and took position on the Heights, opposite the ferry, having 
 been assigned that position as part of the Third Brigade of 
 Colonel Miles ' forces, under command of Colonel Ford. 
 
 ''All that the Dartmouth men had left from the Winchester 
 camp were a few cooking utensils, their overcoats and rubber 
 blankets. On the Heights their rations consisted of coffee and 
 six 'hard-tacks' a day. Here they had to perform daily de- 
 tails of picket duty, fully conscious that they were cut off 
 from Washington and the North. 
 
 "From the observatory on the Heights they could see Gen- 
 eral Lee's army crossing into Maryland, in the neighborhood 
 of Frederick. Two of the college boys went up Pleasant Valley 
 on a private scout and from the mountains on the east they 
 saw Lee's army encamped at Frederick. 
 
 "It is not my purpose to enter into details of the capture 
 of Harper's Ferry and the forces there, except the cavalry, 
 by General Lee's army, but simply to say that the Dartmouth 
 boys performed the duties bravely, as assigned them. After 
 it became e\adent that Harper's Ferry must fall into the hands 
 of General Lee, a conference of cavalry officers was called to 
 consider the question of escaping with their commands during 
 the night. A plan was devised and Colonel Miles reluctantly 
 consented to let them try to escape. About four o'clock, in 
 the evening of September 14, the proposed plan of escape was 
 made known to Companies A and B by their commander, 
 Major Corliss, who closed with the startling information that 
 'by the next morning they would either be in Pennsylvania, 
 or in hell, or on their way to Richmond ! ' Suffice to say, the 
 Dartmouth Cavalry joined with the rest of the cavalry and 
 escaped to Pennsylvania, encountering several thrilling epi- 
 sodes on the way through the intense darkness. At one point 
 the whole cavalry narrowly escaped running into General 
 Longstreet's army. At another point the escaping cavalry 
 captured one of General Longstreet's ammunition and com- 
 mis.sary trains, consisting of eighty-five army wagons, each 
 drawn by six mules and loaded with ammunition and provi- 
 sions, and followed by about forty fat young steers. They ar- 
 
224 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 rived in Greencastle, Pa., on the morning of September 15, in a 
 greatly exhausted condition, but without the loss of a man or a 
 beast on the retreat. 
 
 "At Greencastle, Colonel Voss, who was in command of the 
 cavalry, reported to General McClellan for orders, and was 
 ordered to take position at Jones' Cross Roads, on the turn- 
 pike between Hagerstown and Sharpsburg, a position forming 
 the extreme right flank of McClellan 's army in the great 
 battle at Antietam. Although the time of the Rhode Island 
 Cavalry had expired, they remained with Colonel Voss' com- 
 mand till the battle of Antietam was ended, ready to join in 
 the fight, if necessary. As soon as the battle was over, the 
 Rhode Island Cavalry started for home. 
 
 "The Dartmouth company reached Providence September 
 26. On the second day of October, they were mustered out 
 of the service, received their pay and started for Hanover, 
 where they arrived in due time and received a royal welcome. 
 The faculty were disposed at first to require the boys to pass 
 examinations on the studies they had lost during the campaign, 
 but on learning they would all be accepted by Brown Univer- 
 sity, the requirement was not insisted upon. Soon all settled 
 down to work, but it was a long time before the students tired 
 of hearing the stories of the campaign. 
 
 "Only one man was lost. He died of typhoid fever at 
 Winchester. Several were captured by the rebels, and were 
 taken to Richmond and confined in Libby prison, but for- 
 tunately were let out in season to arrive home with the rest, so 
 that the campaign was a remarkably successful one, so far as 
 health was concerned; and as regards their conduct in the 
 campaign. General White and other officers, under whose com- 
 mand they served, spoke of them in terms of highest com- 
 mendation and praise. ' ' 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FIRST REGIMENT NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER 
 
 CAVALRY. 
 
 By Ervin H. Smith, 
 
 Late Sergeant of Company C, First Regiment New Hampshire 
 Volunteer Cavalry, and Historian of the Regiment. 
 
 "In February, 1864, the four companies of cavalry from 
 New Hampshire, which had been attached to the First Rhode 
 Island Cavalry, returned to Concord to recruit a regiment, 
 and as soon as the old battalion and Companies A, B and C 
 were mustered, the seven companies were ordered to Wash- 
 ington, reaching there April 25, 1864, going into camp at 
 Camp Stoneman, Giesborough Point. On the seventeenth of 
 May the two battalions were ordered to the front to join the 
 Army of the Potomac, and on reaching Belle Plain, Captain 
 Wyatt of Company B, with a detail of one hundred and fifty 
 men, was detached to guard rebel prisoners to Philadelphia, 
 and Major Wyman, with one hundred and sixty men, was 
 ordered to protect the Aquia Creek and Fredericksburg Rail- 
 road from the Potomac to High Bridge. The balance of the 
 regiment remained at Belle Plain until Captain Wyatt reached 
 Port Royal on his return from Philadelphia, when the two de- 
 tachments were united and transported to White House by 
 boat, reaching there June 6. Meanwhile Major Wyman 
 marched with his command by way of Hanover Court House, 
 and joined the other detachments, after participating in the 
 
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226 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 battles of Hanover Court House and Cold Harbor. At White 
 House the regiment was mounted and joined the Second 
 Brigade, Third Division, Cavalry Corps, then encamped at 
 New Kent Court House." 
 
 * * * 4i: * * 
 
 ' ' The regiment remained at Darnestown until June 29, when 
 it moved to Cloud's Mills, Va., and camped for two weeks, 
 then left for Concord, and July 21, 1865, was mustered out. 
 
 "Before they left for home the enlisted men presented 
 General Thompson, who had been brevetted brigadier-general 
 on recommendation of General Sheridan, a beautiful and costly 
 silver dinner service. 
 
 ' ' The First New Hampshire Cavalry served in two separate 
 detachments until March 23, 1865. Seven companies (A, B, 
 C, I, K, L and M) were attached to Second Brigade, Third 
 Division, Cavalry Corps, June 6, 1864, to March 23, 1865; 
 with Cavalry Forces, Upper Potomac, Department of Wash- 
 ington, Twenty-second Army Corps (the detachments having 
 united), March 23, 1865, to muster out. 
 
 "The remaining five companies (D, E, F, G and H) were 
 attached to Cavalry Division, Department of Washington, 
 Twenty-second Army Corps, August 25 to October 10, 1864; 
 with Cavalry Forces, Upper Potomac, Department of Wash- 
 ington, Twenty-second Army Corps, October 10, 1864, to 
 muster out." 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 Hanover Court House, Va., May 31, 1864. 
 
 Cold Harbor, Va., June 2, 1864. 
 
 White Oak Swamp, Va., June 13, 1864. 
 
 Wilson's Raid on the Weldon Railroad, Va., June 22-30, 
 1864. 
 
 Ream's Station, Va. (during Wilson's Raid), June 22, 1864, 
 
 Nottoway Court House, Va. (during Wilson's Raid), June 
 23, 1864. 
 
FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 227 
 
 Roanoke Station and High Bridge, Va. (during "Wilson's 
 Raid), June 25, 26, 1864. 
 
 Stony Creek, Va. (during Wilson's Raid), June 28, 29, 1864. 
 
 Ream's Station, Va. (during Wilson's Raid), June 29, 1864. 
 
 Winchester, Va., August 17, 1864. 
 
 Summit Point, Va., August 21, 1864. 
 
 Charlestown, Va., August 22, 1864. 
 
 Kearneysville, Va., August 25, 1864. 
 
 Berryville, Va., September 15, 1864. 
 
 Opequan (or Winchester), Va., September 19, 1864. 
 
 Front Royal Pike, Va., September 21, 1864. 
 
 Gooney Manor Grade, Va., September 21, 1864. 
 
 Milford, Va., September 22, 1864. 
 
 Waj'nesborough, Va., September 28, 1864. 
 
 Columbia Furnace, Va., October 7, 1864. 
 
 Tom's Brook, Va., October 9, 1864. 
 
 Mine Run Ford (or Back Road), Va., October 13, 1864. 
 
 Cedar Creek, Va., October 19, 1864. 
 
 Middle and Back Roads (or Middletown), Va., November 11, 
 12, 1864. 
 
 Lacey's Springs, Va., December 20, 21, 1864. 
 
 Wa^-nesborough, Va., March 2, 1865. 
 
 North Fork, Shenandoah (or Mount Jackson), Va., ]\Iarch 
 6, 7, 1865. 
 
 surgeons of the new hampshire volunteer cavalry. 
 
 Joshua O. Stanton, ]\I. D. George W. Pierce, M. D. 
 
 (not mustered, see Miscel. 
 Organizations), 
 
 assistant SURGEONS. 
 
 George R. Dinsmoor, M. D. Frederick A. Eldredge, M. D. 
 (not mustered, see Miscel. 
 Organizations), 
 
228 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 
 
 George Walton Pierce, 
 Winchester. 
 
 Pierce, George W. F. and S.; b. Winchester; age 31; res. Win- 
 chester; app. Asst. Surg. Apr. 21, '64; must, in Apr. 22, '64; wd. 
 in five places and captd. Nov. 12, '64, Middletown, Va.; released Jan. 
 14, '65; app. Surg. Feb. 17, '65; must, out July 15, '65. P. O. ad., 
 Winchester. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 879.) 
 
 ' ' George Walton Pierce, physician, Winchester, was born in 
 that town April 24, 1833, son of Hosea and Verlina (Putnam) 
 Pierce. His father was a physician and practiced in Winches- 
 ter from 1828 until his death at the age of ninety-two. The 
 subject of this sketch was educated in the schools of his native 
 town, in the academies at Townsend, Vt., and Sherburn Falls, 
 Mass., and at the New England In.stitute for young men at 
 New York City. He was graduated from Berkshire Medical 
 College in 1854 and in the same year began practice in Win- 
 chester, where he has since remained. Prom April 18, 1864, 
 until the close of the civil war, he was surgeon of the First 
 New Hampshire Cavalry and surgeon-general on the staff of 
 Gov. Moody Currier. He is president of the town board of 
 health, president of the board of trustees of the public li- 
 brary, president of the board of education and of the Ashuelot 
 Valley Electric Light, Heat & Power Company. He was a 
 member of the state legislature in 1875 and of the senate in 
 1891. While in the latter body he was chairman of the com- 
 mittee on railroads. He is a trustee of the New Hampshire 
 Asylum for the Insane, and past commander of Post No. 19, 
 Grand Army of the Republic, Department of New Hampshire. 
 Dr. Pierce is a Republican and has been active in politics since 
 the casting of his first ballot for John C. Fremont. He mar- 
 ried Maria C, daughter of William Follet of Winchester, 
 
 ' ' Children, four : Alexander F. ; Susan Putnam, now Mrs. 
 Walter 0. Stebbins of Hinsdale; Abbie E., now Mrs. Edward 
 C. Thompson of Winchester; and Philip W. Pierce." 
 
 Surgeon Pierce became a member of the New Hampshire 
 Medical Society in 1856. 
 
 (From Men of Progress in New Hampshire, 1898.) 
 
first new hampshire volunteer cavalry. 229 
 
 Frederic Augustus Eldredge, M. D. 
 Berlin Heights, Ohio. 
 
 (5 N. H. V.) 
 
 Eldbedge, Frederic A. Co. E; drafted; b. Pembroke; age, 26; res. 
 Milford; cred. Milford; drafted Sept. 2, '63; must, in Sept. 2, '63, as 
 Priv.; wd., June 3, '64, Cold Harbor, Va.; disch. Oct. 26, '64, to 
 accept promotion. P. O. ad., Berlin Heights, O. See I N. H. Cav. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 231.) 
 
 (1 N. H. Cav.) 
 
 Eldbedge, Frederic A. F. and S.; b. Pembroke; age 27; res. Milford; 
 app. 2 Asst. Surg. July 21, '64; must, in Nov. 6, '64; must, out 
 July 15, '65. P. O. ad., Berlin Heights, O. See 5 N. H. V. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 864.) 
 
 Surgeon Eldredge was born in Pembroke, N. H., September 
 28, 1837, and was the son of Hezekiah and Sarah (Bennett) 
 Eldredge, a grandson of INIicah Eldredge. Received his pre- 
 liminary education at the common schools and at Pembroke 
 Academy. Commenced his professional education in 1861, 
 under the direction of his father, Hezekiah Eldredge, and con- 
 tinued it under the direction of L. B. Howe, M. D., and Will- 
 iam D. Buck, M. D., of Manchester. Attended two courses of 
 medical lectures at the medical department of Dartmouth Col- 
 lege and was graduated from the same in the class of 1865. 
 Commenced the practice of medicine in Manchester, N. H., 
 and removed to Berlin Heights, Ohio, where he has since re- 
 mained. Dr. Eldredge is a member of the Cleveland Medical 
 Society and of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
 
 Dr. Eldredge was a private in the Fifth Regiment New 
 Hampshire Volunteers from September 2, 1863, until October 
 26, 1864, when he was discharged to accept promotion. While 
 a private, he was wounded June 3, 1864, at Cold Harbor, Va. 
 He was appointed second assistant surgeon of the First New 
 Hampshire Cavalry in July, 1864, soon after being wounded, 
 but was unable to report to the regiment until later, and was 
 mustered in November 6, 1864, being mustered out with the 
 regiment July 15, 1865. 
 
 Married, in 1866, Eunice R. Crowell. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER HEAVY ARTILLERY, 
 
 By Charles H. Long, 
 
 Late Captain and Colonel, First Regiment New Hampshire 
 Volunteer Heavy Artillery. 
 
 (First Company.) 
 
 "In April, 1863, the war department granted a special 
 authority to the governor of New Hampshire to raise a com- 
 pany of hea\y artillery to garrison the defenses of Portsmouth 
 harbor, and on the seventeenth of that month Charles PI. Long 
 of Claremont was commissioned captain of the same. The or- 
 ganization was completed and the company mustered into the 
 United States service on the 22d of July, 1863, and was sta- 
 tioned at Fort Constitution. It performed garrison duty 
 there until IMay 6, 1864, when, under orders of Major-Gen- 
 eral Dix, the company reported to General Auger, command- 
 ing the Department of Washington, D. C, and was assigned 
 to duty in the defenses of that city." 
 
 "The First Company, New Hampshire Volunteer Heavy 
 Artillery, was stationed at Fort Constitution. New Hampshire, 
 Department of the East, July 22, 1863 ; attached to Second 
 Brigade, Haskin's Division, Department of Washington, 
 Twenty-second Army Corps, May 9, 1864; First Brigade, Har- 
 din's Division, Department of Washington, Twenty-second 
 Army Corps, July 9, 1864; Second Brigade, Hardin's Division, 
 
FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER HEAVY ARTILLERY. 281 
 
 Department of Washington, Twenty-second Army Corps, 
 August, 1864; Defenses of Portsmouth Harbor, New Hamp- 
 shire, Department of the East, November 29, 1864." 
 
 (Second Company.) 
 
 ''On the 18th of August, 1863, the war department granted 
 to the governor of New Hampshire special authority to raise 
 a second company of heavy artillery to garrison the defenses 
 of Portsmouth harbor, and Ira McL. Barton of Nev/port was 
 commissioned captain. This company was mustered into the 
 United States service on the 17th of September, 1863, and 
 was stationed at Fort McClary, Kittery Point. It remained 
 there doing garrison duty until May, 1864, when it was ordered 
 to Washington, D. C, and was sent as a relieving and occu- 
 pying force into Forts Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Lincoln, Bayard, 
 Gaines and Foote. On or about October 1, 1864, the company 
 became Company B, First Regiment New Hampshire Volun- 
 teer Heavy Artillery." 
 
 ******** 
 
 "The Second Company, New Hampshire Volunteer Heavy 
 Artillery, was stationed at Fort McClary, Me., Department of 
 the East, September 17, 1863; attached to Department of 
 Washington, Twenty-second Army Corps, May 9, 1864; Has- 
 kin's Division, Department of Washington, Twenty-second 
 Army Corps, May 17, 1864; Hardin's Division, Department of 
 Washington, Twenty-second Army Corps, July 9, 1864; First 
 Brigade, Hardin's Division, Department of Washington, Twen- 
 ty-second Army Corps, December, 1864; Defenses of Ports- 
 mouth Harbor, New Hampshire, Department of the East, April 
 30, 1865." 
 
 (First Regiment.) 
 
 "On August 19, 1864, the governor of New Hampshire was 
 authorized by the war department to raise a battalion of at 
 least four companies of heavy artillery, and on September 20 
 to raise a full regiment of twelve companies, which was done 
 by adding to it the First New Hampshire Volunteer Light 
 
232 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Battery, which became Company M, but which was detached 
 and continued to serve as a light battery. Charles H. Long 
 of Claremont was commissioned colonel of this regiment on 
 September 29, 1864. In the regimental organization the First 
 and Second Companies, New Hampshire Volunteer Heavy Ar- 
 tillery, were designated as Companies A and B, respectively. 
 
 ' ' The companies, as fast as organized, were ordered to Wash- 
 ington and assigned to duty under the direction of Major- 
 General Auger. During the winter of 1864- '65 and until the 
 muster-out of the regiment, it garrisoned a line of works in the 
 defenses of Washington, ten miles in extent. About fifty men 
 were detailed each day for picket duty in front of the line of 
 fortifications. The duty of the regiment was important to 
 the safety of the capital of the nation and oftentimes arduous. 
 
 "On the 21st of November, 1864, Colonel Long was assigned 
 to the command of the First Brigade, Hardin's Division, 
 Twenty-second Army Corps. On the twenty -seventh of that 
 month Lieutenant-Colonel Barton, in command of the regi- 
 ment, was ordered to report to Colonel Long with seven com- 
 panies, and was assigned to duty in his brigade. The regiment, 
 except Companies A, B and M, was mustered out of the ser- 
 vice on the 15th of June, 1865." 
 
 ASSIGNMENTS. 
 
 "The First Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Heavj'' 
 Artillery, was attached to First Brigade, Hardin's Division, 
 Department of Washington, Twenty-second Army Corps, Oc- 
 tober 21, 1864, to date of muster-out. Prior to organization 
 of the regiment the companies, excepting Company M, which 
 was on duty with the Second Army Corps as First New Hamp- 
 shire Light Battery, M'ere at different posts in the Department 
 of Washington, mostly in De Russey's Division." 
 
 SURGEON. 
 
 EzEKiEL Morrill, M. D. 
 
 assistant surgeons. 
 
 Reuben W. Price, M. D., Amos S. Bixby, M. D. 
 
FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER HEAVY ARTILLERY. 233 
 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER HEAVY ARTILLERY. 
 
 EzEKiEL Morrill, M. D. 
 Concord, N. H. 
 
 (13 N. H. V.) 
 
 MoBEiLL, EzEKiEL. F. and S. ; b. Chester, O.; age 26; res. Concord; 
 app. Asst. Surgeon Sept. 7, '63; must, in Sept. 28, '63; disch. Nov. 
 25, '64, to accept promotion. P. 0. ad., Concord. See 1 N. H. H. 
 Art. (Record, AyUng's Register, 1895, p. 677.) 
 
 (1 N. H. H. Art.) 
 
 MoBBiix, EzEKiEL. F. and S.; b. Chester, 0.; age 28; res. Concord; 
 app. Surg. Nov. 17, '64; must, in Dec. 21, '64, unexpired term regt.; 
 must, out June 15, '65. P. O. ad.. Concord. See 13 N. H. V. 
 (Record, AyUng's Register, 1895, p. 947.) 
 
 Surgeon Morrill was born in Chester, Ohio, July 29, 1837, 
 and was the son of Alpheus and Hannah (Baker) Morrill. 
 His early education was in the common schools and Hopkinton 
 Academy and Tilton Seminary, New Hampshire. He com- 
 menced the study of medicine under the direction of his father, 
 Alpheus Morrill, M. D., of Concord, X. H. ; attended three 
 courses of medical lectures in the following order : Dartmouth, 
 Cleveland Medical School and Castleton Medical School, Ver- 
 mont, and was graduated from the latter in 1857. He com- 
 menced the practice of medicine in Concord, X. H., removed 
 to Brattleboro, Vt., where he remained three years, was in 
 Salem, Mass., eight years and then returned to Concord, where 
 he has since practiced his profession. 
 
 He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, 
 also of the Xew Hampshire Homeopathic Medical Society. He 
 was assistant surgeon in the Thirteenth New Hampshire Vol- 
 unteers from September 7, 1863, to X'^ovember 25. 1864, and 
 surgeon of the First Xew Hampshire Hea%y Artillery from 
 November 17, 1864, until the close of the war. 
 
 During his long practice in Concord, X. H., he has enjoyed 
 the full confidence of his friends and patrons. He never has 
 taken an active part in politics, never having had any ambition 
 
284 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 to hold office. His friends prevailed upon him to be a candi- 
 date and he was elected a member of the New Hampshire Leg- 
 islature of 1905. 
 
 Married, September 21, 1863, to Ellen Rebecca Bryant. 
 
 Children, three : Edward Henry Bryant, who died August 
 26, 1880; Annie Stiekney, who died April 6, 1879; and Al- 
 pheus Baker, who is associated with his father in the practice 
 of medicine. 
 
 Reuben W. Price, M. D. 
 
 Dover, N. H. 
 
 (1 N. H. L. Battery.) 
 
 Price, Reuben "W. B. Gilmanton; age 26; res. Seabrook; cred. Sea- 
 brook; enl. Oct. 13, '64; must, in Oct. 13, '64, as Priv.; app. Asst. 
 Surg. 1 N. H. H. Art., to date Oct. 12, '64; must, out June 15, '65. 
 P. O. ad., Laconia. See 1 N. H. H. Art. (Record, Ayling's Regis- 
 ter, 1895, p. 902.) 
 
 (1 N. H. H. Art.) 
 
 Price, Reubex W. Co. M and F. and S. See 1 N. H. L. Battery. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 951.) 
 
 Surgeon Price was born in Gilmanton, N. H., February 12, 
 1838, was a son of Moses and Sarah (Page) Price and a 
 grandson of William Price. He received his preliminary edu- 
 cation at the common schools and at Gilmanton Academy. 
 Commenced his professional studies under the direction of 
 Nahum Wight, M. D., of Gilmanton, N. H., in 1858. Attended 
 three courses of lectures at Dartmouth and Bowdoin Colleges, 
 and was graduated from the Medical Department of Dart- 
 mouth College in the class of 1862. Dr. Price first located in 
 Seabrook, N. H., in 1862, remaining there until he enlisted as 
 private in the First New Hampshire Heavy Artillery, and was 
 immediately appointed assistant surgeon of the same regiment. 
 Was assigned to the Twenty-second Army Corps and at one 
 time served upon the staff of Hardin's Brigade; was mus- 
 tered out of this regiment June 15, 1865. Afterwards he was 
 appointed surgeon of the One Hundred and Fifteenth United 
 
FIKST NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER HEAVY ARTILLERY. 235 
 
 States Colored Troops and stationed at New Orleans. Again 
 he was transferred to the Eighth United States Colored Heavy 
 Artillery and stationed at Indianola and Victoria, Texas; was 
 mustered out of the service in Kentucky. 
 
 After leaving the army he was located in Greenwood, Jack- 
 son county, ]\Iiss., for fifteen years. He was a member of the 
 New Hampshire Medical Society at the time of his residence 
 in Seabrook, and a member of the Missouri Society while a 
 resident of Greenwood. Gave up the practice of medicine in 
 1880 and returned to New Hampshire. He has practiced 
 dentistry at Laconia and Alton, and has recently taken up the 
 same in Dover, N. H. "Was at one time superintendent of 
 school committee in Gilmanton, N. H. ; deacon of the Congre- 
 gational Church in Greenwood, Mo., as well as postmaster at 
 the same place. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and 
 also of the order of Chosen Friends. 
 
 Married, first. May 14, 1862, to Amanda C. Smith of Gil- 
 manton ; second, to Annette Chesley, April 18, 1893. 
 
 Children, five, three living: ■Minnie, Ethelyn M. and 
 Willard A. 
 
 Amos Stoddard Bixby, M. D. 
 Ludlow, Vt. 
 
 Bixby, Amos S. Co. H; b. Mt. Holly, Vt.; age 35; cred. Acworth; 
 enl. Sept. 1, '64, for 1 yr.; must, in Sept. 7, '64, as Priv.; app. Asst. 
 Surg. Dec. 1, '64; must, out June 15, '65. P. O. ad., Ludlow, Vt. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 924.) 
 
 Surgeon Bixby was born in IMount Holly, Vt., September 
 24, 1828. He was the son of Amentus William and Hannah 
 Maria (Stoddard) Bixby and grandson of Joseph Bixby. His 
 preliminary education was received in the district and high 
 schools of his native place and he commenced the study of 
 medicine at Hartford, Vt., with Dr. A. B. Bixby as preceptor, 
 attending three courses of lectures at Hanover, and was grad- 
 uated from Dartmouth Medical College in 1862. Commenced 
 the practice of medicine in Troy, N. H., and afterwards moved 
 to Acworth, N. H. 
 
236 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Dr. Bixby enlisted as a private soldier September 1, 1864, 
 for one year; appointed assistant surgeon of the First Regi- 
 ment New Hampshire Heavy Artillery, December 1, 1864, and 
 remained as such until mustered out June 15, 1865. He is a 
 member of the Grand Army and of the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows. 
 
 Married, July 21, 1850, Jane S. Stiles, Windsor, Vt. 
 
 Children, four: Mary A., Wilber Fisk, Kate Salvina and 
 Wentworth Marble. 
 
 Died, April 21, 1905. 
 
ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SECOND REGIMENT UNITED STATES VOLUNTEER 
 SHARPSHOOTERS. 
 
 By Samuel F. Murray, 
 
 Late Captain First Eegiment United States Volunteer Sharp- 
 shooters. 
 
 The exigencies of the service required scouts, videts and 
 others for reeonnoissance. New Hampshire was asked and did 
 enlist two companies for this service. William B. Reynolds 
 enlisted as a private and was afterwards commissioned as- 
 sistant and then surgeon of the Second Regiment United States 
 Volunteer Sharpshooters. 
 
 "The record of the sharpshooters has no superior. Being 
 composed of companies from different states, it caused a com- 
 mendable rivalry among them not to permit themselves to be 
 outdone. If there was any reeonnoissance to be made, picket 
 line established, or the enemy's battery to be reached by a 
 rifle ball, the 'Green-coats' were called upon to do it. They 
 were engaged in more battles and skirmishes than the average 
 regiment, and caused more damage to the enemy than any 
 other branch of the service, and often received the commenda- 
 tion and notice of their superior officers." 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 Falmouth, Va., April 19, 1862. 
 
 Orange Court House Road, Va., July 26, 1862. 
 
 Bowling Green, Va., August 6, 1862. 
 
238 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Rappahannock Station, Va., August 21-23, 1862. 
 Sulphur Springs, Va., August 26, 1862. 
 Gainesville, Va., August 28, 1862. 
 Bull Run, Va., August 29, 30, 1862. 
 Chantilly, Va., September 1, 1862. 
 South Mountain, Md., September 14, 1862. 
 Boonsborough, Md., September 15, 1862. 
 Antietam, Md., September 16, 17, 1862. 
 Fredericksburg, Va., December 13-15, 1862. 
 Chancellorsville, Va., May 1-4, 1863. 
 Gettysburg, Pa., July 2-4, 1863. 
 Wapping Heights, Va., July 23, 1863. 
 Auburn, Va., October 13, 1863. 
 Kelly's Ford, Va., November 7, 1863. 
 Brandy Station, Va., November 8, 1863. 
 Locust Grove, Va., November 27, 1863. 
 Mine Run, Va., November 28-30, 1863. 
 Wilderness, Va., May 5-7, 1864. 
 Todd's Tavern, Va., May 9, 1864. 
 Po River, Va., May 10, 1864. 
 Spottsylvania, Va., May 11-16, 1864. 
 North Anna River, Va., May 23-26, 1864. 
 Totopotomoy Creek, Va., May 30, 31, 1864. 
 Cold Harbor, Va., June 3-12, 1864. 
 Petersburg, Va., June 16-20, 1864. 
 Weldon Railroad, Va., June 21-23, 1864. 
 Deep Bottom, Va., July 27 and August 14-18, 1864. 
 Mine Explosion, Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864. 
 Siege of Petersburg, Va., September 10-22 and October 10, 
 1864. 
 
 Poplar Springs Church, Va., October 7, 1864. 
 Boydton Plank Road, Va., October 27, 1864. 
 Weldon Railroad, Va., December 8-10, 1864. 
 Hatcher's Run, Va., February 5-7, 1865. 
 
 SURGEON. 
 
 William B. Reynolds, M. D. 
 
SECOND UNITED STATES VOLUNTEER SHARPSHOOTERS. 239 
 
 SECOND UNITED STATES VOLUNTEER SHARP- 
 SHOOTERS. 
 
 William Buzzell Reynolds, ]M. D. 
 
 (S X. H. V.) 
 
 Reynolds, William B. F. and S.; b. Acton, Me.; age 33; res. Mil- 
 ton; app. Asst. Surg. Dec. 14, 'Gl; not must.; declined appoint- 
 ment Dec. 14, '61. See 2 U. S. S. S. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 442.). 
 
 (2 U. S. S. S.) 
 
 Reynolds, William B. Co. F; b. Acton, Me.; age 33; res. Milton; 
 enl. Oct. 4, '61; must, in Nov. 26, '61, as sergt. ; app. Asst. Surg. 
 Dec. 5, '61; surg. Aug. 12, '63; discb. Jan. 12, '65. Died, Jan. 11, 
 '77, Lynn, Mass. See 8 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 981.) 
 
 Surgeon Reynolds was born in Acton, ]\Ie., August 14, 1828, 
 and was the son of Dea. Samuel and Hannah (Farnham) 
 Runnells. It will be observed that there is a difference in the 
 orthography of the name, which is commented upon by his son, 
 E. G. Reynolds, D. D. S., West Newfield, Me., who furnishes 
 the facts in this case, as follows : 
 
 He says: "You will notice a difference in names of father 
 and my grandfather. This dispute continues in the family 
 and probably always will, a part spelling the name 'Runnells' 
 and the other, 'Reynolds.' The original name was 'Reynolds,' 
 but for several generations back has been 'Runnells' or 
 'Runals. ' My father and several of his brothers spelled the 
 name 'Reynolds.' " 
 
 His early education was received in the common schools and 
 at Parsonsfield Seminary, ]\Iaine. He commenced his pro- 
 fe.ssional education with Dr. Reuben Buck of Acton, Me., con- 
 tinuing the same with the late Dr. J. C. Hanson of Great 
 Falls, now the city of Somersworth. He attended medical 
 lectures at Bowdoin and Dartmouth Colleges, taking three 
 courses, and was graduated M. D. from the medical depart- 
 ment of Dartmouth College in the class of 1852. He was lo- 
 
240 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 cated in the practice of medicine for a short period at Acton, 
 Me., then came to the village of Union in the town of Wake- 
 field, N. H., where he remained until 1861 ; was in Lawrence, 
 Mass., from 1865 to 1867; at Union again from 1868 to 1870; 
 at Tamworth Iron Works, N. H., now Chocorua, 1870 to 1872, 
 and in Lynn, Mass., from 1872 until his death, which occurred 
 January 11, 1877. 
 
 He took a post-graduate course at Jefferson Medical Col- 
 lege, Philadelphia, 1856. He was a frequent contributor to 
 medical journals and received the respect and confidence of 
 the citizens wherever he practiced his profession. 
 
 He entered the service as a private in Company F, Second 
 Regiment, United States Sharpshooters, October 4, 1861, and 
 was mustered November 26, 1861, as sergeant ; appointed as- 
 sistant surgeon December 5, 1861, and surgeon in the same 
 regiment, August 12, 1863, being discharged January 12, 
 1865. Before his discharge he served as brigade surgeon in 
 the Third Division of the Second Army Corps. He also served 
 as post surgeon at St. Augustine, Fla., in the winter of 1867 
 and 1868 as a contract surgeon in the Freedman's Bureau. 
 
 Married, first, Clara Ellen Swasey of Milton, N. H., No- 
 vember 14, 1851, who died May 14, 1867; second, Martha 
 E. Lincoln of Framingham, Mass., March 9, 1870. 
 
 Children: By first marriage, Edgar G., 1852; Horatio M., 
 1857; Lillian, who died in infancy. By second marriage, 
 Clifford L., 1871, and Allen D. Reynolds, 1874. 
 
UNITED STATES ARMY. 
 
 During the "War of the Rebellion there were but few from 
 the several states who enlisted and served in the United States 
 Army. A great majority of all enlistments came under the 
 head of United States Volunteers. President Lincoln's proc- 
 lamation for the preservation of personal liberty and the idea 
 that our institution of a free government for the people and 
 by the people was in peril, was responded to at once, and the 
 feeling of patriotism which prompted enlistments in the great 
 army of volunteers was the same as would have been to have 
 enlisted in the United States Army. A great many, after 
 they had enlisted in the United States Volunteers, became 
 imbued with the idea that the United States Army, giving a 
 permanent position, held out certain inducements that were 
 not accorded to the United States Volunteers ; many men serv- 
 ing in the ranks of the volunteers passed the requisite exam- 
 inations and were given positions in the army and navy. In 
 proportion to her pojjulation, New Hampshire gave to the 
 country as many soldiers as did other states in the Union. 
 
 The compiler of this book finds a few who served as surgeons 
 in the United States Army and they are given credit for the 
 same and a place in this volume. The records of their work 
 will show their patriotism, their energy and their loyalty to the 
 country. 
 
 John Bell, M. D. 
 Late of Chester, N. H. 
 
 Bell, John. U. S. A.: b. New Hampshire; res. New Hampshire; app. 
 Asst. Surg. Aug. 2C, '61; resigned June 24, '67. Bvt. Capt. and 
 Maj. to date Mar. 13, '65, for faithful and meritorious service dur- 
 ing the war. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1031.) 
 16 
 
242 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Surgeon Bell was born in Chester, July 19, 1831, and was 
 the son of Samuel and Lucy Dana (Smith) Bell. He fitted 
 for college at Derry, Gilmanton and Phillips Academy of 
 Andover, Mass., completing the course at Dartmouth College, 
 from which he was graduated A. B. in 1852. He commenced 
 the study of medicine the same year under the direction of 
 Dr. James P. Whittemore of Chester, N. H., attending lectures 
 at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, and was grad- 
 uated M. D. from the latter in 1854. He was located in the 
 practice of medicine in Kingston, afterwards removed to 
 Derry, N. H., where he lived from 1855 to 1857, and was in 
 New York from 1857 to 1861. 
 
 Dr. Bell was commissioned acting assistant surgeon August 
 26, 1861, attached to the Fifth United States Cavalry, served 
 in the South, was promoted to surgeon in 1865 and placed in 
 charge of the General Hospital at Annapolis Junction, Md. ; 
 afterwards in charge of the Fort Jefferson Hospital in Florida 
 until June 24, 1867. He returned to New Hampshire and 
 practiced medicine in Dover from 1867 to 1874; was in busi- 
 ness in Chester from 1874 to 1876 ; practiced medicine in Man- 
 chester from 1876 to 1880, when he moved to Chester, where 
 he remained until his death, which occurred November 13, 
 1883. He became a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society in 1856. 
 
 Married, April 7, 1854, Mary Ann, daughter of Phineas 
 and Hannah Lock (Purinton) Beede of Fremont, N. H. Seven 
 children. 
 
 Elliott Coues, M. D. 
 Surgeon, United States Army, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Surgeon Coues was a world-famed ornithologist and sci- 
 entist; he was born in Portsmouth, N. H., September 9, 1842, 
 and was the son of Samuel Elliott and Charlotte Haven 
 (Ladd) Coues. Eleven years after birth his family moved to 
 Washington, D. C, where Dr. Coues has since resided. As a 
 boy he was educated under Jesuit influence at the seminary 
 
UNITED STATES ARMY. 243 
 
 now known as Gonzaga College, and in 1857 he entered a 
 Baptist college, now Columbia University. He was graduated 
 A. B. from the Academic Department of that institution in 
 1861, and from the Medical Department in 1863. He received 
 the honorary degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. from this university. 
 
 His taste for natural history developed early in an enthu- 
 siastic devotion to ornithology, and before he graduated he 
 was sent by the Smithsonian Institution to collect birds in 
 Labrador. Among his earliest writings are the account of 
 this trip and a treatise on the birds of the District of Columbia, 
 both published in 1861. 
 
 While yet a medical student, he was enlisted by Secretary 
 Stanton as medical cadet in the United States Army, and 
 served a year in one of the hospitals in Washington. On 
 graduating in medicine, in 1863, he was appointed by Surgeon- 
 General Hammond, for a year, acting assistant surgeon in the 
 army, and on coming of age passed a successful examination 
 for the medical corps of the army. He received his commis- 
 sion in 1864 and was immediately ordered to duty in Arizona. 
 His early years of service in that territory, and afterwards in 
 North and South Carolina, were utilized in investigating the 
 natural historj'- of these regions, respecting which he published 
 several scientific papers. 
 
 After about ten years of ordinary military service as post 
 surgeon in various places, he was, in 1873, while on duty at 
 Fort Randall, Dakota, appointed surgeon and naturalist of 
 the United States northern boundary commission. In 1876 
 his services were secured as secretary and naturalist of the 
 United States geological and geographical survey of the terri- 
 tories. The following year he was elected to the chair of anat- 
 omy in the National Medical College in Washington and also 
 to the Academy of Natural Science. Shortly afterward he 
 resigned from the army and devoted himself to his college 
 work and his labors for the Smithsonian Institute. 
 
 About twenty years ago he became interested in spiritualism 
 and for a time was a devotee of theosophy, but afterwards be- 
 came one of the severest critics of that doctrine. 
 
244 SUEGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Dr. Coues had charge of the department of general biology, 
 zoology and comparative anatomy in the Century dictionary. 
 
 He was twice married. By his first wife he had three chil- 
 dren, and, in 1887, he married Miss Mary E. Bates of Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 He was a member of the British Ornithologists' Union and 
 of almost every similar organization in this country and 
 Europe. 
 
 Surgeon Coues was chiefly known by his numerous works 
 on ornithology, mammalogy, herpetology, bibliography, lexi- 
 cography, comparative anatomy, natural philosophy, psychical 
 research, etc. His official positions were medical cadet, United 
 States Army, 1862-1863 ; acting assistant surgeon, United 
 States Army, 1863-1864; assistant surgeon. United States 
 Army, 1864—1881 ; resigned November 17 ; professor of zoology 
 and comparative anatomy, Norwich University, Vt., 1869 ; sur- 
 geon and naturalist. United States northern boundary com- 
 mission, 1873-1876; collaborator, Smithsonian Institution, 
 1875; secretary and naturalist. United States geological and 
 geographical survey of the territories, 1876-1880 ; professor of 
 anatomy, National Medical College (Medical Department of 
 Columbian University), Washington, 1877-1887; professor of 
 biology, Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1883; 
 chairman general and joint committees of the Psychical Sci- 
 ence Congress, World's Congress Auxiliary, 1892, and several 
 more since 1892. 
 
 Scientific associations: Corresponding member, Academy of 
 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1861; corresponding mem- 
 ber, Lyceum of Natural History of New York, 1863; corre- 
 sponding member. Academy of Science of St. Louis, 1864 ; cor- 
 responding member. Natural History Society, Boston, 1866; 
 corresponding member, Essex Institute of Salem, 1866 ; mem- 
 ber, Maryland Academy of Sciences, 1871; foreign member, 
 British Ornithologists' Union, 1872; honorary member, Min- 
 nesota Academy of Natural Sciences, 1873; member, Philo- 
 sophical Society of Washington, 1874 ; corresponding member, 
 Zoological Society of London, 1876 ; fellow, American Associa- 
 
UNITED STATES ARMY. 245 
 
 tion for the Advancement of Science, 1876 ; member, National 
 Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1877; 
 member, American Philosophical Society, 1878; honorary 
 member, Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1878; member, Anthro- 
 pological Society of Washington, 1879 ; honorary member, So- 
 ciety of American Taxidermists, 1880; original member. Bio- 
 logical Society of Washington, 1881 ; corresponding member, 
 Boston Zoological Society, 1882 ; honorary member, Linncean 
 Society of New York, 1883 ; one of the founders and vice-presi- 
 dents, American Ornithologists ' Union, 1883 ; honorary mem- 
 ber, Newport Natural History Society, 1883 ; original member, 
 Society of Naturalists of the Eastern United States, 1883 ; cor- 
 responding member, Kidgway Ornithological Club, Chicago, 
 1884; associate member. Society for Psychical Research, Lon- 
 don, 1884; founder and president. Gnostic Theosophical So- 
 ciety of Washington, 1884; member, Alumni Association of 
 Columbian University, 1887; honorary member, Spencer F. 
 Baird Naturalists ' Association, 1887 ; honorarj^ member, Cali- 
 fornia Academy of Sciences, 1888; honorary member, Ghost 
 Club of London, 1888 ; corresponding member, Portland Soci- 
 ety of Natural History, 1890; member, American Anthropo- 
 metric Society, Philadelphia, 1890 ; member, American Society 
 for the Extension of University Teaching, 1891 ; honorary 
 member, Congres Ornithologique International, 1891 ; member, 
 American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1891; 
 member, American Library Association, 1891 ; member. Uni- 
 versity Marine Biological Association, 1891 ; first honorary 
 president, Arizona Historical Society, 1892; active member, 
 National Geographic Society of Washington, 1892; corporate 
 member, American Oriental Society, 1892 ; member. Esoteric 
 Christian Union of London, 1892 ; foreign member, Society for 
 Psychical Research of ]\Iunich, Bavaria, 1892; honorary mem- 
 ber, Academy of Science, Tacoma, Wash., 1893; honorary 
 member, Florida Society for Scientific Research, 1893, and 
 several more since 1893. 
 
 Principal works are: "Key to North American Birds," 
 1872; "Field Ornithology," 1874; "Birds of the North- 
 
246 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 west," 1874; "Fur-bearing Animals," 1877; "Monographs 
 of North America Rodentia (with Allen)," 1877; "Birds 
 of the Colorado Valley," 1878; "Ornithological Bibli- 
 ography," 1878-1880; "New England Bird Life (with 
 Stearns)," 1881; "Check List and Dictionary of North Amer- 
 ican Birds," 1882; "Avifauna Columbiana (with Prentiss)," 
 1883; "Biogen, a Speculation on the Origin and Nature of 
 Life," 1884; "New Key to North American Birds," 1884; 
 "The Dsemon of Darwin," 1884; "Code of Nomenclature and 
 Check List of North American Birds (with Allen, Ridgway, 
 Brewster, and Henshaw)," 1886; "A Woman in the Case," 
 1887; "Neuro-Myology (with Shute)," 1887; "Signs of the 
 Times," 1888. Also author of several hundred monographs 
 and minor papers in scientific periodicals, and editor or asso- 
 ciate editor for some years of the Bulletin of the United States 
 Geological Survey, Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, 
 American Naturalist, American Journal of Otology, Encyclo- 
 paedia Americana, Standard Natural History, The Auk, The 
 Biogen Series, Die Sphinx (Leipsig), The Century Dictionary 
 of the English Language (in general biology, comparative 
 anatomy and all departments of zoology), The Travels of 
 Lewis and Clark, etc., and several more since 1893. 
 
 Professor Coues died in Baltimore, Md., December 25, 1899. 
 
 Dr. Ezra LIitchell, Jr. 
 Lancaster, N. H. 
 
 Surgeon Mitchell was born November 12, 1842, at Mechanics 
 Falls, Maine. He is the son of Ezra and Mary (Perry) 
 Mitchell, and a grandson of Joseph Mitchell of Waterville, 
 Maine. His preliminary education was received in the com- 
 mon schools of Maine and afterwards at the State Seminary, 
 Lewiston, Me. He commenced his professional education in 
 1861 under the direction of J. A. Evelith, M. D., of Mechanics 
 Falls, Me. He attended three courses of lectures, one of 
 which was at the Medical Department of Harvard University 
 and two at the Medical Department of Dartmouth College, 
 from which he was graduated in 1866. 
 
UNITED STATES ARMY. 247 
 
 While a student of medicine, he enlisted as a private in 
 the Ninth ]\Iaine Volunteer Infantry in 1863 and became a 
 medical cadet in the United States Army in 1864, where he 
 remained one year. Upon graduating at Dartmouth in 1866, 
 he located for the practice of medicine, in 1867, in Groveton, 
 where he remained four years (1867 to 1871). In 1871 he 
 removed to Lancaster, N. H., where he has remained until the 
 present time. 
 
 He is a member of the White Mountain Medical Society and 
 the Xew Hampshire State ^^ledical Societj^, of which he has 
 been president. He was surgeon-general of the National 
 Guard of New Hampshire from 1881 to 1883 ; president of the 
 Board of United States Pension Surgeons at Lancaster from 
 1878 to 1898, continuously; president of Lancaster Savings 
 Bank; vice-president of Lancaster Trust Company; director 
 of Lancaster Savings Bank & Trust Company : fraternal mem- 
 ber of the Masons, and is now active president of the New 
 Hampshire Association of Military Surgeons. 
 
 In 1904 he organized and became president of the Coos 
 County Medical Society. 
 
 One child, Ernest H. Mitchell. 
 
 Arthur Clark Newell, M. D. 
 Late of Long Pine, Neb. 
 
 (12 N. H. V.) 
 
 Newell, Arthur C. Co. B; b. Barnstead; age 23; res. Barnstead, 
 cred. Barnstead; enl. Aug. 30, '62; must, in Sept. 1, '62; as Priv.; 
 tr. to Co. G, 11th N. H. V. See 11 N. H. V. and Miscel. Organiza- 
 tions. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 634.) 
 
 (11 N. H. V.) 
 
 Newell, Arthur C. Co. G; b. Barnstead; age 23; res. Barnstead; 
 enl. Aug. 30, '62; must, in Oct. 25, '62, as Priv.; disch. Aug. 9, '64; 
 Ft. Covington, Ky., to accept promotion. See 12 N. H. V. and 
 Miscel. Organizations. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 585.) 
 
 (Miscel. Organizations.) 
 
 Newell, Arthur C. U. S. A.; b. Barnstead; age 25; res. Barnstead; 
 app. Medical Cadet July 25, '64. for 1 yr.; disch. May 12. '65, to 
 accept promotion; must, as Asst. Surg. 18 Ohio Inf. May 19, '65; 
 must, out Oct. 9, '65. Died, Dec. 17, '84, Long Pine, Neb. See 11 
 and 12 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1068.) 
 
248 SURGICAL HISTOKY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Surgeon Newell was born in Barnstead, N. H., May 2, 1839, 
 and was the son of William Hill and Olive (Dennett) Newell. 
 He received his preliminary education in the common schools 
 of Barnstead and the academies at Pittsfield and New Hamp- 
 ton, and was two years in Dartmouth College. He commenced 
 the study of medicine with Dr. John Wheeler of Pittsfield, in 
 1862, and continued the same with Jonathan Smith Ross, 
 M. D., surgeon of the Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers. 
 He attended medical lectures at Dartmouth and the Cincinnati 
 Medical College and was graduated from the latter in 1865. 
 This Cincinnati Medical College is one of the oldest medical 
 colleges in Ohio, and one from which, occasionally. New Hamp- 
 shire men have been graduated for a long period ; the late Dr. 
 Gage was a graduate of that college, in 1837. 
 
 Dr. Newell commenced the practice of medicine in South 
 Barnstead, where he remained only a few months, removing to 
 Gonic village, remaining there for a few years, and was after- 
 wards, for nearly ten years, in the town of Farmington, N. H. ; 
 from there he removed to St. Joseph, Mo., and after a short 
 period removed to Long Pine, Neb., where he died December 
 18, 1884, and was buried in St. Joseph, Mo. He was a mem- 
 ber of the New Hampshire and Strafford District Medical 
 Societies, belonged to the Masons, Odd Fellows and other fra- 
 ternal societies, and while in Farmington he was a member of 
 the school committee. 
 
 His military service was first a private in Company B of 
 the Twelfth New Hampshire, in which he enlisted August 30, 
 1862, but was immediately transferred to Company G of the 
 Eleventh Regiment, from which he was discharged August 9, 
 1864, at Fort Covington, Ky., to accept promotion. It was 
 during his two years' service in the Eleventh Regiment that 
 he gave attention to the study of medicine under the direction 
 of Surgeon Ross. Prior to being mustered out of the Elev- 
 enth Regiment, he was appointed medical cadet for one year, 
 and was discharged May 2, 1865, to again accept promotion. 
 He was mustered in as assistant surgeon of the Eighteenth 
 Ohio Infantry May 18, 1865, and remained with the regiment 
 until October 9, 1865, when he was mustered out of the United 
 States service. 
 
UNITED STATES ARMY. 249 
 
 Surgeon Newell was twice married: first, to Jennie Hayes 
 of Gonic, N. H. ; second, to Mary, daughter of Samuel Cham- 
 berlain of New Durham, N. H. 
 
 Three children, two of whom are living: Agnes and Arthur 
 Newell. 
 
 Francis L^usan Town, M. D., Col, U. S. A. (Retired.) 
 San Antonio, Tex., and Lancaster, N. H. 
 
 Town, Fbaxcis L. U. S. A.; b. Jefferson f age 25; res. Lancaster; 
 app. from Pennsylvania, 1 Lt., Asst. Surg., May 28, 'Gl; Capt., Asst. 
 Surg., May 28, '66; Maj., Surg., Oct. 20, '66; Lt. Col., Deputy Surg. 
 Gen., July 10, '89; Col., Asst. Surg. Gen., June 28, '94. Bvt. Capt. 
 and Maj. to Mar. 13, '65, for faithful and meritorious service; Bvt. 
 Lt. Col. Mar. 13, '65, for faithful and meritorious service during 
 the war. P. O. ad., Washington, D. C. (Record, Ayling's Regis- 
 ter, 1895, p. 1081.) 
 
 Surgeon Town was born in Jefferson, Coos county, N. H., 
 January 11, 1836, and was the son of Barton Oilman and Har- 
 riet Francis (Tifft) Towne and grandson of Hon. Amos Towne 
 of Littleton, N. H., who was a native of Keene, in Cheshire 
 county, X. H. (It will be observed that Surgeon Town has 
 dropped the final "e "in his name, as he himself gives the "e "in 
 his father's and grandfather's name, showing that he for some 
 reason has dropped it.) Surgeon To\^ti became a resident of 
 Lancaster at a very early age and received his preliminary edu- 
 cation at Lancaster Academy and was in the Chandler Scien- 
 tific Department of Dartmouth College, but did not graduate. 
 He commenced his professional education in 1856, under the 
 direction of Dr. J. W. Barney of Lancaster, N. H., and Dr. 
 Ralph Bugbee of Littleton, N. H., and Professor Edmund R. 
 Pea.slee of New York City. He attended the ISIedical Depart- 
 ment of Dartmouth College and was graduated from the same 
 in the class of 1860. He commenced his professional labors at 
 the Charity Hospital, Blackwell's island. New York, and after- 
 wards in the old New York Hospital, then on Broadway, until 
 the war commenced in 1861. He entered the regular army in 
 May, 1861, and has passed through the following grades : 
 
250 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 ' ' First lieutenant and assistant surgeon, United States Army, 
 May 28, 1861 ; captain and assistant surgeon. May 28, 1866 ; 
 brevet captain, major and lieutenant-colonel ; promoted major 
 and surgeon, October 20, 1868 ; lieutenant-colonel and surgeon, 
 July 10, 1889 ; promoted colonel and assistant surgeon-general, 
 United States Army, June 28, 1894 ; retired, October 10, 1896, 
 as colonel, United States Army." 
 
 His service in the United States Army has been as follows ; 
 
 "From 1861 to 1863, in the Army of the Cumberland ; fall of 
 1863, organized the 'Harvey' General Hospital for the State 
 of Wisconsin, at Madison, Wis. ; 1864, served with General R. 
 C. Wood, assistant surgeon-general, United States Army, who 
 had general control of army medical affairs in the West and 
 Southwest ; 1865, post surgeon at the barracks, Louisville, Ky. ; 
 1866, chief surgeon. Military District of Kentucky ; 1867-1871, 
 on the frontier in Montana, post surgeon at Old Fort Shaw, 
 Indians there hostiles in those days; 1871-1874, post surgeon 
 at Fort Preble, Portland harbor. Me. ; 1874-1878, on the fron- 
 tier in the western portion of Indian Territory (now Okla- 
 homa), at Fort Sill, Indians there, Kiowas and Comanches, 
 were hostiles; served in the campaign of 1874 against these 
 hostiles; 1878, on leave in Europe; 1879-1884, served in the 
 Territory (now State) of Washington; 1884-1888, served in 
 the State of Texas; 1888-1892, post surgeon at the 'Presidio,' 
 Harbor of San Francisco, Cal. ; 1893, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, 
 N. Y. ; winter and spring of 1894, on duty at military head- 
 quarters at Chicago, 111. ; 1894-1896, medical director. Military 
 Department of Texas, at San Antonio, Tex. ; subsequently, 
 colonel, United States Army, retired." 
 
 His civil appointments were: One of the superintending 
 school committee in Lancaster, N. H., in 1858, and was ap- 
 pointed by the governor, county commissioner of schools and 
 member of the state board of education in 1859. 
 
 Residence during the summer at Lancaster, during the win- 
 ter months, San Antonio, Texas. 
 
UNITED STATES ARMY. 251 
 
 Major Warren Webster, Surgeon, U. S. A. 
 Late of Haverhill, N. H. 
 
 By Henry P. Watson, M. D., Manchester. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born at Gilmanton, N. H., 
 March 7, 1837, and was the second son of Caleb and Hannah 
 (Peaslee) Webster. The place of his birth was a very aristo- 
 cratic old mansion house of colonial times, now standings and 
 still in the family name, I think. His father was an affluent 
 merchant of the times and his mother a woman of strong intel- 
 lectual attainments. 
 
 Caleb Webster, Jr., father of Warren, was born May 1, 1791, 
 and was the ninth son of Caleb Webster by his second mar- 
 riage. Benjamin, an ancestor of Caleb, born in 1701, is said 
 to have been the first child born in the town of Kingston, N. H. 
 
 In early life Dr. Webster is said to have been of very deli- 
 cate health and his early training was largely left to the care 
 of his mother, from whom he inherited so many sterling quali- 
 ties, which later on gave intelligent scope and direction to his 
 life-work. About 1845, while yet a lad, his father removed 
 from Gilmanton to North Haverhill, where he conducted a 
 general mercantile business, having, also, branches at Gilman- 
 ton, N. H., and Groton, Vt., which were largely intrusted to 
 the management of the elder brother, now the Hon. Sidney 
 Webster of New York. 
 
 It is probable that Warren also served more or less time in 
 some of his father's stores. Outside the public schools his 
 early training and preparation for college was obtained 
 through private tutors, which the financial ability of his 
 parents enabled them to provide. At the comparatively early 
 age of seventeen he was sent abroad on account of his health, 
 making a tour of Europe and the continent, spending much 
 time in the large towns and cities, especially in Paris, where 
 he perfected himself in the French language, which he spoke 
 with ease and freedom. On his return from Europe, he began 
 the study of medicine and a little later entered the Medical 
 Department of Harvard College, from which he was graduated 
 with honors in March, 1860. 
 
252 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 On June twenty-third, following his graduation, he passed 
 an examination and was appointed lieutenant and assistant 
 surgeon, United States Army. He was mustered into service 
 June twenty-ninth of the same year and immediately went 
 upon duty with his regiment, which was then engaged in sup- 
 pressing an uprising of the Indians on the Pawnee Fork. 
 
 Upon the breaking out of the civil w^ar in 1861, he was or- 
 dered with his regiment to the front in the Army of the 
 Potomac, where he served continuously during that protracted 
 struggle, under every commanding general, from McClellan 
 to Grant. At one time he was the medical officer in charge of 
 the transportation of Federal and Confederate prisoners at 
 Aquia Creek, Va. 
 
 On May 3, 1863, he was brevetted captain for "gallant and 
 meritorious service in the battle of Chancellorsville, Va. ' ' At 
 the beginning of the battle a large mansion of some wealthy 
 Confederate who had deserted it on the approach of the con- 
 tending forces, was taken by him as a field hospital. As the 
 battle raged with varying fortunes, this hospital would be 
 alternately within our ow^n and the enemy's lines and filled 
 with the wounded of both armies, where both loyal and rebel 
 surgeons vied with each other in their common work of 
 humanity. At one time Surgeon Webster relates that this 
 hospital became situated exactly between the lines of the con- 
 tending forces, when the firing became so incessant and annoy- 
 ing that the surgeons could no longer pursue their work. Now 
 there happened to be a typical Southern fireplace in this tem- 
 porary hospital, large and of generous proportions, blackened 
 by years of constant use, to which Surgeon Webster retired, 
 and seating himself within its ample recess, upon a half-burned 
 log, with back against the sooty brick, composedly lighted his 
 pipe and smoked until the tide of war again brought it within 
 our own lines and he was able to resume his surgical work. 
 Dr. Webster was accustomed to facetiously allude to this smok- 
 ing incident of the battle as the "gallant and meritorious ser- 
 vice" for which he was subsequently brevetted. 
 
UNITED STATES ARMY. 253 
 
 On March 13, 1865, for "faithful and meritorious service 
 during the war" he was brevetted major. June 23, 1865, he 
 was appointed captain and assistant surgeon. On July 28, 
 1866, he was commissioned major and surgeon ; brevetted lieu- 
 tenant-colonel September twenty-eighth of the same year for 
 "meritorious and distinguished services at Hart's island and 
 David's island, New York harbor, where cholera prevailed." 
 
 Afterwards, while stationed at Douglass island, he told the 
 writer that with the proceeds obtained by the sale of the refuse 
 and garbage of the camp, he maintained a brass band during 
 his entire time of service on that island. Soon after the close 
 of the war he was transferred to the Army of the Southwest, 
 with headquarters at Austin, Tex. Early in 1871, his health 
 beginning to suffer, he was given a six months' furlough and 
 came to North Haverhill, where his aged and widowed mother 
 resided. 
 
 Just before starting for the North, the officers of the garri- 
 son presented him with a magnificent set of cuff-buttons of jet, 
 upon each of which were, in raised and solid gold, a pair of 
 cross-bones and skull, with a dazzling jewel in each. Of these 
 he was naturally quite proud and wore them on his journey 
 home. One day a fellow-traveler in the parlor coach, presum- 
 ably a Knight Templar Mason, observing them, leaned forward 
 and politely inquired if he was not also a Mason ? Turning 
 at once, he denied the soft impeachment, upon which his friend 
 somewhat sarcastically advised him to "remove those jewels 
 from his sleeves and put them in his pocket." Quick as a 
 flash, with that peculiar sparkle of the eye and sang froid for 
 which he was always noted, the major rejoined, that "if a 
 doctor had not a right to wear the skull and cross-bones, he 
 wished he would tell him who had. ' ' For some months Doctor 
 Webster was the victim of complete aphonia, or loss of voice, 
 but from which he nearly recovered before the expiration of 
 his furlough. 
 
 On his reporting for service again, he was assigned to duty 
 in the War Department at Washington, where he remained 
 many months — a year or two, I think. He next applied for 
 
254 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 and obtained the position of post surgeon at Mare island in 
 the harbor of San Francisco. On his return, he was again 
 for some months on duty in the office of the surgeon-general. 
 
 He was next, for a time, on duty at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., 
 and Plattsburg, N. Y. He was transferred to Fort Preble in 
 Portland harbor, where he had a long term of service and 
 became very popular with the garrison officers, as well as with 
 the city physicians. 
 
 In 1872, while on a lengthy leave at North Haverhill, he 
 began the study of the German language and pursued it by 
 himself with unremitting assiduity, with occasional tutors in 
 both Washington and Baltimore, as evidenced by receipts in 
 the possession of the writer, until he became a most proficient 
 scholar of that somewhat difficult language and literature. 
 
 While at Fort Preble in 1881, in connection with Dr. James 
 A. Spalding, an opthalmia surgeon and formerly of the army, 
 I think, he translated Ludwig Mauthner's treatise on "Sym- 
 pathetic Diseases of the Eye, ' ' which was published by William 
 Wood & Co., New York. 
 
 Afterwards, for several years, he was stationed, first at 
 Fortress Monroe, then at Fort Lafayette, and later at Fort 
 Warren, near Boston. 
 
 Except on detached duty in the War Department, this was 
 his last active service before his retirement, February 28, 1889. 
 During his nearly thirty years of active army life, he was fre- 
 quently called to render special and important services to the 
 government, such as judge-advocate general at courts martial, 
 etc. He was, on one occasion during the Rebellion, himself 
 tried before a court martial for disobedience of orders, in that 
 he refused to turn into the ranks a deserter who had volun- 
 tarily returned to camp ill of typhoid fever and under his 
 professional care and who subsequently died of the disease, 
 as I remember it. Although Major Webster was clearly in 
 the right, viewing the case from a strictly professional stand- 
 point, it was, nevertheless, a violation of ordere and upon the 
 charge and specification the court found him guilty and sen- 
 tenced him to confinement to the post limit with loss of pay for 
 
UNITED STATES ARMY. 255 
 
 six months. The then secretary of war, the Hon. Edwin M. 
 Stanton, approved the findings of the court martial, but com- 
 muted the sentence to six weeks' imprisonment within the 
 limits of his post without loss of pay. 
 
 After his retirement much of his time was passed in Wash- 
 ington and Baltimore, w^here he devoted considerable periods 
 to literary work. He was a member of the American Medical 
 Association, the Neuralogical Society, etc., as well as an honor- 
 ary member of several foreign associations, and was a frequent 
 contributor to many medical publications. 
 
 He was a voluminous reader and a patron of high-class liter- 
 ature, both medical and classical. He accumulated one of the 
 largest libraries, which the year before his death he donated 
 to the son of his old-time friend, George M. Watson, M. D., 
 of Manchester, N. H. 
 
 In personal appearance Major Webster was of medium 
 height, full face, high forehead and walked with the easy grace 
 and lofty carriage of a typical army officer. He was never 
 married. Outside of army circles, few knew him intimately; 
 but when in company with personal friends he was accustomed 
 to somewhat relax his military dignity and become the agree- 
 able and social companion and the capital story-teller, of which 
 he had an inexhaustible fund. His counsel was frequently 
 sought in civil life and as a surgeon he was remarkable for 
 coolness and skill. 
 
 Dr. Webster was a brilliant conversationalist, but was never 
 obtrusive of his own opinions and always deferential towards 
 those of others. He certainly could not be styled controver- 
 sial, yet maintained his own position with an array of facts 
 and illustrations which usually carried conviction. He would 
 frequently lead a younger brother into deep professional 
 waters, not to expose or humiliate him, but to teach him habits 
 of thorough investigation, independence of thought and self- 
 reliance. He was intensely enthusiastic in every work he un- 
 dertook, methodical and persistent in its pursuit. He was a 
 good observer and a logical reasoner. He always stated his 
 premises correctly and clearly, which generally led to right 
 
256 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 conclusions. He had the rare faculty, possessed only by a 
 few, of being a good post-prandial speaker. He was of affluent 
 means, outside of his official income, and was thus enabled to 
 surround himself with the luxuries of the day and indulge his 
 taste for travel and literary pursuits to an extent denied 
 many of his less fortunate professional brethren. 
 
 In private life he had few intimate friends whom it pleased 
 him to admit to the inner court of his friendship. In public 
 life he was the personification of militarj^ dignity and honor 
 and no breath of suspicion ever tarnished his public acts. He 
 enjoyed the personal friendship and esteem of his ranking 
 officers and of the prominent professional men of his day, 
 among whom he had a wide acquaintance. The later years 
 of his life were largely' passed in Baltimore, where he num- 
 bered among his intimate friends Professors Osier, Kelley and 
 others of the Johns Hopkins University, where he occupied a 
 suite of rooms through their courtesy. In politics he was an 
 uncompromising Democrat, although it is not certainly known 
 that he ever exercised his right of suffrage, or, if so, where. 
 
 While yet only slightly past the meridian and while still in 
 the full vigor and splendor of his intellectual life, he was sud- 
 denly stricken down while in his rooms at the university. Rec- 
 ognizing the approach of the enemy with whom he had so often 
 broken a lance, at his own request he was removed to St. 
 Mary's Hospital, where, on the thirteenth day of January, 
 1896, he passed to the great unknown. 
 
 On the eighteenth, attended by a single relative and a few 
 life-long friends, his remains were tenderly deposited by the 
 side of his father and mother in the churchyard at Horse 
 Meadow, near North Haverhill, beside the bank of the gently 
 flowing river, near which his early years were passed, whose 
 tuneful waves as they glide along its pebbly shore shall forever 
 chant his requiem. 
 
 Augustus Wiswall Wiggin, M. D. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Wakefield, N. H., 
 June 9, 1841, and was the son of Henry Lamson and Elizabeth 
 
UNITED STATES ARMY. 257 
 
 Bond (Wiswall) Wiggin, grandson of Joseph Wiggin. Re- 
 ceived his preliminary education in the common schools and 
 at Wakefield Academy, fitted for college at Phillips-Exeter 
 Academy and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1862. 
 Taught school at Belmont, Mass., from 1862 to 1863. He 
 commenced his professional education under the direction of 
 Dr. M. B. "Warren of Rochester in 1863, attended medical lec- 
 tures at Bowdoin Medical College in 1864, and at Georgetown 
 Medical College, "Washington, D. C, and received the degree 
 of M. D. from the latter, March 2, 1865. 
 
 June, 1864, he received an appointment from the secretary 
 of war as medical cadet and was assigned to duty on board 
 the transport ' ' Atlantic, ' ' which was used to convey wounded 
 soldiers from Fortress Monroe to hospitals in the North. 
 March 15, 1865, was in Lincoln General Hospital as assistant 
 to Surgeon R. O. Abbott, United States Army; June 6, 1865, 
 appointed assistant surgeon in the Fifth United States Colored 
 Artillery (Heavy), "Vicksburg, Miss.; September, 1865, de- 
 tached from regiment and assigned to duty as surgeon in 
 charge of post hospital at Grenada, Miss. ; May, 1866, was mus- 
 tered out of service and discharged at St. Louis, Mo. ; October, 
 1866, was appointed assistant surgeon in United States Volun- 
 teers ; August, 1867, was assigned to duty at Fort Hays, Kan., 
 with a column of cavalry to guard the reconstruction party 
 preparing the road-bed and putting down rails of the Kansas 
 (now Union Pacific) Railway; October, 1867, to May, 1868, 
 was at Fort "Wallace, Kan. ; August, 1868, to December, 1869, 
 at the United States Military Academy, "West Point, N. Y. ; 
 January, 1870, at Camp "Warner, Ore. ; May, 1870, Camp 
 Douglas, Corinne, Utah; July, 1870, at Fort Stevens, Ore., also 
 attending surgeon at headquarters of the Military Department 
 at Portland, Ore. Died at Fort Stevens, Ore., March 6, 1875. 
 
 John Tredick, Jr. 
 
 (11 N. H. V.) 
 
 Tbedick, John, Jr. Co. K; b. Dover; age 24; res. "Wakefield; cred. 
 Wakefield; enl. Aug. 15, 'C2; must, in Sept. 2, '62, as Prlv.; dlsch. 
 
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258 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 to date Mar. 6, '64, to accept appointment as Hosp. Steward, U. 
 S. A. See Miscel. Organizations. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 596.) 
 
 (Miscel. Organizations.) 
 
 Tbedick, John, Jr. General Service, U. S. A.; b. Dover; age 25; res. 
 Wakefield; enl. Mar. 7, '64, for 3 yrs. as Priv.; app. Hosp. Steward 
 Mar. 7, '64; disch. Aug. 19, '65, Covington, Ky. See 11 N. H. V. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1081.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Dover, N. H., Feb- 
 ruary 14, 1838, and was the son of John and Mary W. (Copp) 
 Tredick. His preliminary education was received in the com- 
 mon schools and fitted for college at Phillips-Exeter Academy. 
 He commenced his professional education under the direction 
 of Dr. J. S. Boss at Great Falls. August 15, 1862, he enlisted 
 as private in Company K, Eleventh New Hampshire Volun- 
 teers, and served as nurse and hospital steward until March 
 7, 1864, also served with Battery D, Pennsylvania Volunteers. 
 He was discharged for promotion and re-enlisted as hospital 
 steward in the regular army, being stationed near Covington, 
 Ky., and was discharged from the United States service 
 August 19, 1865. He attended medical lectures at the Jeffer- 
 son Medical College, Philadelphia, and was graduated from the 
 same March 9, 1867. He first settled in practice in Dunton, 
 111., where he remained until November, 1867; was in Phila- 
 delphia until February, 1869, when he removed to Perrymans- 
 ville, Harford county, Md., remaining there until his death, 
 which occurred May 18, 1881. 
 
 Married, in Baltimore, Md., March 11, 1874, Annie L., 
 daughter of Daniel M. and Louisa Swift of Perrymansville, 
 Md. 
 
 Edward Martin Tucker, M. D. 
 
 Canaan, N. H. 
 
 (Veteran Reserve Corps.) 
 
 Tdckeb. Edwabd M. Co. I, 44 Regt.; b. Springvale, Me.; age 25; 
 cred. Hillsborough; enl. Sept. 8, '64; must, in Sept. 8, '64, as Priv.; 
 tr. to Independent Company, V. R. C; disch. Dec. 18, '65, to re-enl. 
 as Hosp. Steward, U. S. A. Prior service in 3 Mass. Battery. Rec- 
 ord, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1014.) 
 
UNITED STATES AEMY. 259 
 
 Dr. Tucker was born April 22, 1839, in Springvale, York 
 county, Me., and was the son of John and Eliza (Hussey) 
 Tucker, and grandson of Ezra Tucker. He received his pre- 
 liminary education in the common schools of Dover, N. H., 
 and at a commercial school in Boston, Mass. He commenced 
 his professional education at Dover, N. H., in 1864, under the 
 direction of Dr. Levi Gerrish Hill, and continued the same 
 with Drs. J. F. Frisbee and Edward Cowles. This was while 
 he was a hospital steward in the Volunteers and the United 
 States Army. He attended three courses of medical lectures 
 at the Georgetown Medical College, District of Columbia, and 
 the Medical Department of Bowdoin College in ]\Iaine, grad- 
 uating from the latter in July, 1872. He commenced the 
 practice of medicine in Canaan, X. H., July 28, 1873, and has 
 remained there ever since. 
 
 He is a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, and 
 health officer of the town of Canaan, county physician and 
 surgeon for the town of Canaan, and has been a member of 
 the board of education for the same town. He is a fraternal 
 member of the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, 
 and of the Grand Army of the Republic, also of the New 
 Hampshire Sons of the Revolution. He was medical director 
 of the Grand Army of the Republic for the Department of 
 New Hampshire only a few years since, and has been justice 
 of the peace of the State of New Hampshire for many years. 
 
 His army record was a long and varied one, commencing 
 with an enlistment in the Third Massachusetts Light Artillery, 
 September 5, 1861, and ending as hospital steward in the 
 United States Army, December 22, 1871, nine years, three 
 months and two days. Being under size and weight, he was 
 refused an enlistment in the infantry and cavalry branches 
 of the service, but persistently pressing himself forward, 
 was allowed to enlist in the Massachusetts Light Artillery and 
 went to the front immediately. He took part in the siege and 
 battle of Yorktown, Hanover Court House, Mechanicsville, 
 Gaines's Mill, Malvern Hill, Gainesville, Va., and Antietam 
 and Shepardstown, Md. In all, nine battles in a little over one 
 year. 
 
260 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 General Martin, commanding the battery, said of him: 
 "During the period of his service in the battery he was a 
 brave and efficient soldier and performed his duty faithfully 
 and was not absent from duty a day until the date of his 
 injury. ' ' 
 
 He was wounded September 20, 1862, in the battle of Shep- 
 ardstown and was discharged from the service on account of 
 the injury, July 22, 1863. He was assigned, September 8, 
 1864, to Company I, Twenty-fourth Regiment, Veteran Re- 
 serve Corps; appointed hospital steward of the regiment in 
 April, 1865, and was discharged from this regiment and the 
 volunteer service to accept promotion the twenty-second of 
 December of the same year, and was appointed hospital stew- 
 ard in the United States Army by General Grant on the same 
 date and served until December 22, 1871. 
 
 "After my appointment, the adjutant-general ordered me 
 to report to the surgeon-general, who ordered me to report to 
 R. O. Abbott, surgeon, United States Army, and medical 
 director, Department of Washington, who ordered me to duty 
 in the office of the surgeon-in-chief. Defences of Washington, 
 and from there I was assigned to duty at Fort Whipple (now 
 Fort Myers), Va., remaining there until October, 1867. When 
 I was ordered to report for duty at Battery Rogers, Alexan- 
 dria, where I remained until April, 1869, when, after breaking 
 up the hospital here, as at Fort Whipple, and turning the 
 property in, I was ordered by General Sherman to Fort Wads- 
 worth, New York harbor, and from there to Fort Preble, Port- 
 land harbor, Me., where I left the army in December, 1871, 
 against the protest of General McDorsee, at that time com- 
 manding the Department of the East, who offered me a fur- 
 lough, to graduate, and then one to go South for my health. 
 (I was on crutches at this time and had been for months.) 
 I did not enlist in the Veteran R^eserve Corps, but was as- 
 signed to it, and got an order from the War Department for 
 an examination to go to the front, but was refused, and then 
 very soon after was appointed steward of the Twenty-fourth 
 Veteran Reserve Corps." 
 
UNITED STATES ARMY. 261 
 
 On being discharged from the service, he entered the Medi- 
 cal Department of Bowdoin College, graduating from the same 
 in July, 1872. He has resided in Canaan since July, 1873, 
 an honored and respected citizen and successful physician. 
 By reason of wounds received in the service, his health has 
 been very much impaired and he has never been able to per- 
 form the arduous duties of his profession for many months at 
 a time without breaking down and being obliged to remain 
 quiet to allow his wounds to heal again. 
 
 Married, February 20, 1879, Mary Albina Kimball, daugh- 
 ter of Peter and Nancy A. (Adams) Kimball of Grafton, 
 N. H. Mrs. Tucker had two great-grandfathers in the Revo- 
 lution; one, Capt. Peter Kimball, was wounded at Benning- 
 ton, and they, with the doctor's great-grandfather, enlisted 
 from Boscawen. 
 
 One child, Luie Albina Tucker, born April 28, 1884. 
 
UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS, 
 
 The war records of New Hampshire from 1861 to 1865 pre- 
 sent the names of several who seemed to have been commis- 
 sioned for special work along the lines of medicine and sur- 
 gery. These men were sometimes assigned to regiments, but 
 more often found their work to be in charge of hospitals or 
 camps where a large number of enlisted men were massed to- 
 gether for the purpose of recuperating their health. The pro- 
 fession of medicine furnished our country with several from 
 New Hampshire. They were faithful to their duties, patriotic 
 in their impulse and deserve honorable mention among the 
 quota of New Hampshire Volunteers. 
 
 Thomas Russell Crosby, M. D. 
 
 Hanover, N. H. 
 
 Ceosby, Thomas Russell. U. S. V.; b. Gilmanton; res. Hanover; 
 app. Maj. and Surg. Sept. 11, '62; must, out July 27, '65. Bvt. Lt. 
 Col. U. S. V. to date June 1, '65, for faithful and meritorious ser- 
 vices. Died Mar. 1, '72, Hanover. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 1041.) 
 
 Surgeon Crosby was born in Gilmanton, October 22, 1816, 
 and was the twelfth child of Dr. Asa Crosby and the half- 
 brother of Drs. Josiah and Dixi Crosby. His early education 
 was received in the common schools of New Hampshire and 
 at Gilmanton Academy, which was at that time one of the 
 best in the state. He then entered an advanced class in Dart- 
 mouth College, pursued his medical and classical courses at 
 the same time, and was graduated A. B. and M. D. the same 
 year, 1841. He first located in Campton, but in 1843 moved to 
 Manchester. About 1850 he became affected with lead poison- 
 ing and was obliged to leave Manchester, as at that time all 
 the public water supply of that city was transmitted through 
 lead pipes, and he removed to Hanover in 1852. 
 
UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS. 263 
 
 Not being able to attend to the active duties of his profes- 
 sion, he gave his attention to chemistry, and when the State 
 Agricultural College was opened he became the professor of 
 chemistry as applied to agriculture, and was also professor of 
 chemistry in Norwich University. About 1858 Surgeon 
 Crosby had so far recovered his health as to be engaging in 
 active practice. 
 
 It appears that he went to the front as a volunteer after the 
 battles on the Peninsula, as his biographer says: "A ^nsit to 
 Fortress Monroe convinced him that he could endure the 
 Southern climate and he immediately offered his services, pass- 
 ing an examination at Philadelphia." He was commissioned 
 surgeon September 11, 1862, and assigned to duty by being 
 placed in charge of Columbia College Hospital, near "Wash- 
 ington, and remained in this hospital until he was mustered 
 out of the service July 27, 1865. He was eminently success- 
 ful in the administration of his hospital work, which was recog- 
 nized by the government in granting him the title of "brevet 
 lieutenant-colonel, United States Volunteers, to date from June 
 1, 1865, for faithful and meritorious services." 
 
 He returned to Hanover and resumed his professional work, 
 continuing to labor until a few hours of his death, which 
 occurred March 7, 1872. 
 
 ^larried, in February, 1843, to Louisa P., only daughter 
 of the late Colonel Bunton, and sister of the recently deceased 
 General Bunton, both of the United States Regular Army. 
 
 George Franklin French, M. D. 
 Late of Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Fbencii, George F. U. S. V.; res. Gilmanton; app. Asst. Surg. June 
 4, '63; app. Maj. and Surg. June 13, '63; resigned June 5, '65; app. 
 Asst. Surg. U. S. A.. Feb. 28, '66, declined appointment. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1048.) 
 
 Surgeon French was born in Dover, N. H., October 30, 
 1837, and was the son of John Andrew and Mary Elizabeth 
 (Twombly) French, and a grandson of Andrew French. He 
 received his preliminary education in the public schools and 
 
264 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 fitted for college at the Dover high school and was graduated 
 A. B. from Harvard University in 1859; the degree of A. M. 
 was conferred from the same institution in 1871. On gradu- 
 ating, he secured the position of instructor in Greek and Latin 
 in the private school of Professors Lane and Lovering, holding 
 it for three years, during which he was also a proctor in the 
 university, pursuing at the same time the study of medicine. 
 He received the degree of M. D. from the Medical Department 
 of Harvard University in 1862 and at once entered the army, 
 being appointed acting assistant surgeon in 1862, and surgeon 
 of the United States Volunteers June 13, 1863. 
 
 The first year of his service he was stationed in a large gen- 
 eral hospital at Alexandria, Va., where he acquired a prac- 
 tical experience in military surgery, which enabled him, a 
 year later, to obtain a commission from President Lincoln as 
 surgeon of the United States Volunteers. 
 
 He was immediately ordered to Vicksburg and assigned to 
 duty as the personal staff surgeon of General U. S. Grant, — a 
 position which he retained until General Grant was ordered to 
 Washington to assume command of the entire army. 
 
 Dr. French was now ordered to the front to organize field 
 hospitals in the wake of Sherman's advancing columns, draw- 
 ing supplies and resources for that object from the enemy's 
 country. At Rome, Ga., he organized and established a field 
 hospital with a capacity of thirty-five hundred beds and a few 
 months later another field hospital at Atlanta, Ga., of five 
 thousand beds. 
 
 On Sherman's March to the Sea. Dr. French was surgeon- 
 in-chief of the Fii-st Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, a com- 
 mand which in the eyes of the Southerners were the incendia- 
 ries of Columbia, S. C, but a division of brave and true men, 
 whose names will be handed down to history as a portion of 
 the original command of General W. T. Sherman on the battle- 
 field of Shiloh. At the close of the war. Dr. French was 
 brevetted lieutenant-colonel and tendered a commission in 
 the regular army, which was declined. The six months fol- 
 lowing were spent in Dover, where he did much professional 
 work. 
 
UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS. 265 
 
 In 1866 Dr. French established himself in Portland, Me.; 
 occupied the chairs of physiology and obstetrics in the Port- 
 land School for Medical Instruction and was also lecturer on 
 dermatology. He was a member of the original staff of the 
 Maine General Hospital. 
 
 For the benefit of his wife's health he removed, in 1879, to 
 Minneapolis, Minn. He at once entered upon a large prac- 
 tice, became one of the founders and supporters of the Min- 
 nesota College Hospital, and from 1882 until 1885 was pro- 
 fessor of obstetrics in that institution, and in 1885 and 1886 
 occupied the chair of gynecology in the Minnesota Hospital 
 College. 
 
 In 1887 Dr. French accepted an appointment by the gov- 
 ernor of Minnesota on the State Medical Examining Board, 
 of which he was the first president ; in 1890 was elected presi- 
 dent of the Minnesota Academy of Medicine. He also was a 
 member of the State Medical Societies of ]\Iaine and Minnesota, 
 the National Medical Association, American Public Health 
 Association and the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, Grand Army of the Republic, Society of the 
 Army of the Tennessee, the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion and the Harvard Club of Minnesota, of which he was 
 twice president, and was a frequent contributor to some of 
 the best medical journals in the United States. 
 
 Surgeon French died in Minneapolis, Minn., July 13, 1897. 
 The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 
 Headquarters Commandery, State of Minnesota, appointed a 
 committee to prepare a tribute of respect to the memory of 
 their companion, George F. French, and they reported as 
 follows : 
 
 "Your committee appointed to prepare a record and a 
 tribute of respect to the memory of our late companion, Dr. 
 George Franklin French, beg leave to report the following : 
 
266 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 *'In IVIemoriam. 
 
 "george franklin french. 
 " Compamons: 
 
 "We halt a moment on the ever-accelerated march to that 
 environment which now surrounds our late companion, George 
 Franklin French, to drop a tear to his memory as we inscribe 
 briefly upon our records the story of his life. 
 
 ' ' He finished life 's work and solved death 's mystery on the 
 thirteenth day of July, 1897, at his home in Minneapolis. 
 Counting time by ' fingers on a dial, ' he had lived nearly sixty 
 years, having been born at Dover, in the State of New Hamp- 
 shire, on the thirtieth day of October, 1837. In the uniform 
 courtesy shown by him to every human being with whom he 
 came in contact, in good deeds unostentatiously performed, 
 and in duty well done, he was a centenarian. His preparation 
 for college was in his native town. He graduated at Harvard 
 with the class of '59, spent the following three years as a 
 tutor, pursuing at the same time the study of medicine. In 
 1862 he received his doctor's degree, and shortly thereafter, in 
 August of that year, was appointed acting assistant surgeon 
 in the army. After nearly a year 's experience in the hospitals 
 of Alexandria, Va., he was, on the thirteenth day of June, 
 1863, commissioned as surgeon of the United States Volunteers 
 by President Lincoln and assigned to duty on the personal 
 staff of General Grant, with whom he remained until the gen- 
 eral departed for "Washington in 1864, when he was assigned 
 to duty in establishing field hospitals in the wake of Sherman 's 
 Army. On Sherman's March to the Sea he was surgeon-in- 
 chief of the First Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps. At 
 the close of the war he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel and 
 was tendered a commission in the regular army, which he de- 
 clined. In 1866 he entered upon the practice of his profes- 
 sion at Portland, Me., where he remained for thirteen years, 
 building up a large and lucrative practice, occupying in the 
 meantime the chairs of physiology, practice of medicine and 
 obstetrics in the Portland School for Medical Instruction. In 
 
UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS. 267 
 
 1879, on account of the ill health of his wife, and to procure 
 for her an extreme change of climate, he removed to the City 
 of Minneapolis, Minn., where he resided until his death. Here 
 he was at once accorded first rank by his professional brethren 
 and soon obtained an extensive practice. He had the zeal of 
 a true lover of humanity. He labored assiduously and ear- 
 nestly to build and foster hospitals and a school of medicine in 
 the city of his adoption. He was one of the founders and in- 
 corporators of the iMinnesota College Hospital, and afterwards 
 a professor of obstetrics therein. Later he occupied the chair 
 of gj^necology in the Minnesota Hospital College, which latter 
 institution was the nucleus of the medical school that after- 
 wards became a part of the University of Minnesota. Then 
 came his appointment by the governor as a member of the 
 State Medical Examining Board, and his election by the board 
 as the first president thereof. In 1890 he was also elected 
 president of the Minnesota Academy of Medicine. He was a 
 member of the following medical societies : Medical Society of 
 Maine, INIedical Society of Minnesota, the American Medical 
 Association, the American Public Health Association, and he 
 was as well a member of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science. 
 
 "His ripe scholarship, original thought and medical expe- 
 rience rendered him, for many years, a valuable contributor to 
 the current medical literature of his day. He remained in the 
 active practice of his profession to the week of his death. He 
 was a comrade of John A. Rawlins Post, No. 126, Department 
 of Minnesota, G. A. R., and became a companion of the First 
 Class of the ^Minnesota Commandery of the Military Order of 
 the Loyal Legion on the seventh day of December, 1887. 
 
 "As we close the gap made in our ranks by the death of 
 our beloved companion, we desire here to bear witness to his 
 many virtues. He was a genial companion, a faithful friend, 
 a good citizen, loyal and brave, and an honest man." 
 
 Married, October 14, 1862, to Clara A., daughter of the 
 late Levi G. Hill, M. D., of Dover, N. H. 
 
268 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Children, four: Levi Hill, Margaret Leighton, Katherine 
 Shackford and Elizabeth Ayers French. The son graduated 
 from the Medical Department of the University of Minnesota 
 in 1894, took a post-graduate course during the years 1895 and 
 1896 in Paris and London, became a practicing occulist in 
 Washington, D. C, and is now major in the Third Regiment 
 United States Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Timothy Haynes, M. D. 
 
 Late of Concord, N. H. 
 
 Haynes, Timothy. U. S. V.; b. Alexandria; age 53; res. Concord; 
 app. Maj. and Surg. Oct. 7, '61; resigned Nov. 6, '62. Died June 
 28, '83, Concord. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1054.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Alexandria, N. H., 
 September 5, 1808, and was the son of David and Rebecca 
 Haynes. His preliminary education was received in the com- 
 mon schools and academies of New Hampshire. He com- 
 menced his professional education under the direction of Dr. 
 R. D. Muzzey of Hanover, and while a student of medicine 
 he was demonstrator of anatomy for some time at Dartmouth 
 Medical College. Afterward he attended medical lectures at 
 the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which insti- 
 tution he was graduated in 1836. Immediately after receiving 
 his degree, he located for the practice of his profession in 
 Concord, N. H. Dr. Haynes made a specialty of surgery, in 
 the practice of which he attained quite a reputation for skill 
 and success. For many years previous to the great fire of 
 1851 he had an anatomical museum in the Stickney block, 
 next north of the Eagle Hotel, consisting of a valuable collec- 
 tion, which was totally destroyed by that fire. He had many 
 students during his early professional life, who shared the 
 advantages of his museum and his demonstration of anatomy. 
 
 October 7, 1861, he was appointed surgeon in the United 
 States Volunteers and served in that capacity until November 
 6, 1862. 
 
 Married, in 1843, Miss Laura Bracket of Littleton. 
 
UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS. 269 
 
 Children : Three daughters, Mrs. William H. Stevens, for- 
 merly of Littleton, N. H. ; Nellie S. and Lizzie B. Haynes. 
 
 Died June 28, 1883. He was a successful business man 
 and left his native town a substantial endowment for a free 
 library. 
 
 Charles Emerson Swasey, M. D. 
 Somersworth, N. H. 
 
 Swasey, Charles E. U. S. V.; b. Milton Mills; age 33; res. Milton; 
 app. Asst. Surg, to date Nov. 7, '62; Maj. and Surg, to date Aug. 
 15, '63; disch. Oct. 19, '65; Bvt. Lt. Col. to date Oct. 12, '65, for 
 faithful and meritorious service. P. 0. ad., Somersworth. (Rec- 
 ord, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1079.) 
 
 Surgeon Swasey was born in Milton Mills, N. H., November 
 29, 1829, and was the son of Charles and Eunice (Paul) Swa- 
 sey, a grandson of Nathaniel Swasey. His preliminary educa- 
 tion was received in the common schools of New Hampshire 
 and at the Literary Institute of New Hampton, N. H. His 
 profeSvsional education commenced in 1858 under the direction 
 of Dr. Horatio B. Buck of Philadelphia. He attended lectures 
 at the University of Pennsylvania and was graduated M. D. 
 from the same in March, 1861. Commenced the practice of 
 medicine in New Hampton, N. H., but was there only a short 
 time when he removed to Milton Mills, N. H., and after his 
 service in the army he removed to Great Falls, now the City of 
 Somersworth, where he has resided for twenty-seven years. 
 
 He is a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, of 
 the Strafford District and the Somersworth and Berwick Med- 
 ical Societies. He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the 
 Littlefield Post, No. 8, Department of New Hampshire, G. A. 
 R., of the First Congregational Church and Society of Som- 
 ersworth, N. H. He has been city physician of the City of 
 Somersworth since its organization under a municipal charter. 
 
 While a resident of Milton Mills, he was impressed with the 
 idea that his services might be of assistance to the government, 
 and receiving a letter from a friend in Washington, informing 
 him of the demand for surgeons, he sold his team, disposed of 
 
270 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 his other effects and left for Washington in less than twenty- 
 four hours. He arrived in Washington July 26, 1862, and 
 made a contract with Surgeon-General William A. Hammond 
 at once and was assigned to duty in Columbia College Hospital 
 in that city. Subsequently, under a permit from the secretary 
 of war, he passed an examination before the medical board, 
 and, November 7, 1862, was commissioned by President Lincoln 
 assistant surgeon, United States Volunteers, with the rank of 
 first lieutenant. His biographer says of him: 
 
 * ' This was a period when Washington and its hospitals were 
 overflowing from fresh arrivals, in frightful numbers, of the 
 mangled and dying from the great battlefields of Virginia. A 
 long army experience knew no more exacting service than the 
 delicate handling of these suffering men ; the removal of clo- 
 thing stiffened with blood and dirt, uncovering neglected 
 wounds, cleansing their persons, begrimed with the smoke 
 and dust of battle, into presentable form, participating in the 
 great number of surgical operations and hurriedly putting 
 such as could bear the change in readiness for transportation 
 to Northern hospitals, in order to make room for more ar- 
 rivals. ' ' 
 
 After the battle of Gettysburg there were a great many 
 officers who ' ' fell out ' ' by reason of sickness on the withdrawal 
 of our forces from Pennsylvania, and Surgeon Swasey was 
 sent by Surgeon- General Hammond to Frederick City, Md., to 
 care for these officers. October 15, 1863, he was commissioned 
 by President Lincoln surgeon of the United States Volunteers 
 with the rank of major. Three months later he was under 
 orders from the District of the Frontier, wnth headquarters at 
 Fort Smith, Ark. To reach this place he was obliged to make 
 the journey from St. Louis and was forty-six days on the 
 route, which was beset with bushwhackers, who were noto- 
 riously careless in the use of firearms, and it was therefore 
 anything but a pleasant experience. His biographer con- 
 tinues : 
 
 * ' Navigation of the lower Mississippi and its tributaries was 
 nearly suspended; the weather was exceedingly cold and the 
 
UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS. 271 
 
 gtreams were choked with ice. No wood was available for get- 
 ting up steam, save green wood prepared from trees felled by 
 the boats' crews as needed; progress was difficult and often im- 
 possible and attended by serious mishaps; thrice our boats 
 were snagged and finally abandoned on sand-bars. 
 
 "When night came we anchored in the middle of the stream, 
 every light was extinguished and every voice hushed, lest we 
 should reveal ourselves as a mark for the bushwhackers. 
 Our beds were the bare, stilted decks with turned-down chairs 
 for pillows, covered, if at all, with blankets procured by a 
 'tip' from the steward, and wet at that. The offer of a post 
 to lean against in a warm place for ten dollars would have 
 found many bidders. Subsistence was at times reduced to 
 * hard-tack' and portions of half-starved cattle found sheltered 
 and browsing in the cane-brake, so weak that in camp parlance, 
 when they were killed one had to hold them up while another 
 knocked them down. 
 
 "Arrived at Fort Smith, he was attached to the staff of 
 Brig.-Gen. John M. Thayer, late governor of Nebraska, com- 
 mander District of the Frontier, as medical director of the 
 district and also in charge of the United States General Hos- 
 pital. Isolation from our base of supplies cut us off from 
 'regulation' support, and with ideals of a hospital brought 
 from the East, he felt it incumbent by 'hook or by crook' to 
 make up the deficiency, which he did, sometimes by ways devi- 
 ous but justifiable as ' war measures. ' The medical staff, made 
 up chiefly of local talent, was for obvious reasons composed of 
 incompetent men, so that the surgical duties devolved largely 
 upon himself. The personnel and mode of warfare of the 
 hostile forces was such as to greatly enhance the hazard and 
 horror of war. There were the poor Arkansans, Texans, In- 
 dians, half-breeds, border ruffians and other irresponsibles, 
 "while the whole region was infested with vexatious guerillas. 
 Thousands of wretched refugees, who, for their loyalty or by 
 the destruction of their homes, had been driven within our 
 lines, swarmed in the surrounding forests, sheltered, if at all, 
 under ledges or coverings improvised from the peeled bark of 
 trees. 
 
272 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 "The suffering was quite indescribable, and death became 
 so familiar as to be scarcely noticed. Graves dug for dead 
 soldiers had to be guarded to prevent their being stolen and 
 filled with these unfortunates. Most domestic animal life be- 
 came extinct. Of the thousands of horses and mules that were 
 alive at one time scarcely ten remained. Army rats took the 
 place of cats and dogs. Of course such a lamentable condition 
 of things to a susceptible nature was a veritable 'reign of 
 terror. ' 
 
 "A supply triain from Kansas, to which they were looking 
 for relief, was captured by the rebels. In this extremity a 
 rise in the river opened up communication with Little Rock, 
 three hundred miles distant, and orders were given to evacuate 
 the post. He was given command of a steamer and ordered to 
 ship the sick and wounded and such hospital supplies as he 
 could, and to destroy the remainder that they might not fall 
 into the hands of the rebels. The order was obeyed, and after 
 an eventful trip he was relieved of his charge at Little Rock. 
 The order to evacuate was not fully accomplished, and soon 
 after he was ordered to Fort Smith again, where he served on 
 the staffs of General Thayer and Brig.-Gen. Cyrus Bussey as 
 medical director and medical purveyor of the district, till 
 August 27, 1865, when he was ordered to Little Rock in charge 
 of the United States General Hospital. 
 
 "October 17, 1865, he was again, unsolicited, commissioned 
 brevet lieutenant-colonel, United States Volunteers, by Presi- 
 dent Johnson, 'for faithful and meritorious services.' Soon 
 after, his services being no longer needed, by an order dated 
 October 19, 1865, he was mustered out, after three years and 
 three months of faithful, conscientious and loyal service, and 
 on December 2, 1865, rejoined his family, who for two years 
 were much of the time ignorant of his whereabouts and filled 
 with anxious forebodings, not knowing whether he were dead 
 or alive, and not knowing as they would ever see him again. ' ' 
 
 Married, December 31, 1851, Susan G. Buck, daughter of 
 Dr. Reuben Buck of Acton, York county. Me. 
 
 One child, Sarah Jessie Swasey, wife of Robert A. Barnet, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
united states volunteers. 273 
 
 Augustus Chapman Walker, M. D. 
 Greenfield, Mass. 
 
 Surgeon "Walker was born in North Barnstead, N. H., June 
 9, 1833, and was the son of Joseph Aleott and Abigail (Mur- 
 ray) Walker, grandson of AVilliam Walker. His preliminary- 
 education was received in the common schools and at the Thet- 
 ford (Vt.) Academy; he was graduated A. B. from Dartmouth 
 College in 1862 and received the degree of A. M. in 1871 from 
 the same institution. Between the ages of sixteen and twenty- 
 two he was employed in a general merchandise store at New- 
 market, N. H. He commenced the study of medicine in 1860 
 under the direction of Drs. A. B. Crosby at Hanover, Mark 
 Walker at North Barnstead and Levi G. Hill at Dover, and 
 attended medical lectures at the Medical Department of the 
 University of Vermont, at Burlington, and at the Medical De- 
 partment of Harvard University, from which he received the 
 degree of M. D. in 1866. He located for the practice of his 
 profession in Greenfield, where he has since resided. 
 
 In September, 1862, he was commissioned assistant surgeon, 
 United States Volunteers; served as assistant surgeon of the 
 One Hundred Thirty-third Regiment, New York Volunteer 
 Infantry, 1862- '64; surgeon of the Eighteenth Regiment, New 
 York Volunteer Cavalry, October, 1864, to June, 1865; sur- 
 geon-in-chief of the Cavalry Division, New Orleans, La., from 
 April to June, 1865 ; assistant surgeon of the Second Regiment, 
 Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 1867. 
 
 Dr. Walker was physician to the jail, Greenfield, 1867-1905 ; 
 United States examining surgeon for pensions since 1887; 
 member of the board of health of Greenfield during 1894 and 
 of the board of registration in medicine, Massachusetts, since 
 1894. 
 
 lie is a member of the Franklin District Medical Society, 
 has been vice-president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 
 member of the American Medical Association. 
 
 Married, September 11, 1866, Miss Maria Churchill Grant 
 of Lyme, N, H. 
 
 18 
 
274 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Children: Robert Turner, graduate of the Massachusetts 
 Institute of Technology, 1890; Sidney Grant, graduate of 
 Dartmouth College, 1891 ; and William Augustus Walker. 
 
 Hon. Claudius B. Webster, M. D., A. M. 
 
 Webster, Claudius B. Dec. 24, '62, commis. Acting Asst. Surg. U. S. 
 A.; disch. Sept. 11, '65. (Record, Association of Military Sur- 
 geons, '99.) 
 
 Hon. Claudius B. Webster, M. D., A. M., was born in 
 Hampton, N. H., on December 10, 1815. His parents were 
 Rev. Josiah and Elizabeth (Knight) Webster. The former 
 was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1798, receiving the 
 degree of bachelor of arts and later that of master of arts. 
 He studied theology with Rev. Stephen Peabody of Atkinson, 
 and on November 13, 1799, was ordained to the Trinitarian 
 Congregational ministry and installed over the Second Parish 
 Church in Ipswich (now Essex), Mass., where he remained 
 until June, 1808, when he was installed pastor of the Congre- 
 gational Church in Hampton, N. H., in which town he filled 
 a successful pastorate until his death in 1837. 
 
 Rev. Josiah Webster 's father was Nathan Webster, a farmer 
 of Chester, N. H., who belonged to the same branch of the 
 Webster family from which Daniel Webster was descended, 
 and who traced his ancestry directly back to Thomas Webster 
 of Ormsby, Suffolk county, England, and who emigrated to 
 America and settled in Hampton about 1650. The Webster 
 family in England was characterized by honor, stability and 
 prominence, one of its members, bearing the same name as 
 the colonist above mentioned, having received the honors of 
 knighthood. 
 
 The descendants of the Hampton emigrant, aside from the 
 great expounder of the constitution, include a long list of 
 persons who have become illustrious, not only in the liberal 
 professions, but in literature, the arts and the sciences. 
 
 Claudius B. Webster was fitted for college at Hampton and 
 was given the degree of bachelor of arts at Dartmouth in 1836, 
 
UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS. 275 
 
 and was subsequently honored with the degree of master of 
 arts. Among the distinguished members of his class at Han- 
 over were: Eev. Samuel C. Bartlett, D. D., LL. D., ex-presi- 
 dent of the college ; Prof. Erastus Everett, LL. D., of Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y. ; Ex-Gov. James W. Grimes, LL. D., United States 
 senator from Iowa ; Prof. Edmund R. Peaslee, M. D., LL. D., 
 of New York City, and Hon. John Wentworth, LL. D., mem- 
 ber of congress from Illinois. After leaving college Mr. Web- 
 ster went West, where for three years he was engaged as a 
 civil engineer in the laying out of the Peoria & Warsaw Rail- 
 road. He then returned to New Hampshire and studied medi- 
 cine at Boscawen with his brother. Dr. Eliphalet K. Webster, 
 and attended a course of lectures at Dartmouth Medical Col- 
 lege. Later he was enrolled a student at the College of Phy- 
 sicians and Surgeons of New York, from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1844. After a short practice of the profession of 
 medicine, he accepted the position of principal of the Female 
 Academy at Norwich, Conn., where he remained about sixteen 
 years, and as an able, faithful and conscientious instructor, 
 he gained a high rank in the educational world. 
 
 In 1862 he resigned the principalship of the Norwich Acad- 
 emy to become an acting assistant surgeon in the United 
 States Army. It appears that in the autumn of that year Dr. 
 Webster was in Washington, D. C, visiting relatives. At 
 that time the government had upon its hands a great responsi- 
 bility in the care of sick and disabled contrabands. When 
 the Confederates were forced to move southward they took 
 with them all the able-bodied negroes of both sexes, leaving 
 in their wake the ill, lame and otherwise disabled colored 
 people. The abandoned negroes, in all degrees of destitution, 
 naturally flocked northward to Washington. They numbered 
 thousands and the world probably never saw a more pitiable 
 lot of humanity. These unfortunate people were b}' the 
 United States government gathered at Camp Barker, an old 
 cavalry encampment in the outskirts of the city, the site of 
 which is now known as the Iowa Circle, upon which have been 
 erected some of the most elegant residences in Washinjrtou. 
 
276 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Upon this ground had been built stables for the horses and a 
 large number of huts for the cavalrymen. The government 
 renovated the camp for the reception of these contrabands and 
 appointed Dr. Webster acting assistant surgeon in medical 
 charge, with nurses to assist him. Dr. Webster remained 
 there a year and a half and during that time a temporary 
 hospital was erected and other improvements carried out. His 
 duties were of an arduous and trying nature, and during his 
 service hundreds of cases of smallpox were entered upon the 
 records. In the spring of 1864 these people were removed to 
 the General Lee estate, opposite Washington, where the govern- 
 ment had erected houses for their occupancy and also a hos- 
 pital. Dr. Webster continued in charge of these contrabands 
 in their new location for some months, when he was ordered 
 to the Southwest, with headquarters at Louisville, Ky., where 
 he had superintendence of railway hospital trains that were 
 used in conveying sick and wounded soldiers of our army from 
 Southern to Northern hospitals. He personally accompanied 
 those trains, transferring the soldiers who were able to travel 
 from hospitals as far south as Chattanooga, Tenn., to hospitals 
 in the North. While in the performance of these duties, he 
 was commissioned by Governor Buckingham, known as the 
 "war governor" of Connecticut, to care and provide for any 
 soldiers belonging to regiments from that state whom he might 
 find in Southern hospitals, and for which services he declined 
 the remuneration that was tendered him. 
 
 After the discontinuance of the hospital trains at the close 
 of the war, Dr. Webster was engaged in forwarding the sol- 
 diers still remaining in the large hospitals in Louisville and 
 Jeffersonville (Ind.) to their homes or to hospitals farther 
 north. He continued in that work until the autumn of 1865, 
 when he was honorably discharged from the United States 
 service. During his three years of hospital work Dr. Webster 
 performed, from time to time, gratuitous service for the 
 United States sanitary commission. His labors for the govern- 
 ment were performed with remarkable faithfulness and sin- 
 cerity and justly entitled him to the gratitude of the nation. 
 
UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS. 277 
 
 After leaving the medical department of the army, Dr. 
 Webster returned to Norwich, Conn., to enjoy a few years of 
 rest and leisure, a vacation which he had well earned. A gen- 
 tleman of his ability and patriotism and with so large an 
 acquaintance with the prominent men of the country w^as not 
 likely to remain long in private life, and hence the people of 
 his city were not surprised to learn in 1870 that, entirely un- 
 expectedly and unsought, he had been appointed by President 
 Grant, United States consul at Sheffield, Eng., one of the 
 most important consulates in Great Britain. He filled that 
 position until 1886, when, according to custom in the changes 
 in the national administrations, he was succeeded by an ap- 
 pointee of President Cleveland. In view of the frequent 
 changes in consulates, it is worthy of remark that Dr. Web- 
 ster's term of sixteen years at Sheffield extended over four 
 administrations at Washington and was the longest United 
 States consulship on record in that country. It is needless 
 to state that he performed his duties at Sheffield with dignity, 
 ability and fidelity and to the entire satisfaction of the suc- 
 cessive presidents from whom he received his commissions. 
 He made no attempt to become conspicuous in English public 
 life, but devoted his time, outside of direct official labors, to 
 the cultivation of cordial and friendly relations with those 
 English manufacturers and merchants who were extensively 
 engaged in shipping Sheffield goods to America. The extent 
 of this commerce may be shown by the fact that in one year 
 during Dr. Webster's tenure of office the value of shipments 
 from Sheffield to America amounted to $1,500,000. 
 
 While at Sheffield, the honor devolved upon him to receive 
 Ex-President Grant while on his journey around the world. 
 After the announcement was made of the appointment of a 
 successor to Dr. Webster at Sheffield, the London papers ex- 
 pressed sincere regret that there should be withdrawn one who 
 had so long represented his country with such fidelity, tact 
 and unswerving courtesy. After leaving Sheffield, Dr. Web- 
 ster took a long European tour and then returned to New 
 Hampshire, where he has since made his home, although pass- 
 ing more or less of his time in Washington and Chicago, 
 
278 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 On October 31, 1844, Dr. Webster was married to Miss Mary- 
 Elizabeth Webster, of Pembroke, N. H., a lineal descendant of 
 Hannah Dustin. She was a lovely and refined lady and after 
 a happy marriage extending over forty-two years, death came 
 to her at Sheffield after a long, useful and exemplary life. 
 Doctor and Mrs. Webster had no children. 
 
 There were four brothers to Doctor Webster : Dr. Eliphalet 
 K. Webster, already named; Josiah Webster, a farmer, of Illi- 
 nois; Prof. John C. Webster, D. D., of Wheaton College, 111., 
 and Ma j. -Gen. Joseph D. Webster, United States Army, who 
 became famous in the War of the Rebellion as General Grant 's 
 chief of staff, and w^ho, by his bravery and military skill while 
 chief of artillery, was credited with having turned the tide 
 of battle and secured the great victory for the Union arms at 
 Shiloh. The last two named were Dartmouth College grad- 
 uates of the class of 1832, while Dr. E. K. Webster was an 
 alumnus of the Dartmouth Medical College of the class of 
 1837, thus constituting the probably unparalleled record of a 
 father and four out of five sons being graduates from the 
 same college. The subject of this sketch cherished a lively 
 interest in his alma mater and was president of the Dartmouth 
 Alumni Association of the Concord (N. H.) district. He w^as 
 a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society. 
 
 Doctor Webster was a gentleman of modest and retiring 
 manners, frank and generous sympathies, an extensive reader, 
 the possessor of a great fund of general information and kept 
 thoroughly posted upon all the great national and other issues 
 of the day. He was a member of the South Congregational 
 Church of Concord, N. H. He died at Concord, September 7, 
 1902. 
 
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS. 
 
 "New Hampshire had no regiment of colored troops, but 
 nearly three hundred men were enlisted, credited to the quota 
 of the state, and sent to the proper recruiting rendezvous, from 
 which they were distributed to different regiments, and in 
 addition to these more than one hundred officers and enlisted 
 men of New Hampshire regiments received commissions in the 
 United States Colored Troops, the appointments being made 
 and the commissions issued by the War Department." 
 
 The above from Ayling's Register shows that New Hamp- 
 shire was not unmindful of this branch of the service. The 
 compiler of these sketches has found the following New Hamp- 
 shire men entitled to consideration in the Medical and Surgi- 
 cal History of the State. 
 
 In compiling the work of these brave men, we have found 
 what appears to be an authenticated account of the first 
 observance of ]\Iemorial Day and have given documental evi- 
 dence of the same in its appropriate place. In justice to our 
 Confederate friends, the compiler would say that in the second 
 edition of Mrs. Pryor's "Reminiscences in Peace and War," 
 it is stated that the soldiers and friends of the Confederate 
 Army engaged in the same observance in memory of their 
 departed soldiers in May, 1866, one year after the observance 
 of the same in Charleston, S. C. 
 
 The establishing of the Grand Army of the Republic and 
 the observance of Memorial Day by Union soldiers was brought 
 about by Doctor Stevenson and General Logan a year or two 
 later. 
 
 JosiAH Abbott, M. D. 
 Late of Winchendon, Mass. 
 
 Abbott, Josiaii. F. and S. ; 13 H. Art.; b. Framingham, Mass.; res. 
 Rindge; app. Asst. Surg. Jan. 9, '65; must, in Jan. 9, '65; disch. to 
 
280 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 date Apr. 21, '65, to Accept promotion; must, in to date Apr. 22, '65, 
 as Surg. 119 Inf., U. S. C. T.; disch. disab. Sept. 5, '65. P. O. ad., 
 Winchendon, Mass. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1016.) 
 
 Surgeon Abbott, the subject of this sketch, was born May 
 22, 1811, in Framingham, Mass., and was the son of Josiah 
 and Ruth (Estabrook) Abbott. His preliminary education 
 was received in Framingham, Phillips Exeter, N. H., and 
 Amherst Academy, in Amherst College one year, in Yale Col- 
 lege four years, and was graduated in 1835 with the degree of 
 A. B. ; afterwards received the degree of A. M. He com- 
 menced the study of medicine in 1836 in the Medical Depart- 
 ment of Yale College with Jonathan Knight, professor of 
 surgery, as preceptor. He continued his studies for four years 
 at Yale and at Fairfield, N. Y., and was graduated in medicine 
 from Fairfield Medical College in 1840. Commenced practice 
 in Marlborough, Mass., in 1840, where he remained for three 
 years, and was afterwards in Rindge, N. H., for twenty-two 
 years. 
 
 He was formerly a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
 Society and also of the New Hampshire Medical Society ; was 
 assistant surgeon in the Thirteenth United States Heavy Artil- 
 lery Colored Troops, and surgeon of the One Hundred and 
 Nineteenth United States Colored Infantry ; was a member of 
 the New Hampshire Legislature in 1860 and 1861, and a mem- 
 ber of the school board in the town of Rindge for several years ; 
 afterwards removed to Winchendon, Mass., and was surgeon 
 of the Grand Army Post, No. 153, of Winchendon. He was 
 a member of the military order of the Legion of Honor of the 
 State of Massachusetts, and also a thirty-second degree Mason. 
 
 While attending medical lectures, he also took a course in 
 theology at the Yale Divinity School, with the idea of mission- 
 ary work afterwards. 
 
 While connected with the Colored Troops, he had a large 
 experience in smallpox which prevailed during the time he was 
 in Kentucky, the experience being very fatiguing and often- 
 times far from being agreeable. 
 
 During his later life, in company with his wife, he spent 
 considerable time in Europe, visiting many of the countries. 
 
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS. 281 
 
 Married, January, 1842, Arminda P. White of West Boyls- 
 ton, Mass. 
 
 No children. 
 
 Surgeon Abbott died at his home in Winchendon, Mass., 
 November 27, 1901, at the age of ninety years. 
 
 Miles Olcutt Carter, 'M. D. 
 Lowell, Mass. 
 
 Surgeon Carter was born in Hanover, N. H., April 16, 1840, 
 and was the son of Oliver and Patience M. (Waterman) Car- 
 ter, a grandson of Elijah Carter. He received his preliminary 
 education in the public schools of Hanover, and commenced his 
 professional education under the direction of Professors Dixie 
 and A. B. Crosby, attending three courses of medical lectures, 
 and was graduated M. D. from the Medical Department of 
 Dartmouth College in the class of 1863. He immediately ap- 
 plied for an appointment in the United States Army and 
 passed the necessary examinations for the same. While await- 
 ing the appointment he located in Ayer, Mass., for the practice 
 of his profession and in November, 1863, received his appoint- 
 ment as assistant surgeon of the Nineteenth Regiment, United 
 States Colored Troops. He was promoted in September, 1864, 
 to surgeon, and served with the Army of the Potomac until 
 Lee surrendered ; was then ordered to Texas, and was brevetted 
 lieutenant-colonel in 1865 ; served as brigade surgeon of the 
 Third Brigade, First Division of the Twenty-fifth Army Corps 
 and was discharged from the service in January, 1867, on 
 account of physical disability incurred in the service. 
 
 Being unable to take up his professional work, he became 
 interested in the drug business, and located in Lowell, Mass, ; 
 and has been in that business ever since. He is a member of 
 the Grand Army of the Republic, Knights of Pythias, Odd 
 Fellows and of the ]\Iasonic Fraternity. 
 
 Married, first, November 30, 1875, Mary J. Rice; second, 
 August 25, 1897, Harriet C. Brisbins. 
 
 No children. 
 
 Died March 3, 1904. 
 
282 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 James Bonaparte Farrington, M. D. 
 Late of Salinas, Cal. 
 
 Farrington, James B. F. and S.; 3 Inf.; res. Rochester; must, in 
 Aug. 5, '65, as Asst. Surg.; must, out Oct. 31, '65. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1019.) 
 
 Surgeon Farrington was born in Rochester, N. H., January 
 3, 1831, and was the son of Dr. James and Mary Dame (Han- 
 son) Farrington, a grandson of Stephen Farrington. He re- 
 ceived his preliminary education at the common schools of 
 Rochester, and fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter, 
 N. H., and received the degree of A. B. from Bowdoin College, 
 Me., in 1857 ; commenced the study of medicine under the di- 
 rection of his father. Dr. James Farrington, and his brother- 
 in-lav/, Dr. B. AV. Sargent. He attended medical lectures at 
 the Rush Medical College of Chicago, 111., and was graduated 
 from the same in 1862 ; located at Jefferson, Wis., and was ap- 
 pointed assistant surgeon of the Third Infantry, United States 
 Colored Troops, July 22, 1865, and was mustered into the ser- 
 vice August 5, 1865. Soon after he was wounded in the left 
 arm and shoulder, and the arm was amputated at the shoulder 
 joint; he was mustered out of the service October 3, 1865, 
 Upon his recovery he removed to Salinas, Cal., where he died 
 March 22, 1883. His death was occasioned by phthisis. 
 
 He was a member of the Medical Society of the State of Cal- 
 ifornia and of various Masonic bodies. 
 
 Married Clara D. Parker of Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 Two children : Edgar Farrington and Willis Farrington. 
 
 Arthur W. Gtreeni.eap, M. D. 
 Late of Manchester, N. H. 
 
 (7 N. H. V.) 
 
 Gbeenleaf, Arthur W. Co. D; b. Washington; age 23; res. Wash- 
 ington; enl. Oct. 1, '61; must, in Nov. 6, '61, as Priv.; disch. May 
 8, '63, to accept promotion. See U. S. C. T. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 372.) 
 
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS. 283 
 
 (U. S. C. T.) 
 
 Gbeenleaf, Abthur W. F. and S.; 34 Inf.; b. Washington; age 25; 
 res. Washington; app. Asst. Surg.; must, in May 22, '63, to date 
 May 9, '63; resigned Oct. 10, '64; must, in Sept. 24, '65, as Asst. 
 Surg. 5 H. Art, U. S. C. T.; disch. May 20, '66. See 7 N. H. V. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1019.) 
 
 Surgeon Greenleaf was born in AYashington, X. H., Decem- 
 ber 1, 1837, and was the son of William P. and Sarah H. (Mun- 
 roe) Greenleaf, and a grandson of Daniel Greenleaf. He re- 
 ceived his preliminary education at the common schools and 
 Tubbs Union Academy in Washington. He commenced his 
 professional education in 1856 in Manchester, X. H., under 
 the direction of the late E. H. Davis, M. D.. continuing the 
 same at the Medical Department of Harvard University, from 
 which he was graduated M. D. in 1860. He returned to Man- 
 chester, X. H., and located there for the practice of his pro- 
 fession, and remained until the breaking out of the Rebellion 
 in 1861. October 1, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company 
 D of the Seventh Xew Hampshire Volunteers, from which he 
 was discharged May 8, 1863, to accept promotion. May 22, 
 1863, he was appointed assistant surgeon of the Thirty-fourth 
 Infantry, United States Colored Troops, and resigned October 
 10, 1864. September 24, 1865, he was again appointed as- 
 sistant surgeon of the Fifth Heavy Artillery of the United 
 States Colored Troops and was discharged from the same May 
 20, 1866. During this period he was a part of the time on de- 
 tached service at Beaufort, S. C, and also at the smallpox 
 hospital at Tortugas, and in consequence of an injury suffered 
 from partial paralysis, which was the cause of his resignation. 
 He wrote his friends that he was going to Cuba ; about this 
 time there was an insurrection on the island, and whether he 
 was there or not has never been ascertained, but he was never 
 heard from afterwards. 
 
 He took great interest in the department of surgery and was 
 an active, painstaking practitioner. 
 
 Married, in Manchester, N. H., Lucretia Dustin. 
 
 Children, two sons: Fred Arthur and Pierson Rector. 
 
284 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 John Randolph Ham, M. D. 
 Dover, N. H. 
 
 Ham, John R. F. and S.; 115 Inf.; b. Dover; age 21; res. Dover; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Aug. 15, '64; must, in Aug. 19, '64; app. Surg. 
 Sept. 30, '65; must, out Feb. 10, '66. P. O. ad., Dover. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1020.) 
 
 John Randolph Ham, M. D., the seventh in descent from 
 John Ham (b. 1649, d. 1727), the first of the name in Dover, 
 N. H., through John- (b. 1671), Ephraim^ (b. 1701), 
 Ephraim* (b. 1731), Ephraim^ (b. 1760), son of Charles^ 
 (b. 1800) and Abigail Dame (Bartlett) Ham (b. 1808, d. 
 1890), was born in Dover, N. H., the twenty-third of October, 
 1842. 
 
 He was educated in the public schools and Franklin Acad- 
 emy in Dover, and taught school during the winters of 1859, 
 1860 and 1861. In February, 1862, he commenced the study 
 of medicine in the office of Dr. A. J. H. Buzzell, in Dover, 
 N. H. In the spring of 1863 he attended medical lectures at 
 Bowdoin Medical College and in June of that year entered the 
 office of the late Dr. Levi G. Hill, in Dover. In October, 1863, 
 he entered Harvard Medical College and at the close of the 
 lecture course in the spring of 1864, he entered the office of 
 Dr. James H. Wheeler in Dover, where he pursued his studies 
 till August 15, 1864, when, after passing the usual examina- 
 tion before the United States Medical Board, he was commis- 
 sioned by President Lincoln as assistant surgeon of the One 
 Hundred and Fifteenth United States Colored Infantry. 
 
 He joined his regiment in Kentucky, August 19, 1864, and 
 was in that department till December, 1864, when the regiment 
 was ordered East to join the Twenty-fifth Army Corps, which, 
 with the Twenty-fourth Corps, constituted the Army of the 
 James, and was holding the fortifications in front of Richmond, 
 Va., on the north of the James river. He was present with 
 that army at the fall of Richmond. Before that event, he was 
 made acting medical purveyor of the Twenty-fifth Army 
 Corps, on the staff of Major General Godfrey Weitzel, and 
 after the fall of Richmond he went with the Twenty-fifth Army 
 Corps to the Rio Grande in Texas. 
 
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS. 285 
 
 The French under Maximilian held the Mexican side of the 
 Rio Grande, and the Twenty-fifth Army Corps not only as- 
 sisted in the pacification of Texas, but it was an army of ob- 
 servation as to the Latin empire which Napolean proposed to 
 set up on the border. In addition to his duties as medical 
 purvej'or of the corps. Assistant Surgeon Ham was made post 
 surgeon of Brownsville, Tex., the headquarters of the Twenty- 
 fifth Army Corps. 
 
 The surgeon of the One Hundred and Fifteenth United 
 States Colored Infantry died of disease in September, 1865, 
 at Indianola, Tex., and Assistant Surgeon Ham passed a suc- 
 cessful examination before an army board, was promoted to be 
 surgeon of his regiment, and mustered in as such. He was 
 mustered out with his regiment, which was disbanded March 
 10, 1866, at Louisville, Ky. 
 
 On his return to Dover, in March, 1866, Doctor Ham at 
 once entered Bowdoin Medical College and attended his third 
 course of lectures and was graduated June, 1866. 
 
 In June, 1866, he opened his office in Dover, N. H., where 
 he has remained in continuous practice. He is a fellow of the 
 New Hampshire Medical Society since 1869 ; member and ex- 
 president of both the Strafford District and the Dover Medical 
 Societies ; member of the New Hampshire and the Dover His- 
 torical Societies; member of Strafford Lodge, No. 29, Ancient 
 Free and Accepted Masons, and the Belknap Chapter, No. 8, 
 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; member of the First 
 Church (Congregational), Dover, since 1864, and deacon of 
 the same since 1878; member of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic, and was two years commander of C. W. Sawyer 
 Post in Dover. 
 
 He has always been a staunch Republican in politics; was 
 United States pension examining surgeon under the Harrison 
 administration ; has been coroner for Strafford county for ten 
 years, when he resigned the office; has been city physician of 
 Dover for several years, and was county physician for one 
 year. 
 
 Dr. Ham has read four papers before the New Hampshire 
 Medical Society, one of which was entitled "The Physicians 
 
286 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 of Dover, N. H.," and contained some seventy-five sketches 
 of the men who practiced there between 1631 and 1879. He 
 has also published "The Ham Family in Dover" (New Eng- 
 land Historical and General Register, October, 1872) ; "Locali- 
 ties in Ancient Dover" (Granite Monthly, 1886) ; and the 
 "Bibliography of Dover" (8 vol., pp. 74, 1892). 
 
 His library contains the best private collection of local his- 
 tory to be found in Strafford county. 
 
 He married, November 9, 1871, Emily Caroline, daughter 
 of Gen. George W. Hersey of Wolfeborough, N. H. 
 
 They have had five children, three of whom died in infancy. 
 One daughter, Emily Hersey Ham, a graduate of the Dover 
 high school and of Wellesley College in the class of 1893, is a 
 teacher of classics in Dover high school; the other daughter, 
 Julia Marion Ham, is a pupil (1897) in the Dover high school. 
 
 Since the above was written Doctor Ham has removed to 
 Malabar, Fla. 
 
 John Milton Hawks, M. D. 
 Hawks' Park, Volusia County, Fla. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Bradford, N. H., No- 
 vember 26, 1826, and was the son of Colburn and Clarissa 
 (Brown) (Wilmot, N. H.) Hawks, grandson of Farrington 
 Hawks (Tyngsboro, Mass.) His preliminary education was 
 received in the common and high schools of Bradford. He be- 
 came interested in medicine while teaching a private school in 
 Houston count3% Ga., in 1845, and began a systematic study of 
 m-cdicine in 1846, under the direction of George H. Hubbard, 
 M. D., Bradford, afterwards surgeon of the Second New 
 Hampshire Volunteers. He attended two courses of medical 
 lectures at the Vermont Medical College of "Woodstock, Vt., 
 and graduated in medicine at the Cincinnati Medical College 
 in 1847 ; commenced the practice of medicine in Manchester, 
 N. H., in 1848, remaining until 1862, when he became volun- 
 teer physician to the freedmen at Edisto island, S. C, from 
 
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS. 287 
 
 1862 to 1865 ; at Port Orange, Fla., from 1866 to 1870 ; Hyde 
 Park, Mass., 1873 to 1876; Hawks' Park, Fla., from 1876 to 
 the present time. 
 
 While in the service of the United States, in addition to his 
 service to the freedmen, was on General Saxton's staff, June to 
 October, 1862 ; assistant surgeon. First South Carolina Colored 
 Infantry (number changed to Thirty-third Regiment United 
 States Colored Infantry), October, 1862, to October, 1863; sur- 
 geon Twenty-first Regiment, United States Colored Troops, 
 October, 1863, to December, 1865. 
 
 He is a member of the ]\Iasonic Fraternity, was overseer of 
 the poor while residing in Manchester, N. H., postmaster at 
 Port Orange, Fla., 1867; superintendent of schools, Volusia 
 county, 1868 (appointed) ; had charge of the registration of 
 voters in Volusia county, Fla., during reconstruction period 
 of 1868, administered oath of allegiance to every voter; post- 
 master at Hawks' Park, Fla., 1883 to 1896; notary public at 
 Laye, 1870 till present time ; assistant assessor of United States 
 internal revenue in District Number Five, embracing eight 
 counties of Florida, 1870 to 1871. 
 
 His service in the army was at Edisto island and had charge 
 of hospital for freedmen in the summer of 1862 at Beaufort, 
 S. C. ; General Hospital No. 10 for colored soldiers at Beau- 
 fort, S. C, in 1863, afterwards another hospital numbered ten 
 in the same town; smallpox hospital in Charleston, S. C, 
 March, 1865. 
 
 While located in Manchester, N. II., and Hyde Park, Mass., 
 was interested in a drug store. 
 
 His military service was confined to the Department of the 
 South in the two colored regiments named. 
 
 Dr. Hawks was an ardent anti-slavery man in his convic- 
 tions, and published in 1861 in a IManchester daily paper an 
 article advocating the making of soldiers of the slaves as they 
 came into our linos. 
 
 He has written papers on "Yellow Fever, Its Propagation 
 and Prevention," Boston Medical and Surfjical Journal, Octo- 
 ber 30, 1872; Semi-Tropical (Magazine), Jacksonville, Fla., 
 
288 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 about 1880; Savannah Morning News, October 4, year of the 
 epidemic ; Times-Union and Citizen, September, 1898. 
 
 Married, October 4, 1854, Esther Jane Hill of Brentwood, 
 N. H. 
 
 No children. 
 
 Esther Hill Hawks, M. D. 
 16 Newhall Street, Lynn, Mass. 
 
 In compiling the sketch of Dr. John Milton Hawks, for- 
 merly of Bradford, N. H., we found that his wife was a most 
 valued assistant in his work among the colored troops located 
 in South Carolina, and being a graduate in medicine at the 
 time, it is but an act of justice to give her a place in these 
 records. 
 
 The subject of this sketch, Esther Hill Hawks, M. D., was 
 born in Hooksett, N. H., August 4, 1833, being the daughter 
 of Parmenas and Jane (Kimball) Hill. She received her pre- 
 liminary education in the public schools of Suncook, Exeter, 
 and high school in Manchester, N. H., also at the academy in 
 Kingston, N. H. She commenced the study of medicine soon 
 after her marriage, with her husband, Dr. John M. Hawks, in 
 Manchester, N. H., attending the New England Female Med- 
 ical College in Boston, taking three courses of lectures, and 
 was graduated from the same March 4, 1857. She is a member 
 of the New England Hospital Medical Society and the Gynce- 
 cological Society of Boston. 
 
 She commenced the practice of medicine in Manchester, 
 N. H., in 1857. In 1863 she accompanied her husband, Dr. 
 John M. Hawks, to Beaufort, S. C, Dr. J. M. Hawks being at 
 that time surgeon in charge of Hospital No. 10 at that post. 
 Her husband being detailed on secret service, she was in charge 
 of the hospital for two weeks, and also of the sick of Colonel 
 Montgomery's regiment, which was without a surgeon. This 
 service was among the freedmen and colored troops. 
 
 She is a member of charity organizations. Old Ladies ' Home, 
 Boys' Club, Woman's Suffrage Club, was president of the 
 
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS. 289 
 
 latter for ten years. While in the service with her husband, 
 was connected with Dr. James Redpath and others in carrying 
 out the idea of the first decoration services of soldiers' graves 
 in Charleston, S. C. 
 
 After the war, for a time she was physician in Port Orange, 
 Fla., but has resided in Lynn, Mass., for the past thirty years, 
 an honored and respected member of the profession. Since 
 residing in LjTin, and while a candidate for a member of the 
 board of education in that city, the following appeared in a 
 Lynn newspaper: 
 
 "In the fall of 1861, Dr. Hawks received an appointment 
 from the New York Freedman's Aid Society, and with eight 
 other ladies was among the very first women sent to establish 
 freedmen's schools. 
 
 "During the next ten years, which the doctor gave to the 
 service, she was engaged in hospital duties with her husband, 
 establishing schools among the men in camp, dressing the 
 wounds of soldiers after battles, sometimes to the expres.sed ad- 
 miration of the men, that a woman could have so much skill 
 and nerve, and organizing and assisting in freedmen's schools, 
 which last work kept her in the South after the war had closed. 
 
 "In the early part of the war she and her husband were 
 prominent in forming the first colored regiment of the war, 
 the First South Carolina, of which Thomas W. Higginson was 
 colonel. 
 
 ' ' This regiment, with which Dr. J. M. Hawks remained con- 
 nected as surgeon, was the first to march into Charleston at 
 the occupation of the city by the Northern troops. At one time, 
 for several weeks, she had sole control of a United States mili- 
 tary hospital during a temporary absence of the officer in com- 
 mand. At another time she was in charge of a normal school 
 (colored) of seven hundred pupils, and not long after she was 
 at the head of a school of eleven hundred pupils in Charleston, 
 while a number of teachers were absent at the North. The 
 doctor's diary, kept during these ten years, is full of interest, 
 and altogether we doubt if any of our citizens can show a bet- 
 ter * war record. ' ' ' 
 
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290 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Memorial Day. 
 
 Referring to the first observance of Memorial Day, the com- 
 piler of these sketches has been able to obtain documentary 
 evidence from Mrs. Hawks' diary, from the Hon. Charles Cow- 
 ley of Lowell, Mass., and Dr. Henry 0. Marcy of Cambridge, 
 Mass. It seems to the writer that this is conclusive as being 
 the first observance of the day which has become a part of the 
 annual routine duty of every surviving veteran of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, and that it took place very near the 
 first scenes of secession and other overt acts towards the 
 United States government. 
 
 The idea of the observance to carry out a May day festival 
 originated with the teachers of the Freedmen's Bureau, ladies 
 for the most part from Boston, the organization of the colored 
 schools having been undertaken by Mr. James Redpath. Mrs. 
 Hawks quotes from her diary : 
 
 "Charleston, May 1, 1865. 
 
 "May Day. 
 
 "Clear, cool, beautiful. 
 
 "A grand occasion for the colored people. Friend Red- 
 path has arranged a procession for the children, each to carry 
 flowers, and for the old people to be present and listen to 
 speeches, etc., the object being to dedicate the cemetery of the 
 Race Course. Early I made a visit to the detachment at the 
 breastworks and then returned to the race ground about ten 
 a. m. Found a large number assembled, mostly colored, but 
 all cleanly dressed, if in poor clothing. There was a full rep- 
 resentation from our forces and a few of the former masters. 
 
 "At ten a. m. the procession was formed, including the 
 children from all the schools, colored, over three thousand. 
 The object of interest is the burial place of our prisoners who 
 have died here. The history of the Race Course may be re- 
 ferred to. During the last year a depot for prisoners has 
 been established here. It was a miniature Andersonville. 
 The Race Course is an open, level field of perhaps fifty acres, 
 
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS. 291 
 
 and in the centre six or eight acres were marked off for the 
 prisoners. A dead line was drawn and just outside the senti- 
 nels' beat established. The enclosure does not contain a sin- 
 gle tree, and there is not the slightest evidence of there having 
 been a single structure of any kind upon the grounds, and it 
 was occupied until a few weeks since. The ground is dug all 
 over into little pits where the poor creatures burrowed for 
 warmth and shelter. These, as Avell as the dead line and the 
 beat, are now plainly seen. There is no enclosure whatever, 
 and the wind would sweep uninterruptedly across the place. 
 
 "Many stories have been told me of the prisoners' suffering, 
 rivaling x\ndersonville, even. So much for the history. Now 
 a little way back is the place where the dead were buried. 
 They were interred in rows, and as far as we can ascertain, 
 number two hundred and fifty-seven. 
 
 ' ' A few weelvs since some of the colored people took the mat- 
 ter in hand and as a result they have, iinaided by any, en- 
 closed the cemetery with a high, strong picket fence, nicely 
 painted white, and over the gate there is neatly inscribed in 
 huge letters, 
 
 * MARTYRS OF THE RACE COURSE. ' 
 
 ' ' So much by way of review. The procession formed on the 
 fair grounds and singing patriotic songs, marched very or- 
 derly through the cemetery, and as they passed the graves 
 each deposited upon an unknown grave a floral tribute to these 
 martyrs who died to secure their freedom. 
 
 "The scene was worthy a painter and touching to tears. 
 Soon the graves were covered with flowers. Later, from a rus- 
 tic stand, the more formal exercises of the occasion were com- 
 pleted, all of a solemn and interesting character. 
 
 "Methought as I silently stood there and in imagniation 
 saw these heroic dead wearing out so painfully the last hours 
 of life in cold, want and wretchedness, aye, starving to death, 
 away from loved ones and deprived of everything that makes 
 life dear, that could they look doA\Ti upon this scene here to-day 
 and notice the grateful, tearful remembrance of a redeemed 
 
292 SUEGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 people, they would feel that they had not died in vain. At 
 what terrible cost have we purchased the priceless jewel of 
 liberty ? 
 
 ' ' The afternoon was spent as a holiday by the colored people 
 in the fair grounds. The white children were furnished a 
 sail down the harbor and a visit to Fort Sumter by the kind- 
 ness of General Hatch. There were thought to be ten thou- 
 sand people at the dedication. So passed the first May day 
 and maying of the free colored children of Charleston. Pe- 
 culiarly appropriate and touching. ' ' 
 
 The following quotation from "Leaves from a Lawyer's 
 Life Afloat and Ashore," by Judge Cowley, page 204, is in 
 support of the same : 
 
 "I lingered too long in the tropics to fulfil a promise to my 
 friend, Mr. Redpath, to deliver an address in Charleston, on 
 the day of the decoration of the graves of the martyrs of the 
 Race Course. James Redpath, I believe, is the real originator of 
 the practice of publicly decorating the graves of the men who 
 died in our military or naval service during the civil war. 
 His colored clients at Charleston, where he was then superin- 
 tendent of public instruction, were the first decorators; and I 
 barely escaped the honor of giving the first Decoration Day 
 oration. I had made some preparation for that most solemn 
 service, and had gathered together from all accessible sources 
 the history of the Race Course prison, and also for the Morris 
 Island stockade (for I meant to treat both sides with equal 
 fairness). Some tribute I would gladly have paid to those un- 
 named heroes who, lingering from week to week, suffered the 
 bitter pains of ten thousand deaths, when they had onlj^ to re- 
 nounce their allegiance to the Union in order to be released." 
 
 In correspondence with Dr. Henry 0. Marcy of Cambridge, 
 Mass., I have received the following letter : 
 
 ''Replete as Charleston is with objects of historic note, none 
 will prove more interesting to a Northern audience than a bare 
 plain, three miles beyond the city. It is the Race Course, a 
 resort of fashion in the palmy days of peace, but now stript 
 of ornament. 
 
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS. 293 
 
 "A mile square in the center attracts our attention. Upon 
 its sides is the well beaten path, worn by Confederate senti- 
 nels. A little within and parallel is a single obscure mark; 
 tread upon it carefully, it is the dead line. Within, furrowed 
 with trenches and burrowed with holes, are several acres; 
 gaze upon it reverently; it is the prison pen of Charleston. 
 The winds sweep ruthlessly' across its surface with nothing to 
 break their force, and here, without shelter from the storms 
 of heaven, with little of clothing or food, our comrades in the 
 defence of our country, captured in the struggle for liberty 
 and peace, were, shall I say imprisoned, shall I not say delib- 
 erately exposed to torture, starvation and death. 
 
 "A half mile away, on a sunny hillside, protected by wood, 
 long rows of trenches are seen. They cover the famished re- 
 mains of our hero dead. They rest in their nameless graves, 
 sleeping peacefully until the last reveille shall awaken to the 
 roll-call of the judgment day. 
 
 "The first of May, 1865, after our entrance to the city, was 
 celebrated in a most touching manner, by a flower tribute paid 
 these brave men by the colored children of the city. Their 
 fathers had neatly fenced in the sacred spot and over the arch- 
 ing gateway had raised the following inscription, 'Martyrs of 
 the Race Course. ' In long lines thousands of colored children 
 coursed around those graves and covered them with choicest 
 flowers of spring. As I stood and heard that soul-inspiring 
 hymn, 'John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave, but 
 his soul goes marching on,' sung by thousands of voices, I 
 thought of the shadowy hosts of that grand army who had 
 washed their robes in the blood of a thousand battles, whose 
 approving smile must need rest upon this touching tribute of 
 remembrance from these lowly ones whose freedom they had 
 died to secure. 
 
 "They rest enshrined in the hearts of a grateful people. 
 The freedom of four millions of slaves is their grandest monu- 
 ment. But write their memory in enduring marble on hilltop 
 and in the valley, that those who come after may ever have 
 before them the example of Liberty's defenders. 
 
294 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 "Let the names of our heroic dead be engraven upon brazen 
 tablets, let monumental shaft point upward to their spirit 
 home, and thus will we cultivate the memory of their brave 
 deeds, and, if need be, emulate their example, that the legacy 
 of our fathers may descend untarnished to our children's 
 children to the latest generations of earth. ' ' 
 
 The above quotations are from those who were cognizant 
 of the exercises that took place in Charleston, S. C, May 1, 
 1865, and the fact that a New Hampshire woman, laboring as 
 physician and teacher to those participating in the ceremonies 
 of that eventful day, may be considered as a good reason for 
 pride among our veteran soldiers for having been represented 
 in the first observance of what is now known as Memorial Day. 
 
 Benjamin Hobbs, M. D. 
 
 Late of Wakefield, N. H. 
 
 (State Service.) 
 
 Hobbs, Benjamin. Granite State Guards; b. Wakefield; age 22; res. 
 Somersworth; enl. Apr. 25, '61, as Priv. ; disch., by order of Gov- 
 ernor, June 10, '61, Portsmouth. See U. S. C. T. and Miscel. Organ- 
 izations. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1208.) 
 
 (MisceL Organizations.) 
 
 Hobbs, Benjamin. F. and S.; 10 N. Y. H. Art.; b. Wakefield; res, 
 Somersworth; enl. for 3 yrs. ; must, in May 28, '63, as Asst. Surg.; 
 disch. Mar. 4, '64. See U. S. C. T. and State Service. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1055.) 
 
 (U. S. C. T.) 
 
 Hobbs, Benjamin. F. and S.; 119 Inf.; b. Wakefield; res. Somers- 
 worth; must, in Aug. 31, '64, as Asst. Surg.; resigned Jan. 1, '65; 
 must, in Jan. 5, '65, as Asst. Surg. 116 U. S. C. Inf.; app. Surg. 
 Mar. 26, '66. Died, dis. Aug. 28, '66, White's Ranch, Tex. See 
 Miscel. Organizations and State Service. (Record, Ayling's Reg- 
 ister, 1895, p. 1020.) 
 
 Surgeon Hobbs was born in Wakefield, N. H., February 1, 
 1840, was a son of Josiah H. and Rhoda D. (Chapman) Hobbs, 
 a grandson of Benjamin Hobbs. His father, Josiah H. Hobbs, 
 
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS. 295 
 
 was a graduate of Bowdoin in the class of 1820 and a well- 
 known la\\'yer of Wakefield, N. H., where he died in 1854, at 
 the age of fifty-eight years. 
 
 He received his preliminary education in the public schools, 
 supplemented by courses at Andover, Mass., Wakefield and Gil- 
 manton Academies, and entered the Chandler Scientific School 
 at Dartmouth. He commenced his professional education in 
 1859 in Rochester, N. H., under the direction of Dr. Enoch 
 Dow. He attended the JMedical Department of Bowdoin and 
 Dartmouth Colleges, and was graduated from the latter in the 
 class of 1863. He immediately located in the village of Un- 
 ion (a part of Wakefield), where he made it his home until 
 August, 1864. In the meantime, while a student of medicine, 
 he enlisted in the Granite State Guards, April 25, 1861, was 
 stationed at Portsmouth and was discharged from the service 
 by order of the governor, June 10, 1861, so that he might con- 
 tinue his professional education. Afterwards served as a con- 
 tract surgeon in Washington, D. C, and had been assistant sur- 
 geon in the One Hundred and Seventh New York Heavy 
 Artillery. He was appointed assistant surgeon of the One Hun- 
 dred and Nineteenth Regiment, United States Colored Troops, 
 in 1863, where he served until discharged to accept the posi- 
 tion of surgeon of the One Hundred and Sixteenth United 
 States Colored Troops in August, 1864. He contracted cholera 
 while in charge of the hospital at White's Ranch, Tex., and 
 died August 28, 1866, at the age of twenty-six years. That 
 he was a faithful and impartial officer, zealous in his duties to 
 the men in his regiment, is well understood by all who knew 
 him. His services to the government were recognized, and 
 his remains were subsequently sent to Wakefield, N. H., at 
 the government expense, by direction of the War Department. 
 This order was to Gen. W. S. Hancock, when he was military 
 governor stationed at New Orleans, La., and his remains were 
 finally buried at Wakefield. 
 
 Surgeon Hobbs was a fraternal member of the Unity Lodge, 
 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Union, N. H, 
 
296 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Married, May 24, 1863, Miss Harriet M. Chase of Roches- 
 ter, N. H. 
 
 One child: Laura B. Hobbs, born January 22, 1865; died 
 in October, 1880. 
 
 Moses Craft Lathrop, M. D. 
 
 Dover, N. H. 
 
 Surgeon Lathrop was born May 21, 1831, in Tolland, Conn., 
 and was the son of William and Elizabeth (Drake) Lathrop, 
 and grandson of Rev. Rowland Lathrop of Connecticut. 
 
 On his father's side, Surgeon Lathrop 's family record is 
 unbroken through eleven generations, including Rev. John of 
 Barnstable, Mass., who immigrated in 1634. The Crafts, for 
 eight generations to Lieut. Griffin Craft of Roxbury, pioneer 
 in 1630. On his mother's side, for seventeen generations of 
 Drakes, through John Drake of Windsor, Conn., 1630, whose 
 grandfather, Robert, was the son of Amy Grenville, sixth from 
 Sir William Grenville, who was the son of Margaret Courtney, 
 the grand-daughter of Edward Courtney, whose mother, Mar- 
 garet Bohun, was the grand-daughter of Elizabeth Plan- 
 tagenet. In this line the record is unbroken for thirty-two 
 generations. The Wolcotts, nine generations, through his 
 great-grandfather. Dr. Simon Wolcott, Revolutionary Army 
 surgeon, the grandson of Major General Roger Wolcott, colo- 
 nial governor of Connecticut from 1751 to 1754, and Henry 
 Wolcott, pioneer, 1635. 
 
 His early education was received at common schools and at 
 the academies in Ellington, Conn., Munson and Wilbraham, 
 Mass. His professional education commenced under the pre- 
 ceptorship of Marshall Calkins, of Munson, Mass., and George 
 Merrick Nichols of Worcester, Mass. Attended medical lec- 
 tures at Worcester Medical College and was graduated from 
 the same in 1852. Located for the practice of medicine in 
 1852, at Pittsfield, N. H., remaining there for one year. Was 
 in Lee, Mass., for two years; at Attica, N. Y., for three years; 
 
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS. 297 
 
 Algona and Cedar Falls, Iowa, five years; two and one-half 
 years in the army; and at Dover, N. H., for thirty-two years, 
 where he now resides. 
 
 He is ex-president of the Strafford District Medical Soci- 
 ety, and president (1897- '98) of the New Hampshire Med- 
 ical Society, and a member of the American Medical Asso- 
 ciation. Has written and published various papers, several 
 in the transactions of the New Hampshire Medical Society. 
 Is a member of the various fraternal societies, including Odd 
 Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Llasonic bodies, being a 
 Knight Templar of St. Paul's Commandery of Dover. 
 
 He has given considerable time to surgery, operating for 
 excision of the upper fourth of the humerus, before 1865; 
 laparotomy for appendicitis, and many other ordinary and 
 capital operations. Took a post-graduate course in Boston in 
 1866. In 1874 he began using pure chloroform, topically ap- 
 plied, as a modifying and curative agent in pharyngeal and 
 nasal diphtheria. 
 
 Surgeon Lathrop's military service commenced as assistant 
 surgeon of the Nineteenth Iowa Infantry, being commissioned 
 by Governor Kirkwood, July 17, 1863. Resigned October 22, 
 1863, to accept a commission of surgeon of the Fourth Engi- 
 neer Corps, d'Afrique, Col. Charles L. Norton commanding. 
 The designation of this regiment was afterwards changed to 
 the Ninety-eighth United States Colored Troops, and in the 
 fall of 1865, by consolidation merged in the Seventy-eighth 
 United States Colored Troops, of which he remained surgeon 
 until the regiment was mustered out of the service July 6, 
 1866. He was post surgeon at Brazier City, La., from March 
 1, 1865, and judge advocate of a general court martial ordered 
 by Gen. Thomas W. Sherman at New Iberia, La., August 5, 
 1865. 
 
 For improvement and rest, Doctor Lathrop in 1880 visited 
 Europe; in 1886, California; in 1889, as delegate from the 
 New Hampshire IMedical Society, attended the meeting, at 
 Baniff in the Rocky Mountains, of the Canadian Medical So- 
 ciety. And in 1897, as invited guest, attended in Montreal the 
 
298 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 sixty-fifth annual meeting of the British Medical Association. 
 In the last four mentioned trips he was accompanied by Mrs. 
 Lathrop. 
 
 Married, February 23, 1853, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Babcoek 
 Mathews, great grand-daughter of Maj. Gen. Joshua Babcoek, 
 A. M., M. D., supreme judge of Rhode Island and charter fel- 
 low of Brown University. 
 
 George Jones Norcross, M. D. 
 Late of Rindge, N. H. 
 
 NoBCROSs, George J. F. and S.; 99 Inf.; b. Rindge; res. Rindge; 
 must, in Oct. 1, '65, as Asst. Surg. Died, dis. Dec. 8, '65, Mariana, 
 Fla. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1022.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born January 27, 1841, in 
 Winchendon, Mass., and was the son of Jeremiah and Mary 
 (Pillsbury) Norcross, a grandson of Daniel Norcross. 
 
 His preliminary education was received in the common 
 schools of Rindge and at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich. 
 He commenced his professional education in 1862, under the 
 direction of Dr. Levi Pillsbury, in Fitchburg, Mass., and he 
 attended medical lectures at the Medical Department of Dart- 
 mouth College, the same year. In August, 1864, he was an 
 attendant in the Douglas Hospital in Washington, D. C., and 
 attended medical lectures at the Georgetown Medical College, 
 where he was graduated in August, 1865. He was immedi- 
 ately appointed assistant surgeon in the Ninety-ninth United 
 States Colored Troops, and joined his regiment at Tallahassee, 
 Fla., October 14, 1865. In November of the same year an 
 officer of his regiment was ill in the town of Mariana, Fla., and 
 requested medical attendance. Surgeon Norcross at once at- 
 tended to the call, and while in attendance was prostrated with 
 pneumonia, which ended his brief, but honorable career, De- 
 cember 6, 1865. 
 
united states colored troops. 299 
 
 Daniel Evans Palmer, M. D. 
 Late of Kittery, Me. 
 
 Paxmer. Daniel E. F. and S.; 81 Inf.; b. Tuftonborough; age 43; 
 res. Milton; enl. May 21, 'G4; must, in June 6, '64, to date May 28, 
 '64, as Surg.; disch. disab. Nov. 24, '64. P. O. ad., Kittery, Me. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1022.) 
 
 Surgeon Palmer was born in Tuftonborough, N. H., June 
 18, 1821. was the son of Joseph and Lydia (Evans) Palmer. 
 His preliminary education was received in the common schools 
 of Tuftonborough and at the academies of Wolfeborough and 
 Gilmanton, N. H. His profes.sional education commenced 
 at Tuftonborough in 1841, under the direction of Dr. Enoch 
 C. Dow. He attended several courses of lectures at the Med- 
 ical Department of Bowdoin College, and was graduated from 
 the same in the class of 1846. During the period of his pro- 
 fessional study he vras engaged more or less in school teaching 
 in Tuftonborough and adjoining towns. He located for the 
 practice of medicine in Gilmanton Centre in 1847, where he 
 remained one year, he then removed to Milton, N. H., where 
 he remained seventeen years and was at Tuftonborough nine- 
 teen years, when he removed to Kittery, i\Ie., where he resided 
 until his death, which occurred March 11, 1889. 
 
 Doctor Palmer's military service commenced as a contract 
 surgeon, December 14, 1863, when he was commissioned and 
 assigned to the Department of the Gulf. He arrived in New 
 Orleans, December 29, 1863, and reported for duty to IMedical 
 Director Robert K. Smith of Philadelphia, at Port Hudson, 
 La., January 3, 1864. He was immediately assigned as as- 
 sistant surgeon of the Sixth Regiment, Corps d'Afrique, and 
 also had charge, as medical officer, of the Second Vermont 
 Battery, ninety-four men. At that time the surgeon in charge 
 of the Sixth Colored Regiment was Dr. William G. David of 
 Lyons, N. Y., a New Hampshire man by birth, his father then 
 living in Amherst. March 20, 1864, Doctor Palmer was ap- 
 pointed acting surgeon of the Eighteenth Colored Regiment, in 
 addition to his other duties. About April 1, 1864, he was re- 
 
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 300 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 lievecl of his duties with the Sixth and Eighteenth regiments, 
 and also of the Second Vermont Battery, and ordered to take 
 charge as surgeon of the Ninth Regiment, United States Col- 
 ored Troops. He acted in this capacity until May 21, 1864, 
 when he was commissioned as surgeon of the Eighty-first Reg- 
 iment, United States Colored Infantry. He was surgeon of 
 this regiment from this time until he was discharged, Novem- 
 ber 24, 1864. 
 
 Surgeon Palmer was a representative to the New Hampshire 
 legislature from Milton in 1859 and 1860, and postmaster at 
 Tuftonborough from 1875 to 1884. Early in his professional 
 life he had charge of an epidemic of smallpox in Lebanon, 
 Me., and was eminently successful in stamping it out ; he also 
 had a large experience in an epidemic of scarlet fever in Tuf- 
 tonborough, Moultonborough and Wolfeborough, in 1868 and 
 1869. 
 
 Married, March 14, 1847, Anna Durgin of Gilmanton, N. H. 
 
 Three children: Emma F., Charles H. and Frank A. 
 Palmer. 
 
 Isaiah Lovell Pickard, M. D. 
 
 Surgeon Pickard was the sixth of a family of ten children 
 of Daniel and Susan (Harvey) Pickard, and was born in Can- 
 terbury, March 6, 1831. He received his preliminary educa- 
 tion in his native town and was graduated M. D. from the Med- 
 ical Department of Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1863. He 
 was immediately commissioned assistant surgeon of the First 
 Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, commanded by Col. N. B. 
 Laughlin, and served until the regiment was mustered out of 
 the service May 28, 1864. He was then commissioned sur- 
 geon of the One Hundred and Fifteenth United States In- 
 fantry, colored, August 2, 1864, and served with this regiment 
 until his death, which occurred at Indianola, Tex., July 19, 
 1865. 
 
united states colored troops. 301 
 
 John Milton Rand, M. D. 
 Newark, N. J. 
 
 Rand, John M. F. and S.; 29 Conn. Inf. (Colored); res. Milford; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Jan. 14, '64; must, in Feb. 3, '64, for 3 yrs.; must, 
 out Oct. 24, '65. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1072.) 
 
 John Milton Rand, b. 1 Dec, 1834, Lyndeborough, N. H. Asst. Surg. 
 29th Conn. Vol. Inf.. 1864-65. Physician, 10 Green St., Newark, 
 N. J. (Dartmouth Catalogue.) 
 
 Surgeon Rand was born in Lyndeborough, N. H., and was 
 the son of John and Fanny D. (Symonds) Rand. His prelim- 
 inary education was received in the common schools and at 
 Francestown Academy, New Hampshire. His professional 
 education commenced in 1855, under the direction of the late 
 Prof. Albert Smith of Peterborough. He attended three 
 courses of medical lectures at Dartmouth Medical College, and 
 was graduated from the same in the class of 1859. He com- 
 menced the practice of medicine in Bennington, N. H., after- 
 wards in New Ipswich, N. H., and Warren, R. I. ; also for a 
 time in Valparaiso, Chile, S. A. 
 
 He was appointed assistant surgeon of the Twenty-ninth 
 Connecticut Volunteers (U. S. C. T.), January 14, 1864, and 
 mustered out, by reason of the close of the war, October 24, 
 1865. During this time he served as executive officer of the 
 field hospital of the Tenth Army Corps, and was made a full 
 surgeon by General Butler's order, but not mustered, as he 
 preferred to remain with the field hospital. 
 
 He Avas located at Newark, N. J., and was the senior surgeon 
 of the Hospital for Women and Children ; also surgeon to 
 various insurance companies. He was an Odd Fellow ; a mem- 
 ber of the Order of Knights of Pythias, and of the Garfield 
 Post of the Grand Army. 
 
 Married, in 1858, Miss Orlin A. Wilson. 
 
 No children. 
 
 Died December 18, 1905, at Newark, N. J. 
 
302 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Hermon Joseph Smith, M. D. 
 Lowell, Mass. 
 
 Smith, Herman J. F. and S.; 5 Cav.; b. New Hampshire; age 27; 
 cred. Dover; app. Asst. Surg. Aug. 9, '64; must, in Oct. 17, '64, to 
 date Oct. 8, '64; must, out Mar. 16, '66. (Record, Ayling's Reg- 
 ister, 1895, p. 1024.) 
 
 Surgeon Smith was born in Dover, N. H., November 15, 
 1836, and was the son of Joseph Haven and Meribah Smith, a 
 grandson of John Smith of New Hampshire. His father, 
 Joseph Haven Smith, was an active member of the profession 
 in Dover, a fellow of the New Hampshire Medical Society, and 
 its president in 1849. Was inspector of drugs in Boston Cus- 
 tom House under President Pierce's administration, and soon 
 after removed to Lowell. His early education was received 
 in the common and high schools of Dover, fitting for college 
 at Grilmanton Academy, and received the degree of A. B. from 
 Tuft's College in 1858. Commenced the study of medicine 
 with Dr. William McCollom of Woodstock, Vt., and attended 
 medical lectures at Harvard and Dartmouth Medical Colleges, 
 and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, 
 taking three courses of lectures, and was graduated from the 
 Medical Department of Dartmouth College in the class of 1867. 
 
 While a student in medicine he passed the necessary exam- 
 inations and was appointed assistant surgeon August 9, 1864, 
 and assigned to duty in the Fifth Cavalry, United States Col- 
 ored Troops, and was mustered out March 16, 1866. Subse- 
 quently he completed his course in medicine, and was gradu- 
 ated from Dartmouth. After graduation he was located in 
 New York City for five years, a portion of the time being vis- 
 iting physician to the Northwestern Dispensary. Since that 
 time he has been in Lowell, Mass., where his ability has been 
 recognized in being elected city physician, superintendent of 
 the Lowell Hospital, member of the present staffs of Lowell 
 and Lowell General Hospitals, and president of the United 
 States examining board for pensions, member of the school 
 committee, etc. Belongs to several Masonic lodges, Oberlin 
 
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS. 303 
 
 Lodge of Odd Fellows, Grand Army and Loyal Legion of Mas- 
 sachusetts. 
 
 Married, in 1865, Isabelle S. Anderson of Woodstock, Vt. 
 
 Children, three: Carroll Haven, Forster Hanson, Reginald 
 Forster Smith. 
 
 Charles Clinton Topliff, M. D. 
 Late of Penacook, N. H. 
 
 Topliff, Charles Clintox. 19 Inf.; b. Hanover; age 25; app. Asst. 
 Surg. Dec, '63; disch. Nov., '64. Died Apr. 30, '81, Manchester. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1025.) 
 
 Surgeon Topliff was born in Hanover, July 22, 1835, and 
 was the son of Abijah and Susan (Miller) Topliff, and a grand- 
 son of Calvin Topliff. He received his preliminary education 
 in the common schools of Hanover and at Thetford Academy, 
 "Vermont. He commenced his professional studies in Lyme, 
 N. H., in 1855, under the direction of Abram O. Dickey, M. D., 
 of Lyme, and Dixi Crosby, M. D., of Hanover. He attended 
 three courses of lectures at Dartmouth Medical College, and 
 was graduated ]\I. D. in the class of 1859 ; was located for the 
 practice of medicine in Lunenburg, Mass., from 1859 to 1861, 
 and afterwards in Penacook, N. H. 
 
 He was appointed assistant surgeon of the Nineteenth Reg- 
 iment, United States Colored Troops, in December, 1863, and 
 resigned on account of ill health in November, 1864, and re- 
 turned to Penacook, where he resumed the practice of medi- 
 cine, but on account of his health was unable to do but little 
 of the duty of the profession, consequently he entered the 
 drug business. He built up a good trade and did quite a large 
 professional office business in connection with the same. 
 
 Married Mahala J. Carter of Hanover. 
 
 No children. 
 
 Doctor Topliff died April 30, 1881, in Manchester, N. H. 
 
304 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Daniel E. Wells, M. D. 
 Late of Hill, N. H. 
 
 Wells, Daxiel E. F. and S.; 109 Inf.; b. Woodstock; age 35; res. 
 Franconia; app. Asst. Surg. Aug. 17, '64; must, in Oct. 23, '64, to 
 date Oct. 6, '64; resigned May 2, '65. Died Dec. 30, '79, Hill. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1025.) 
 
 Doctor Wells died in Hill, N. H., in 1879 ; from an obituary 
 notice by his friend and counsellor, Dr. Hadley B. Fowler, 
 formerly of the Twelfth New Hampshire, we learn the fol- 
 lowing facts, which are copied from the Transactions of the 
 New Hampshire Medical Society : 
 
 "Daniel E. Wells, a descendant of a New Hampshire yeo- 
 man, was born in Woodstock, N. H., October 21, 1829. He 
 received an academic education at Royalton, Vt., and Boston, 
 Mass. At the age of nineteen he commenced the study of 
 medicine under the direction of Drs. Joseph Dennison and 
 Daniel Rix of Royalton, Vt. He attended two courses of med- 
 ical lectures at Woodstock, Vt., from which college he re- 
 ceived a diploma in 1851. For a year after receiving his de- 
 gree he rode with one of his preceptors, acquiring the prac- 
 tical part of his medical education so much needed by a 
 book-worn student. 
 
 "In 1852 he was joined in marriage to the esteemed lady who, 
 with an only daughter and an adopted son, survives him. 
 Soon after he commenced practicing in North Danville, N. H., 
 where he remained until 1857, at which time he moved to 
 Franconia. 
 
 "In 1864 he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the One 
 Hundred and Ninth United States Colored Troops, and as- 
 signed to duty at Point of Rocks Hospital, Virginia, where 
 he was stationed until he received leave of absence, and sub- 
 sequently an honorable discharge on account of sickness. 
 
 "In choosing the practice of medicine for his life work, he 
 undertook a task which time showed his constitution could not 
 support, and in 1870 we find him in impaired health, with 
 joints disfigured by chronic rheumatism, leaving his many 
 friends in Franconia and beginning the more quiet life of a 
 
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS. 805 
 
 druggist in Hardwick, Vt., from which place he moved to 
 Bristol, N. H., in 1873. There he remained as an apothecary 
 one year, and then began practicing in Alexandria. In 1876 
 he moved to Bethlehem, X. H., where he practiced three years. 
 In 1879, we find him opening an office in Hill, N. H., where, 
 on the approach of winter, he gradually sank from the com- 
 bined effects of rheumatism and Bright 's disease, dying on 
 the thirtieth day of December, 1879. 
 
 ' ' Doctor Wells began life almost in the shadow of the Fran- 
 conia branch of the White Hills, on whose stony face the Cre- 
 ator's sign hangs out, informing all who gaze at the grand old 
 profile that men are made here ; and well was the Great Archi- 
 tect 's desigTi fulfilled in him, for a more dutiful son. Christian 
 neighbor, kind parent, or sympathizing physician, one rarely 
 meets. 
 
 **He was a prominent Mason, an earnest worker in the 
 church, and his smiling face will be long remembered by all 
 who had the pleasure of his acquaintance." 
 
 Henry W. Willoughby, M. D. 
 
 Late of Mollis, N. H. 
 
 Willoughby, Henry W. F. and S.; 1 Inf.; b. Hollis; age 47; res. 
 Hollis; app. Asst. Surg. Sept. 2, 'C3; must, in Oct. 1, '63; disch. 
 dlsab. Aug. 16, '64. Died Mar. 8, '91, Hollis. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 1026.) 
 
 Surgeon Willoughby was the son of Washington and Lucy 
 (Saunderson) Willoughby, and was born in Hollis, December 
 21, 1816. His preliminary education was received in Nashua 
 high school, and prepared for college at the East Pepperell, 
 Mass., academy, and entered Amherst College, where he re- 
 mained for two years. He then commenced the study of medi- 
 cine with Doctor Mar.shall of i\Iason, N. H., and continued the 
 same with Doctor Ashley in southern Georgia. This was 
 about 1840, at which time he was teaching school to obtain 
 money to fini.sh his education. For a little time he was cou- 
 
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306 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 nected with the Union Theological Seminary of New York 
 City, but a throat trouble developed, preventing him from pur- 
 suing that course any further. Partially on account of his 
 health he went South and became a tutor in the family of Doc- 
 tor Ashley and continued his medical studies under his di- 
 rection. He attended two courses of medical lectures at Jef- 
 ferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and was graduated 
 from the same in the class of 1853 ; commenced the prac- 
 tice of his profession in Nashua, and removed to Hollis in 
 1854, where he remained until his death, March 8, 1891. 
 
 He was appointed assistant surgeon of the First Infantry, 
 United States Colored Troops, September 2, 1863, and his ser- 
 vice was along the coast of Virginia and North Carolina, be- 
 ing stationed at Portsmouth, Va., where he had considerable 
 experience with the smallpox epidemic. He then went up the 
 James river and was for some weeks at a fort on the James 
 river, and was in the first battle of Petersburg, where he be- 
 came disabled from disease, from which he never fully recov- 
 ered, and died in Hollis, as above stated. 
 
 He was a fine classical scholar, was fluent in German and 
 French, and had a good knowledge of the Latin, Greek and 
 Hebrew languages. 
 
 Married, June 29, 1857, at Dracut, Mass., Lucelia Abbott. 
 
 No children. 
 
 Alexander Maxwell Winn, M. D. 
 
 Surgeon Winn was born in Wells, Me., January 8, 1820, re- 
 ceived an academic education at Elliot Academy and Maine 
 Wesleyan Seminary. He then took up the study of medi- 
 cine, taking two courses of lectures at Brunswick, Me., and 
 one at Hanover, N. H., and was graduated from the Medical 
 Department of Dartmouth College in the class of 1846. 
 
 Doctor Winn commenced practice at New Durham, N. H., 
 about 1847. He afterwards removed to Newfield, Me., in 
 1849, and from there to Farmington, N. H., in 1856, where he 
 
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS. 307 
 
 remained until 1864, when he was commissioned assistant 
 surgeon of the One Hundred and Eighteenth United States 
 Colored Troops, and was ordered in charge of the hospital at 
 Point of Rocks, Va., after which he joined his regiment at 
 Brownsville, Tex., when he was ordered to Brazos, as surgeon 
 in charge of the hospital, where he remained until his final 
 discharge at the close of the war in April, 1866. 
 
 After returning to his home in Farmington, he removed to 
 Manchester, N. H., where he resided until about 1874, when 
 he was commissioned surgeon of the National Soldiers' Home 
 at Togus, near Augusta, Me., where he remained until April, 
 1878, when he resigned and resumed the practice of his profes- 
 sion in China, Me. Dr. Winn died at China, IMe., Januarj^ 
 5, 1879. 
 
 Married, Maria D. Hayes of Alton, N. H. 
 
 Children : One son. Dr. Eri H. Winn, who is also a grad- 
 uate of Dartmouth, of the class of 1877. 
 
 James Munroe Whitaker, M. D. 
 Late of Charles town, N. H. 
 
 Surgeon Whitaker was born in Atkinson, N. H., April 21, 
 1831, and was the son of James Benton and Roxana ( Saun- 
 ders j Whitaker. His preliminary education was received in 
 the common schools of New Hampshire and at Atkinson Acad- 
 emy. He received the degree of A. B. from Dartmouth Medi- 
 cal College in 1861, and of A. M. from the same institution in 
 1864. He read medicine under the direction of Prof. Dixi 
 Crosby of Hanover, and attended lectures at the Medical De- 
 partment of Dartmouth College; was graduated from the 
 same in the class of 1864. 
 
 He entered the service of the United States as assistant sur- 
 geon of the Seventieth Regiment, United States Colored In- 
 fantry, in 1863, remaining with the same until 1865. He was 
 resident physician at Tewksbury, Mass., almshouse one year, 
 and removed to Santa Barbara, Cal., where he resided nearly 
 
308 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 two years and then located in Charlestown, N. H., where he 
 resided until his decease, which occurred June 30, 1896. 
 
 Surgeon Whitaker took great interest in educational mat- 
 ters; was superintendent of schools in Charlestown for many 
 years. 
 
 A member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, was com- 
 mander of Lincoln Post, twenty-eight, Grand Army of the Re- 
 public, deacon of the Congregational Church of Charlestown. 
 Was a contributor to medical journals and took great interest 
 in sanitary and pathological work; had charge of the small- 
 pox epidemic at Charlestown, and did considerable surgical 
 work for the Sullivan County Railroad. 
 
 Was never married. 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 
 
 "The records of New Hampshire men who served in the 
 United States Navy were necessarily obtained from the navy 
 department, the state having no records or rolls of appoint- 
 ments or enlistments in the navy, and the following register is 
 compiled, largely, from material furnished by Mr. Edmund A. 
 Roderick, a volunteer naval officer during the war, now a clerk 
 in the department, whose long service and familiarity with the 
 records, as Avell as his experience in preparing similar registers 
 for other states, should be assurance of the correctness and 
 completeness of this work, for which he was especially engaged. 
 
 * ' The offices of the third and fourth auditors were consulted 
 when the final disposition of men was not shown by the records 
 of the navy department, and, when possible, the residence at 
 enlistment, and the last known post-office address, or date and 
 place of death — if deceased since the war — have been added by 
 this office. 
 
 "In many cases, the town, city or state to which men were 
 credited, is not shown by the records of the navy department, 
 and, unfortunately, the place of residence of enlisted men at 
 time of enlistment is not shown at all; consequently this 
 register may give the records of some men who were born in 
 New Hampshire but had become residents of other states, and 
 may not give the records of some who were born in other states 
 but had acquired a residence in New Hampshire. 
 
 "So far as they can be obtained, the records are given of all 
 men credited to New Hampshire, who served during the war ; 
 all men born in New Hampshire and not credited to other 
 states; all men not credited to other states, who enlisted at 
 Portsmouth between April 19, 1861, and May 1, 1865; all 
 officers, regular and volunteer, who were born in or appointed 
 
310 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 from New Hampshire; and all regular officers who reported 
 New Hampshire as their residence." (Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 1098.) 
 
 The above abstract from General Ayling's Register shows 
 the difficulties of obtaining the data necessary to compile the 
 biographical sketches of many of the surgical staff connected 
 with the navj^ New Hampshire was fortunate in the char- 
 acter of the medical ofticers who entered the navy. One of 
 her sons, Dr. John Mills Brown, soon after the war closed, 
 became surgeon general, U. S. N., the highest official position 
 that can be bestowed upon the profession in that department 
 of the United States government. 
 
 The compiler is under many obligations to the friends of this 
 department of our service. There is no lack of loyalty on the 
 part of New Hampshire citizens. The trouble has been that 
 individuals were only credited to the state, and family names 
 are perplexing. The same family name may, and often does, 
 appear in several towns in different parts of the state. 
 
 Jeffrey T. Adams, M. D. 
 Late of Claremont, N. H. 
 
 Adams, Jeffrey T. Volunteer officer; b. Boston, Mass.; age 30; res. 
 Claremont; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Nov. 30, '61; appointment re- 
 voked July 26, '62; no record of service performed. Died June 
 17, '65, Claremont. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1096.) 
 
 Surgeon Adams was born in Boston, Mass., June 14, 1831, 
 and was the son of Joseph T. and Susan Peirce (Jarvis) 
 Adams; a grandson of Joseph Adams. His preliminary edu- 
 cation was received in the common schools and he was fitted for 
 college by Rev. Mr. Hildreth of Derry, N. H. He entered 
 Harvard at the age of fifteen but was compelled to leave col- 
 lege on account of his health. He commenced his professional 
 education with the late Dr. Samuel G. Jarvis of Claremont, 
 N. H., continuing the same with a medical course at Castleton 
 Medical College, Vermont, and was graduated M. D. in 1857. 
 On account of his health he went to Minnesota to practice 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 311 
 
 medicine aud was appointed physician to the Sioux Indian 
 Reservation by Governor Sibley of Minnesota. His health 
 failing, he returned to Claremont and began to practice medi- 
 cine with his uncle and preceptor, Dr. Samuel G. Jarvis. 
 
 November 30, 1861, he was appointed acting assistant sur- 
 geon, United States Navy, and served on the United States 
 bark "Pursuit," East Gulf Blockading Squadron. On April 
 4, 1862, he volunteered as a member of the boarding party 
 from that vessel, which captured the Confederate blockade- 
 runner "Florida," loaded with cotton, in St. Andrew's bay, 
 Fla. The same day this boarding party captured the sloop 
 "Lafayette," also I'jaded with cotton. Later in April, 1862, 
 his health again failing from the same cause, consumption, he 
 was condemned by medical examiners and sent home on three 
 months' sick leave. His health not warranting further duty, 
 his appointment Vv-as revoked July 26, 1862. His health was 
 never fully recovered, but, with characteristic patriotism and 
 energy, he again offered his services and was appointed acting 
 assistant surgeon at the United States Hospital at Brattleboro, 
 Vt., June 4, 1864. He served until December 10, 1864, when 
 his old m.alady forced him to return to his home at Claremont, 
 where he died June 17, 1865. 
 
 (The above was obtained from the official records at Wash- 
 ington by Andrew Dunlap, Commander United States Navy, 
 who married a sister of Jeffrey T. Adams.) 
 
 The above record of services by Surgeon Adams shows that 
 in some way an unintentional injury was done in transcribing 
 his record of services. His appointment was revoked because 
 he was too ill to do further service in the nSLvy. It is possible 
 that his patriotism and enthusiasm overbalanced his judgment 
 in volunteering on duties that would not be expected of a 
 medical olTicer, yet there can be no doubt but what he was 
 very popular with his men, honorable and upright with every- 
 body ; that he laid his life upon the altar of Liberty and Free- 
 dom for his country, and thereby has left a record of an 
 honorable and able man. 
 
312 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Joseph Geerish Ayers, M. D. 
 Canterbury, N. H. 
 
 (15 N. H. V.) 
 
 Ayers, Joseph G. Co. G.; b. Canterbury; age 22; res. Northfield; 
 enl. Oct. 11, 'G2, as Priv.; app. 2 Lt. Nov. 3, '62; must, in to date 
 Oct. 11, '62, as 2 Lt.; app. 1 Lt. March 1, '63; must, out Aug. 13, 
 '63. P. O. ad., V/ashington, D. C. See U. S. Navy. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 738.) 
 
 (U. S. Navy.) 
 
 Ayers, Joseph G. Volunteer oflBcer; b. Canterbury; age 24; res. 
 Northfield; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Dec. 17, '64; disch. Sept. 24, 
 '66; app. Asst. Surg, in the regular navy Oct. 18, '66; Passed Asst. 
 Surg. Oct. 12, '69; Surg. Jan. 7, '78; still in the service. P. O. ad., 
 Washington, D. C. See 15 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 1098.) 
 
 Surgeon Ayers was born in Canterbury, November 3, 1839, 
 and was the son of Charles Haines and Ahnira Samantha 
 (Gerrish) Ayers; grandson of Jonathan Ayers. He received 
 his preliminary education in the common schools and was a 
 graduate of the New Hampton Seminary at New Hampton, 
 N. H. He commenced his professional studies in 1861, in Con- 
 cord, N. H., with Charles P. Gage, M. D. He attended lectures 
 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and 
 the University of Vermont, and was graduated from the latter 
 in 1864. His service in the army commenced the eleventh of 
 October, 1862, he at this time being second, and afterwards 
 first, lieutenant in Co. G, Fifteenth New Hampshire Volun- 
 teers, where he remained until August 18, 1863. He was ap- 
 pointed acting assistant surgeon of the United States Army 
 and Avas stationed at the United States Army Hospital, Ports- 
 mouth Grove, R. I., from June 28 to October 27, 1864. He then 
 received a commission as assistant surgeon in the United States 
 Navy, December 17, 1864, and served until September 24, 
 1866, and has passed through all the grades in the surgical 
 service in the United States Navy to his present grade of medi- 
 cal inspector. He was fleet surgeon of the Asiatic Squadron 
 in 1895- '97. He has written various papers, including sani- 
 tary reports published in the yearly reports of the surgeon- 
 general's office. 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 313 
 
 Report on Cundiirango to the Bureau of Medicine and Sur- 
 gery, partially embodied in the publication of that bureau in 
 1873, from facts obtained by Surgeon Ayers during a visit 
 into the interior of Ecuador, by order of the navy depart- 
 ment. 
 
 Married, July 11, 1884, Olinda Ann Austin. 
 
 Children, two : Joseph Gerrish and Charles Haines Ayers. 
 
 Benjamix F. Bigelow, M. D. 
 
 BiGELOw, Ben.tamix F. Volunteer officer; b. Massachusetts; res. 
 New Hampshire; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Dec. 12, 'G3; served on 
 U. S. S. "Albatross" and "Nyack"; resigned Maj' 5, '65. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1101.) 
 
 "Peterborough, N. H., July 3, 1899. 
 "Granville P. Conn, Medical Director, G. A. B.: 
 
 "Dear Comrade: — In looking over the journal of the last de- 
 partment encampment, I see that you ask for information in 
 regard to Benj. F. Bigelow, acting assistant surgeon in the 
 na\'y. 
 
 "After he resigned he went to Claypool, Ind.. and died there 
 in June, 1879. 
 
 "Hoping this information may be of ser\'ice to you, I am 
 yours in F., C. & L., 
 
 "John F. D'Orsay, 
 
 "Adjutant.'' 
 
 George Holmes Bixby, M. D. 
 
 Late of Boston, Mass. 
 
 Bixby, George Holmes. Volunteer officer; b. Surinam. South 
 America; age 25; res. Fiancestown; app. Asst. Surg. June 1, '62; 
 served on U. S. S. "Red River"; resigned and disch. June 24, '65. 
 P. O. ad., Francestown. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1101.) 
 
 Surgeon Bixby was born in Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, 
 South America, the .second day of November, 1837, and was the 
 son of Levi and Mary A. (Lobata) Bixby, and a grandson of 
 
314 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Thomas Bixby, a lieutenant in the Army of the Eevolution 
 and a lifelong resident of Francestown. The Bixby family 
 for many years occupied a very influential position in the 
 town of Francestown, and Surgeon Bixby 's father resided for 
 a considerable period at Surinam, Dutch Guiana, South 
 America, w^here for several years he occupied the position of 
 United States consul for that country. 
 
 Surgeon Bixby came to Francestown in early life, received 
 his preliminary education in the district schools of that town 
 and at Francestown Academy, and was for two years at 
 Williams College, Massachusetts. His professional education 
 was received at the Vermont Medical College at Woodstock, 
 Vt., at the Harvard Medical School, and, finally, at the Medical 
 Department of Dartmouth College, where he was graduated 
 M. D. in the class of 1858. He immediately visited Europe 
 for a post-graduate course and was in Vienna at the com- 
 mencement of the Rebellion. His patriotism and love of coun- 
 try prompted him to return to the United States and he 
 reached Boston in January, 1862. 
 
 The History of FrancestoAvn says of him: "Learning that 
 there was great destitution and suffering with the army in 
 the Mississippi valley and that the Western Sanitary Com- 
 mission were in great need of medical assistance, he offered his 
 services to this commission at St. Louis, and was assigned to 
 the river steamer ' ' Empress. ' ' At the end of two months, the 
 sanitary condition of that section Avas so much improved that 
 he accepted an appointment as acting assistant surgeon in the 
 navy and Avas assigned to the "Red Rover," and reported the 
 sixth of June, 1862, at Memphis, Tenn., where his boat re- 
 ceived the sick and wounded resulting from the engagements 
 at Island No. 10, Fort Pillow and Fort Hindman. He was at 
 Vicksburg at its surrender in June, 1863, and served with the 
 Mississippi Squadron until the twenty-fifth of November, 1865, 
 when he resigned and was discharged." 
 
 After special service in the cholera epidemic at St. Louis in 
 1866, he spent the year of 1867 in completing gynecological 
 studies in Paris and Vienna. Returning in 1868, he was lo- 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 315 
 
 cated in the practice of his profession in Boston, being after- 
 ward associated with Dr. Horatio R. Storer, now of Newport, 
 R. I., with whom he was one of the founders of the "Journal 
 of the Gynecological Society of Boston." He served as gyne- 
 cological physician to the City Hospital, St. Elizabeth and 
 the Carney hospitals. 
 
 Among his special publications are : 
 
 "Surgical Reminiscences of the War." (Nos. 1 and 2.) 
 
 "A Successful Case of Ovariotomy." (1872.) 
 
 "A new instrument for the ready and effective use of the 
 double current at the treatment of suppurating cavities and 
 pelvic drainage." (1875.) 
 
 "Cases of Cystic Tumors of the Abdomen and Pelvis." 
 (1876.) 
 
 ' ' A Case of Hystero-Neurosis. ' ' ( 1881. ) 
 
 "Solid Tumors of Both Ovaries." (1882.) 
 
 "Two Successful Cases of Ovariotomy." (1882.) 
 
 "The Histories of Six Cases of Ovariotomy." (New York 
 Medical Journal, July 12, 1884.) 
 
 He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the 
 Boston Obstetrical Society and the American Medical Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 Surgeon Bixby was for a considerable period a confirmed 
 invalid, obliging him to retire from active duties, due in large 
 measure to exposure and untiring service on the "Red Rover" 
 and subsequent unselfish devotion to his profession. Patriotism 
 and benevolence were conspicuous traits of his character. He 
 resided in Boston during the winter season and removed to 
 his country home in Francestown for the summer. 
 
 Married Annie H. Dana of Boston, Mass., November 14, 
 1877. 
 
 One child, Mary Alison, was born in Boston tlie third of 
 November, 1878. 
 
 Dr. Bixby died at his home in Boston, Mass., February 27, 
 1901. 
 
316 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 John Blackmer, M. D. 
 Late of Springfield, Mass. 
 
 Blackmer, John. Volunteer officer; b. Massachusetts; res. New 
 Hampshire; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Dec. 4, '63; resigned Sept. 23, 
 '64; re-app. Nov. 14, '64; served on U. S. S. "Pursuit" and "Mont- 
 gomery"; disch. Aug. 16, '65. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 1101.) 
 
 Dr. Blackmer, although a native of Massachusetts, entered 
 the service from Effingham, N. H., and after his service in the 
 army and navy returned to Sandwich, N. H., where he re- 
 mained for nine years. Therefore he should be mentioned 
 in the Medical and Surgical History of New Hampshire. 
 
 Surgeon Blackmer was born in South Plymouth, Mass., 
 July 18, 1828, and was the son of John and Esther (Bartlett) 
 Blackmer. His family was of English descent and his grand- 
 father, John Blackmer, w^as a highly respected citizen and a 
 deacon in the Congregational Church. 
 
 Surgeon Blackmer received his preliminary education in 
 the common schools of the old town of Plymouth and he was 
 fitted for college at Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., and 
 took a partial course at Brown's University. His professional 
 education commenced with Dr. Aaron Cornish of Falmouth, 
 Mass., and was continued Avith Dr. Luke Miller of Troy, N. H. 
 He attended lectures at the Medical Department of Harvard 
 University and was graduated from the same in 1854. He 
 first located in Effingham, Carroll county, N. H., where he took 
 a prominent position as a citizen of the town. He became 
 superintendent of the public schools and a member of the 
 county and state medical societies. In 1871 Dr. Blackmer 
 delivered the annual oration before the New Hampshire Med- 
 ical Society. He afterwards was assistant physician at the 
 Asylum for the Insane at Augusta, Me., and for a short time 
 at the McLean Asylum in Somerville, Mass. In September, 
 1862, he was appointed assistant surgeon of the Forty-Seventh 
 Massachusetts Volunteers, and was assigned to duty at Box- 
 ford, Mass., to examine recruits until the regiment w'as ready 
 for service. Before leaving the state, he was promoted to 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 317 
 
 surgeon of the Forty-Seventh Volunteers and the regiment was 
 ordered to Ship island, La., and afterwards to New Orleans. 
 Though suffering in health, he remained with the regiment 
 until it reached Cleveland, Ohio, where he was mustered out 
 of the service. He then received an appointment as acting 
 assistant surgeon in the navy and joined Admiral Bailey's 
 fleet at Key West. He served first on the bark "Pursuit," 
 which was blockading St. Joseph's bay on the west of the 
 Florida coast. He was afterwards ordered to the steamer 
 "Montgomery" of the Atlantic Squadron and was on duty 
 in the battles about Fort Fisher. He served under Gen. B. F. 
 Butler and also General Terry. In the last battle at Fort 
 Fisher, Surgeon Blackmer was reported killed, it being a case 
 of mistaken identity, and it was said that the Boston and New 
 York papers had his obituary ready for press when he was 
 heard from. The rumor of his death did not reach Surgeon 
 Blackmer until he received an order to send his own body to 
 his friends in the North. 
 
 He remained on the "Montgomery" until given a leave of 
 absence, which was extended to sixty days, at the end of which 
 the department accepted Surgeon Blackmer 's resignation. 
 
 During his leave of absence he came to Concord, N, H., and 
 took charge of the Asylum for the Insane of the State of New 
 Hampshire, now the State Hospital, while its superintendent. 
 Dr. J. P. Bancroft, visited Europe. That Dr. Blackmer 's ser- 
 vices were appreciated is shown by the following, taken from 
 Dr. Bancroft's report, published May 1, 1866: 
 
 * ' During the unusual absence, which your kindness enabled 
 me to enjoy, the affairs of the asylum were ably and faithfully 
 administered by Dr. John Blackmer, temporary superin- 
 tendent, who has my cordial thanks." 
 
 Dr. Blackmer resumed general practice at Sandwich, N. H., 
 where he remained until 1874, when he returned to Prince- 
 town, Mass., and in 1877 removed to Springfield, taking the 
 place of Dr. N. L. Buck, Avho removed to California about 
 that time. 
 
318 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 While a resident of New Hampshire he was one of a few 
 enthusiastic believers in prohibition and assisted in organizing 
 that party in 1867. He was for several years chairman of its 
 state committee, editor of the Prohibition Herald and for three 
 years its candidate for governor. In Massachusetts he became 
 closely identified wdtli the cause of temperance, taking an im- 
 portant part in every gubernatorial campaign, and was fre- 
 quently a candidate for office. While residing in Spring- 
 field, he was a candidate for the offices of mayor, senator, 
 congressman, lieutenant-governor and governor. The enthu- 
 siasm and zeal of Dr. Blackmer in the cause of temperance is 
 seldom, if ever, equaled, yet he was consistent in his work and 
 received the respect of his fellow-citizens, whether they were 
 active workers in the cause or not. 
 
 He was a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, 
 of the Grand Army of the Republic and of various temper- 
 ance organizations. He was an active member of the North 
 Congregational Church of Springfield, editor of a religious 
 and temperance monthly magazine, and had contributed many 
 articles to newspapers, journals and monthh^ magazines. 
 
 He died at his home in Springfield, Mass., April 15, 1895. 
 
 Married, October 22, 1863, Ellen S. Dearborn of Effing- 
 ham, N. H. 
 
 Two children : Helen, now the wife of Dr. George Poole, 
 practicing physician and director of the Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association in New York; and John Allen Blackmer of 
 the New York Herald. 
 
 John H. Blodgett, M. D. 
 
 (U. S. Navy.) 
 
 Blodgett, John H. Volunteer officer; b. Peterborough; res. New- 
 Hampshire; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Sept. 10, '64; served on 
 U. S. S. "Morse"; disch. Sept. 5, '65. See Dartmouth Cav. (Rec- 
 ord, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1101.) 
 
 (Dartmouth Cav.) 
 
 Blodgett, John H. Dartmouth Cavalry; b. Peterborough; age 19; 
 res. Concord; enl. June 12, '62; must, in June 24, '62, as Priv.; 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 319 
 
 captd. Aug. 19, '62, near Winchester, Va. ; must, out Oct. 2, '62. 
 Died Dec. 23, '82, Salisbury, Conn. See U. S. Navy. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register. 1S95, p. 1093.) 
 
 Ira Wilson Bragg, ^L D. 
 
 Late of Croydon, N. H. 
 
 Bragg, Tea W. Regular officer; b. New Hampshire; res. Massachu- 
 setts; app. Asst. Surg. Sept. 2, '01; served on U. S. S. "San Jacinto" 
 and "Katahdin." Died Oct. 21, '64, in hospital. New Orleans, La. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1102.) 
 
 Surgeon Bragg was born in Croydon, N. H., July 28, 1833, 
 and was a son of Ira and Mercy (Clement) Bragg; a grandson 
 of Nathaniel Bragg. His preliminary education was received 
 in the common schools in Sullivan county and he fitted for 
 college at Kimball Union Academy at Meriden. His pro- 
 fessional education was commenced in 1856 with Dr. Marshall 
 Perkins of Mario w, X. H., late surgeon of the Fourteenth 
 New Hampshire Regiment. He attended lectures at the ]Medi- 
 cal Department of Dartmouth College, also at the Medical De- 
 partment of Harvard, and was graduated M. D. from the latter 
 in 1859. After spending a year in the Marine Hospital in 
 Chelsea, he \'isited Europe and passed several months in the 
 hospitals of Liverpool and London, endeavoring to still further 
 perfect himself for his profession. Upon his return from 
 England he located for the practice of his profession in 
 Chelsea, I\Iass., and was appointed assistant surgeon in the 
 na\^ from that city. 
 
 He was assigned to duty on the "Minnesota" and was on 
 board this ship at the time of its severe engagement with the 
 rebel ironclad "Merrimac, " when the "Cumberland" was 
 sunk and the "Monitor" made her first appearance at Hamp- 
 ton Roads and saved a remnant of the Ignited States Navy in 
 that port. He was afterwards transferred to the "San Ja- 
 cinto," which was the flagship of the East Gulf Blockading 
 Squadron, and was on board this vessel during her pursuit of 
 the "Alabama" among the West Indies and at South America. 
 Afterwards he was ordered to the West Gulf Blockading 
 
320 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Squadron and thence to the Naval Hospital at New Orleans, 
 where he died of yellow fever the twenty-first of October, 1864, 
 worn down by excessive labor and anxiety for the sick. 
 
 His biographer says of him: "In few men were more hap- 
 pily com.bined rare merit and graceful modesty." 
 
 He was unmarried. 
 
 George Franklin Brickett, M. D. 
 Late of Lawrence, Mass. 
 
 Bbickett, George T. Volunteer ofiicer; b. New Hampshire; age 30; 
 res. Manchester; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Jan. 19, '65; served on 
 U. S. S. "Ohio" and South Atlantic Squadron; resigned Jan. 1, '66. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1102.) 
 
 Surgeon Brickett was the son of James Kent and Char- 
 lotte M. (Hosraer) Brickett and was born in Concord, N. H., 
 July 17, 1835. (The record of the Adjutant-General's office 
 gives the name as George T. Brickett, which is evidently a mis- 
 print, as the other part of his service corresponds with that 
 of his family record.) He received his preliminary education 
 in the public schools of that part of Concord now called Pena- 
 cook, and com.menced his professional education in 1854 with 
 Dr. Stephen M. Emery of the same place. He continued his 
 professional education by attending lectures at Hanover and 
 Avas graduated M. D. from the Medical Department of Dart- 
 mouth College in the class of 1858. 
 
 He commenced the practice of medicine in Alexandria; 
 remaining there but a short time, he removed to Antrim; 
 afterwards removed to Manchester, where he was residing at 
 the time of his appointment. Upon the completion of his 
 service in the United States Navy, Dr. Brickett located in 
 Lawrence, Mass. While residing in New Hampshire, became 
 a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society. 
 
 Surgeon Brickett was appointed acting assistant surgeon 
 of the navy January 19, 1865, served in the South Atlantic 
 Squadron and on the United States ship "Ohio," and resigned 
 January 1, 1866. 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 321 
 
 Married Martha Abbie Wadleigh of Meredith, N. H. One 
 child was born March 5, 1860, and died in Clinton, la., 
 December 28, 1884. He married, second, Ella Frances True 
 of Amesbury, Mass., March 4, 1868. 
 
 Dr. Brickett died in Lawrence, Mass., April 9, 1873, and his 
 widow now resides iu Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 George Adams Bright, M. D. 
 Late of Washington, D. C. 
 
 Bright, George A. Regular officer; b. Bangor, Me.; age 24; res. 
 Concord; app. Acting Asst. Surg. May 16, '61; Asst. Surg. Aug. 8, 
 '64; Passed Asst. Surg. Dec. 31, '67; Surg. Sept. 12, '74; Medical 
 Inspector, May 11, '93; served on U. S. S. "Massachusetts." P. O. 
 ad., Washington, D. C. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1103.) 
 
 Surgeon Bright was born in Bangor, j\Ie., and was the son 
 of John and Anne Elizabeth (Mason) Bright. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools at Bangor, Me., and one year at 
 Bowdoin College. He commenced the study of medicine in 
 1857 with Drs. John and William Mason as medical precep- 
 tors. He attended three courses of medical lectures at Har- 
 vard ]Medical College and was graduated from the same in 
 1860. He immediately commenced the practice of medicine in 
 Concord, N. H., where he remained for one year and entered 
 the United States Navy the sixteenth of May, 1861. He has 
 been through all the ordinary routine details of naval service 
 afloat and ashore and now holds the title of medical director 
 of the United States Navy in charge of the Naval Hospital at 
 Washington. He is a member of the Loyal Legion of the 
 United States. 
 
 In 1861 Dr. Bright was a member of the New Hampshire 
 Medical Society. 
 
 Married .Mary C. Gale, October 7, 1880, at Winchester, 
 Mass. 
 
 Children : George A. Bright, Jr., and Mary Bright. 
 
 The New York Medical Journal of March 25, 1905, has the 
 following obituary notice: 
 
322 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 "Medical Director George A. Bright of the Navy. 
 
 "Dr. Bright, who died in Washington last week, was a 
 native of the state of IMaine. He graduated from the medical 
 school of Harvard University, served on the house staff of 
 the Massachusetts General Hospital, and began private prac- 
 tice in Concord, New Hampshire. In a few months the civil 
 war broke out and he entered the navy as an acting assistant 
 surgeon. At the close of the war he joined the regular medi- 
 cal corps of the navy and, rising by the usual course of pro- 
 motion, reached the rank of medical director. Not long ago 
 he was retired with the rank of rear admiral. 
 
 "He was a man of engaging personality and his career in 
 the navy was long and creditable." 
 
 Died in Washington, D. C, March 12, 1905. 
 
 ]\Iedical Director John Mills Browne, U. S. N. 
 By Medical Director Albert L. Gihon, U. S. N. 
 
 Bbowne, Jouy Mills. Regular officer; b. Hinsdale; age 21; res. 
 Hinsdale; app. Asst. Surg. March 26, '53; Passed Asst. Surg. May 
 12, '58; Surg. June 19, '61; Medical Inspector Dec. 1, '71; Medical 
 Director Oct. 6, '78; Surg. Gen. April 2, '88; served on U. S. S. 
 "Kearsarge"; retired May 10, '93. P. O. ad., Washington, D. C. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1104.) 
 
 Medical Director John Mills Browne was born in Hinsdale, 
 N. H., May 10, 1831, graduated at the IMedical Department of 
 Harvard University in March, 1852, and was appointed 
 assistant surgeon in the navy of the United States from New 
 Hampshire, March 26, 1853. His family were among the 
 original founders of Watertown, Mass., coming thither from 
 Stamford, England. 
 
 His first duty was on board the United States storeship 
 "Warren," Lieutenant-Commanding Fabius Stanley, at Sau- 
 salito, opposite San Francisco. The naval station at Mare 
 island was just then in contemplation and Commander Farra- 
 gut had been sent out, to get the plans under way, as the first 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 323 
 
 commandant. He was obliged to live on board the "Warren" 
 until some sort of quarters could be pro\4ded on shore. Dr. 
 Browne was medical officer of this naval establishment until 
 May, 1855, a character and critical period in the settlement 
 of California. Dr. Browne was next ordered to the United 
 States steamer "Active," which was engaged in the survey of 
 the coast and harbors of California, Oregon and Washington 
 Territories, and in the winter of 1855- '56 (with the "Massa- 
 chusetts" and "Decatur") in the Indian War in Puget 
 Sound. In the summer of 1857 the "Active" was engaged, 
 with Her Majesty's ship "Satellite," in settling the northwest 
 boundary. 
 
 After this long tour of duty on the western coast. Dr. 
 Browne came East ; was promoted to past assistant surgeon and 
 ordered to the "Dolphin" of the home squadron in June, 1858. 
 She was commanded by John X. IMaffit, so well known after- 
 wards as the commander of the Confederate "Florida." In 
 August, 1858, the "Dolphin" captured the brig "Echo" off 
 Cape Verde, Cuba, with over three hundred African slaves on 
 board. The prize was sent to Charleston, S. C, and the 
 netrroes were taken to Liberia on board the "Niagara." 
 
 When the Paraguay expedition was sent out. Dr. Browne 
 was ordered to the United States steamer "Atlanta," Capt. 
 Daniel B. Ridgly, and detached before sailing. After short 
 service at the United States Naval Hospital at Norfolk, he was 
 attached to the United States sloop-of-war "Constellation," 
 flagship of the African Squadron, which we were at that time 
 bound by convention to keep on the west coast. During the 
 cruise the "Constellation" captured off the Congo river the 
 bark "Cora," with seven hundred and five slaves, who were 
 sent to Liberia. 
 
 At one period he was stationed at ports along the Pacific 
 coast and he published articles on the "Verrugas" and the 
 "Oroya" fever, diseases peculiar to Peru, also on "The 
 Hospitals and Charitable Institutions of Chile and Peru." 
 
 Dr. Browne was commissioned as surgeon June 19, 1861, 
 and ordered to the United States steam-sloop "Kearsarge, " a 
 
324 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 ship which will always be celebrated in the annals of our 
 navy. She was sent on special duty to the European waters 
 in 1861, visiting all the ports of the British and continental 
 territory, where she was likely to find the Confederate cor- 
 sairs. At last, when in command of Commander Winslow, 
 she found the "Alabama" in Cherbourg. The preparations for 
 the engagement, which became necessary, were like those for 
 a battle ' ' in the lists, ' ' and when the hour sounded the cham- 
 pions came forth. The "Kearsarge" destroyed the "Ala- 
 bama" in one hour and two minutes. Special trains came 
 from Paris to witness the fight. The "Kearsarge" then went 
 to Brazil to look for the ' ' Florida, ' ' which was supposed to be 
 about Fernando de Noroha. Disappointed in the search, she 
 returned to the United States. 
 
 After some temporary duty Dr. Browne was, in April, 
 1865, ordered back to the scene of his original duty in Cali- 
 fornia, where he superintended the building of the United 
 States Naval Hospital at Mare island, and was in charge 
 there for nearly ten years, with the exception of a cruise as 
 fleet surgeon of the Pacific Squadron. This latter post he 
 again filled, after he had been made medical inspector in the 
 regular course of promotion. He was commissioned medical 
 director October 6, 1878, and then came East again. During 
 1880-1882 he served as president of the medical examining 
 board at Washington and was a member of the board of 
 visitors to the United States Naval Academy in 1881. In the 
 same year he went to London, England, as the naval repre- 
 sentative at the International Medical Congress; was a mem- 
 ber of the national board of health in 1883 and in charge 
 of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene at "Washington 
 from 1882 to 1885. During that time he also served on the 
 Board of Naval Regulations. In 1884 Medical Director Browne 
 was naval representative at the International Medical Con- 
 gress at Copenhagen, and from 1885 to 1888 served as a mem- 
 ber of the Naval Retiring Board. He became chief of the 
 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, with the title of surgeon- 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 325 
 
 general of the navy, April, 1888, and was retired in 1893, 
 having reached the age of sixty-two years. 
 
 He was past grand master of j\Iasons for the state of Cali- 
 fornia and past commander-in-chief of the Ancient and Ac- 
 cepted Scottish Rite Masons of California. 
 
 Married, November 27, 1857, Alice Key Turner, grand- 
 daughter of James Turner, ex-governor and ex-United States 
 senator of North Carolina, and of Francis Scott Key, author 
 of the ' ' Star Spangled Banner. ' ' 
 
 He died at 8.30 p. m., December 7, 1894, and was interred 
 with Masonic honors in the National Cemetery of Arlington, 
 Va. 
 
 Daniel Coffin Burleigh, M. D. 
 
 BuBLEiGH, Daniel Coffix. Regular officer; b. New Hampshire; res. 
 Maine; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Jan. 11, '64; Acting Passed Asst. 
 Surg. May 25, '66; disch. April 23, '69; app. Asst. Surg. Dec. 4, '73; 
 Passed Asst. Surg. .June 30, '79; served on U. S. S. "Unadilla" and 
 "Tioga"; placed on retired list. Died .Jan. 11, '84, Dresden, Ger. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1105.) 
 
 Daniel Coffin Burleigh, son of Nathaniel and Deborah R. 
 (Coffin) Burleigh, grandson of Daniel Burleigh, was born in 
 Sanbornton, N. H., April 8, 1834. He received his education 
 in the common schools and at Bowdoin College, from which 
 he received the degree of A. B. in 1858, and the degree of 
 M. D. from the Medical Department of Bowdoin College in 
 1869. Meantime, he taught in the high school in Brunswick, 
 Me., one year; Hampden Academy and State Normal School, 
 four years, as principal; also at Sanbornton, Woodman and 
 Chapel Academies, besides serving in the United States Navy 
 Corps from January 11, 1864, till he finished his medical 
 studies and settled as a physician in Franklin in 1869. While 
 a resident of Franklin, he was a member of the school com- 
 mittee and deacon of the Congregational Church. In De- 
 cember, 1874, he resumed his place as surgeon in the United 
 States Navy and was a.ssigned to the "Shawmut." In 1875 and 
 1876 he was surgeon and instructor on the St. jMary's Gov- 
 
326 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 eminent Ship and Nautical School, lying in New York harbor. 
 
 Dr. Burleigh was a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society. 
 
 Married, Annie E. Curtis of Hampden, Me., May 17, 1865. 
 
 Children : Alice, born August 29, 1868, died September 
 6, 1868 ; Louis Curtis, born September 30, 1870, at Hampden, 
 Me. ; Lucy Winslow, born October 5, 1871, died July 4, 1882, 
 at Vevay, Switzerland. 
 
 Surgeon Burleigh went abroad with his family in 1880 
 and died in Dresden, Saxony, January 10, 1884, and was 
 buried in Vevay, Switzerland. 
 
 George H. Butler, M. D. 
 
 BuTLEK, Geokge H. Volunteer ofBcer; b. Maine; res. New Hamp- 
 shire; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Jan. 9, '64; Acting Passed Asst. 
 Surg. Aug. 17, '66; served on U. S. S. "Mahaska"; disch. Nov. 12, 
 '68. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1108.) 
 
 Henry Melville Chase, M. D. 
 Lawrence, Mass. 
 
 (Miscel. Organizations.) 
 
 Chase, Henry M. Co. D, 1 Vt. Inf.; b. Bristol; age 22; res. Lyme, 
 cred. Vermont; enl. May 2, '61, for 3 mos. ; must, in May 2, '61, 
 as Priv.; must, out Aug. 15, '61. P. O. ad., Lawrence, Mass. 
 See U. S. Navy. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1037.) 
 
 (U. S. Navy.) 
 
 Chase, Henby M. Volunteer officer; b. Bristol; age 24; res. Lyme; 
 app. Acting Asst. Surg. Dec. 18, '63; served on the U. S. S. "Hon- 
 duras" and "Neptune"; disch. Sept. 26, '65. P. O. ad., Lawrence, 
 Mass. See Miscel. Organizations. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 1108.) 
 
 Surgeon Chase was born in Bristol, N. H., June 13, 1838, 
 and was the son of William L. and Sally (Minot) Chase, and 
 a grandson of Moses Chase. He received his preliminary 
 education in the common schools of Bristol and at Newbury 
 Seminary, Newbury, Vt. He commenced his professional 
 studies with Dr. E. V. Watkins of Newbury, Vt., in 1860, 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 327 
 
 and continued the same with Dr. Dixi Crosby at Hanover, 
 attending three courses of lectures at Hanover, and was 
 graduated M. D. from the Medical Department of Dartmouth 
 College in the class of 1863. He was immediately appointed 
 assistant surgeon in the United States Xavy and served from 
 December, 1863, to August, 1865. He was in the South At- 
 lantic Squadron and saw considerable of the yellow fever 
 epidemic at Key "West, Fla., in 1864. 
 
 He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and 
 consulting physician of the Lawrence City Hospital. 
 
 Married, June 22, 1869, ]\Iary Esther Hamilton of Con- 
 cord, X. H. 
 
 Children, three: Mary H., Henry M., Jr., and Philip M. 
 Chase. 
 
 He died June 15, 1903, at the age of 65 years. 
 
 John Howe Clark. 
 
 A. B., Dartmouth College, 1857. 
 
 M. D., Harvard University, 1862. 
 
 Medical Director, U. S. Navy. 
 
 Clabk, John Howe. Regular officer; b. Greenland; age 24; res. 
 Amherst; app. Asst. Surg. Oct. 19, '61; Surg. May 14, '67; Medical 
 Inspector .Jan. 8, '85; served in West Gulf Squadron; still in the 
 service. P. 0. ad., Washington, D. C. (Record, Aylmg's Register, 
 1895, p. 1109.) 
 
 Born in Greenland, N. H., April 16, 1837; his father. Rev. 
 Samuel Wallace Clark, A. B., Dartmouth College, 1823, a 
 graduate of Andover (]\Iass. ) Theological Seminary, 1827, 
 was born in Hancock, N. H., in 1795 and ordained in 1829 
 over the Congregational Church of Greenland, N. H., where 
 he remained pastor until his death in 1847. His father was a 
 descendant of the Scotch Presbyters of Londonderry, Ireland. 
 By his mother, Rebecca Elizabeth (Howe) Clark, he was 
 descended (seventh generation) from John Alden and Pris- 
 cilla Mullins. 
 
 In 1861 he entered the United States Navy as assistant 
 surgeon, owing to the War of the Rebellion, preferring a 
 
328 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 commission in the navy to the life of a soldier with uncertain 
 beds and irregular diet. Necessity, combined with patriotism, 
 had something to do with this step. 
 
 He joined the United States gunboat "Scioto," West Gulf 
 Blockading Squadron, under Admiral Farragut, in May, 1862, 
 where he served on the Mississippi river and off the coast of 
 Texas until the "Scioto" was sunk in the Mississippi river, 
 below Forts Jackson and St. Philip, in May, 1863, one early 
 morning, by collision with the United States steamship "An- 
 tona." Wliile on the "Scioto" he went up the Mississippi river 
 as far as Milliken's Bend, a point above the mouth of the 
 Yazoo river, where the colored troops first showed their fight- 
 ing qualities. He was with Farragut in passing Vicksburg 
 and in several small engagements in the lower Mississippi 
 and off Galveston, Tex. 
 
 While on the ^lississippi river he saw large numbers of 
 "contrabands," at different times, on the eastern bank, with 
 their families and domestic outfits (all their worldlj^ goods), 
 hailing our gunboat and confidently expecting to be taken by 
 us to some unknown land of promise. Many of these unfor- 
 tunate people found their way to Nevf Orleans to be crowded 
 into cotton presses and meagerly supported by rations issued 
 to them by the United States Army. At one time several 
 hundred cattle, that had been swum across the river from 
 Texas, intended for the Confederate camp, Moore, La., were 
 captured on the eastern bank. We had an elephant on our 
 hands as we could not take them aboard the three gunboats 
 then patrolling the river at that point, nor could we drive 
 them down the river road to New Orleans. They were kept 
 corralled while a gunboat was sent to New Orleans to report 
 the capture to Gen. B. F. Butler, who sent three Mississippi 
 River steamers, which took the cattle to New Orleans. On the 
 way down the river the rebels cut embrasures in the levee, into 
 which they ran four-pounder howitzers and awaited our ap- 
 proach with the following result: One cattle steamer was 
 struck, with the loss of several beeves, and the "Scioto" was 
 struck, with the loss of Lieut. Charles Swasey of Taunton, 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 329 
 
 Mass. When the gunboats reached New Orleans with the 
 cattle, General Butler divided the cattle, when killed, into 
 three parts — the first part went to the citizens of New Or- 
 leans, the second part went to the army and the third part went 
 to the navy. For their capture each gunboat received the mag- 
 nificent reward of one-half of one carcass! 
 
 After the sinking of the "Scioto" he was assistant surgeon 
 in the temporary naval hospital. New Orleans, a hotel being 
 converted to that purpose. During his service there, sixty 
 eases of yellow fever were admitted, with twenty deaths, in 
 mo.st of which latter cases a necropsy was performed. This 
 experience was of value, as he has had occasion to meet yellow 
 fever several times since. 
 
 In June, 1864, he left New Orleans for the Portsmouth 
 (N. H.) navy yard, where he remained until May, 1865, when 
 he joined the United States ship "Mohongo," bound for the 
 Pacific station, which he reached via St. Thomas, Barbados, 
 Natal, Bohia, Rio de Janeiro, IMontevideo and Straits of Ma- 
 gellan. Soon after reaching Chile he witnessed the bombard- 
 ment of Valparaiso by the Spanish fleet. 
 
 In 1866 he was in the bay of Acapulco, Mex., when the city 
 and bay were held by the French fleet. The loyal Mexicans 
 held the surrounding country so completely that not a chicken 
 nor an eg^: could reach the city. At that time ^Maximilian 
 held the city of ^Mexico and several Atlantic cities and claimed 
 to be emperor. The presence of the "Mohongo" prevented 
 a forced loan from the foreigners there hy the French. Ter- 
 minating the cruise at the San Francisco navy yard in May, 
 1867, his next duty was on board the receiving ship "Van- 
 dalia" at the Portsmouth (N. 11.) na\y yard, in 1868- '69. 
 
 In 1870, 1871 and 1872 he was on the United States steamer 
 "Alaska'-' in the Asiatic Station, going and returning via the 
 Cape of Good Hope, visiting en route Cape Town, South 
 Africa, the Coneoro group of islands and Singapore. In 
 China he visited Ilong Kong, Foochow, the chief export city 
 for black teas, Ningpo, Shanghai, Chinkiang, Kingiang, Han- 
 kow, Cheefoo and Newchang. In Japan he visited Yokohama, 
 
330 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Tokio or Yesso, Nagasaki, Kobe, Osaka — where he was present 
 at the opening of the mint for coinage of their first gold and 
 silver currency — and Yokaska, where he witnessed the opening 
 of the first dry dock of Japan, which was cut out of solid rock. 
 
 His ship, with three other United States vessels, visited 
 Korea in the vain attempt to open that country to commerce 
 with Europeans, in 1871. In those days a visit to these coun- 
 tries was far more interesting than at present, because the 
 treaty ports (the principal places visited by foreigners), were 
 less cosmopolitan through foreign influence. 
 
 The years 1874 and 1875 were chiefly spent as senior assist- 
 ant medical officer in the Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass.; 
 1876, 1877 and 1878 were spent on the United States ship 
 "New Hampshire," at Port Royal, S. C, where that ship was 
 sent as an entering wedge to the establishment of a naval 
 station, and where is now a small station with a dry dock, a 
 hospital and other buildings. 
 
 From 1878 to 1883, he was attached to the receiving ship 
 "Wabash," at the Boston navy yard, from which he was 
 twice temporarily detached for duty as a member of the Naval 
 Medical Examining Board, sitting in Philadelphia, for the 
 examination of candidates for the positions of assistant and 
 passed assistant surgeons in the United States Navy. 
 
 In 1884 and 1885 he was fleet surgeon of the Pacific Squad- 
 ron, attached to the flagship "Hartford," cruising between 
 Valparaiso, Chile, and San Francisco, once visiting Hono- 
 lulu, Hawaiian Islands. 
 
 In 1886 and 1887 he was on special duty in Portsmouth, 
 N. H., and in 1888 and 1889 again a member of the Naval 
 Medical Examining Board. 
 
 In 1890 he went, in the United States steamer "Baltimore," 
 to Stockholm, Sweden, with the remains of the late Swedish 
 inventor Ericson, of Monitor fame. There, marked civilities 
 were extended to the officers of the ship by King Oscar and 
 his court. Medals commemorative of the occasion were given 
 to officers and crew. While in Sweden he visited the Univer- 
 sity of Upsala as the giiest of Professor Holmgren, professor 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 331 
 
 of physiology and inventor of the color-blind test by use of 
 colored worsteds. After leaving Stockholm, the "Baltimore" 
 visited Copenhagen, Gibraltar, Naples, Spezia, Nice and Tou- 
 lon. At the last place orders were received, sending the "Bal- 
 timore" to Valparaiso, Chile, owing to a revolution there, 
 which led to his making his third cruise on the Pacific Station. 
 
 While in Valparaiso he witnessed the capture of that city 
 by the revolutionists. In 1892 he returned to the United 
 States and from May, 1892, to May, 1895, was president of 
 the Naval Board of Medical Examiners. From May, 1895, 
 to May, 1898, he had charge of the Naval Hospital, Chelsea, 
 Mass. During his service there, aseptic operating, chemical, 
 bacteriological and microscopic rooms Avere installed and a 
 steam disinfector was introduced. 
 
 From May, 1898, to April, 1899, when he was retired for 
 age, he was a member of the Naval Retiring Board, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 
 His professional life is thus shown to have been devoid of 
 startling experiences, but he has the satisfaction of feeling 
 that he had borne his share of the heat and burden of his day 
 during an active life of thirty -seven years in the United States 
 Navy. 
 
 Since his retirement has resided in Amherst, N. H. 
 
 Samuel Franklin Coues., 'SI. D. 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Cones, Samuel Franklin. Regular officer; b. Portsmouth; age 25 
 res. Portsmouth; app. Asst. Surg. Feb. 25, '51; Surg. April 26, '61 
 Medical Inspector March i, '71; Medical Director Aug. 13, '76 
 served on U. S. S. "Saginaw," "Housatonic" and "Saranac;" placed 
 on retired list Sept. 17, '87. P. O. ad., Cambridge, Mass. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1111.) 
 
 Surgeon Coues was born in Portsmouth, N. II., September 
 17, 1825, and was the son of Samuel Elliot and Clara (Pearce) 
 Coues and a grandson of Peter Coues. He received his pre- 
 liminary education at the schools of the state and the degree of 
 A. B. from Harvard College in 1845. He commenced his pro- 
 
332 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 fessional education in 1845 with Charles A. Cheever, M. D., of 
 Portsmouth, and attended courses of medical lectures at Har- 
 vard Medical College and at Jefferson Medical College in 
 Philadelphia, taking three courses and also a year in chemistry 
 at Harvard Scientific School. He was graduated from the Jef- 
 ferson Medical College in 1849 ; commenced the practice of 
 medicine in Portsmouth, where he remained for a few months, 
 and then entered the navy as assistant surgeon in 1851. He 
 has passed through all the grades, being made surgeon in 1861, 
 medical inspector in 1871, and medical director in 1876. His 
 sea service was thirteen years and eleven months ; shore duty in 
 charge of naval hospitals in New York, director of the naval 
 laboratory of New York, president of Naval Medical Examin- 
 ing Board and in charge of the Naval Hospital at Chelsea, 
 Mass., and various other positions of minor importance. His 
 last sea service was fleet surgeon of the North Atlantic Fleet. 
 He was retired from the service as medical director, United 
 States Navy, September 17, 1887. 
 
 Married, in 1858, Mary B. Hughes. 
 
 Children surviving : Franklin, William Pearce, and Robert 
 Wheaton Coues. 
 
 Edward Payson Cummings, M. D. 
 
 (U. S. Navy.) 
 
 Cummings, Edward P. Volunteer officer; b. New Hampshire; res. 
 Exeter; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Oct. 21. '61; resigned Feb. 20, '62. 
 Supposed identical with Edward P. Cummings, 23 Mass. Inf. See 
 Miscel. Organizations. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1113.) 
 
 (Miscel. Organizations.) 
 
 Cummings, Edward P. F. and S.; 23 Mass. Inf.; age 39; res. Exeter; 
 app. Asst. Surg. June 20, '63; must, in July 4, '63, for 3 years; 
 disch. Oct. 13, '64. Supposed identical with E. P. Cummings, U. S. 
 Navy. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1041.) 
 
 Edward Payson Cummings was born in Stratham, N. H., 
 son of Rev. Jacob and Harriet (Tewksbury) Cummings of 
 Chelsea, Mass., and grandson of Solomon Cummings of War- 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 333 
 
 ren, ]Mass. He received his preliminary education in the com- 
 mon schools; commenced his professional education under the 
 instruction of Dr. A. C. Burnham of Hillsborough, N. H., and 
 continued the same at Harvard and Dartmouth Medical Col- 
 leges and received the degree of M. D. from the University of 
 New York City in 1849. He located for the practice of his 
 profession in Francestown, N. H., removed to Hillsborough, 
 was in Exeter six years, then removed to Xewburyport, ]\Iass., 
 where he practiced his profession for thirteen years until his 
 death, April 8, 1878. 
 
 While a resident of Exeter he offered his services to the 
 United States government and was appointed acting assistant 
 surgeon in the navy, October 21, 1861, and served in this 
 capacity until February 20, 1862, when he resigned. June 20, 
 1863, he Avas appointed assistant surgeon of the Twenty-third 
 Massachusetts Regiment, was mustered in July 4, 1863, and 
 served until he was discharged, October 13, 1864. Dr. Cum- 
 mings was a member of the ^Massachusetts Medical Society, 
 the Essex County Homoeopathic Medical Society, also a fra- 
 ternal member of the Masons, Odd Fellows and the Grand 
 Army of the Republic. 
 
 Married, January 1, 1851, Harriet Bailey of Brookline, 
 N. H. 
 
 Children, four : Harriet E., Mary W., Willis B. and Alice M. 
 Cummings. 
 
 J. Homer Darling, M. D. 
 
 (U. S. Navy.) 
 
 Darling, J. Homes. Volunteer officer; b. Massachusetts; res. Keene; 
 app. Acting Asst. Surg. Dec. 4. 'G3; served on U. S. S. "Ohio," 
 "Clyde" and "Pursuit"; disch. Dec 12, '65. P. O. ad., Thompson- 
 ville. Conn. See Miscel. Organizations. (Record, Ayling's Reg- 
 ister, 1895, p. 1114.) 
 
 (Miscel. Organizations.) 
 
 Darling, J. Homer. F. and S.; 51 Inf. Mass. Vol. Militia; b. Massa- 
 chusetts; age 24; res. Rindge; app. Asst. Surg. Nov. 4, '62; must, in 
 Nov. 15, '62, for 9 mos.; must, out July 27, '63. P. 0. ad., Thomp- 
 sonville, Conn. See U. S. Navy. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 1042.) 
 
334 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Dr. J. Homer Darling was born in Cambridge, Vt., July 25, 
 1838. He removed to Rindge, N. H., in the summer of 1860, 
 where he remained until appointed assistant surgeon of the 
 Fifty-first Massachusetts Regiment, and was mustered into the 
 service November 2, 1862. He served in that capacity in Vir- 
 ginia and North Carolina, until the sumer of 1863, when he 
 joined the Army of the Potomac, where he remained until his 
 regiment was mustered out, at the expiration of term of ser- 
 vice, in July of that year. Of this regiment. Dr. George B. 
 Jewett, a native of Rindge, was surgeon. While in the ser- 
 vice, Doctor Darling was present at the battles of Kingston, 
 Whitehall and Goldsborough. Soon after his return from the 
 army, he was tendered an appointment of assistant surgeon 
 in the navy. The appointment was accepted December 3, 
 1863. He was immediately ordered to the United States 
 steamer ' ' Clyde, ' ' then cruising in the Gulf of Mexico. After 
 fifteen months' service he was transferred, at his request, to 
 the United States bark ''Pursuit," and was honorably dis- 
 charged with the thanks of the Navj^ Department in Decem- 
 ber, 1865. 
 
 Upon his return from this service, he located in Keene, N. H., 
 where he remained in the successful practice of his profession. 
 He was well received and would have secured a permanent 
 and lucrative practice in this town, if the inducements pre- 
 sented by a more populous locality had permitted him to re- 
 main. 
 
 "Dr. Darling pursued his professional study in the office 
 of Dr. P. D. Bradford, a professor in Castleton (Vt.) Medi- 
 cal College, where he attended lectures, and gi^aduated June 
 15, 1859."— (History of Rindge.) 
 
 John George Dearborn, M. D. 
 No. 2 Wood St., Charlestown District, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Deabbobx, John G. Volunteer officer; b. New Hampshire; res. 
 Massachusetts; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Feb. 10, '64; served on 
 U. S. S. "Cornubia"; disch. Jan. 22, '66. (Record, Ayling's Regis- 
 ter, 1895, p. 1115.) 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 335 
 
 Surgeon Dearborn was born, May 27, 1835, in Meredith, N. 
 H., and was a son of James and Sally Blake (Prescott) Dear- 
 born, and Grandson of Josiah Dearborn. The father was a 
 native of Epping, N. H., the mother of Xorthwood, N. H. 
 His early education was received at the common and private 
 schools of Meredith, at Gilford Academy and Laconia. He 
 commenced his professional education in 1855 at Meredith, 
 N. H., with Dr. Albert A. Moulton and Dr. George Sanborn. 
 Dr. Moulton was afterwards surgeon of the Third New Hamp- 
 shire Regiment. He attended two courses of medical lectures 
 at the University of the City of New York, and was graduated 
 M. D. from the same in the class of 1858. He immediately 
 located for the practice of medicine at Gilford, N. H., Octo- 
 ber, 1858, remaining there for three years. 
 
 He was appointed assistant surgeon of the United States 
 Navy, February 10, 1864, his service being on the United 
 States receiving ship "Ohio," Boston navy yard, and the 
 United States ship "Cornubia," which was attached to the 
 West Gulf Squadron. He received his discharge January 22, 
 1866, located in Charlestown, now a part of Boston, and has 
 remained there ever since. 
 
 He was physician and surgeon to the ^Massachusetts state 
 prison from 1869 to 1872, and physician to the Charlestown 
 Free Dispensary and Hospital. He is a member of the Ma- 
 sonic fraternity, being a member of the Cceur de Lion Com- 
 majidery, K. T., the military order of Loyal Legion, also of 
 Bunker Hill Monument Association, and a member of the 
 Massachusetts Medical Society. He was a member of the 
 Charlestown school board from 1871 to 1874, and for several 
 years a member of the vestry of St. John's Church. 
 
 Married, June 17, 1879, Susan Edwards of Charlestown, 
 Mass. 
 
 Child, one daughter, Helen Millett Dearborn. 
 
336 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Alfred Eastman Emery, M. D, 
 Late of Penacook, N. H. 
 
 Emery, Alfred E. Volunteer officer; b. Concord; age 22; res. Con- 
 cord, cred. New Hampshire; app. Acting Asst. Surg. March 28, 
 '63; appointment revoked June 29, '63; re-app. Aug. 21, '63; served 
 on Mississippi flotilla and U. S. S. "Keystone State"; resigned Feb. 
 9, '65. P. O. ad., Penacook. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 
 1118.) 
 
 Surgeon Emery was born in Concord, N. H., April 21, 1841, 
 and was the son of Isaac and Eliza (Eastman) Emery. His 
 preliminary education was received in the Concord high 
 school, Franklin Academy and New Hampton Literary Insti- 
 tute. He commenced his professional education in 1858 at 
 Concord with the late Charles Pinckney Gage, M. D., as medi- 
 cal preceptor. He attended medical lectures at the Univer- 
 sity of Vermont and at the Harvard IMedical School, gradu- 
 ating from the University of Vermont in 1865. March 28, 
 1863, he was appointed acting assistant surgeon of the United 
 States Navy, remaining in the service until February 20, 1865. 
 It will be observed that his service in the United States Navy 
 was during his pupilage as a medical student, and the records 
 show that he passed an entrance examination before a board 
 consisting of Surgeons Ruschenberger and Fox, at the Charles- 
 town navy yard, March 24 and 25, 1863. His first service 
 was in the Mississippi Squadron, where he reported April 14, 
 1863 ; was at Memphis, Tenn., April 20, on board the hospital 
 ship "Red Rover"; two weeks later accompanied the fleet 
 surgeon to the fleet operating against Vicksburg, and crossed 
 Young's Point, with a supply train, and reported at New 
 Carthage, La., where he was attached to a hospital on shore 
 that was taking care of wounded men that had been brought 
 there from the Grand Gulf fight. He remained here for 
 three weeks, when the capture of the batteries below Vicks- 
 burg enabled the surgeons to transfer the wounded men to the 
 hospital ship, and he was returned to the ''Red Rover." 
 
 By this time excessive fatigue in the swamps about the Mis- 
 sissippi river brought on remittent fever and June 18, 1863, 
 he was granted sick leave and returned home, remaining until 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 337 
 
 September, when he reported at the Philadelphia navj^ yard. 
 He was given service on the United States steamship "Key- 
 stone State," September 22, remaining on that vessel during 
 the remainder of his term of service. 
 
 As this vessel formed a part of the North Atlantic Squad- 
 ron, she was one of the fleet blockading Wilmington, N. C, and 
 being a fast sailor, she was given plenty of work to do on the 
 "off shore" station. Her record shows thirty-six chases after 
 blockade runners, capturing six of them, and picking up about 
 $300,000 worth of cotton thrown overboard by the blockade 
 runners. She took part in the first attack on Fort Fisher, but 
 was at Beaufort, N. C, taking in coal at the time of its capture. 
 After the fall of the fort, the "Keystone State" convoyed the 
 "Monadnock," a double turreted monitor, to Charlestown, 
 S. C, and towed the "Montauk," a light-draught monitor, 
 back to Wilmington, N. C. 
 
 Surgeon Emery resigned, and his resignation was accepted, 
 February 20, 1865, and took his degree in medicine the same 
 year. He first settled in practice in Concord, N. H., removed 
 to Wilton, Conn., where he remained for thirteen years, and 
 was a resident of Penacook, first ward of the City of Concord, 
 for nineteen years. 
 
 Surgeon Emery was a member of the New Hampshire Med- 
 ical Society, Centre District Medical Society, was assistant 
 city physician of Concord and physician to the New Hamp- 
 shire state prison. He was clerk of the first ward of Concord, 
 member of the Masonic fraternity, Grand Army of the Re- 
 public, and the Knights of Honor. 
 
 Was ordered, March 18, 1863, to report to Surgeon Rusch- 
 enberger of the navy yard at Boston for examination, ap- 
 pointed as to qualification to the position of acting assistant 
 surgeon in the navy of the United States. 
 
 Signed, G. V, Fox. 
 
 Navy Department, March 28, '63. 
 Ordered the appointment of Dr. Emery to the position of 
 acting a.ssistant surgeon. 
 
 Signed, Gideon Wells, 
 
 Secretary of Navy. 
 
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338 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 In this appointment he was ordered to Cairo, 111., and re- 
 ported to Acting Rear Admiral D. D. Porter. 
 
 Sixteenth of April, '63, Dr. Emery was ordered to take pas- 
 sage on the first naval transport gunboat of the fleet and report 
 to Acting Rear Admiral D. D. Porter, commanding the fleet. 
 Signed, A. M. Pennock. 
 
 April 20, '63, Dr. Pinkney reports Surgeon Emery's arrival 
 for duty. Fleet before Vicksburg. Wounded from the Grand 
 Gulf fight. 
 
 Surgeon Pinkney took me to the fleet at Vicksburg with 
 him and sent me to a hospital at New Carthage, La., where 
 had the wounded from the Grand Gulf fight. There were 
 about three weeks when hospital was abandoned and the 
 patients transferred to the hospital ship. Was taken sick the 
 day after I reached the hospital ship and was sick four weeks, 
 when, by advisement of the surgeon of the hospital ship, I 
 resigned and asked for medical survey. Was granted leave 
 of absence by Admiral Porter June 18, '63, and in consequence 
 of error in reports appointment revoked June 29, '63. Order 
 of June 29 revoking my appointment was corrected by secre- 
 tary of navy August 21, 1863. September 11, '63, ordered to 
 report at Philadelphia navy yard for duty on board the U. S. 
 steamer 'Keystone State.' Resigned January 25, '65, resig- 
 nation accepted February 9, '65. 
 
 Married, April 6, 1863, Annie E. Stark of Concord. 
 Children: Annie Katherine, Mary Stark and Arthur Bal- 
 lard Emery. 
 
 Died in Concord, May 23, 1900. 
 
 James Milton Flint, M. D. 
 
 Medical Director, U. S. N. 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Flint, James Milton. Regular officer; b. Hillsborough; age 24; res. 
 Campton; app. Acting Asst. Surg. April 14, '62; Asst. Surg. Oct. 
 26, '63; Passed Asst. Surg. Dec. 31, '67; Surg. June 24, '74; served 
 on U. S. S. "Ethan Allen" and "Hastings"; still in the service. 
 P. O. ad., Washington, D. C. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 112L) 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 339 
 
 Surgeon Flint was born in Hillsborough, N. H., February 
 7, 1838, was the son of Amos and Mary (Stiekney) Flint, and 
 a grandson of Daniel Flint. He received his preliminary ed- 
 ucation at the public schools in Hillsborough and Campton, 
 N. H., supplementing the same at the academies of Pembroke 
 and Hopkinton, in the same state. He commenced his profes- 
 sional education in 1857 in Pembroke, under the direction of 
 the late Butler H. Phillips, M. D., of that town, continuing 
 the same at Castleton (Vt.) Medical School and the Medical 
 Department of Harvard University, and was graduated from 
 the latter March 7, 1860. Since that period he has taken one 
 post-graduate course at the same college. He located for the 
 practice of medicine at Campton Village in April, 1861, where 
 he remained one year. At this time he was appointed a regu- 
 lar officer in the United States Na\y, first, as acting assistant 
 surgeon, this was April 14, 1862; he was made assistant sur- 
 geon October 24, 1863 ; passed assistant surgeon, December 31, 
 1867; surgeon, September 12, 1874; medical inspector. May 
 11, 1893; and medical director, October 19, 1897. 
 
 In a request for an autobiographical sketch. Dr. Flint says : 
 "My life has not been remarkable in any particular, nor do 
 I believe that it has been adventurous enough to interest the 
 public. My early experience was that of the average New 
 Hampshire boy, toiling early and late, with hands and head, 
 in the effort to gain such education as limited means and in- 
 dustry could supply. My thirty-five years of naval service, 
 sixteen of which passed on board a 'man-o-war,' have been 
 remarkably uneventful, as I have never been shipwrecked or 
 captured by the enemy, or eaten by cannibals, or escaped by 
 a hair's breadth from imminent danger, that I know of. I 
 have simply obeyed orders, gone cheerfully where I was sent, 
 performed my duties to the best of my ability, and, I have rea- 
 son to believe, to the general satisfaction of my commanding of- 
 ficers, as well as of those unfortunate enough to require my 
 professional services. During thirty-five years of naval service, 
 I have passed through all the medical corps up to that of med- 
 ical director, which title I now hold. I have lived on board 
 
340 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 ship sixteen years; I have sailed on nearly every sea, visited 
 nearly every political division of the globe, and have come in 
 contact with the people of nearly every nation on their own 
 soil. 
 
 ' ' Nearing the end of my career, I am happy in the thought 
 that I can spend the remainder of my days in the quiet of a 
 home, in what I believe to be the most favored country on 
 earth, and among people whom I know to be the best that 
 live. 
 
 "So you see there is little material with which to ornament 
 a biography, and it is better that the edifice should consist of 
 the plain walls of unadorned facts. ' ' 
 
 Surgeon Flint is a member of the Medical Society of the 
 District of Columbia; was one of the collaborators of the Na- 
 tional Medical Dictionary, having prepared that portion re- 
 lating to materia medica, pharmacy and therapeutics. (Lea 
 Brothers, Philadelphia, 1890.) He was a delegate to the 
 American Medical Association to represent the medical corps 
 of the navy, 1878 and 1891 ; delegate and third vice-president 
 to the convention for revision of United States Pharmaco- 
 poeia, 1890 ; member and treasurer of the committee on revision 
 of the United States Pharmacopoeia, 1890 to 1900; vice-presi- 
 dent of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, 1891 to 
 1893 ; all the grades in the medical corps of the navy, from 
 acting assistant surgeon to medical director; fleet surgeon of 
 the Asiatic Squadron to 1894r-'95; a fellow of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the 
 Microscopical Society, Philosophical Society of Washington, 
 Biological Society of Washington, military order of the Loyal 
 Legion, Sons of the American Revolution, and Society of the 
 Colonial Wars. He is an honorary curator of the section of 
 materia medica of the United States National Museum and 
 member of the committee on revision of United States Phar- 
 macopoeia. 
 
 Married, June 27, 1871, Caroline H. Conant of Boston, 
 Mass. 
 
 No children. 
 
united states navy. 341 
 
 George W. Gale, M. D. 
 
 Gale, George W. Volunteer officer; b. New Hampshire; res. Exeter; 
 app. Acting Asst. Surg. April 19, '62; Passed Acting Asst. Surg. 
 July 6, '65; served on North Carolina Sounds and North Atlantic 
 Squadron; disch. June 29, '69. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 1123.) 
 
 Surgeon Gale, son of George W. Gale, M. D., was born in 
 New Hampshire, probably in Exeter, in 1837. We first find 
 him at the Exeter Academy in 1850, at the age of thirteen, tak- 
 ing an academical course in his preliminary education. About 
 that time his father, who was a physician, moved to Lowell, 
 Mass., and we find that his son Avas a student in medicine with 
 the late Doctor Kimball of Lowell. 
 
 He entered the navy as acting assistant surgeon April 19, 
 1862 ; was made passed acting assistant surgeon July 6, 1865, 
 and was discharged June 29, 1869, his service in the navj 
 being over seven years. 
 
 It is understood that he returned to Lowell, and died soon 
 after his return from the service. 
 
 Martin Luther Gerould, M, D. 
 Late of Kirkwood, Mo. 
 
 Geeould, Martix L. Volunteer officer; b. Alstead; age 22; res. 
 Canaan; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Sept. 22, '63; served in Mississippi 
 flotilla; disch. Dec. 7. '65. P. 0. ad., Kirkwood, Mo. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1123.) 
 
 Surgeon Gerould was born July 14, 1841, in Alstead, N. H. 
 He was the son of Moses and Cynthia (Locke) Gerould, and a 
 grandson of Samuel G. Gerould, who was in the war of the 
 Revolution. Rev. Moses Gerould was a well known orthodox 
 minister who was located in various towns in New Hampshire. 
 
 Surgeon Gerould 's early education was received in the com- 
 mon schools and at Canaan Union Academy. He commenced 
 the study of medicine in 1862 at Canaan, N. H., with Dr. Ar- 
 nold Morgan, and continued with Dr. Frank Locke of Nashua, 
 
342 SUEGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 N. H., attending two courses of medical lectures at Dartmouth 
 and Harvard, graduating from Harvard ]\Iedical College in 
 1866. 
 
 He served as acting medical cadet, United States Army, in 
 Columbia Hospital, Washington, D. C, from April to Septem- 
 ber, 1863, and acting assistant surgeon. United States Navy, 
 in the Mississippi Squadron from September, 1863, till the 
 close of the war in 1865. He has been located in the west since 
 being mustered out of the service, being thirteen years in 
 Webster Groves, Mo., and twenty-one years in Kirkwood, St. 
 Louis county, Mo. At one time he spent five years in Arizona, 
 when he was not in professional work. He was a member of 
 the St. Louis Medical Society. 
 
 Married, November 20, 1889, Helen Bartlett of Auburn, 
 N. Y. 
 
 No children. 
 
 Died, at his home, December 4, 1904, after an illness of five 
 years, at the age of sixty-three. 
 
 David P. Goodhue, M. D. 
 Springfield, N. H. 
 
 GrOODHUE, David Putney. Volunteer officer; b. Dunbarton; age 26; 
 res. Boscawen; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Jan. 4, '64; served on 
 U. S. S. "Maumee"; disch. Oct. 9, '65. P. O. ad., Springfield. (Rec- 
 ord, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1124.) 
 
 David Putney Goodhue, M. D., was the son of Jacob and 
 Mary (Ager) Goodhue, grandson of Seth Goodhue, and was 
 born in Dunbarton, N. H., January 10, 1838. 
 
 He received his preliminary education in the common schools 
 and the Elmwood Institute in Boscawen. He commenced his 
 professional studies in 1860, with the late Eliphalet K. Web- 
 ster, M. D., in Boscawen, attending three courses of medical 
 lectures at the Medical Department of the University of Ver- 
 mont, and Dartmouth Medical College, receiving his degree 
 from the latter institute in 1863. 
 
 He then received the appointment of acting assistant sur- 
 geon in the United States Na\'y, and reported for duty at the 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 343 
 
 Boston (Mass.) navy yard, January 4, 1864. His service in 
 the United States Navy ended October 9, 1865, and consisted 
 of the following eventful record : 
 
 ' ' I first reported for duty at Boston and was then ordered to 
 the 'North Carolina,' at Brooklyn navy yard, where I was 
 until the United States ship 'Chenango' went into commis- 
 sion; was on the 'Chenango' at the time her port boiler ex- 
 ploded, when about forty men w^ere scalded so that nearly 
 thirty died; was then ordered to the United States ship 'Ne- 
 reus,' when we went on the blockade off Fort Fisher for a 
 time, and then came to New York and went as convoy to one 
 of the California mail steamers to Aspinwall and back. The 
 'Nereus' then went out of commission and I was ordered to 
 the United States ship 'Maumee,' and went on the blockade 
 again; was in both attacks on Fort Fisher and on shore duty 
 a few days after the fort was taken. We then went up the 
 river to AVilmingtou and then came to Fortress Monroe and up 
 the James river to City Point, where we were at the time of 
 the battle of Petersburg. The next day we went up to Rich- 
 mond, where we remained for a time and then came around 
 to Philadelphia, when the 'Maumee' went out of commission 
 and we were given leave of absence, and after coming home, I 
 was honorably discharged." 
 
 Dr. Goodhue is a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society and the Centre District Medical Society, and has been 
 president of both of these societies. He was a member of the 
 board of pension examiners at Newport, N. H., for several 
 years, also a member of the school board of the town of Spring- 
 field, N. H., where he has resided and practiced his profession 
 since February 19, 1866, and where he has been honored by 
 his fellow-citizens by being elected to such offices as were 
 within the gift of the people, always meriting and receiving the 
 confidence and approbation of all citizens. 
 
 Married, November 14, 1867, Abby J. Davis of Springfield, 
 N. H. 
 
 Children, four: David Henry, Libbie Abbie, Lucia Frances, 
 who are living, and Laurette May, who is dead. 
 
344 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 George Dexter Harris, M. D. 
 Late of Boston, Mass. 
 
 Haebis, George D. Volunteer officer; b. New Hampshire; res. New 
 Hampshire; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Nov. 12, '63; served on U. S. 
 S. "Magnolia"; resigned May 1, '65. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 1128.) 
 
 Surgeon Harris was born December 16, 1840, at Canaan, 
 N. H. He was the son of Dexter and Harriet B. (Tilton) Har- 
 ris, and a grandson of Hubbard Harris. He received his pre- 
 liminary education in the public schools in Canaan and at 
 the Canaan Union Academy. He commenced his professional 
 education at Enfield in 1860, under the direction of the late 
 Dr. Thomas H. Currie and Dr. Alfred R. Bullard. 
 
 He was a fellow student of the late Surgeon Heil J. Kim- 
 ball, United States Na^^y, formerly of Enfield. He attended 
 two courses of lectures at the Medical Department of Dart- 
 mouth College, and was graduated M. D. from the same in the 
 class of 1864. 
 
 While a student in medicine he was appointed acting as- 
 sistant surgeon in the United States Navy and served on 
 board the United States ship ' ' Magnolia. ' ' He resigned from 
 the navy May 1, 1865, and returned to his home in Canaan; 
 soon after, removed to Boston and engaged in the drug busi- 
 ness, which he followed until his death, which occurred Octo- 
 ber 8, 1890. 
 
 He never married. 
 
 Isaac Hills Hazelton, M. D. 
 Wellesley Hills, Mass. 
 
 Hazelton, Isaac H. Regular officer; b. Massachusetts; res. New 
 Hampshire; app. Asst. Surg. Dec. 17, '61; served on U. S. S. "Ver- 
 mont" and "Lancaster"; resigned Sept. 11, '65. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 1129.) 
 
 Surgeon Hazelton was born in Boston, Mass., May 17, 1838, 
 and was a son of Isaac Hills and Susan Pickard, and a grand- 
 son of Thomas Hazelton, who was born in Chester, N. H., 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 345 
 
 March 23, 1776 ; his father was also born in Chester, June 5, 
 1805; the mother was born in Dresden, ]\Ie., February 24, 1817. 
 
 He received his preliminary education at the Elliot, Mayhew 
 and public Latin Schools of Boston, Mass.; entered Harvard 
 University, where he remained for two years. His profes- 
 sional education was commenced in 1858 at Harvard Medical 
 College, Boston, under the direction of Professors Jackson, 
 Storer, Biglow, Holmes, Shattuck, Bacon, Clark, Bowditch, 
 Hodges, Cheever, White, Borland and Minot; of these only 
 Cheever is now living. He was graduated M. D. from Har- 
 vard College in the class of 1861, and commenced the practice 
 of medicine in April, 1861, at the Asylum for Insane, Con- 
 cord, N. H., where he remained until appointed assistant 
 surgeon in the navy, September 17, 1861, having been exam- 
 ined for the same the thirteenth and fourteenth of September 
 at Brooklyn, N. Y. He served on board the United States 
 receiving ship "Ohio"; United States ship "Vermont" in 
 1862; gunboat "Paul Jones," from January 1, 1863, to July 
 18, 1863 ; was in charge of three hospitals at Beaufort, S. C, to 
 August 1, 1863 ; at Charlestown navy yard until December 
 14, 1863; on the United States flagship "Lancaster" until 
 June 17, 1865 ; recorder of three summary courts martial, and 
 judge-advocate of two general courts martial, and resigned 
 September 11, 1865. 
 
 A short time before he resigned, while on board the United 
 States flagship "Lancaster," from a crew of three hundred 
 and seventy-five, sixty-seven were on the sick list. He was or- 
 dered by Admiral George F. Prescott (born in New Hamp- 
 shire, and appointed midshipman March 11, 1815), to report 
 to him on the probable cause and to advise a remedy. It is 
 reported that in less than three weeks the sick list numbered 
 only twelve. From this it would seem that the remedy was ef- 
 fective. 
 
 Dr Ilazelton was a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
 and Norfolk District Societies; Charles Ward Post, No. 62, 
 G. A. R. ; Regular Army and Navy Union (General McKenzie 
 Garrison) ; Kearsarge Naval Veterans' Association and Loyal 
 
346 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Legion, and was at one time member of the school committee 
 and agent of the board of health in Wellesley. 
 
 In 1871 or 1872 there was published in the Gynecological 
 Journal a paper by Doctor Hazelton, proposing to abolish the 
 office of coroner in Massachusetts and substitute judge and 
 medical examiner. 
 
 Married, October 23, 1867, Mary A. Brewster of Newbury- 
 port, Mass. 
 
 Children : Mary Brewster Hazelton, born November 23, 
 1868; Isaac Brewster Hazelton, born December 30, 1870; 
 Olivia Bowditch Hazelton, born January 26, 1873 ; Margaret 
 Page Hazelton, born March 17, 1876. 
 
 Thomas Hiland, M. D., U. S. N. (Retired.) 
 Grafton, Mass. 
 
 Hiland, Thomas. Regular officer; b. Langdon; age 21; res. Lang- 
 don; app. Asst. Surg. Sept. 2, 'Gl; Surg. June 7, '69; served on 
 U. S. S. "Sonoma" and Western and Gulf Squadrons; placed on re- 
 tired list March 13, '83. P. O. ad.. Concord. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 1130.) 
 
 Surgeon Hiland was born September 22, 1839, at Lang- 
 don, N. H., and was the son of Benjamin Palmer and Sarah 
 (Roundy) Hiland, and was the grandson of Thomas Hiland of 
 New Hampshire. His early education was in the common 
 schools, supplemented by a course of instruction at Ward's 
 Institute, Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., and School 
 of Technology. Pie commenced the study of medicine at 
 Langdon, N. H., in 1858, under the direction of Leland J. 
 Graves, M. D., then of Langdon, afterwards of Claremont, 
 Albert Smith, M. D., of Peterborough, and John M. Moriarty, 
 M. D., of New York. He attended medical lectures at Dart- 
 mouth, Harvard and Bellevue Medical Colleges, and was grad- 
 uated from the Medical Department of Dartmouth College 
 in the class of 1862. He commenced the practice of medicine 
 in the United States Navy, his services being in the naval hos- 
 pitals, ships and stations from 1861 to 1883, when, with the 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 347 
 
 grade of full surgeon, he was placed upon the retired list in 
 consequence of disability received in the service. He passed 
 through all the different grades of assistant, passed assistant 
 surgeon and surgeon, during this period. 
 
 Dr. Hiland was one of those who believed in post-graduate 
 or supplementary education, and during his long term of ser- 
 vice in the navy, found time to take post-graduate courses in 
 the University of Pennsylvania, University of Vienna, in the 
 School of Medicine and Hospitals in Paris, Kings Hospital and 
 Moorfields Royal London Opthalmic Hospital in London, and 
 post-graduate course in Post-Graduate School of New York. 
 
 After his retirement in 1883, he located in Concord in 1885, 
 giving special attention to diseases of the eye and ear, and at 
 the death of Dr. Albert H. Crosby, was physician and surgeon 
 to St. Paul's School of this city. At the present time, in con- 
 sequence of impaired health, he has retired from active pro- 
 fessional service and resides at Grafton, Mass. 
 
 Surgeon Hiland is a member of the New Hampshire and 
 the Centre District Medical Societies, also a member of the 
 various Masonic fraternities of Concord. During his resi- 
 dence in Concord, he enjoyed the confidence of the profession, 
 the esteem of his patrons, and the good will of all citizens. 
 
 Married a sister of Commander Gorringe, United States 
 Navj'', who died a few years since. 
 
 Charles Floyer Hildreth, M. D. 
 Late of Suncook, N. H. 
 
 (U. S. Navy.) 
 
 HiLDBETir, Charles F. P. Volunteer officer; b. Boston, Mass.; age 
 30; res. Concord; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Oct. 28, '62; served on 
 U. S. S. "Commodore Hull" and Mississippi flotilla; resigned Feb. 
 4, '64. P. O. ad., AUenstown. See Miscel. Organizations. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1130.) 
 
 (Miscel. Organizations.) 
 
 HiLDBETH, Charles F. P. F. and S.; 40 Mass. Inf.; b. Boston, Mass.; 
 age 32; res. Concord; app. Asst. Surg. Sept. 23, '04; must, in Sept. 
 25, '64, for 3 yrs.; app. Surg. May 19, '65; must, out June 16, '65. 
 P. O. ad., AUenstown. See U. S. Navy. (Record, Ayling's Reg- 
 ister, 1895, p. 1054.) 
 
348 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Surgeon Hildreth was born in Boston, Mass., December 12, 
 1831, and was the son of Clifton Bixby and Eliza Stevens 
 (Fuller) Hildreth, and grandson of David Hildreth. He re- 
 ceived his preliminary education in the Boston public schools 
 and at the Gymnasium, Pembroke, N. H. He commenced his 
 professional education in 1857 under the direction of Drs. 
 Charles P. Gage and Albert A. Moulton of Concord ; attended 
 two courses of medical lectures at the Medical Department of 
 Harvard University, and was graduated from the same in 
 1861. He commenced the practice of medicine in Concord, 
 N. H. ; was physician at the New Hampshire state prison, act- 
 ing assistant surgeon of the United States Navy, assistant 
 surgeon, United States Army, and promoted to surgeon of 
 the United States Army. On returning from the army he 
 located in Concord, and then removed to Suncook, N. H., and 
 engaged in pharmacy; was one of the commissioners of phar- 
 macy for the state of New Hampshire for a number of years ; 
 member of the New Hampshire Legislature, and has held va- 
 rious offices in the gift of the people in the town of Allenstown 
 during the period of his active service. He afterwards re- 
 tired from professional life, and devoted his time to his 
 friends and to general recreation. 
 
 The following is Surgeon Hildreth 's army and navy record : 
 
 "September, 1862, entered the United States Navy as act- 
 ing assistant surgeon of the United States steamer 'Commo- 
 dore Hull ' of the North Atlantic Squadron ; performed ser- 
 vices upon the James river and in the Serenoles of North Car- 
 olina; was at the siege of Little Washington, N. C, when the 
 * Commodore Hull ' was under fire for seventeen days and was 
 struck by the rebel cannon one hundred and thirty -three times. 
 In the fall of 1863, was placed in charge of the United States 
 Naval Hospital at New Berne, N. C. 
 
 "In February, 1864, resigned from the United States Navy; 
 was appointed assistant surgeon of the Fortieth Regiment, 
 Massachusetts Volunteers, and joined the regiment in front of 
 Petersburg, Va. ; was promoted to be surgeon of the For- 
 tieth Massachusetts Volunteers. The Fortieth Regiment was 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 349 
 
 in the Eighteenth and Twenty-fourth Army Corps. He was 
 at the battles of Chapin Farm, Fort Harrison, the second battle 
 of Fair Oaks. He joined Greneral Sheridan at the Pamunky 
 river and came through upon his march to Richmond; was 
 in the front of Richmond and went into the city at its capture. 
 He was mustered out at that place in June, 1865." 
 
 In 1862 Doctor Hildreth joined the New Hampshire Medi- 
 cal Society. 
 
 Doctor Hildreth died in Manchester, August 17, 1903. 
 
 Ahira B. Hoyt, M. D. 
 
 Late of Grafton, N. H. 
 
 Surgeon Hoyt was born in Grafton, April 6, 1826, and was 
 the third child of Capt. Benjamin and Fanny (Armstrong) 
 Hoyt. His early education was in common schools, and his 
 biographer says of him, "that as he so improved his leisure 
 moments he was soon able to teach school, thus earning money 
 to pursue his medical studies and perfect himself for the 
 practice of his chosen profession." He began his professional 
 studies with Doctors Davis and Jones, at Manchester, N. H., 
 taking one course of lectures at the Vermont Medical College 
 at Woodstock, Vt., afterwards at the Medical School in Pitts- 
 field, Mass., where he received his degree of M. D. from the 
 Berkshire Medical College, in the year 1850. He practiced 
 medicine in Massachusetts until the breaking out of the war, 
 when he received an appointment as acting assistant surgeon 
 of the navy; was ordered to the "De Soto," on board of which 
 he sailed to the South Atlantic Squadron. He was in the ser- 
 vice about one year and a half, and returned to Gloucester, 
 Mass., where he resumed practice, but his health failing, he 
 left Gloucester and settled in Grafton in the fall of 1865, re- 
 maining there until his death, which occurred July, 1881. 
 
 He married Miss Elizabeth C. Webster of Gloucester, 
 Mass., June 14, 1855. 
 
 Two children ; both are dead. 
 
350 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Doctor Hoyt was a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society, and was ever ready to prepare papers or to discuss any 
 medical subject. His biographer says of him : 
 
 ''As a physiean Doctor Hoyt enjoyed an enviable reputa- 
 tion in the community where he resided, as well as among his 
 professional brothers. Ever kind and obliging to those under 
 his care, he won the hearts of the people as no one but a medi- 
 cal man can — I should say, as no one but a true medical man 
 can. 
 
 "As a townsman he was ever found on the side which he 
 considered to be right, and although he was one of those quiet, 
 retiring men, yet he was always ready to give a reason for the 
 faith that was in him." 
 
 Emery Glidden Judkins, M. D. 
 Late of Waitsfield, Vt. 
 
 Judkins, Emery D. Volunteer officer; b. Claremont; res. Claremont; 
 app. Acting Asst. Surg. Oct. 21, '61; served on U. S. S. "Morning 
 Light"; appointment revoked March 5, '62. Died June 29, '63, 
 "Waitsfield, Vt. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1135.) 
 
 Surgeon Judkins was born July 27, 1830, at Unity, N. H., 
 and was the son of Moses and Sarah (True) Judkins, grand- 
 son of Caleb Judkins. He commenced his professional edu- 
 cation under the direction of Drs. William Ladd, Nathaniel 
 Tolles and E. R. Peaslee; attended medical lectures at Dart- 
 mouth College and was graduated from the Medical Depart- 
 ment of the same in the class of 1853. He spent a year and 
 a half as assistant physician at the Blackwell Island Hospi- 
 tal, New York, and then located at Claremont, where he was 
 in the practice of his profession at the commencement of the 
 "War of the Rebellion. He received an appointment as assist- 
 ant surgeon in the navy in October, 1861, and was assigned 
 to duty on the "Morning Light." After six months he left 
 the service and settled in Waitsfield, Vt., where he engaged in 
 extensive professional work. After about a year's practice in 
 Waitsfield, he contracted diphtheria and died June 29, 1863, 
 at the early age of thirty-three years. 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 351 
 
 Doctor Judkins was a member of the New Hampshire Med- 
 ical Society, and at their annual meeting in 1864 his death was 
 reported to the society, and a committee, consisting of Drs. 
 L. W. Peabody, L. C. Bean and C. P. Hildreth, was appointed 
 to draft resolutions. The following were submitted to the 
 society and unanimously adopted: 
 
 '^Resolved, That we have heard with sorrow of the early 
 death of Brother Judkins, who bid so fair to be an ornament 
 to the profession he had choseu and which he so dearly loved ; 
 
 "Resolved, That we tender our heartfelt sympathies to the 
 young and bereaved widow, and to his aged and widowed 
 mother, who are so suddenly deprived of an affectionate hus- 
 band and dutiful son; 
 
 "Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded by 
 the secretary to the family of the deceased. 
 
 "L. W. Peabody, 
 
 "L. C. Bean, 
 
 "C. F. P. Hildreth, 
 
 * ' Committee. 
 
 "Manchester, June 28, 1864." 
 
 Married, October 27, 1861, Lucina J. Orcutt. 
 
 Heil J. Kimball. 
 
 Kimball, Heil J. Volunteer officer; b. New Hampshire; res. New 
 Hampshire; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Oct. 27, '63; served on U. S. S. 
 "Pequot." Died Feb. 6, '64, at sea. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 1137.) 
 
 Surgeon Kimball was born in Enfield, N. H., in 1842, and 
 was the son of Joseph B. and Miriam (Choate) Kimball. He 
 was a grand.son of Daniel Kimball, who was a soldier in the 
 War of the Revolution. He received his preliminary educa- 
 tion in the common schools of Enfield, and at the Union Acad- 
 emy of Canaan, N. H. He commenced his professional edu- 
 cation in 1861, under the direction of Drs. Thomas H. Currie 
 
352 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 and Alfred R. Bullard, of Enfield, N. H. In 1862 he was a 
 member of the medical class of Dartmouth College. 
 
 While a student of medicine, he was commissioned acting 
 assistant surgeon in the navy, October 27, 1863, and served on 
 the United States ship "Pequot," and died February 6, 1864, 
 on board the "Pequot," in Hampton Roads, Va., without hav- 
 ing completed his professional education. It is said that he 
 was buried in the military or naval cemetery at Portsmouth, 
 Va. 
 
 Thomas Walter Leach. 
 Late of Newmarket, N. H. 
 
 Leach, Thomas W. Regular officer; b. Newmarket; age 22; res. 
 Newmarket; app. Asst. Surg. July 28, '58; Surg. May 21, '62; Medi- 
 cal Inspector Apr. 5, '75; served on U. S. S. "Brooklyn," "Lacka- 
 wanna" and West Gulf Squadron; placed on retired list Jan. 17, 
 '85. P. 0. ad., Newmarket. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 1139.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Newmarket, May 12, 
 1836, and was the elder son of Thomas F. and Sarah A. (Wig- 
 gin) Leach. His preliminary education was received in the 
 public schools of Newmarket, and his professional education 
 commenced in 1854, under the direction of the late George 
 Washington Kittredge, M. D., of Newmarket, and was supple- 
 mented by courses of lectures in the Medical Department of 
 Harvard College, from which he was graduated M. D. in 
 1857. 
 
 After graduation he passed the required examinations and 
 received his first commission, signed by President Buchanan, 
 January 26, 1859, having been appointed an assistant surgeon 
 July 29, 1858, and was attached to the steam frigate "Niag- 
 ara, ' ' and ordered to the west coast of Africa. From 1859 to 
 1861, he was attached to the home squadron and stationed at 
 the naval hospital in New York. He was commissioned sur- 
 geon May 21, 1862, and assigned to the steam sloop "Lacka- 
 wanna. ' ' 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 353 
 
 During the civil war his service Avas largely in the Gulf 
 Squadron and from 1865 to 1867 at the naval hospital in New 
 York. From 1867 to 1870, he was assigned to the Asiatic 
 Squadron and on duty to the steamer "Iroquois." From 
 1870 to 1872, he was stationed at the Portsmouth (N. H.) na\y 
 yard, and from 1872 to 1874, was fleet surgeon of the North 
 Atlantic Station, the flagships being the "California" and 
 the "Richmond." In 1874 and 1875, he was the fleet sur- 
 geon of the Asiatic Squadron, the flagship being the "Hart- 
 ford." 
 
 Surgeon Leach was commissioned medical inspector April 
 5, 1875, and assigned to duty on the board of examiners at 
 Washington, D. C. In 1878 he was delegate to the American 
 Medical Association and served upon the board of examiners 
 for admission of candidates at Annapolis. In 1879 and 1880 
 he was at the navy yard in Boston; in 1880 and 1881, navy 
 yard at Portsmouth, N. H. ; 1882, special duty at Portsmouth, 
 N. H. ; 1882 and 1883, he was fleet surgeon of the North At- 
 lantic Squadron and July 5, 1883, he was granted sick leave 
 and detached from the flagship "Tennessee," and January 
 17, 1885, he was finally retired from active service on ac- 
 count of sickness, the result of duty and long and faithful 
 service. 
 
 His biographer says of him: 
 
 "That in the discharge of his official duties he was one of 
 the most conscientious of men ; always thoughtful of the health 
 of officers and men, and ever ready with his services, night or 
 day, as might be required. He was universally beloved by 
 officers and men." 
 
 Upon being retired from the service, he returned to his 
 native town, Newmarket, where he resided until his death, 
 which occurred December 29, 1894, leaving one brother, George 
 A. Leach. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and 
 was buried from the Congregational church in Newmarket 
 under the auspices of the Rising Star Lodge, No. 47, of which 
 he had been a member since 1858. 
 
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354 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Almond Orlando Leavitt, M. D. 
 Grantham, N. H. 
 
 Leavitt, Almond O. Regular oflBcer; b. Grantham; res. Grantham; 
 app. Asst. Surg. July 30, '61; served on U. S. S. "Potomac"; placed 
 on retired list June 24, '62; still in the service. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 1139.) 
 
 Surgeon Leavitt was born in Grrantham, N. H., January 25, 
 1828, and was the son of Josiah and Betsy (Brown) Leavitt, 
 grandson of Dudley Leavitt. He received his preliminary 
 education in the common schools of New Hampshire and fitted 
 for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, receiving 
 the degree of A. B. from Dartmouth College in the class of 
 1856. He commenced his professional education with the late 
 Dr. J. B. Rand of Hartford, Vt., and attended medical lectures 
 at Dartmouth Medical College and afterwards at the Medical 
 Department of Harvard University, and was graduated from 
 the latter. During his college and professional education, he 
 supported himself largely by teaching school, a part of the 
 time being in Randolph, Mass. While a student at Harvard 
 he obtained an appointment in the hospital on Deer island, 
 and while there he received an appointment, dated July 30, 
 1861, as assistant surgeon of the United States Navy. He 
 served on the United States ship "Potomac," and was placed 
 on the retired list June 24, 1862, on account of physical and 
 mental disability. He is still on the retired list. His service 
 while in the navy was in the Gulf Squadron, and during that 
 time he became insane and has continued in the same condition 
 ever since. 
 
 He never married, and for many years his home has been 
 at the State Hospital in Concord, N. H. 
 
 Charles Little, M. D. 
 Late of Acton, Mass. 
 
 Little, Charles. Volunteer officer; b. New Hampshire; res. Web- 
 ster; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Dec. 24, '63; served on U. S. S. 
 "Winona"; disch. Oct. 9, '65. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 
 1140.) 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 355 
 
 Charles Little was bom in West Boscawen (now Webster), 
 N. H., February' 14, 1837, and was the son of Richard and 
 Mary CoflEin (Pillsbury) Little, and a grandson of Benjamin 
 Little, of the same town. The grandfather was a soldier in 
 the War of the Revolution and took part in the battle of Ben- 
 nington. Captain Richard Little, the doctor's father, was 
 an officer in the War of 1812, and was stationed at Ports- 
 mouth in 1814. They were descendants of George Little, of 
 Newbury, Mass. 
 
 Surgeon Little received his preliminary education in the 
 common schools and academies of New Hampshire, fitting for 
 college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and received the 
 degree of A. B. from Dartmouth College in the class of 1860. 
 He commenced the study of medicine in 1860, under the di- 
 rection of Dr. Harris Cowdrey of Acton, Mass., and continued 
 the same under the direction of Dr. Carlton P. Frost, of St. 
 Johnsbury, Vt. He attended medical lectures at Hanover 
 and New York, and received the degree of M. D. from the 
 ^ledical Department of Dartmouth College in the class of 
 1864. 
 
 In the meantime he was hospital steward in the Fifteenth 
 Vermont Volunteers, of which his preceptor, Dr. Carlton P. 
 Frost, was surgeon, and was appointed acting assistant sur- 
 geon in the navy from New Hampshire, December 24, 1863, 
 and served on the United States steamship "Winona" until 
 discharged, October 9, 1865. After leaving the United States 
 service, he located in Acton, Mass., where he resided until 
 his death, which occurred November 16, 1869. 
 
 Married, June 11, 1866, to Helen E., only daughter of Dr. 
 Harris and Abigail Cowdrey of Acton, Mass., who died in 
 1886. 
 
 No children. 
 
356 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Charles Albert Manson, M. D. 
 Late of Springfield, Mass. 
 
 (U. S. Navy.) 
 
 Manson, Charles A. Volunteer ofiicer; b. New Hampshire; age 23; 
 res. New Hampshire; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Aug. 13, '64; resigned 
 Nov. 23, '64; re-app. Jan. 18, '65; served on U. S. S. "Ohio" and 
 "Massasoit"; appointment revoked June 28, '65. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 1143.) 
 
 (Dartmouth Cavalry.) 
 
 Manson, Chaeles A. Dartmouth College; b. Somersworth; age 20; 
 res. Lawrence, Mass.; enl. June, '62; must, in June 24, '62, as 
 Priv.; captd. Aug. 19, '62, near Winchester, Va.; must, out Oct. 2, 
 '62. Died Apr. 4, '83, Springfield, Mass. (Record, Ayling's Reg- 
 ister, 1895, p. 1094.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born August 22, 1842, at 
 Great Falls (now the city of Somersworth), N. H., and was 
 the son of Rev. Albert Charles and Mary Jane (Brown) Man- 
 son, being a grandson of Capt. William Manson. His pre- 
 liminary education was received in the common schools and 
 at Lawrence Conference Seminary. His professional educa- 
 tion began at Sanbornton Bridge (now Tilton), N. H., under 
 the direction of Dr. Sylvestus Campbell, afterwards assistant 
 surgeon of the Sixteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, and Doc- 
 tor Chadbourne. He attended medical lectures at Dartmouth 
 Medical College, University of New York and the Medical De- 
 partment of Vermont University, and was graduated from the 
 latter in June, 1864. 
 
 "While in Dartmouth College he enlisted, June 24, 1862, in 
 that organization made up mainly of college students in Dart- 
 mouth, Norwich University and the University of Vermont, 
 called the Dartmouth Cavalry. This organization was for 
 three months and was attached to the Seventh Rhode Island 
 Cavalry as Company B. Doctor Manson was taken prisoner 
 August 19, 1862, near Ashby Gap, Va., and confined in Libby 
 prison and Belle island until discharged, October 2, 1862; 
 was appointed acting assistant surgeon in the United States 
 Navy August 13, 1864, and resigned from the navy in 1865, 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 357 
 
 when lie was appointed assistant surgeon in the army August 
 22, 1865, and was honorably discharged January 1, 1866. 
 
 After his army service, he located for a time in Wisconsin, 
 and afterwards removed to Springfield, Mass., where he died, 
 April 4, 1883. Doctor Manson was a member of the Masonic 
 fraternity and the Psi Upsilon. 
 
 Married, September 4, 1865, Helen Frances Wadleigh, who 
 died September 7, 1885. 
 
 Children, two: Albert Charles, who died in infancy, and 
 Charles Albert, now- a physician in New York City. 
 
 R. Osgood Mason, M. D. 
 
 Late of 348 West 58th St., New York City. 
 
 Maso.v, Rurus O. Volunteer officer; b. New Hampshire; res. New 
 York; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Oct. 21, '61; served on U. S. S. "San- 
 tiago de Cuba"; resigned Feb. 2, '64. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 1143.) 
 
 Surgeon Mason was born in Sullivan, N. H., January 22, 
 1830, and was the son of Rufus and Prudence (Woods) Mason, 
 and grandson of Bela Mason. The Mason family were 
 among the earliest settlers in New England. Hugh Mason, 
 with his wife Esther, came to this country in 1634 and settled 
 in Watertown, Mass. Dr. R. Osgood Mason, the subject of 
 this sketch, is of the seventh generation in direct line of 
 descent from the original Hugh Mason. 
 
 Received his preliminary education in the district schools of 
 Sullivan, N. H., Keene Academy and Hancock Literary and 
 Scientific Academy, of New Hampshire. Fitted for college 
 at Thetford Academy, Vermont, was graduated A. B. from 
 Dartmouth College in the class of 1854 and received the 
 degree of A. M. from the same institution in 1868. His pro- 
 fessional education was commenced in 1856 with Doctor Will- 
 iams of Cleveland, Ohio, and continued with Drs. F. S. Ed- 
 wards, Lafayette Ranney and John C. Dalton of New York 
 City; attended medical lectures in New York and was gradu- 
 
358 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 ated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New 
 York in 1859, with the rank of valedictorian. Commenced 
 practice in New York City and has remained there ever since, 
 excepting the period of service in the United States Navy. 
 
 He is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, 
 New York County Medical Society and of the American Medi- 
 cal Association, also an associate member of the Society for 
 Psychical Research (London). 
 
 He was appointed acting assistant surgeon in October, 1861, 
 remaining in the service until February, 1864, when he ten- 
 dered his resignation and returned to New York. Doctor Ma- 
 son describes his service in the navy as follows : 
 
 "My service while in the navy was on board the United 
 States steamship 'Santiago de Cuba,' a purchased vessel of 
 seventeen hundred tons, armed with six 32-pounders and two 
 Parrott guns, and carrying a ship's company of one hundred 
 and sixty-four men. As acting assistant surgeon, I was sur- 
 geon in charge. 
 
 ' ' Our mission was to cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, among the 
 West India and Bahama islands, and in the track of vessels 
 plying between Charleston and Nassau or Havana, protecting 
 our own commerce and passenger steamers from the depreda- 
 tions of the Confederate cruisers and inflicting what damage 
 we could upon Confederate vessels and blockade runners. 
 The * Alabama,' the 'Northville' and the 'Oreta' were al- 
 ready at sea plying upon our commerce and we hunted the 
 ports and harbors of Cuba, Hayti and all the West India and 
 Bahama islands to gain intelligence of them. On this mission 
 we were often at Havana, anchored at the very spot where so 
 lately the 'Maine' met her sad fate. For six months, with 
 headquarters at Cape Haitien, our dutj'- was to meet and con- 
 voy the California steamers safely through the narrow pas- 
 sages of the Bahamas, where the Confederate cruisers could 
 hide and come out upon them unawares, and so conduct them 
 to the open sea south of Cuba, where their own watchfulness 
 and speed insured their safety. 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 359 
 
 "April 23, 1862, we sighted the 'Nashville' and gave chase, 
 hoping to capture her. We sent down all our spars and did 
 everything to increase our speed and overhaul her, but she 
 was too fast for us and after a most exciting chase of four 
 hours we were obliged to give her up and slowly return to our 
 cruising ground. The day, however, was not entirely without 
 success, for at dusk we captured a blockade runner, a schooner 
 with one hundred and sixty bales of cotton, and two days later 
 the large steamer 'Ella Warley,' heavily laden with arms, 
 ammunition and army stores, intended for the Confederacy. 
 
 "During our term of service we captured five steamers and 
 eight sailing vessels, all loaded with either cotton or Confed- 
 erate supplies, and one steamer loaded with cotton was de- 
 stroyed. She had just come out of Sabine Pass, and finding 
 she could not escape us, she ran into shoal water and aground, 
 quite in reach of our guns; there she suddenly burst out in 
 flames, probably set on fire by her crew, and was quickly con- 
 sumed to the water 's edge. 
 
 "The 'Santiago de Cuba' proved to be of great service to the 
 government and her name was perhaps better and more widely 
 known than any other vessel except the more prominent fight- 
 ing ships." 
 
 After his return to New York and resuming professional 
 work, he became interested in literature and especially psj'chic 
 studies. lie has been a prolific writer in the domain of 
 ps>'chical research, reporting many cases, among which are : 
 "Double Personality;" "Hypnotic Suggestion;" "Educa- 
 tional Uses of Hypnotism;" "Alternating Personality, Their 
 Origin and Medico-Legal Aspect." 
 
 Married, first, July 3, 1871, Marian Isabel Goodwin, who 
 died December 16, 1880; second, April 27, 1886, Charlotte 
 Louise Quick Vander-Veer. 
 
 One child living, Ethel Osgood Mason, born November 12, 
 1875. 
 
 Doctor Mason died May 11, 1903. 
 
360 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 James R. May, M. D. 
 Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 May, James R. Volunteer officer; b. New Hampshire; res. New 
 Hampshire; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Feb. 25, '64; served on U. S. S. 
 "Daylight"; disch. Aug. 7, '65. P. O. ad., Portsmouth. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1144.) 
 
 Surgeon May was born in New Hampshire. His classical 
 education was received at Harvard College, from which he was 
 graduated A. B. in 1861 ; his professional education was re- 
 ceived in Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, from 
 which he was graduated in 1866. 
 
 He was appointed medical cadet in the United States Navy 
 in 1862, and served in the Judiciary Square Hospital, Wash- 
 ington, D. C, from July, 1862, to July, 1863. In 1864 he was 
 appointed acting assistant surgeon in the United States Navy, 
 and was attached successively to the Portsmouth navy yard, 
 to the steamer "Kengpshea," the United States ship "E. B. 
 Hale," United States ship ** Passaic," and the United States 
 ship "Daylight." In June, 1865, he resigned the appoint- 
 ment and has since resided in Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 LeRoy Frederick Morse, M. D. 
 Mattoon, 111. 
 
 MoESE, Leroy F. Volunteer officer; b. New Hampshire; res. New 
 Hampshire; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Nov. 14, '63; served on U. S. S. 
 "Proteus" and "Restless"; disch. Dec. 7, '65. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 1148.) 
 
 Surgeon Morse is now a resident of Mattoon, Coles county, 
 Illinois, and was born February 5, 1839, at Canterbury, N. H., 
 was the son of Charles Abbott and Eunice (Lake) Morse, a 
 grandson of Charles Morse. Received his preliminary edu- 
 cation in the common schools at Canterbury and at Elm wood 
 Institute of Boscawen. Commenced his professional educa- 
 tion under the direction of Dr. L. T. Weeks of Canterbury, in 
 1861 ; attended medical lectures at the Medical Department of 
 the University of Vermont in 1862, Georgetown Medical Col- 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 361 
 
 lege, District of Columbia, 1862, at Hanover in 1863, and was 
 graduated M. D. from the Medical Department of Dartmouth 
 College in the class of 1864. Commenced the practice of med- 
 icine in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1866, remaining there about one 
 year; was afterwards in Biddeford, Me., since which time he 
 has been in Illinois, most of the time having been located at 
 Mattoon, Coles county. 
 
 He was appointed acting assistant surgeon, United States 
 Navy, November 12, 1863, and was discharged by reason of the 
 close of the war, December 7, 1865. A full record of his naval 
 service was on the United States bark ' * Restless, ' ' attached to 
 the East Gulf Blockade Squadron, and in nearly one year of 
 his service was in and about St. Andrew's bay, Florida; from 
 Januarj"^ to March, 1865, at Charlotte harbor, Florida, and 
 from that time until June 18, 1865, at St. Joseph's bay, 
 Florida. At this date the blockade was raised and the "Rest- 
 less" went out of commission at Philadelphia, July 18, 1865. 
 Surgeon Morse was placed on a leave of absence, awaiting 
 orders until December 7, 1865, when he was honorably dis- 
 charged. 
 
 Married, April 14, 1869, Harriet Frances Chamberlin of 
 Terre Haute, Ind. 
 
 One child. Bertha Lewise Morse. 
 
 Elias Craig Neal, M. D. 
 
 Late of Tremont, Me. 
 
 Neal, Elias C. Volunteer officer; b. New Hampshire; res. New 
 
 Hampshire; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Feb. 27, '64; served on the 
 
 U. S. S. "Princeton"; disch. Dec. 25, '65. (Record, Ayling's Reg- 
 ister, 1895, p. 1150.) 
 
 Surgeon Neal was born in Bamstead, N. H., January 28, 
 1833, and was the son of Thomas and Sophia George (Chesley) 
 Neal, a grandson of William Neal of Boston, Mass. His early 
 education was received in the common schools of New Hamp- 
 shire, and he fitted for college at New London Literary Insti- 
 tution and the New Hampton Academy in the same state. 
 
362 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Entered Dartmouth College and was graduated A. B. from 
 the same in the class of 1858, with the late Major Thompson 
 of the regular army and Gen. Samuel A. Duncan of the United 
 States Colored Troops. He commenced his professional edu- 
 cation in Gilmanton, N. H., under the direction of Dr. Nahum 
 Wight, and continued the same in the Medical Department of 
 Dartmouth College and at Bellevue Medical College Hospital 
 in New York, and was graduated from the latter in 1866. Be- 
 fore graduation he commenced the practice of medicine as act- 
 ing assistant surgeon in the United States Navy, receiving liis 
 appointment February 27, 1864, and was ordered to join the 
 Gulf Squadron ; receiving his commission March 1, 1864, he 
 sailed from New York for New Orleans on the steamer ' ' Daniel 
 Webster," with a portion of a New Hampshire Regiment, 
 where he landed early in April, 1864. Received orders to go 
 aboard the steamer "Pampero," April 14, 1864, and he served 
 on that boat and in this squadron until December 25, 1865. 
 
 Dr. Neal had a varied experience in the fact that at the 
 breaking out of the civil war he was teaching in AVestern Vir- 
 ginia and was drafted into the Confederate army from Rock- 
 ingham county, Virginia. Shortly after he managed to es- 
 cape and came to New Hampshire, when he was drafted again, 
 this time into the Union service. Having been a medical stu- 
 dent for some time, he succeeded in passing the medical exam- 
 ination and received his appointment as acting assistant sur- 
 geon in the navy. At the close of the civil war he was 
 graduated M. D. from Belle^iie Medical College and located 
 for the practice of medicine in Tremont, Me., remaining there 
 about two and one-half years. He then went to Jacksonville, 
 111., and was assistant in the asylum for insane, where he re- 
 mained for nearly seven years; afterwards he was an assist- 
 ant in the asylum at Augusta, Me., for about seven years. He 
 resided in Portland, Me., for six years and opened a private 
 hospital for those afflicted with mental disease at Tremont, Me. 
 In 1866 he removed to Fall River for a short period, but at 
 the urgent solicitation of his former friends in Maine, he re- 
 turned to his private practice in Tremont, in 1887, where he 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 363 
 
 resided until his death, which occurred August 30, 1897. He 
 was universally respected by his friends and neighbors and 
 introduced into iMaine some much needed reforms in the man- 
 agement of its asylum ; among these was the appointment of 
 women physicians upon the hospital staff. 
 
 His biographer says of him : ' ' His kindness to the poor 
 knew no limitations, while strength and means lasted. His 
 great heart, too large for the frail body, overflowed with sym- 
 pathy for the poor, the desolate, the friendless. His resent- 
 ments were kindled by the knowledge of oppression and cru- 
 elty to the helpless. As was said of him, he was the New 
 England 'Dr. McClure' of the 'Bonnie Briar Bush.' " 
 
 Married, May 18, 1871, at Pembroke, Me., Evelyn Maria, 
 daughter of Ebed and Esther (Farnsworth) Wilder. 
 
 Children, four: George Arthur, Esther Wilder, Milron 
 and Saxon Kingsley Neal. The daughter, Esther, died in 
 1879, at Augusta. 
 
 Charles H. Page, M. D. 
 Late of the United States Navy. 
 
 Page, Charles H. Regular officer; b. Concord; res. Massachusetts; 
 app. Asst. Surg. Sept. 22, '63; served on U. S. S. "Eutaw" and 
 "Hartford." Died Dec. 24, '67, on "Hartford," Hiogo, Japan. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1152.) 
 
 Charles H. Page was born in Concord, October 2, 1841, and 
 was the son of William H. and ^lary (Thompson) Page, and 
 a. grandson of Laban Page. He received his preliminary ed- 
 ucation in the common schools of his native city, supplemented 
 by a course of instruction at the New London Literary and 
 Scientific Institute. He commenced his professional educa- 
 tion under the direction of Doctors Gage and Moulton, in 1860 
 or 1861, and attended lectures at the Medical Departments of 
 Dartmouth College and Harvard University. He was ap- 
 pointed medical cadet in 1862 and served in the marine hos- 
 pital at Chelsea, Mass., for one year. While a medical cadet, 
 he served on the United States bark "Restless," in the 
 
364 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 East Gulf Squadron, and was appointed assistant surgeon, 
 United States Navy, September 22, 1863. He was assigned to 
 duty on the United States ship ' ' Eutaw, ' ' and was on duty at 
 Deep Bottom and Aiken's Landing, on the James river, and 
 afterwards was on duty at the surgeon's office in the navy- 
 yard at Boston. This was in June, 1865, and he was after- 
 wards assigned to duty as the junior medical officer, and sailed 
 from the United States on the 11th of August, 1865, on the 
 flagship "Hartford." He arrived in Macao in February, 
 1866. September 12, 1866, he was transferred to the "Wa- 
 chusett," which was then in Yokohama, Japan. Soon after, 
 Doctor King, her former surgeon, was sent home ill, and Sur- 
 geon Page was then in charge of the medical department of 
 this steamer. During the j^ear 1866 the "Wachusett," be- 
 coming unserviceable, was ordered out of commission, and 
 Surgeon Page found himself again on board the flagship 
 "Hartford." 
 
 The following is quoted from a personal letter : 
 
 "United States Flagship 'Hartford,' 
 "Shanghai, China, June 19, 1867. 
 
 "From Nagasaki we came over here, arriving June 4, but 
 we made a very short stay, only long enough to coal ship, and 
 we were soon off on a secret expedition. "When we sailed no 
 one but the admiral knew where we were bound until we were 
 well out to sea; then in the goodness of his heart he disclosed 
 the secret and informed us that we were going to the island of 
 Formosa, which, as you will see by looking at the map, is well 
 to the southward of this place, and we were going to the south- 
 ern extremity of it. We got enough of it before we got back ; 
 of the heat, I mean, for it was fearfully hot down there, and 
 it is quite a pleasant change for us to return here; even the 
 residents here consider this pretty warm. The circumstances 
 under which we went to Formosa are as follows : 
 
 ' ' A few months ago the American ship ' Rover ' was wrecked 
 on some rocks near the southern extremitj'' of Formosa, and the 
 captain, with his wife and crew, abandoned the wreck and in 
 their boats went to this portion of the island we visited. The 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 365 
 
 natives met them as they landed on the beach and murdered 
 them then and there. It was a horrid affair, and what made it 
 still more so, was that a report v/as circulated that the cap- 
 tain's wife was still living amongst the savages. An English 
 gunboat, 'Commorant, ' which was then lying at one of the 
 ports near, immediately proceeded to the spot and were also 
 met, fired upon and driven away by these same savages. We 
 heard of this affair while we were in Amoy, and one of our 
 vessels, the 'Ashuelot, ' was at the time over there to see what 
 she could do, and when we arrived here from Nagasaki we 
 heard that she had done nothing at all, not even making an 
 attempt to land. In consequence of all these circumstances 
 combined, our admiral concluded that he would take a look 
 down there himself and land a force on the island to burn and 
 destroy everything they could get at. We took the 'Wyoming' 
 along with us, and on the thirteenth of this month we landed 
 one hundred and eighty well armed men upon the spot where 
 the tragedy took place. I accompanied them as the medical 
 ofiicer. We were not fired upon in landing, but got enough of 
 it afterwards. The day was fearfully hot and we landed in 
 the hottest part of it, thus not only having the savages for our 
 enemies, but ' Old Sol ' himself, and indeed, I think he was the 
 greater of the two. We had penetrated into the interior about 
 a mile before they fired upon us and I must confess that I v/as 
 a little nervous as the first volley Avhizzed by me, but it was 
 not long before I got quite accustomed to the balls, and if it 
 had not been for the sun and the miserable way our enemies 
 had of skulking in the jungle and behind rocks and trees, I 
 should have enjoyed it hugely. But these Formoseans are ex- 
 actly like our Indians at home, only a degree worse, for they 
 are cannibals in addition to their other bad traits. We lost our 
 favorite officer and mes.smate that day. Lieutenant Commander 
 Mackenzie. He was shot and immediately killed while lead- 
 ing his men in a charge upon these savages, who were in an 
 immense jungle and when he was very near them they fired 
 and killed him. I was very near him and caught him as he 
 fell, and, when I found that he was dead, dragged his body to 
 
366 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 the rear to prevent the enemy from getting it, under a very- 
 heavy fire from the scoundrels. Fortunately I did not get as 
 much as a scratch that day, but I came very near being struck 
 by balls several times. Once, as I was resting myself quietly on 
 the side of a hill a ball came and buried itself in the ground 
 about an inch alongside of me ; I immediately got up, of course, 
 and sought safer quarters. I have got several holes in the lit- 
 tle sack coat that I wore that day. The sun, however, was our 
 greatest enemy, for in the few hours that we were ashore, from 
 10 a. m. to 4 p. m., our men were completely exhausted and we 
 had nine cases of sunstroke. I assure you that we were glad 
 to get on board ship again after our fatigue, but it was hard to 
 gaze upon the cold and lifeless form of our beloved messmate, 
 who but a few hours before had landed with all the health and 
 spirits that we did. He was a brave fellow, and died at the 
 head of his men in the good cause of avenging the brutal mur- 
 der of those unfortunate, unarmed and distressed few who, 
 after having escaped the peril from a shipwreck, had sought 
 safety on that land where he was killed. We were forced to 
 bury him at Takan, a port a few miles to the northward. Poor 
 fellow, we miss him exceedingly, but trust he is in a better 
 place than this wicked Avorld of ours. He was fleet captain 
 and the admiral 's right-hand man. 
 
 "We are at present lying comfortably anchored in Shang- 
 hai; the 'Wyoming,' and my old friend, the 'Wachusett,' are 
 also here. The 'Wachusett' is at present broken down and 
 has been here a long time, repairing. I may go home in her 
 yet, for my examination for promotion has been due so long 
 that the department may order me home in that way. ' ' 
 
 Sailed from Yokohama, May 11, 1867. 
 
 Notes in reference to the opening of the ports to foreign 
 commerce of Osaca and Hiogo : 
 
 ' ' Osaca is not yet open to commerce, but is to be at the com- 
 mencement of next year. We only visited the port because 
 our minister, together with the other foreign representatives, 
 had been invited to an audience by the tycoon, who is the rul- 
 ing one in the empire, to make proper arrangements for for- 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 367 
 
 mally opening the ports of Osaca and Hiogo to the world, such 
 as selecting a suitable situation for the foreign settlements, 
 arranging duties on articles of commerce, etc. The 'Hart- 
 ford,' 'Shenandoah' and 'Wyoming' represented our country 
 in the harbor and the minister did the plenipotentiarism on 
 shore, while very pleasantly located in a Buddhist temple, ser- 
 vants and tables being bountifully supplied by the Japanese 
 government and under the superintendence of our old friend, 
 Japanese Tommy, who, by the way, has become quite a high 
 official, a sort of right-hand man to the tycoon in his inter- 
 course with foreigners. His Japanese rank is that of captain, 
 which means much more in Japan than in America, and his 
 Japanese name is Komeda Kaigero, so we had him at Osaca as 
 Capt. Komeda Kaigero, but we often call him 'Tommy,' which 
 suited him fully as well. He speaks very good English in- 
 deed and is really quite a gentleman. I spent two days on 
 shore at Osaca, at the minister's quarters, by invitation." 
 (Concord Monitor, Friday, March 13, 1868.) 
 
 Doctor Beale, surgeon of the fleet to which Doctor Page was 
 attached, says: 
 
 "Doctor Page accompanied the expedition to the island of 
 Formosa in June last, and participated in all its fatigues and 
 dangers. Up to that time his health had been excellent, but 
 from that day it began to decline. Operating, as the expedi- 
 tion did, in a mountainous country and under a tropical sun, 
 the physical efforts he was called upon to make, imposed too 
 great a strain upon his lungs, and thus laid the foundation of 
 the disease (pulmonary consumption) of which he ultimately 
 died. As the expedition moved on to different places. Doctor 
 Page hoped to find relief from change of air, but all these 
 hopes proved fallacious, and by the time they reached Hiogo 
 it was apparent to all that he had but little time to live. ' ' 
 
 Continuing, Doctor Beale says: 
 
 "Fully realizing his condition, and bowing in submission 
 to the will of his Heavenly Father, he gently passed away on 
 the day before Christmas, and all that remains mortal of our 
 much loved friend now lies buried within the limits of the for- 
 
368 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 eign settlement at that place (Hiogo, Japan). A monument 
 to his memory is being prepared by brother officers of the 
 'Hartford,' and will be erected in the course of a few weeks. 
 No one could appreciate more highly than I did the many es- 
 timable and noble qualities of our deceased friend. I have 
 never known a man of sounder principles of action, or greater 
 purity of heart and life. His whole career aboard this ship, 
 since I first became acquainted with him, over two years ago, 
 was without blemish. ' ' 
 
 ''DexVth of Surgeon Page." 
 
 "Assistant Surgeon Charles 11. Page, of the flagship 'Hart- 
 ford,' Asiatic Squadron, died aboard ship in the Japanese 
 waters, December 24, 1867. Surgeon Page was the eldest son 
 of the late William H. Page of this city, and a native of Con- 
 cord, but was appointed from Massachusetts, where he had 
 resided for some time prior to his appointment. For some 
 years after the decease of his father, he resided in the family 
 of his uncle and guardian, the late Col. David Davis of this 
 city. He entered the service in February, 1863, took a high 
 rank in his profession and with the exception of six months has 
 been on sea service ever since. He was about twenty-five 
 years of age." 
 
 The following is a resume of Surgeon Page's service in the 
 navy: 
 
 Chelsea, June, 1862, United States Marine Hospital, as a 
 medical cadet. 
 
 United States bark "Eestless, " Charlotte's harbor, Flor- 
 ida, East Gulf Squadron, June, 1863. 
 
 United States ship "Eutaw," Deep Bottom, James river, 
 Va., January 13, 1865. 
 
 United States gunboat "Eutaw," off Aiken's Landing, 
 James river, Va., January 28, 1865, to February, 1865. 
 
 Surgeon's office, navy yard, Boston, June, 1865. 
 
 Left the United States on the 11th of August, 1865, on the 
 *' Hartford;" arrived at Macao in February, 1866; was on the 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 369 
 
 "Hartford" as junior of three medical officers until Septem- 
 ber 12, when transferred to "Wachusett" in charge of med- 
 ical department; was then at Yokohama, Japan, and Doctor 
 King, her former surgeon, was sent home ill, thus causing a 
 vacancy. 
 
 Japan last summer, visiting Nagasaki, Yokohama, Kana- 
 gowa and Yeddo. At Amoy for a few days. 
 
 United States steamer "Wachusett," Amoy, China, Novem- 
 ber, 1866. 
 
 United States ship "Hartford," Yokohama, Japan, April, 
 1867. 
 
 Examination for promotion due more than a year. 
 
 United States flagship "Hartford," Shanghai, China, June, 
 1867. 
 
 On the Formosa expedition of June, 1867. 
 
 Haykoy, September, 1867. 
 
 United States flagship "Hartford," Hong Kong, China, 
 October, 1867. 
 
 George Alanson Parker, M. D. 
 Concord, N. H. 
 
 Parker, George A. Volunteer officer; res. New Hampshire; app. 
 Acting Asst. Surg. Apr. 19, '64. Died June 18, '64. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1153.) 
 
 Surgeon Parker was the son of Caleb and Abigail Davis 
 (Virgin) Parker, grandson of Joseph Parker; born in Con- 
 cord, December 23, 1840. He received his preliminary educa- 
 tion in the public schools of Concord ; fitted for college at Kim- 
 ball Union Academj', Meriden, N. H., and was graduated A. B. 
 from Williams College in the class of 1862. He at once com- 
 menced his professional education in 1862, under the direc- 
 tion of Dr. William B. Hidden of Concord and attended one 
 or more courses of lectures at Jefferson Medical College in 
 Philadelphia, but did not complete his course of medical study, 
 
 24 
 
370 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 as he was appointed medical cadet Marcli 23, 1864, entering 
 the Eckington Hospital, Washington, D. C. Was appointed 
 acting assistant surgeon in the na\7', April 19, 1864, and or- 
 dered to the East Gulf Squadron, and in a short time was as- 
 signed to duty in a naval hospital at Key West, Fla. 
 
 His biographer says : 
 
 "The tenth of June, 1864, found him still at Key West, Fla., 
 on board the United States schooner ' Eugenia, ' from which he 
 was temporarily detached and ordered on board the United 
 States steamer 'De Soto,' as an assistant to Surgeon Wheeler, 
 on her passage to Portsmouth, N. H. He was taken ill before 
 reaching Portsmouth, and died of yellow fever on board the 
 'De Soto,' in Portsmouth harbor, June 18, 1864." 
 
 It will be noticed that his service was short, yet he gave his 
 life. Who could do more ? He inherited many New England 
 traits of character, being progressive in disposition, steadfast 
 in purpose, was without deceit and ever ready to support the 
 right and reject the wrong. 
 
 Unmarried. 
 
 Sigma Phi was his college society. 
 
 Nathaniel Chamberlain Parker, M. D. 
 Late of Farmington, N. H. 
 
 (U. S. Navy.) 
 
 Pabker, Nathaniel C. Volunteer officer; b. Lebanon, Me.; age 27; 
 res. Farmington; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Oct. 23, '62; appointment 
 revoked Mar. 3, '63. See 4, 10 and 18 N. H. V., and Miscel. Organ- 
 izations. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1153.) 
 
 (Miscel. Organizations.) 
 
 Paekeb, Nathaniel C, alias Henry McAllester. Co. C, 2 Mass. Cav.; 
 b. Lei)anon, Me.; age 29; res. Farmington, cred. "West Cambridge, 
 Mass.; enl. Apr. 2, '64 for 3 yrs. ; must, in Apr. 2, '64, as Sergt; 
 disch. May 26, '65. (Reported his birthplace as Princetown, 
 Iowa, and age as 24.) Died Dec. 31, '66, Farmington. See 4, 10 
 and 18 N. H. V., and U. S. Navy. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 1069.) 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 371 
 
 (18 N. H. V.) 
 
 Pakker, Nathaniel C. F. and S.; app. Asst. Surg. Apr. 4, '65; not 
 must. Supposed identical with Nathaniel C. Parker, Co. H, 4 
 N. H. v., Co. I. 10 N. H. v., Co. C, 2 Mass. Cav. See Miscel. Organ- 
 izations and U. S. Navy. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 820.) 
 
 (10 N. H. V.) 
 
 Parker, Nathaniel C. Co. I; b. Lebanon, Me.; age 27; res. Far- 
 mington. cred. Farmington; enl. Aug. 8, '62; must, in Sept. 4, '62, 
 as Priv.; des. Sept. 22, '62, Manchester; reported Apr. 1, '65, under 
 President's Proclamation; disch. May 5, '65, Concord, with loss of 
 all pay and allowances. See 4 and 18 N. H. V., Miscel. Organiza- 
 tions and U. S. Navy. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 542.) 
 
 (4 N. H. V.) 
 
 Parker. Nathaniel C. Co. H; b. Lebanon, Me.; age 26; res. Far- 
 mington; enl. Sept. 9, '61; must, in Sept. 18, '61, as Priv.; disch. 
 disab. Jan. 6, '62, Hilton Head, S. C. See 10 and 18 N. H. V., 
 Miscel. Organizations and U. S. Navy. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 189.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Lebanon, Me., March 
 30, 1835, and was the son of Dr. David Taylor and Clarissa 
 (Chamberlain) Parker, a grandson of Rev. Clement Parker. 
 His preliminary education was received in the common schools 
 of Farmington and Lebanon Academy. From early life his 
 surroundings were replete with medicine and surgery, his 
 father being a physician and his mother a very skilled assist- 
 ant. He attended lectures at the IMedical Department of 
 Harvard College and the Medical Department of Bowdoin 
 College and received the degree of M. D. from the latter in 
 1856. He settled in Farmington for the practice of his pro- 
 fession. 
 
 Doctor Parker enlisted as private in Company H, Fourth 
 New Hampshire Volunteers, September 9, 1861, and was dis- 
 charged disabled, January 6, 1862, at Hilton Head, S. C, 
 October 23, 1862, he was appointed acting assistant surgeon in 
 the United States Navy and served until March 3, 1863. April 
 2, 1864, enlisted for three years in the Second Massachusetts 
 Cavalry and was discharged as sergeant, May 26, 1865. April 
 
372 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 4, 1865, he was appointed assistant surgeon of the Eighteenth 
 New Hampshire Volunteei^, but was not mustered. 
 
 His biographer says of him : 
 
 " Of his other service I know only that he was captured and 
 sent to — I believe — Andersonville. Found to be a medical 
 man, he was put on duty as a surgeon by the Confederates, 
 and was treated well. Returned soldiers said that he did an 
 immense deal of good to both Confederates and Federals, pro- 
 fessionally, in the six or more months during which he was a 
 prisoner of war, and that, as in his work at home, lives were 
 saved by his skill and attention, which else would have been 
 lost. 
 
 "His health undoubtedly was affected by his army experi- 
 ences and he died on December 31, 1866, in Farmington, 
 
 N. H." 
 
 ****** 
 
 "Dr. N. C. Parker grew up in a medical atmosphere, his 
 mother having begun the practice of obstetrics in an hour of a 
 patient's great need and having been a proverb of success in 
 her work until her health failed. She grew skilled in many 
 ways and was often insisted upon as a medical attendant when 
 the men were unavailable. She was also an expert pharma- 
 cist. Hundreds of people, men and women, mourned sin- 
 cerely on the occasion of her funeral. ' ' 
 
 ****** 
 
 "You can say little of him in any history beyond the fact 
 that he had a genius for his profession and that many sol- 
 diers felt grateful to him for the care to which they believed 
 they owed their lives. He was liked by the people for the 
 many attractive qualities natural to him and many of his pa- 
 tients still living speak often of him with regretful affection. 
 
 ' ' People acquainted with his medical work thought him one 
 who should have gone far beyond all other local practitioners 
 had he lived and attended to his practice. He seemed to have 
 an odd magnetic gift, and he said once that in a bad case, 
 could he be alone for a little time it seemed to him as if he saw 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 373 
 
 the whole body open before him and he knew what to do, if 
 anything could be done. He had the true medical and surgi- 
 cal gift." 
 
 Doctor Parker was a member of the Strafford District Med- 
 ical Society in 1858, New Hampshire Medical Society, 1859 ; 
 the iMasonic Fraternity and member of the Farmington school 
 board, foreman of the local fire company. 
 
 He was very successful in his treatment of diseases, espe- 
 cially smallpox and scarlet fever. Every little child was fond 
 of him and he was tender with both children and animals. 
 
 Married, first, Miss Margaret Downs; second, Miss A. H. 
 Cilley. 
 
 No children. 
 
 Frederick E. Potter, M. D. 
 
 Late of Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Potter, Frederick E. Regular officer; b, Rumney; age 22; res. New 
 Hampshire; app. Asst. Surg. July 30, '61; Surg. Mar. 25, '66; 
 served on U. S. S. "Monticello" and "Narragansett"; resigned Apr. 
 1, '75. P. 0. ad., Portsmouth. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 1156.) 
 
 Surgeon Potter was born in Eumney, July 3, 1839. His 
 mother was Calysta Lucas, daughter of Deacon Samuel Lu- 
 cas of Rumney, her ancestor being James Harvey of Notting- 
 ham, one of the men sent out from Londonderry, Ireland, to 
 select a home for his oppressed countrymen in the new world. 
 
 His great grandfather on his mother's side was Sergeant 
 Beverly, who fought at Bunker Hill, served through the Rev- 
 olution, was bearer of dispatches to General Montgomery, then 
 in front of Quebec, swam the St. Lawrence in midwinter and 
 successfully delivered his dispatches, as the history of Concord 
 details. 
 
 His father was Dr. Frederick F. Potter of Conway, grand- 
 son of Major General Frye of Fryeburg, Me., who served as 
 ensign at the capture of Louisburg, was a major-general in 
 the Continental Army and a close friend of Washington. 
 
374 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Doctor Potter moved with his parents to Suneook at the age 
 of three years. Received his preliminary education in the 
 public schools of New Hampshire and at the Putnam School 
 of Newburyport, Mass. He commenced his professional edu- 
 cation with his father in 1856, and attended two courses of 
 lectures at the jMedical Department of the University of 
 Vermont, and was graduated M. D. from the same in June, 
 1859. Commenced the practice of medicine in the hospitals 
 of New York, and was appointed assistant surgeon in the 
 United States Navy, July 30, 1861, and remained in the ser- 
 vice until April, 1875, passing through the grades of assistant 
 surgeon and surgeon, serving on the United States steamships 
 "Monticello," "Narragansett," and others. He joined the 
 Mississippi Squadron and served on the Cumberland, Missis- 
 sippi and Tennessee rivers through the siege of Vicksburg, was 
 present at the bloody battle of Grand Gulf and in the Red 
 River expedition. Broken in health from exposure and hard 
 service, he was detailed as president of the board of examin- 
 ers for admission of medical officers to the navy, stationed at 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 During his term of service he was surgeon to Doctor Hall 's 
 scientific expedition to northern Siberia. He had much ex- 
 perience with epidemics of yellow fever, cholera and small- 
 pox. 
 
 His health still failing he was placed on waiting orders and 
 returned to his native state where, after a year, his health was 
 again sufficiently restored for him to apply for duty, and he 
 saw service in ]\Iexico, when the French and Austrians, under 
 Maximilian, were striving to plant an empire upon this conti- 
 nent contrary to the wishes of the American people. Here he 
 was present at an engagement which cost the country several 
 lives to retain the republican government in power. After 
 seven years, spent mostly in Mexico and South America, in 
 the service of his country. Doctor Potter suggested that, as 
 his mother was getting old and needed his care, he be assigned 
 to duty near his home in New Hampshire. In compliance 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 375 
 
 with his request, he was ordered to the navy yard at Ports- 
 mouth, and after serving four years at the yard at this station, 
 not wishing to again leave home and people, he resigned his 
 commission as surgeon in 1876, and engaged in the practice of 
 medicine in the city of Portsmouth, where he has since resided. 
 
 He was a member of the American Medical Association, of 
 the military order of the Loyal Legion, and of the New Hamp- 
 shire Medical Society. 
 
 Married, October 2, 1873, Miss Harriet Wilkins of Pem- 
 broke, N. H. 
 
 Doctor Potter died November 18, 1902. 
 
 EzEA Pray, M. D. 
 
 Pbay, Ezea. Volunteer oflBcer; b. New Hampshire; age 28; res. New 
 Hampshire; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Oct. 21, '62; Acting Passed 
 Asst. Surg. Aug. 4, 'G5; served on U. S. S. "Cambridge" and South 
 Atlantic Squadron; disch. Mar. 1, '66. (Record, Ayling\s Register, 
 1895, p. 1156.) 
 
 Fernando Coello Sargent, M. D. 
 
 Sargent, Feexando C. Volunteer officer; b. New Hampshire; res. 
 Illinois; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Sept. 8, '63; served on the U. S. S. 
 "Penobscot"; disch. Aug. 24, '65. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 1162.) 
 
 Fernando Coello Sargent was born in New London, and was 
 the son of Sylvanus Thayer and Emmeline (Crockett) Sar- 
 gent. Received his preliminary education at Colby Academy. 
 Of his early medical education but little knowledge seems to 
 have been preserved, but he is reported as having attended the 
 Michigan University, Ann Arbor, and was graduated I\I. D. 
 from Dartmouth Medical College in 1866. Soon after receiv- 
 ing his degree he practiced medicine for a .short time in 
 Franklin, N. H., and was at Danbury, N. H., some four or five 
 years. His record shows that he entered the navy as acting 
 assistant surgeon in 1863 and served until the close of the 
 
376 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 war. After his service in the navy, he located in the state of 
 Illinois, where he died in 1870. 
 Married Mary E. Garland. 
 
 Henry Hilliard Smith, M. D. 
 Dublin, N. H. 
 
 Smith, Henry H. Volunteer officer; b. Liverpool, Ohio; age 26; res. 
 Claremont; app. Acting Asst. Surg. Nov. 20, '63; served on U. S. S. 
 "Thomas Freeborn"; resigned Apr. 21, '65. P. O. ad., Dublin. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1165.) 
 
 Surgeon Smith was born June 16, 1837, in Liverpool, Me- 
 dina county, Ohio, and was the son of Henry Summer and 
 Mary (Hilliard) Smith, his paternal grandfather being Ben- 
 jamin Smith of Nashua, N. H. His preliminary education 
 was received at the common schools and academy at Clare- 
 mont, N. H., with a partial course at the Chandler Seientifie 
 School, Hanover, N. H. He commenced the study of medi- 
 cine at Claremont, N. H., under the direction of Samuel G. 
 Jarvis, M. D., and later with Profs. Dixi and A. B. Crosby of 
 Dartmouth Medical College, attending two courses of medi- 
 cal lectures at Hanover, and was graduated from the Medical 
 Department of Dartmouth College in the class of 1859. He 
 commenced the practice of medicine in Tunbridge, Vt., 1860, 
 where he remained two years, removing from there to Dub- 
 lin, where he has been in the practice of medicine for over 
 forty years. 
 
 He was appointed acting assistant surgeon November 20, 
 1863, and served on board the United States steamship 
 ''Thomas Freeborn," resigning April 21, 1865, by reason of 
 the close of the war. During his long residence in Dublin, 
 N. H., he has enjoyed the confidence and good will of the citi- 
 zens of that town, serving upon the local board of health, and 
 in many other capacities that were useful to his fellow citi- 
 zens. 
 
 Married, May 25, 1880, Arabella S. Fisk. 
 
united states navy. 377 
 
 Sumner T. Smith, M. D. 
 
 Doctor Smith, a j^ounger brother of the foregoing, was born 
 in "West Claremont, X. H., June 8, 1839, and was the son of 
 Henry Sumner and Mary (Hilliard) Smith, and a grandson 
 of Benjamin Smith of Nashua, N. H. He received his pre- 
 liminary education in the common schools and academies of 
 the state, and was graduated A. B. from Norwich University, 
 Vermont, in 1860. He commenced the study of medicine in 
 1864, under the direction of the late Alvah R. Cummings, 
 M. D., of Claremont, and afterwards with Prof. A. B. Crosby, 
 Dartmouth College. He attended medical lectures at Dart- 
 mouth Medical College and also at Ann Arbor, I\Iich., taking 
 two courses at Dartmouth and one at Ann Arbor, and was 
 graduated from the latter in 1867. 
 
 Prior to his study of medicine he served in the United 
 States Navy as acting master's mate on the United States 
 ship "Supply," which went down to the Gulf Squadron, and 
 while on that station he contracted yellow fever, which so un- 
 dermined his health that he resigned his commission and went 
 home to Claremont and commenced the study of medicine. 
 After graduation he located in South Acworth for one year, 
 was a long time in Alstead, N. H., also in Westerly, R. I., 
 when he removed to Athol, ]\Iass., and resided there until his 
 death, March 27, 1892. 
 
 He was a member of the Connecticut River Valley ^ledical 
 Association, of which he was at one time the president, and 
 also a member of the Miller's River Medical Association and 
 of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 
 
 :Married :\Iartha Ellen Lovell, June 12, 1872. 
 
 Children : William Benjamin Tyng and Lovell Bolivar. 
 
 Passmore Treadwell, M. D. 
 Late of Bois6 City, Idaho. 
 
 Tbe.\dwell, Passmobe. Volunteer officer; b. Portsmouth; age 22; 
 res. Concord; cred. New Hampshire; app. Acting Asst. Surg. June 
 
378 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 30, '62; served on U. S. S. "Vixen," "Columbia," "Relief," and 
 Mississippi Squadron; disch. Mar. 28, '67. Died May 23, '81, Bois6 
 City, Idaho. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1171.) 
 
 Surgeon Treadwell was a son of Thomas Passmore and 
 Lydia (Greenough) Treadwell, and a grandson of Thomas 
 Treadwell. He was born in Portsmouth, N. H., September 19, 
 1839. He received his early education in the public schools 
 of Concord, N. H., his parents having removed to this city 
 when he was very young. He commenced his professional ed- 
 ucation in 1859, with Dr. Charles P. Gage of Concord; at- 
 tended medical lectures at Jefferson Medical College of Penn- 
 sylvania, and was graduated M. D. from that institution in 
 1862. 
 
 Commenced the practice of medicine in the United States 
 Navy as acting assistant surgeon, June 30, 1862, serving on the 
 United States ships "Vixen," ''Relief," "Columbia," and 
 Mississippi Squadron, and was discharged from the navy 
 March 28, 1867. Located in New York City for one year; 
 three years in Brooklyn, N. Y., when he became post surgeon 
 at Fort Boise, Boise City, Idaho territory, holding that posi- 
 tion from 1871 to 1877. Resigning that position, he continued 
 the practice of medicine at Boise City until his death, which 
 occurred May 23, 1881. 
 
 Was a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society in 
 1862. 
 
 Married, September 17, 1867, Harriet Brown of Concord, 
 N. H. 
 
 Children, four: John Passmore, who died July 8, 1869, 
 Elizabeth Brown, Thomas Percy and Robert Hastings Tread- 
 well. 
 
 Francis Minot Weld, M. D. 
 Late of Jamaica Plain, Mass. 
 
 Weld, Francis Minot. Regular oflBcer; b. Dal ton; res. Jamaica 
 Plain, Mass.; app. Asst. Surg. May 22, '62; served on U. S. S. "Nan- 
 tucket" and "Wabash"; resigned Dec. 31, '63. Died Dec. 31, '93, 
 Jamaica Plain, Mass. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1175.) 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 379 
 
 Surgeon Weld was born in Dalton, N. H., January 17, 18-40, 
 and was the son of Thomas Swan and Sarah Fitch (Sumner) 
 Weld, and a grandson of William Gordon Weld. He received 
 his preliminary education in the common schools of New 
 Hampshire, the high school at Jamaica Plain and the Eliot 
 School of Boston, and Avas graduated A. B. from Harvard 
 College in the class of 1860. Afterwards the degree of A. M. 
 was conferred by the same college. He commenced his pro- 
 fessional education in September, 1860, at the Harvard ]\Iedi- 
 cal School and was graduated from the same in March, 1834, 
 taking the first prize for an essay on "Our Native Materia 
 Mediea," which was published in the Boston Medical Journal 
 of about that date. 
 
 He was appointed medical cadet in the United States Army, 
 May 3, 1862, and served in the post hospital at Grafton, 
 W. Va., and also with the Sixth West Virginia Volunteers, 
 until June 14, 1862, when he was commissioned assistant sur- 
 geon, United States Navy, and ordered to the naval hospital 
 at Chelsea, Mass. January 14, 1863, he was detached from the 
 naval hospital and ordered to the monitor "Nantucket," then 
 fitting out at East Boston, and sailed for Port Royal, S. C, 
 February 28, 1863. He served on the "Nantucket" in the 
 various attacks on Charleston and on blockade duty off Sa- 
 vannah, Ga., and took part in the attack on Fort Sumter, 
 April 7, 1863. December 1, 1863, he was detached from the 
 "Nantucket" and ordered to the frigate "Wabash." He re- 
 signed December 13, 1863, and was relieved from duty Jan- 
 uary 11, 1864. 
 
 Soon after receiving his degree of IVI. D., in March, 1864, 
 he was commissioned surgeon of the United States Colored 
 Troops, Fourth Division, Ninth Army Corps, which was at- 
 tached to the Array of the Potomac in Grant 's campaign from 
 the AVilderness until the siege of Petersburg. In Decem])er, 
 1864, the Fourth Division was transferred to the Twenty-fifth 
 Corps, Army of the James, which was stationed before Rich- 
 mond. Just before this he had been assigned to the position 
 
380 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 of brigade surgeon, First Brigade, Fourth Division, Ninth 
 Army Corps. He was with General Terry with the Tenth 
 Corps at the capture of Fort Fisher, N. C, January 15, and 
 Wilmington, N. C, February 22, 1865. In March the Tenth 
 Corps joined General Sherman's forces near Ealeigh. During 
 this service he was brigade and division surgeon in charge of 
 field and post hospitals, and at one time was stationed at the 
 district hospital at New Berne, N. C. After the close of the 
 war he was on garrison duty in North Carolina till mustered 
 out September 21, 1865. 
 
 After leaving the service of the United States he settled 
 for the practice of medicine in Jamaica Plain, Mass., in Octo- 
 ber, 1865, and afterwards practiced in New York City for a 
 considerable period. He was attending and consulting physi- 
 cian and surgeon to various dispensaries and infirmaries in 
 New York, and medical superintendent of the New York Hos- 
 pital in 1876 and 1877. For two terms he held the position of 
 one of the overseers of Harvard College. 
 
 He was a member of the New York JMedical Society; also 
 of the New England Society; the Harvard, Century, Univer- 
 sity Union League, and the Players' Club of New York, the 
 Union Club of Boston and the Loyal Legion. 
 
 Married, April 11, 1872, Fannie Elizabeth Bartholomew of 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Children, three: Sarah Swan Weld, Francis Minot and 
 Christopher Minot Weld. 
 
 Doctor Weld died December 31, 1893, at Jamaica Plain, 
 Mass., and was buried with the honors of the Loyal Legion. 
 
 Charles Henry White, M. D. 
 
 U. S. Naval Museum of Hygiene, Washington, D. C. 
 
 White, Chakles H. Regular officer; b. Centre Sandwich; age 23; 
 res. Watertown, Mass.; cred. Massachusetts; app. Asst. Surg. Dec. 
 26, '61; Passed Asst. Surg. Oct. 30, '6.5; Surg. Nov. 18, '69; Medical 
 Inspector July 10, '88; served on U. S. S. "Huron" and "Roanoke"; 
 still in the service. P. O. ad., Washington, D. C. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1176.) 
 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 381 
 
 Surgeon White was born November 18, 1838, in Centre 
 Sandwich, N. H., and was the son of Charles and Sarah D. 
 (French) White, and a grandson of Samuel White. His pre- 
 liminary education was received in the common schools and a 
 select school at Centre Sandwich, supplemented by an aca- 
 demic course at Sanbornton Bridge, now Tilton. Commenced 
 his professional education at Watertown, Mass., in 1859, under 
 the direction of David T. Huckins, M. D., taking three courses 
 of lectures at the Medical Department of Harvard College, and 
 was graduated M. D. from the same, March 12, 1862. 
 
 While still a student in Harvard Medical College, he re- 
 ceived an appointment in the United States Navj', December 
 26, 1861, and in May, 1862, was assigned to duty in the Chel- 
 sea Naval Hospital, Massachusetts. He has remained in the 
 navj^ ever since, passed through all the grades, including that 
 of medical director, and has had his share of cruising and land 
 duty. 
 
 He has given special attention to microscopical and biolog- 
 ical work, and is a member of various scientific societies in and 
 about Washington. At the present time he is assigned to 
 duty at the Naval Museum of Hygiene in Washington, D. C. 
 
 George Fisk Wilbur, ^L D. 
 
 Nashua, N. H. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Webster, ^lass., IMay 
 15, 1839, and was the son of Alvah and IMary Farrar (Porter) 
 Wilbur. His early education was in the common schools of 
 Nashua, Nashua Literary Institution, Kimball Union Acad- 
 emy, New London Institute and Westbrook Academy in 
 Maine. His professional education commenced in 1857 with 
 Dr. James B. Greeley of Nashua and later with Dr. N. J. 
 Moore of Nashua. He attended three courses of medical lec- 
 tures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York 
 and Long Island College Hospital in New York, receiving his 
 degree from the latter in 1864, and commenced the practice 
 
382 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 of medicine the same year in the United States service as act- 
 ing assistant surgeon on board the hospital transport "Bal- 
 tic," from June, 1864, until December, 1864, when he was 
 transferred to the hospital transport "Gen. J. K. Barnes," 
 remaining on that boat from December, 1864, to November 14, 
 1865, when he was mustered out of the service. During the 
 year 1866 he was a few months in Janesville, Wis., and Colo- 
 rado, returning to Nashua and resuming practice in June, 
 1867, where he has resided ever since. He is a member of the 
 Nashua Medical Association, has been city physician of Nashua 
 as well as county physician; surgeon of the John G. Foster 
 Grand Army Post for several years and medical director of 
 the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of New Hamp- 
 shire. He is a thirty-third degree Mason ; past chancellor of 
 the Knights of Pythias Lodge, No. 5, of Nashua, and a mem- 
 ber of Pennichuck Lodge of Odd Fellows; was a member of 
 the board of United States examining surgeons in Nashua from 
 1893 to 1897. 
 
 As a citizen he has been a cherished and valued member of 
 society, and as an evidence of the confidence of his fellow 
 citizens it may be mentioned that he is a trustee of the City 
 Guaranty Savings Bank, a trustee of the Home for Aged 
 Couples and surgeon of the Home for Aged Women, at 
 Nashua, N. H. 
 
 It has been his aim to do work in general surgery and med- 
 icine, rather than as a specialist, still he has had large experi- 
 ence in the fact that during his labors on the hospital trans- 
 port he saw a good deal of spotted fever as it came from Wil- 
 mington, N. C. He has had considerable experience in a 
 smallpox epidemic in Nashua in 1873, and also of a dysentery 
 epidemic in 1883. He has served on the staff of the Nashua 
 Hospital Association ever since its organization in 1864. He 
 took a post-graduate course in New York with Prof. Austin 
 Flint, Sr., and Prof. Frank H. Hamilton. 
 
 Married Clara E. Brown of Nashua, September 30, 1875. 
 
 No children. 
 
united states navy, 383 
 
 John Harvey Wright, M. D. 
 
 Wbight, Johx H. Regular officer; b. Haverhill; age 24; res. Massa- 
 chusetts; app. Asst. Surg. Dec. 9, '39; Surg. Apr. 18, '55; placed 
 on retired list Apr. 25, '61; app. Medical Director on retired list 
 Mar. 3, '71. Died Dec. 26, '79, Boston, Mass. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 1180.) 
 
 John Harvey Wright was born in Haverhill, X. H., May 7, 
 1815, and was the son of John S. and Mary (Welbnan) 
 Wright. His parents removed to Boston in 1820, and he 
 fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, and entered Har- 
 vard College in 1830. In 1831 he entered Amherst College in 
 the third term of the sophomore year, from which he was grad- 
 uated A. B. in the class of 1834. The four years succeed- 
 ing his graduation were spent in the study of medicine — three 
 with Dr. Austin Flint, at Northampton, Mass., and one at 
 the Harvard Medical School, where he received the degree of 
 M. D. in 1838. After a few months spent in the practice of 
 his profession at Springfield, INIass., he was appointed assist- 
 ant surgeon in the United States Navy, his commission bear- 
 ing date December 9, 1839. April 18, 1855, he was commis- 
 sioned surgeon, and March 3. 1871, medical director, his en- 
 tire term of active service on sea and land covering a period 
 of over sixteen years. Under the act of February 21, 1861, 
 he was placed on the retired list, and, in April of the same 
 year, established himself in the commission business in Bos- 
 ton, under the name of Wright & Whitman, the title being 
 changed in May, 1863, to J. S. & E. Wright & Co., and again 
 in July, 1874, to Wright, Bliss & Fabyan. His connection 
 with this firm continued until his death, the result of Bright 's 
 disease, at Brighton district, Boston, December 26, 1879. 
 
 Married, February 5, 1863, Anna IMoriarity, daughter of 
 Lyman Nichols of Nahant, Mass., who, with two children, sur- 
 vives him. 
 
 (Necrology' of Amherst College.) 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 
 
 GONTRET SURGEONS. 
 
 SURGEONS WHOSE SERVICE WHS IN REGIMENTS OUTSIDE THE STATE. 
 
 PRIVATES WHO AFTERWARDS BECAME PRACTITIONERS 
 
 OF MEDICINE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 During the civil war it was not infrequent that in conse- 
 quence of severe and sometimes prolonged battles many sick 
 and wounded men were massed together in cities in which it 
 was impossible for the regimental medical attendants to give 
 them due attention. The governors of different states on 
 many occasions appealed to the profession to come into the 
 service temporarily to alleviate the sufferings of these men. 
 Oftentimes, these wounded and sick men were sent to the dif- 
 ferent states to be cared for entirely by the profession, and 
 good men and women of the commonwealth. Scarcely a single 
 Northern state that did not have one or more hospitals or 
 temporary quarters where such soldiers could be cared for. 
 At one time the court house in Concord was turned into a 
 hospital, and the Capitol at Washington, in 1862, was an ex- 
 temporary hospital for many weeks. Its rooms and corridors 
 were crowded with beds on which the sick and wounded were 
 being treated. New Hampshire had a large hospital at Man- 
 chester during the closing years of the war. 
 
 The profession in New Hampshire, ever loyal to the state, 
 responded most nobly to such calls as these. These men who 
 volunteered their services for temporary work w^ere oftentimes 
 beyond the age limit to do service in the field and were recog- 
 nized as contract surgeons. We have done the best we could 
 to group them together for the time being and give them a 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 385 
 
 place in the medical and surgical records of New Hampshire 
 for their services loyally performed when called for. 
 
 Another class which the compiler of these sketches has found, 
 and which seems to be deserving of an official record, comprised 
 men born in the state, who served in the volunteer corps of 
 regiments outside the state, and afterwards returned to the 
 state to practice medicine. 
 
 Still another group were those whose patriotism led them 
 io enlist as private soldiers, going to the front for a longer or 
 shorter period ; many of whom were wounded, but eventually 
 coming home, became students, graduated in medicine and 
 practiced in the state for a longer or shorter period. 
 
 The patriotism of such men is undoubted. Their zeal and 
 good will towards our country was made manifest in their 
 going to the front, and afterwards becoming practitioners of 
 medicine. It will be seen in the sketches which have been pre- 
 pared that these men were directed by the services which they 
 performed in the amelioration and alleviation of the sufferings 
 that occurred around them, to the practice of medicine. 
 
 CONTRACT SURGEONS. 
 
 Ezra Bartlett, M. D. 
 Late of Exeter, N. H. 
 
 Ezra Bartlett, M. D., was born September 28, 1811, at War- 
 ren, N. II., and was the son of Ezra and Hannah (Gale) Bart- 
 lett, and grandson of Josiah Bartlett, signer of the Declaration 
 of Independence. January, 1812, his parents removed to 
 Haverhill, N. H. His education was received in the common 
 schools of Haverhill, Grafton county, N. H., and in January, 
 1829, he began the study of medicine with his uncle, John 
 French of Bath, and his father at Haverhill. He attended 
 three courses of medical lectures at Dartmouth and was grad- 
 uated from Dartmouth Medical College August 22, 1832. 
 
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386 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Dr. Bartlett commenced the practice of medicine at War- 
 minster, Nelson county, Va., remaining there one year. He 
 was located in Haverhill three years; South Berwick, Me., 
 fifteen years; East Boston, Mass., four years, and was in 
 Exeter after November 1, 1855. 
 
 He was a member of Strafford District Medical Society, 
 New Hampshire Medical Society and Massachusetts Medical 
 Society. He was delegate from Strafford District Medical 
 Society to the annual meeting of the American Medical Associ- 
 ation at Boston, May, 1849. 
 
 He published several medical papers and had a good stand- 
 ing among the profession as a physician and surgeon. He 
 constructed apparatus for fractures and displacements. 
 
 He was acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, from 
 January 7, 1863, to July, 1865. His service was as follows: 
 As contract surgeon, serving at Washington, Memphis and 
 Vicksburg, under General Grant, and also wdth the Fifteenth 
 Army Corps under General Sherman until the capture of 
 Atlanta. Subsequently, he served in a hospital at Savannah, 
 Ga., until July 1, 1865. 
 
 In 1835 he became a member of the Congregational Church 
 at Haverhill. He was health officer at Exeter at one time. 
 
 Married, first. May 4, 1835, Sarah, daughter of Josiah and 
 Susan (Hussey) Calef of Saco, Me., who died October 9, 1847; 
 second, February 13, 1851, Eleanor, daughter of Nathaniel 
 
 and (Kettell) Tucker of Boston, Mass., and widow of 
 
 John Hubbard of South Berwick, Me. 
 
 Children, one: Josiah Calef, born May 3, 1846; married 
 Grace, daughter of the late Dr. Ira Sampson of Taunton, Mass. 
 
 Dr. Ezra Bartlett died in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 16, 1892, 
 of paralysis. 
 
 George Beebe, M. D. 
 
 "Rev. George Beebe, M. D., was born in Bacomb, Somerset- 
 shire, England, June 9, 1828. He served in the War with 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 387 
 
 Mexico and was a practicing physician at the time of the civil 
 war. He was called into the service of the medical depart- 
 ment under the designation of warrant surgeon, and as such 
 did duty during the last of the war. He entered the ministry 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church and filled a series of ap- 
 pointments, including the church at Littleton, in 1872-73. 
 While residing at Gosport, Star Island, N. H., he was several 
 times a member of the Legislature. He died at Bethlehem, 
 March 7, 1877, and is buried in Glenwood cemetery in Little- 
 ton." — {Grayiite Monthly, A. S. Batchellor.) 
 
 James H. Crombie, M. D. 
 Late of Derry, N. H. 
 
 "Surgeon Crombie was born in Temple, N. H., September 
 2, 1813, and was the son of Dr. Charles and Joanna (Jones) 
 Crombie. He was educated in the common schools and at 
 Francestown Academy, to which town his father removed dur- 
 ing his early childhood. His professional education was com- 
 menced with his father and continued under the direction of 
 Dr. Amos Twitchell of Keene. About this time Dr. Twitchell 
 had large medical classes and gave instruction to a good many 
 medical students, who afterwards became very active in the 
 profession in various parts of the United States. Surgeon 
 Crombie attended medical lectures at Woodstock, Vt., and 
 Hanover, N. H., and was graduated from the Medical Depart- 
 ment of Dartmouth College in 1838. Located, in 1838, at 
 Francestown with his father, but removed to Derry in 1850, 
 from which place he entered the army as contract surgeon in 
 1861, and was on duty in the vicinity of Fortress Monroe, Vir- 
 ginia, until 1864. On being mustered out of the service he 
 returned to Derry, at which place he died, June 30, 1884, aged 
 seventy years. ' ' 
 
 Married Sarah Frances Mills, daughter of the late Alexan- 
 der Willis of Francestown. 
 
 No children. (History of Francestown.) 
 
388 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Albert H. Crosby, M. D. 
 
 Surgeon Crosby was born in Gilmanton, N. H., April 23, 
 1828, and was the eldest son of Prof. Dixi and Mary Jane 
 (Moody) Crosby of Gilmanton, N. H., and a grandson of Asa 
 Crosby. His father, Dr. Crosby, removed to Hanover in 1838, 
 taking the place of Prof. Reuben Diamond Mussey, who had 
 been professor of surgery in the Medical Department of Dart- 
 mouth College for many years. Albert H. was graduated from 
 the Academic Department of Dartmouth College in 1848. He 
 first gave his attention to the practice of law, graduating in 
 the same and locating in Francestown, N. H., about 1852. 
 Not feeling satisfied with legal work, he left that, taking up 
 the study of medicine and receiving his degree of M. D. from 
 Dartmouth Medical College in 1860. "While a student in medi- 
 cine he had two years of clinical study in connection with the 
 United States Marine Hospital at Chelsea and the Deer Island 
 Hospitals in Boston Harbor. After graduating in medicine 
 was located at Wells River, Vt., from 1860 to 1862. Early in 
 1862 he was appointed to the position of assistant surgeon at 
 Columbia University Hospital, Washington, where his uncle, 
 Thomas Russell Crosby, was a United States volunteer sur- 
 geon in charge of the hospital, and was subsequently detailed 
 as surgeon of the Thirteenth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 In 1863 he became assistant to his father in the medical bureau 
 of the provost marshal 's office in New Hampshire ; afterwards, 
 in 1864, he became post surgeon at the rendezvous camp near 
 South Street, in Concord, N. H. He remained in charge of 
 the hospital there until the close of the war, closing out and 
 selling all the surgical and medical supplies left at the close 
 of the war. At that time he located in Concord and remained 
 in the practice of his profession until his death, which occurred 
 September 5, 1886, of apoplexy, at the residence of his son-in- 
 law, Col. E. H. Gilman, in Exeter, where he and his wife were 
 visiting at that time. 
 
 Early in his professional work in Concord he became medi- 
 
MISCELLANEOUS OEGANIZATIONS. 389 
 
 cal director at St. Paul's School and retained that position 
 until his death. While residing in Wells River he married 
 Rebecca, daughter of Moody Moore, granddaughter of Dr. 
 Isaac Moore, who was born and educated in Scotland and, 
 emigrating to America, was for a long period in successful 
 practice in Bath, N. H. 
 
 Dr. Crosby was a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society, joining in 1871, and in 1883 was president. For a 
 period of sixteen years he was medical attendant at the New 
 Hampshire state prison; a member of the board of medical 
 pension examiners, and served for three j^ears on the school 
 board. 
 
 Dr. Crosby was a delightful companion with a fund of 
 humor and good cheer. "In conversation he was ready and 
 interesting, and it was not easy to touch any subject on which 
 he was not able to talk intelligently and even instructively. 
 He contributed not infrequently to the medical journals and 
 to the newspaper press, and delivered many lectures before 
 lyceums and literary societies. In every movement intended 
 to promote the public health and comfort he was an earnest 
 supporter. ' ' 
 
 George W. Currier, M. D. 
 
 Nashua, N. H. 
 
 From time to time during the War of the Rebellion, after 
 battles had been fought in which there was great loss of life 
 and a large number of wounded men, the governors of differ- 
 ent states, understanding the great need of competent persons 
 to assist in caring for the wounded men, sent a considerable 
 number of medical students and others, sometimes men who 
 had graduated in medicine, to Washington and they were dis- 
 tributed to points where it was deemed they would do the most 
 good. Dr. Currier comes into this class. He was born in Wil- 
 
390 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 mot, N. H., March 8, 1841, and was the son of Nathan and 
 Mary Jane (Frazier) Currier. His early education was re- 
 ceived in the common schools of New Hampshire and at the 
 Nashua Literary Institute. His professional education com- 
 menced in 1861 with Dr. Josiah G. Graves of Nashua. He 
 attended two courses of lectures at the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons in New York and was graduated from the same 
 in September, 1864. He has been a resident of Nashua ever 
 since, belongs to the Nashua Medical Society, has been city 
 physician, pension examiner, examiner for various life insur- 
 ance companies, member of the school board, and has held all 
 of the important offices in the state connected with the Masonic 
 Fraternity. 
 
 He was sent to the front by Governor Gilmore in June, 1864, 
 and during the two months' service was in Baltimore, Fortress 
 Monroe, White House Landing, Cold Harbor and Washing- 
 ton ; a considerable share of his service being at White House 
 Landing, caring for the wounded brought down from Cold 
 Harbor, afterwards at the hospitals about Washington. 
 
 Married, October 8, 1868, Abbie S. Walker. 
 
 No children. 
 
 Daniel Darling, M. D. 
 
 Late of Rumney, N. H. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Plymouth, N. H., 
 December 31, 1816, and was the son of Daniel and Elizabeth 
 (Leavitt) Darling, and a grandson of Daniel Darling. He 
 received his preliminary education in the common schools, 
 two years at Hopkinton Academy and a short period at Nor- 
 wich University; commenced his professional education in 
 Kumney, about 1836, under the direction of Dr. Woodbury 
 and afterwards with Dr. Alonzo A. Whipple of Wentworth, 
 N. H. : attended three courses of medical lectures at Bowdoin 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 391 
 
 College and was graduated from the Medical Department of 
 the same in 1839. First located for the practice of medicine 
 at Concord, Vt., where he remained for two and one-half 
 years, after which he located in Wells River, remaining there 
 about seven years. On leaving Wells Eiver, he located in 
 Rumney, N. H., in 1850, where he remained in the active 
 practice of his profession until his death, which occurred April 
 3, 1889. 
 
 Dr. Darling was a member of the Moosilauke Medical Soci- 
 ety. In 1864 he was a contract surgeon and served in the 
 Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Married, August 2, 1839, Sarah C. Pillsbury of Wentworth, 
 N. H. 
 
 Children, five: Elizabeth, Lydia, Susan, Sarah and Dan- 
 iel, Jr. 
 
 William Russell Dunham, j\I. D. 
 Keene, N. H. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Chesterfield, N. H., 
 December 15, 1833, and was the son of Ira and Savona (Pren- 
 tice) Dunham, and was a grandson of Thomas Dunham. He 
 received his preliminary education in the common and high 
 schools of Chesterfield and Hinsdale, N. H., and commenced 
 his professional education in 1856 in New York under the 
 direction of R. T. Trull, which was continued under the direc- 
 tion of Daniel Campbell of Saxton's River, Vt. ; this was sup- 
 plemented by courses of lectures at the Berkshire Medical Col- 
 lege of Pittsfield, ]\Iass., and at Harvard University, from 
 which he was graduated in 1865. 
 
 He commenced the practice of medicine April 17, 1865, at 
 Westmoreland, N. H., where he remained until February 22, 
 1876. At this time he located in Keene, N. IL, and became 
 a prominent member of the profession, becoming a member of 
 the Connecticut River Valley Medical Association, of which he 
 
392 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 has been vice-president, of the Cheshire County Medical Asso- 
 ciation, and also of the American Medical Association. He has 
 been a member of the school board of the City of Keene, and 
 is a member of the Keene Society of Natural History, and 
 examiner for several life insurance companies. 
 
 During the War of the Rebellion and before his graduation, 
 he became a contract surgeon, holding the position of acting 
 assistant surgeon of a colored regim.ent and was ordered to 
 South Carolina for duty. 
 
 In the line of original research he has been engaged for 
 nearly twenty-five years in the Department of Biological 
 Science. 
 
 Married, in 1865, Josephine S. Forbes. 
 
 One child, Mary R. Dunham. 
 
 Charles Amos Elliott, 
 
 Charles Amos Elliott, son of Charles Franklin Elliott, M. D., 
 was born in Somersworth, August 10, 1835. Commenced the 
 study of medicine with his father, taking courses of lectures 
 at Bowdoin and Dartmouth Medical Colleges. Entered the 
 service of the United States as assistant surgeon, where he re- 
 mained for three years. Afterwards settled in Lebanon, Me. ; 
 later removed to Somersworth, where he was associated with 
 his father until failing health demanded his retirement from 
 active work. 
 
 Married, April 12, 1872, Hannah Abbie Hayes, daughter 
 of Cyrus W. Hayes of Lebanon, Me. 
 
 Children, two sons. 
 
 He died March 7, 1891. 
 
 William Kelly Fletcher. 
 
 "William Kelly Fletcher, the son of Quartus and Ann 
 (Kelly) Fletcher, was born at Cornish, February 12, 1828. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 393 
 
 He studied medicine at Dartmouth Medical College and Har- 
 vard Medical School, graduating M. D. at the last in 1862; 
 was acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army from 
 May to June, 1862, and from January, 1863, to December, 
 1864; began practice at Somerville, Mass., April 1, 1865." — 
 (Page 448, "Alumni of Dartmouth College," by Chapman.) 
 
 Timothy S. Foster, ^I. D. 
 Laconia, N. H. 
 
 Surgeon Fx)ster was born ]March 16, 1828, in the town of 
 Lisbon, Me. He was the son of Timothy and Esther (Haley) 
 Foster. His early education was in the common schools 
 and later at private schools and academies. His profes- 
 sional education was commenced in 1859 at Brunswick, Me., 
 under the direction of Drs. N. T. Palmer and John D. Lincoln, 
 who Avere his medical preceptors. He attended medical lec- 
 tures at the j\Iedical Department of Bowdoin College and was 
 graduated from the same in April, 1862. He commenced the 
 practice of medicine in 1861, at Brunswick, IMe., and entered 
 the United States service as contract surgeon September 1, 
 1862. He was in the service one year, when on account of ill 
 health he resigned, returned to Brunswick, Me., where he was 
 in practice for a short time, then came to Laconia, N. H., 
 where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profes- 
 sion. He is a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, 
 the Winnipesaukee Academy of Medicine and corresponding 
 member of the Uymecological Society of Boston. He is also 
 surgeon of the G. A. R. Post, John L. Perley, No. 37, of the 
 Department of New Hampshire ; member of the order of Odd 
 Fellows, as well as of the local. State and National Granges. 
 
 Surgeon Foster's duties commenced immediately after the 
 first battle of Bull Run. when a good many sick and wounded 
 soldiers needed especial care. This was a period in the war 
 when a single surgeon and an assistant were all the medical at- 
 
394 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 tendants that were allowed to any regiment of a thousand men, 
 the natural result being that there was a good deal more pro- 
 fessional work to be done than was possible by the few men on 
 duty. At this period the governors of the different Northern 
 states were called upon to send to the front volunteer sur- 
 geons. 'A good many of these men left home like the minute- 
 men in the Revolutionary period, only expecting to be gone a 
 few days or a few weeks, giving their services, their expenses 
 only being paid by the state in which they responded to the 
 call. Many of these volunteers remained for a longer or 
 shorter period in the service, accepting positions in the army 
 or navy as best suited their convenience. At that time the 
 City of Washington was but little more than an immense hos- 
 pital, and for a time even the Capitol was filled with sick and 
 wounded men and Surgeon Foster 's service was confined to the 
 hospital within or near the city limits. 
 
 Acting Assistant Surgeon Foster says: "I was assigned to 
 hospital duty and was transferred to the Eleventh Army Corps 
 at the time of the battle of Gettysburg; was in several skir- 
 mishes on the way to Gettysburg and did not arrive there until 
 the battle was over. After the second battle of Bull Run, by 
 request of Governor Washburn of Maine, with others went to 
 the front for two or three weeks to care especially for Maine 
 men, and on arriving in AVashington was induced to take a 
 three months' contract, being assigned to Trinity Hospital, 
 remaining there six months, when the hospital was discontin- 
 ued and I returned home. After the Chancellorsville battle, 
 by request of Medical Director Abbott, again went to Wash- 
 ington and was assigned to Campbell Hospital, where I 
 remained three months, when my health failing I returned 
 home. ' ' 
 
 This was a period when women as well as men were largely 
 exercised by our prospects of war or peace. In a letter from 
 Dr. Foster the following shows the devotion of his wife, as 
 well as the patriotism of the man: ''A few daj^s after the sec- 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 395 
 
 ond battle of Bull Run the provost marshal of the state of 
 Maine told me that C4overnor Washburn desired to send a 
 force of volunteer surgeons to assist in earing for the sick and 
 wounded about Washington and requested that I would go 
 to the front. After a moment's thought I told him I would 
 go and agreed to meet him in Portland the next day. I went 
 home and told my wife, who, patriotic woman as she was, with 
 tearful eyes bid me go if duty called. ' ' 
 
 Dr. Foster has been twice married. 
 
 One son living, William E. Foster, who is now a druggist in 
 Laconia. 
 
 John Ordway French, M. D. 
 Late of Hanover, Mass. 
 
 John Ordway French was born in Gilmanton, N. H., Novem- 
 ber, 1821, and was the son of Dr. John and Lucy (Prescott) 
 French. His preliminary education was received in the com- 
 mon schools and at Gilmanton Academy. He commenced the 
 study of medicine with Dr. Nahum Wight of Gilmanton and 
 continued the same at the Medical School of Dartmouth Col- 
 lege, from which he was graduated in 1844; commenced the 
 practice of medicine in Chesterfield, N. H., in 1845, remaining 
 there until 1855, when he removed to Hanover, Mass. He 
 entered the service of the United States in 1861, being commis- 
 sioned assistant surgeon in the Twenty-third United States 
 Infantry and assigned to Carver Hospital in Washington, 
 D. C, where he served until 1865. 
 
 He married, first, Martha B., daughter of William and 
 Hannah (Folsom) Peaslee of Gilmanton; second, Nancy Perci- 
 val of Hanover, Mass. ; third, Mrs. F. V. R. Brown, in 1884. 
 
 Children, two sons, one of whom, Dr. Charles Peaslee 
 French, received the degree of M. D. from Dartmouth Medical 
 College in 1875 ; one daughter, deceased. 
 
 Died, September 26, 1887. 
 
396 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Charles Pinckney Gage, M. D. 
 Late of Concord, N. H. 
 
 Charles Pinckney Gage was born in Hopkinton, N. H., April 
 5, 1811, and was the son of John and Sally (Bickford) Gage. 
 Dr. Gage's paternal grandparents, John and Elizabeth (Fow- 
 ler) Gage, came to Hopkinton from Bradford, Mass., some 
 time prior to the year 1750, and about the same time that his 
 maternal grandparents, Thomas and Abigail (Eastman) Bick- 
 ford, came to the same town from Newburyport, Mass. The 
 paternal grandparents settled upon the same farm in Hopkin- 
 ton upon which Dr. Gage and his father were born. It is 
 recorded that his maternal grandfather, Thomas Bickford, 
 was a Revolutionary soldier. Surgeon Gage's preliminary 
 education was received in the common schools of Hopkinton 
 and as a private student of John Osgood Ballard and also at 
 the Academy in Hopkinton village. 
 
 "When thirteen years of age his father died of pulmonary 
 consumption, and he was obliged while attending school to do 
 errands, take care of the stock, get wood and water, and do 
 the thousand little jobs about the house and farm." At the 
 age of eighteen he commenced teaching, and five years later, 
 in 1834, he commenced his professional education under the 
 direction of Dr. Royal Call of Hopkinton. He attended two 
 courses of lectures at Dartmouth Medical College, a course at 
 the Vermont Medical College at Woodstock, Vt., a course at 
 the Berkshire Medical College, Pittsfield, Mass., part of a 
 course at Geneva, N. Y., and three courses in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 While at Woodstock, Vt., he became a private pupil of the 
 late Dr. Willard Parker, for whom he conceived and ever 
 maintained a most ardent admiration. Professor Parker went 
 from one medical college to another lecturing on surgery and 
 rapidly rising to fame, and Gage naturally went with him. 
 This accounts for his pursuing his professional studies at so 
 many different places. Whatever town contained Parker was 
 for him — aye, and for many another student, not only in those 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 397 
 
 days, but for a long period subsequently — the medical capital 
 of the country. Parker was his idol, but there were other 
 eminent men among his teachers, and he always spoke of them 
 with the profoundest respect. Among them were Keuben D. 
 Mussey, Robert Watts, Henry Childs, Elisha Bartlett, Samuel 
 D. Gross and Daniel Drake. Among those of his fellow stu- 
 dents who subsequently became famous were Oliver "Wendell 
 Holmes and Henry Kirke Brown. Brown, who afterwards 
 achieved eminence as a sculptor, was studying artistic 
 anatomy. ' ' 
 
 Politically, Dr. Gage was a Democrat and in common with 
 thousands in the North he carried the doctrine of state rights 
 to such an extent as to justify the rebellion of 1861 up to the 
 very beginning of hostilities. When the news came of the 
 firing on Fort Sumter, he, now again in common with thou- 
 sands in the North, subordinated doctrine to patriotism. 
 When the volunteers began to assemble in the camp on the 
 eastern side of the Merrimack he was assiduous in his attend- 
 ance as medical officer, and when measles made such havoc in 
 the First New Hampshire Regiment he exerted himself to the 
 extremity of his power to check the spread of the disease, 
 which had shown itself in a very deadly form, and to carry 
 relief and comfort to the sick. He continued in charge of the 
 sanitary affairs of the camp as long as it was used, assisted by 
 several of the physicians of Concord. Afterwards, in 1863, 
 on the return of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Regiments from 
 the unhealthy position they had maintained on the Mississippi 
 river, he again devoted much of his time to the care of sol- 
 diers. The city hall and grounds were converted into an 
 immense hospital containing many beds, and, as the records 
 of those regiments will show, a great many deaths occurred 
 while the hospital was maintained on these grounds. Dr. 
 Gage took his full share of the work, and ever maintained a 
 careful supervision over the welfare of the poor fellows who 
 had returned from their military campaign. 
 
 It was in June of the same year, while president of the New 
 
398 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Hampshire Medical Society, of which he was a constant mem- 
 ber from 1839 until his death, that at the close of his annual 
 address he made the most memorable remarks, from which are 
 the following quotations : 
 
 "Our country is under a cloud, dark and portentous. A 
 great and powerful portion of this nation is in wicked rebel- 
 lion against the flag raised by our fathers after years of suf- 
 fering and the spending of millions of treasure. No hour so 
 gloomy has it ever been the misfortune of this people to en- 
 dure. Is the sun of our glory about to go down forever and 
 leave the worshippers of Liberty no gleam of light? Can it 
 be that the future historian shall write our rise, progress and 
 downfall as not occupying the space of ninety years? And 
 have we as medical men nothing to do in this great struggle 
 for national existence, but to stand by in silence, or at most 
 to look after the sick and wounded ? Gentlemen, the founders 
 of this society were patriots as well as physicians. They 
 helped achieve our independence. They witnessed the dread- 
 ful agonies of the colonies and welcomed the birth of a nation. 
 The first president of our society, who was also one of its 
 founders, was the first person who voted for the Declaration 
 of Independence and the second man who signed it. The 
 blood of the heroes of the Revolution has never ceased to cir- 
 culate in this organization. It is in this society to-day. There 
 lias never been a more patriotic and loyal body of men in any 
 state nor one that has done more for the commonwealth. 
 They have been the watchful guardians of the liberties of the 
 people, the friends of true religion, zealous in the cause of 
 education, and in all great movements for securing the hap- 
 piness and prosperity of the state. That our profession has 
 done its duty, every battlefield from Bunker Hill to Vicksburg 
 attests. Let the thousands now ministering to the sick and 
 wounded on the Potomac, in the Dismal Swamp, on the rice 
 plantations of the Carolinas, in the Everglades of Florida, and 
 the stagnant bayous of the murky Mississippi, tell of the un- 
 tiring devotion of our craft to their country and their calling. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 399 
 
 And then say if we who are left behind have not a high and 
 holy duty to perform. What is our duty? It seems to me 
 that as intelligent and educated men we should try to revive 
 in the minds of the people the love of liberty, to remind them 
 of the great doctrines laid down in the Constitution, to allay 
 their passions, to stimulate their love of country, to implore 
 them to reverence and abide by the law, caution them against 
 the danger of deviating from the letter of that greatest of all 
 human written instruments as expounded by the greatest and 
 wisest of the sons of New Hampshire, the immortal "Webster. 
 The people of Xew Hampshire were among the foremost in 
 asserting the rights of free men and defending them, and they 
 have been to this day the staunch supporters of a united 
 national government. Nowhere in this great country are the 
 
 principles of equality and liberty cherished more sacredly. ' ' 
 
 ****** 
 
 ' * The liberty achieved bj^ our fathers and guaranteed by the 
 Constitution must never be given up under any circumstances. 
 It is only by the strict observance of the written law of the 
 land that we can hope to be preserved in this great national 
 trial. Then let us resolve to stand firm by the government, 
 the Union and the Constitution of these United States. In 
 view" of the responsibilities of the hour, let us not stop to 
 discuss the causes of the war or party matters, but let us 
 hasten to posts of duty and pledge our lives and fortunes to 
 overthrow the enemies of free government and to restore the 
 Union flag to everj' part of the country. Let us have faith 
 in Almighty God, that He will in his own good time deliver 
 his people from this great national peril, that He will con- 
 found and destroy all those who in any way strive to break 
 up this Union, and that He will finally restore to us freedom, 
 peace and prosperity." 
 
 Surgeon Gage was an enthusiastic lover of nature, and had 
 an excellent taste for literature and the fine arts. He had but 
 little time to spend on fraternal as.sociations, yet he was a 
 Mason and had attained to the degree of Knight Templar. In 
 
400 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 1846, with the late Dr. Tenney of Pittsfield, he attended the 
 first meeting of the American Medical Association and helped 
 organize what has become one of the largest medical associa- 
 tions in the world. For many years his office was the head- 
 quarters of a great number of medical students, the names 
 of many of whom are to be found in the records of the New 
 Hampshire surgical history of the war. 
 
 Dr. Gage died in Concord, N. H., November 26, 1894. 
 
 He married, August 22, 1837, Nancy George Sibley, daugh- 
 ter of Stephen Sibley of Hopkinton. 
 
 Children, two : Charles Sibley and Mary Agnes Gage. 
 
 Jeremiah C. Garland, M. D. 
 Late of Nashua, N. H. 
 
 Dr. Garland was born in Strafford, N. H., September 23, 
 1814, and was the son of Nathaniel and Lydia C. Garland, 
 and a grandson of Joseph Garland. His preliminary educa- 
 tion was received in the common schools of New Hampshire, 
 at Hampton Falls Academy, at Dr. Hilliard's Academy at 
 Northwood, and at Strafford Academy. He commenced the 
 study of medicine, about 1840, and attended Dartmouth Medi- 
 cal College ; afterwards he supplemented this by a course at the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, from which 
 he was graduated in the class of 1844. He commenced the 
 practice of his profession in Kochester, N. H., where he re- 
 mained until 1850, when he removed to Nashua. In 1857 he 
 left Nashua and located in Plymouth, where he was in prac- 
 tice during the first year of the war. He accepted service in 
 the army as acting assistant surgeon and served two years in 
 field and hospital. A portion of this time and during the year 
 1864 he was connected with the hospital at Camp Barker on the 
 Lee estate, somewhere in the vicinity of the soldiers' cemetery. 
 He then located in Nashua, N. H., where he remained in prac- 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 401 
 
 tice until his retirement in 1889. He was a member of the 
 first common council of the city in 1853, and served on the 
 board of aldermen in 1854. He was city physician in 1857, 
 1869 and 1870, and served many years on the board of super- 
 intending school committee. For a considerable period he was 
 an examiner for life insurance companies and was president 
 of the Hillsborough Medical Association. He also served on 
 the board of medical pension examiners for several years. 
 
 "Dr. Garland's citizenship has been of a character calcu- 
 lated to advance every interest of this community. That he has 
 accomplished so much is the result of fixed principles and a 
 purpose to be right, do right and to encourage all with whom 
 he has come in contact along the lines of cheerfulness, charity 
 and faithfulness in small affairs as well as in matters of 
 greater importance. He has been a good citizen, a kind 
 friend, a husband and father without reproach, a pleasant 
 acquaintance, and so we wish him sunny days and happy 
 hours and long life." 
 
 He died in Nashua May 15, 1900. 
 
 Married, December 5, 1849, Harriet C. "Woodman. 
 
 Children: Celia and Willard Parker, deceased; George 
 Theodore and Claudius, who reside in Chicago. 
 
 Aaron Rising Gleason, M. D. 
 Late of Keene, N. H. 
 
 (2 N. H. V.) 
 
 Gleason, Aapiox R. Co. F; b. Warren, Vt.; age 27; res. Gilsum; enl. 
 Sept. 9, '61; must, in Sept. 17, '61, as Priv.; tr. to 101 Co. 2, Batt'L 
 I. C, Jan. 5, '64; disch. May 18, '64, to accept position as Acting 
 Asst. Surg. U. S. A.; served by contract as Acting Asst. Surg. U. 
 S. A. (civil appointment), from May 18, '64, to July 22, '65. P. O. 
 ad., Keene. See 14 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 52.) 
 
 (14 N. H. V.) 
 
 Gleasox, Aarox R. F. and S.; b. Warren, Vt.; age 29; res. Gilsum; 
 app. Asst. Surg. May 11. '64; not must.; declined appointment. 
 P. 0. ad., Keene. See 2 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 708.) 
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402 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Dr. Gleason, born June 1, 1835, at Warren, Vt., was the 
 son of Windsor and Sophia (Clark) Gleason, a grandson of 
 the senior Windsor Gleason. He received his preliminary- 
 education at the public schools in Warren, Vt., in Acworth 
 and Alstead, N. H., several terms at the high school at Mil 
 village, Alstead, N. H., and at the Westminster Seminary, 
 Westminster, Vt. This w^as at the time that Professor Ward 
 was principal of Westminster Seminary. While receiving his 
 education Dr. Gleason several times taught school. He com- 
 menced his professional education in the spring of 1857 in 
 Gilsum, N. H., under the direction of Dr. Kimball D. Webster 
 of Gilsum and Dr. George B. Twitchell of Keene. In contin- 
 uing his course he attended lectures at Georgetown Medical 
 College, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, 
 and post-graduate courses in New York City, graduating from 
 the Georgetown University of Maryland, March, 1864. 
 
 In the meantime, as a private in the Second Regiment New 
 Hampshire Volunteers, he served in the hospital department 
 two and one-half years. After graduation he became acting 
 assistant surgeon in Campbell Hospital, Washington, D. C, 
 for one and one-half years; was commissioned assistant sur- 
 geon of the Fourteenth New Hampshire, but being pleasantly 
 situated in the hospitals about Washington declined to be 
 mustered into the Fourteenth. 
 
 At the close of the war he returned to New Hampshire, 
 located in Fitzwilliam for two years and afterwards at Keene, 
 N. H. He became a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society, Cheshire County Medical Society and Connecticut 
 River Valley Medical Society; was also a member of the 
 G. A. R. Post, No. 4, Department of New Hampshire, the Odd 
 Fellows, Order of Red Men, ' ' Lodge of the Temple, ' ' Masonic, 
 No. 88, all of Keene; was superintendent of schools in Fitz- 
 william, councilman in Ward two and representative to the 
 General Court from Keene. While at the Campbell Hospital 
 near Washington, Dr. E, A. Kemp of Danvers, Mass., formerly 
 of Sullivan, this state, was acting assistant surgeon at that 
 time. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 403 
 
 Married, June 19, 1869, Etta D. Webster, only child of 
 Dr. Kimball D. Webster of Gilsum. 
 Children, one : Maude Webster Gleason. 
 Dr. Gleason died March 5, 1904. 
 
 William Henry Grant, M. D. 
 Ossipee Centre, N. H. 
 
 Dr. Grant was born October 23, 1834, in Wakefield, N. H., 
 and was the son of Nathaniel and Sophronia Charlotte 
 (Hobbs) Grant. He attended the common schools and sup- 
 plemented this education with instruction at academies at Nor- 
 way, Me., and Exeter and Wolfeborough, N. H. His father 
 being a physician, he commenced the study of medicine under 
 his direction at Ossipee, N. H., in 1855, and attended four 
 courses of medical lectures, two at Dartmouth and two at 
 Bowdoin College, graduating from the Medical Department 
 of Dartmouth College in 1859. He commenced the practice 
 of medicine at Ossipee, N. H., where he remained one year 
 and seven months, then at Tamworth one year, and since the 
 close of the war he has been in Ossipee, with the exception 
 of about two years, when he was in California and Oregon, 
 this being from 1892 to 1894. He is a member of the Ameri- 
 can Institute of Homeopathy and of various social Masonic 
 societies, as well as of the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 His service in the army was at two different periods, both 
 being as contract surgeon with the rank of acting assistant 
 surgeon. The first service was in Columbia College Hospital ; 
 the second contract was dated June 10, 1864, and was annulled 
 by reason of sickness September 9, 1864, when his duty was 
 at Lincoln Hospital, Baker's Barracks, and lastly in Prisoners 
 of War Camp, Point Lookout, Md. 
 
 Married, first, Louisa A. Ambrose, November 24, 1859, who 
 died January 29, 1865; second, Fanny M. Magoon, April 23, 
 1866. 
 
 Children, one: Willie Clinton, born April 26, 1867; died 
 December 2, 1869. 
 
404 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Jasper Spurzheim Grant, M. D. 
 
 Dr. J. S. Grant, brother of William N. Grant, was a son of 
 Dr. Nathaniel and Charlotte Saphronia (Hobbs) Grant, and 
 was born February 6, 1836, at Wakefield, N. H. He was 
 named after Dr. Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, for whose literary 
 works Dr. Grant's father had a great admiration. He re- 
 ceived his preliminary education at the common schools and 
 fitted for college at New Hampton Institute, from which he 
 was graduated in 1857, and graduated A. B. from Dartmouth 
 College in the class of 1861. He commenced his professional 
 education under the direction of his father, and attended 
 three courses of medical lectures at Dartmouth, Bowdoin and 
 Harvard, and was graduated M. D. from Harvard in the class 
 of 1863. 
 
 He entered the service of the United States as acting assist- 
 ant surgeon in the autumn of 1863 and was assigned to duty 
 in the Lincoln, then in the Carver and lastly at Saratoga Hos- 
 pital near Washington, and at one time was detailed for a 
 few months at the Prisoners of War Camp, Point Lookout, 
 Md. He died of chronic diarrhoea at Saratoga Hospital, 
 Washington, D. C, August 14, 1865. 
 
 His biographer says of him: "He was a man loved and 
 respected by all who knew him, and secured many fast friends 
 in ci^^l and military circles in and about Washington." 
 
 I 
 
 Joseph Huntress. 
 Late of Sandwich, N. H. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Parsonsfield, Me., 
 December 20, 1819, and was the son of Samuel and Huldah 
 (Leavitt) Huntress, a grandson of Joseph Huntress of Par- 
 sonsfield, Me. His preliminary education was received in the 
 common schools of Maine and New Hampshire, and his pro- 
 fessional education was commenced about 1840. He was 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 405 
 
 graduated M. D. from the Medical Department of Dartmouth 
 College in the class of 1844. He commenced the practice of 
 medicine in Tamworth immediately after his graduation, 
 where he remained until 1861, when he entered the United 
 States service. After passing a good examination in New 
 York, he was made acting assistant surgeon in the United 
 States Volunteers, and was in the service until 1865, being 
 stationed and doing good work in the hospitals in front of 
 Washington. 
 
 After his service in the army he was located in the practice 
 of medicine in Lawrence, Mass., in New Brimswick, and Wash- 
 ington, D. C, from 1865 to 1873 ; after that he returned to 
 New Hampshire and was located in the practice of his profes- 
 sion in Sandwich, N. H., until his death, February, 1884. 
 
 Thrice married, first, in 1847, to Miss Oraam Sargent of 
 Tamworth ; his third wife was Miss Pierce of Sandwich. 
 
 Children, five : Elizabeth, David, Ida, Edward and Charles. 
 
 Edwin Augustine Kemp, M. D. 
 Danvers, Mass. 
 
 Surgeon Kemp was born in Sullivan, N. H., November 17, 
 1833, and was the son of Benjamin and Lydia (Woods) 
 Kemp, and a grandson of Benjamin Kemp. He received his 
 early education in the common schools of New Hampshire, and 
 at Kimball Union Academy at Meriden. He commenced his 
 professional education in New Salem, Mass., in 1858, under 
 the direction of Dr. A. E. Kemp and Prof. David Conant, 
 M. D. ; attended two courses of lectures at the Medical De- 
 partment of the University of Vermont and was graduated 
 M. D. from the same in June, 1862. He was assigned to duty 
 in Demilt Dispensary in New York City and was appointed 
 acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, November, 
 1862, and was assigned to duty in the vicinity of Washington, 
 D. C. His service was for two months in 1862 on the hospital 
 ship "Euturpe"; was stationed at the Campbell Hospital for 
 
406 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 eighteen months during 1863 and 1864, at Winchester, Va., 
 three months in 1864, and was at the Finley Hospital after 
 peace was declared, for nine months in 1865. Located for 
 the practice of his profession in Enfield, Mass., where he re- 
 mained ten years, was in Lonsdale, R. I., five years, and has 
 remained in Danvers, Mass., ever since. 
 
 Surgeon Kemp is a member of the Essex South District 
 Medical Society, of which he has been vice-president, also a 
 member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of which he has 
 been a councilor ; is a member of the Masons and Royal Arca- 
 num Association; a director in the Danvers (Mass.) Savings 
 Bank, and has taken post-graduate courses in Philadelphia, 
 New York and Boston. 
 
 Married, February 13, 1867, Esther M. Woolley of West- 
 moreland, N. H. 
 
 One child, Jessie Isabel Kemp. 
 
 Joseph Warren Odell, M. D. 
 Greenland, N. H. 
 
 Dr. Odell was a so-called ''contract surgeon," having a 
 title of acting assistant surgeon, United States Army. 
 
 Surgeon Odell was born in North Hampton, N.H., March 18, 
 1831, and was a son of George and Sarah Bartlett (Towle) 
 Odell, and grandson of James Odell. His preparatory educa- 
 tion was received in Greenland and Hampton Academies, and 
 he graduated in the classical course from Dartmouth College in 
 1852. He commenced the study of medicine in 1852 in Green- 
 land, under the direction of Dr. E. B. Moore of Boston, taking 
 four courses of lectures at Harvard, Jefferson and the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania. He was graduated from Harvard Med- 
 ical College in 1855 ; located at Rye Beach in 1856, at North 
 Hampton in 1858, remaining until 1871, when he removed to 
 Greenland, and has resided there ever since. 
 
 He was appointed acting assistant surgeon in July, 1863, 
 and was stationed at Fort Preble, Me., which was the head- 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 407 
 
 quarters of the Seventeenth Regiment United States Infantry, 
 until he was mustered out in July, 1865, and returned to North 
 Hampton. 
 
 Surgeon Odell is a member of the American ]\Iedical Asso- 
 ciation and the New Hampshire Medical Society, has been 
 town treasurer and a justice of the peace and quorum for 
 five and twenty years. 
 
 Married Mrs. Martha E. Elliot in 1867. 
 
 Children, one : Lillian Atherton Odell. 
 
 Edmund Randolph Peaslee, M. D., LL. D. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was so long identified with New 
 Hampshire interests that it seems fitting that he should have 
 a record with the surgeons of New Hampshire during the War 
 of the Rebellion. Many of New Hampshire's distinguished 
 surgeons were private pupils of Dr. Peaslee and a great many 
 were graduated from the Medical Department of Dartmouth 
 College between 1841 and 1861 who received direct teaching 
 under his supervision. Surgeon Peaslee 's interest in his 
 native state never failed and her sons always meet with a cor- 
 dial reception wherever they are found. 
 
 "Edmund Randolph Peaslee was born in Newton, Rocking- 
 ham county, N. H., January 22, 1814, and was the son of 
 Jam.es and Abigail (Chase) Peaslee. He received his prelim- 
 inary education at the common schools of New Hampshire, at 
 the New Hampton Literary Institute and Atkinson Academy 
 (N. H.), and entered Dartmouth College in September, 1832, 
 and was graduated A. B. in the class of 1836 with Samuel Col- 
 cord Bartlett, ex-president of Dartmouth College, and Claud- 
 ius Buchanan Webster, both of whom were residents of New 
 Hampshire. Dr. Peaslee 's father died when he was but a mere 
 lad and like many others who have made their way through 
 Dartmouth College it was through the most careful and judi- 
 cious management of a slender patrimony that he was enabled 
 to continue his studies. For one year after graduation he 
 
408 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 taught as principal of the academy at Lebanon, and was 
 afterwards a tutor in Dartmouth College, at the same time 
 attending medical lectures and studying medicine under the 
 direction of Dr. Noah Worcester of Hanover. Subsequently 
 he entered the Medical Department of Yale College and re- 
 ceived his degree (M. D.) from this college in 1840. After 
 his graduation from the Medical Department of Yale College 
 he visited Europe for the purpose of a post-graduate course, 
 but was called home in 1841 to give a course of lectures on 
 anatomy and physiology in the Medical Department of Dart- 
 mouth College as successor to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes of 
 Boston. From this time until his death in 1878 Surgeon 
 Peaslee was connected with Dartmouth College as lecturer, his 
 latest chair being that of gyntecology. In 1843 he was ap- 
 pointed professor of anatomy and surgery in Bow^doin College, 
 Maine, which position he held for seventeen years. In 1851 
 he was appointed professor of anatomy and physiology in the 
 New York Medical College and in 1853 he was transferred to 
 the chair of physiology and general pathology, at which time 
 he Avas almost a pioneer in this country in advocating and 
 teaching the use of the microscope ; later he was appointed to 
 the chair of obstetrics and diseases of women in the same 
 college. In 1858 he removed to New York City, and resigned 
 his positions at Bowdoin College and New York Medical Col- 
 lege in 1860. After this period he made Hanover his common 
 residence, practicing after a fashion and devoting considerable 
 time to his work in the Medical Department of Dartmouth 
 College. He received the degree of A. M. from Dartmouth 
 College in 1839 and the degree of LL. D. from the same 
 college in 1859 and became one of its trustees on the anniver- 
 sary of its centennial in 1869. During the War of the Rebel- 
 lion, New Hampshire, in connection with other New England 
 states, established post hospitals in the city of New York, one 
 of these was named the New England Hospital, of which Dr. 
 Peaslee was one of its surgeons, and he was similarly connected 
 with the New York State Hospital of Howard street, which 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 409 
 
 was established for the same purpose. ]\Iany a New Hamp- 
 shire soldier who found himself in the New England Hospital 
 in New York will remember Dr. Peaslee's kind attentions and 
 unflagging interest in their behalf. 
 
 "His personal appearance was rather remarkable; tall, thin 
 and very pale, with very white hair, he gave one the impres- 
 sion of feebleness, but his powers of endurance were as great 
 as many a robust working man. His appearance was always 
 the same. Dr. Holmes, America's most humorous physician, 
 writing to Dr. Barker of New York, soon after the war, said 
 of Dr. Peaslee's appearance as he first saw him in 1841, 'He 
 looked then as if his circulating capital might be a hundred 
 or two red globules with twice as many white ones, in half a 
 pint of serum'; yet he outlived scores of prize-fighters and 
 looked better when I saw him some months ago than as I re- 
 membered him then. ' ' 
 
 Dr. Peaslee was an author of world-wide reputation, his 
 works on histology and gynaecology were profound text-books 
 and will be remembered by physicians for a long time. Dr. 
 Peaslee died in New York City from pneumonia, January 21, 
 1878. He was attended constantly by Dr. Janvrin, his part- 
 ner, who was an assistant surgeon in the Fifteenth New Hamp- 
 shire Volunteers. 
 
 Married, July 18, 1841, Martha, only daughter of Stephen 
 Kendrick of Lebanon, N. H. This was at the time he located 
 in Hanover to practice his profession. 
 
 Two children, a son and a daughter; the son, Edward H, 
 Peaslee, was pursuing his studies in Europe at the time of his 
 father's death. 
 
 Dr. Peaslee died January 21, 1878. 
 
 Abraham H. Robinson, A. M., M. D. 
 Late of Concord, N. H. 
 
 Surgeon Robinson, a son of Josiah and Lucy (Sanborn) 
 Robinson, and grandson of Hon. John Robinson, was born in 
 
410 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Concord, N. H., January 8, 1813. His preliminary education 
 was received in the common schools of Concord, N. H., and 
 Gilnianton Academy. He fitted for college at Phillips Exeter 
 Academy and entered the sophomore class of Yale College in 
 1832, and was graduated A. B. at that university with honors 
 in 1835. 
 
 He began his professional education in Concord with the late 
 Timothy Haynes and took courses of medical lectures at Yale 
 and Dartmouth Colleges. He was licensed by the New Hamp- 
 shire Medical Society to practice medicine, and in 1867 the 
 honorary degree of M. D. was conferred upon him by Yale 
 University, at which time he took his degree of A. M. at the 
 same institution. In 1839 he began the practice of medicine 
 in Hillsborough, N. H., but after the expiration of a year 
 removed to Salisbury, N. H., where he continued in active 
 practice for nineteen years, Avhen he returned to Concord, 
 where he has since resided. 
 
 Dr. Robinson was a member of the Centre District and New 
 Hampshire Medical Societies, of both of which he was an ex- 
 president. He was a member of Blazing Star Lodge of 
 Masons, of Concord, of St. Luke 's Guild of New York, and of 
 the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale, to which he was elected 
 for honor in 1834. He at one time took an active part in 
 politics, and was a member of the Constitutional Convention 
 in 1849 and 1850. He twice represented the town of Salisbury 
 in the house of representatives and during one term projected 
 and promoted a movement to restock the Merrimack river 
 with salmon, which led to the establishment of fishways along 
 the stream and to legislation in the interest of the purpose. 
 
 During a great portion of his residence in Salisbury he 
 held the office of postmaster. 
 
 He was always a close student and had a very retentive 
 memory. Of what he read he could give the substance in a 
 most entertaining manner. For a great many years what is 
 now known as diphtheria was classed by the physicians of 
 New England as putrid or malignant sore throat. Dr. Robin- 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 411 
 
 son is believed to be the first to apply the name diphtheria, 
 after the form of French authors. 
 
 During the "War of the Rebellion Dr. Eobinson received an 
 appointment as acting- assistant surgeon, this being the title 
 under which contract surgeons were known, and for three 
 years was in charge of a post hospital in Concord, N. H. Dur- 
 ing his term of service in the post hospital at Concord he 
 treated a great many soldiers, and at one time his camp and 
 hospital over on the Plains was considered almost a harbor of 
 refuge for those who had been exposed to hospital gangrene. 
 
 In a paper before the New Hampshire Medical Society, pub- 
 lished in 1866, Dr. Robinson says: "In the treatment of this 
 disease (gangrene) complete isolation of the patient is essen- 
 tial, with good air and most perfect cleanliness as indispen- 
 sable aids. The topical application should be such as is 
 alluded to, and in the falling of the slough the parts should 
 be dressed as in ordinary cases of surgery. The constitutional 
 treatment should be on general principles, each case to be man- 
 aged according to the circumstances attending it." 
 
 The topical treatment described by him is such as is known 
 to-day as the antiseptic, and his constitutional treatment was 
 tonics and stimulant. It was several years after this before 
 Lysterism, or the antiseptic treatment of wounds, became pop- 
 ular with the profession. Dr. Robinson, therefore, like many 
 other surgeons in the army, was far in advance of his time, 
 in consequence of his careful study and ability to deduce from 
 the opinions of others many ideas that were useful to him 
 in an emergency. 
 
 Of his treatment he says: "The result of the treatment 
 was, I think, on the whole, satisfactory, the rate of mortality 
 not ranging higher than in many other diseases in private 
 practice." 
 
 Dr. Robinson has ever enjoyed the respect of the profession 
 and the esteem and confidence of the people. 
 
 He married, in 1840, Abby G. Gould of llopkinton, N. H., 
 with whom he lived most happily for forty-four years. 
 
412 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Five children, two of whom are living: Allan H. of Con- 
 cord and John W. of Biddeford, Me., both journalists. 
 
 Dr. Robinson died at the home in Concord, October 31, 1898. 
 
 Noah Sanborn, M. D. 
 Late of Bayonne, N. J. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Tamworth, N. H., 
 May 14, 1837, and was the son of Solomon and Relief (Brown) 
 Sanborn. His preliminary education was received at the sem- 
 inary in Parsonsfield, Me., and Phillips Exeter Academy. He 
 commenced the study of medicine with Dr. J. F. Hall of Wolfe- 
 borough, N. H., Dr. J. L. Swett of North Parsonsfield, Me., 
 and Moses Swett. He attended two courses of lectures at 
 Dartmouth Medical College and was graduated from the same 
 in 1862. 
 
 September 17, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company E, 
 Fourth Vermont Volunteers, and served as ward master, 
 apothecary and assistant surgeon until discharged for disabil- 
 ity, September 1, 1862. He was afterwards appointed acting 
 assistant surgeon in the United States Army, serving in the 
 Army of the Potomac and in hospitals about Washington until 
 he resigned May 27, 1863. 
 
 He settled for the practice of his profession in Acton, Me., 
 where he remained for a year and a half, when he moved to 
 Union, N. H., where he practiced for the same length of time, 
 then went to Springvale, Me. In 1871 he removed to Bayonne, 
 N. J., where he remained in the practice of his profession until 
 his decease, September 6, 1894. 
 
 Married, December 25, 1862, Rebecca L., daughter of Dr. 
 Stephen and Mary Leavitt (Hobbs) Adams, of Newfield, Me. 
 
 Laban Miles Sanders, M. D. 
 
 Surgeon Sanders was born in the Blue Hills district of 
 Strafford, N. H., in 1833, and was the son of William F. and 
 Abagail (Miles) Sanders, a grandson of William Sanders. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 413 
 
 He received his preliminary education in the common schools 
 and at Elmwood Literary Institute, New London Literary and 
 Scientific Institute, and at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich. 
 He commenced his professional education in 1861 at New Ips- 
 wich under the direction of Drs. James Emerson of New Ips- 
 wich and John Wheeler of Barnstead, afterward located in 
 Pittsfield, N. H. He attended two courses of lectures at the 
 Medical Department of Dartmouth College, and was gradu- 
 ated M. D. from the same in 1864. He was immediately ap- 
 pointed acting assistant surgeon. United States Army, and 
 assigned to duty in the Army of the Potomac, where he re- 
 mained until the close of the war in 1865. He then located 
 at Barnstead Centre, where he remained in the practice of 
 medicine until his death, which occurred January 8, 1867. 
 
 His service in the army was in the Twenty-fifth Army Corps 
 and other organizations where his services were needed. It 
 was his fortune to enter Richmond immediately after its evac- 
 uation and for a time his headquarters were in an office that 
 had been evacuated by a Confederate surgeon. General Moore. 
 
 He was a member of Belknap Lodge of Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows and one of the school commissioners of Bel- 
 knap county. 
 
 Married, in 1864, Sarah Tasker. 
 
 No children. 
 
 Joshua Otis Stanton, M. D. 
 Late of Washington, D. C. 
 
 "Joshua Otis Stanton, Washington, D. C, was born at 
 Strafford, Strafford county, N. H., October 22, 1837. He 
 was educated at Strafford Academy and Wolfeborough Acad- 
 emy, New Hampshire, and studied medicine at the Harvard 
 Medical College, Boston, and the Bowdoin Medical College, 
 Brunswick, Me., graduated at the latter in May, 1862. He 
 settled in Washington in 1865, and makes a specialty of dis- 
 eases peculiar to women. He is a member of the Medical As- 
 
414 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 sociation and of the Medical Society of the District of Colum- 
 bia; of the Gj^n^cological Society of Boston (corresponding 
 member), and member of the advisory and consulting board 
 of physicians and surgeons of Columbia Hospital for women 
 and lying-in-asylum. 
 
 "He entered the military service in June, 1862, as acting 
 assistant surgeon and served in and about Washington till 
 February, 1865. In 1864 he was appointed surgeon of the 
 First New Hampshire Cavalry, but declined on account of 
 ill health. In February, 1865, he was appointed surgeon of 
 the United States Veteran Volunteers and attached to the 
 provost-marshal general's bureau and served till October of 
 that year. 
 
 "In May, 1870, he married Ida M., daughter of Dr. William 
 Brooke Jones of Washington, D. C." — ("Physicians and Sur- 
 geons of the United States," William B. Atkinson, M. D.) 
 
 He died several years ago in Washington. 
 
 Bela Nettleton Stevens, M. D. 
 
 Bela N. Stevens was born in Newport, N. H., December 29, 
 1833, and was the son of Hon. Josiah and Fanny (Nettleton) 
 Stevens, and the grandson of Josiah Stevens. His preliminary 
 education was received in the schools of Newport, N. H., Gil- 
 manton Academj^ and Dartmouth College, from which he re- 
 ceived the degree of A. B. in 1854. His professional educa- 
 tion was commenced under the direction of Dr. Dixi Crosby, 
 professor of surgery in the Medical Department of Dartmouth 
 College, and was graduated M. D. from the same in 1859. 
 While studying medicine he was at the Marine Hospital, Chel- 
 sea, Mass., for a time, where he gave considerable attention to 
 plastic surgery. He also attended one course of medical lec- 
 tures at the Medical College of Philadelphia. 
 
 After graduation he was first assistant physician in the 
 Government Insane Hospital, Washing-ton, D. C, for five 
 years; acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army, 
 having charge of St. Elizabeth Army Hospital for sick and 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 415 
 
 wounded soldiers. In 1863 he was offered an appointment to 
 the chair of anatomy in the National Medical College at Wash- 
 ington, but did not accept. He was of an inventive turn of 
 mind, giving considerable attention to surgery, and developed 
 several instruments to probe for and remove bullets. These 
 were used extensively during the War of the Rebellion. 
 
 He was a member of the Episcopal Church and in a dis- 
 course conunemorative of his life by Rev. W. Pinkey, D. D., 
 one finds many complimentary allusions to the man and his 
 work. We have room for only the following quotation : 
 
 "His moral constitution was not less remarkable. Gentle- 
 ness and firmness were its most striking features — the firmest 
 gentleness and the most gentle firmness. The hills of his na- 
 tive New Hampshire, as they sit in the grandeur of the morn- 
 ing sun, and defy the wind and storm, were not more firm 
 than he ; and of the many gentle streams that water its noble 
 soil, not one is more gentle in its flow. Refinement of man- 
 ners, that beautiful refinement which expresses itself in word 
 and look and deed, and never loses sight of what is due to 
 another, due to his feelings, position and character, and is 
 ever as keenly alive to what is due to itself, was his most 
 prominent characteristic. 
 
 "A gentleman he was; and in this age of blustering pre- 
 tensions and uncouth roughness, when a ploughshare is driven 
 ruthlessly over the sensitive hearts of others, this said of him, 
 and all is said which could dignify and ennoble him as a 
 man. ' ' 
 
 Dr. W. W. Godding, of the class of 1854, who knew Stevens 
 and his work as no other classmate had opportunity to do, 
 having been associated with him for several years, gives his 
 biography in the class history published in 1898 as follows : 
 
 "He was one of our youngest members. After graduating 
 he studied medicine, and in 1859 became first assistant physi- 
 cian at the Government Hospital for the Insane at Washing- 
 ton, D. C. At the ])rcaking out of the War of the Rebellion, 
 still retaining his position as assistant in the Government Hos- 
 pital, under his chief, Dr. C. II. Nichols, he, as acting assistant 
 
416 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 surgeon, United States Army, took charge of the St. Eliza- 
 beth Army Hospital for sick and wounded soldiers, established 
 on the grounds of the former hospital. 
 
 ' ' He had remarkable professional and executive ability, was 
 thoroughly equipped both by education and temperament, and 
 carried his double work with apparent ease and entire satis- 
 faction to all. His efforts were untiring and the work was 
 of a magnitude out of all proportion to his strength, but he 
 never faltered and carried it on triumphantly to the end. He 
 had a very extensive acquaintance among the men whom the 
 great struggle had brought together at Washington, and was 
 universally popular and beloved. Had he lived he would have 
 taken high rank in his profession; he was already doing so, 
 when a malignant type of fever contracted in the line of his 
 hospital duty ended his life, 1865, July 5. His iUness was 
 brief, but he was worn out with the exhausting work that went 
 with that four years of heroic struggle, and a fatal termina- 
 tion w^as anticipated from the first. Stevens had an indom- 
 itable energy with a perfect enthusiasm for surgery. 
 
 "His mental activity with its lightning-like execution was 
 something wonderful. In that frail body was a will and 
 nerve like iron, but it was the old story of a sword too sharp 
 for its scabbard. Had he lived, — but it was ordered other- 
 wise; the fever passed quickly to low delirium, and the life 
 going out dashed down those bright hopes with all that rare 
 promise unfulfilled. In his delirium he repeated again and 
 again, ' This will be all right, ' when it seemed to us all wrong. 
 But might it not be that that ardent soul, escaping from the 
 lingering ills of threescore years and ten w^as even then pass- 
 ing beyond time and, from the chilling damps and earth 
 shadows of its brief life here, was already entering upon the 
 endless fruition and opportunity of that existence where 
 
 ' ' * They shall no more say I am sick ; ' 
 and that the 'all right' of the delirium was only an echo from 
 the other shore ? ' ' 
 
 Surgeon Stevens was never married. 
 
miscellaneous organizations. 417 
 
 John Wheeler, M. D. 
 Late of Pittsfield, N. H. 
 
 Dr. Wheeler was a native of Barnstead, born September 15, 
 1828, the son of Hazen and Jane (Jewett) Wheeler, a grand- 
 son of Abner Wheeler, Avho was in Capt. Elisha Wood- 
 bury's Company of Stark's Regiment at Bunker Hill. His 
 maternal grandfather, Dr. Jeremiah Jewett, was a native of 
 Massachusetts and was in the Revolutionary War connected 
 with a jMassachusetts military organization. The biographer 
 of Dr. Wheeler says : 
 
 "His early educational training was obtained in the public 
 schools of his native town, followed by a two years' course of 
 study at Gilmanton Academy. At the age of seventeen en- 
 tered Dartmouth College in the Classical Department, from 
 which he was graduated at the age of twenty-one. He then be- 
 gan a course of study in the Medical Department of the same 
 institution, but shortly after changed his plans and went to 
 Pittsfield, ]\Iass., and took a three years' course at the Berk- 
 shire Medical College, graduating with high rank in 1852. 
 
 "He began practicing medicine in his native town, where 
 he remained until the civil war, when he joined the Army of 
 the Potomac as surgeon. At the end of that service he re- 
 turned to Barnstead and practiced for several years and then 
 removed to this town, where he has since been located. His 
 skill and ability in his profession made him one of the best 
 known and most successful physicians and surgeons in this 
 section of the state, with the result that as long as he continued 
 in active business he always had a large and lucrative prac- 
 tice. He was a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society and had been honored by it with the office of president. 
 
 "He was a man of fine literary attainments and a writer 
 of marked ability, and contributed many interesting and val- 
 uable historical and biographical sketches to various publica- 
 tions. In religious sentiments he was a Congregationalist, and 
 was while a resident of Barnstead one of the chief supports 
 
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418 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 of the church in that town and has been a liberal contributor 
 
 to the support of the Congregational Church here." 
 ****** 
 
 "In August, 1864, he went to Washington as contract sur- 
 geon and was assigned for duty to Carver General Hospital, 
 of which O. A. Judson, United States Volunteers, was sur- 
 geon in charge. This hospital was situated near the then ter- 
 minus of Fourteenth street and the land on which the twenty- 
 seven wards and military barracks were built adjoined the 
 grounds of Columbian College. It was quite a little town in 
 itself with its water-works, plank walks, printing office and 
 chapel, and in the rear was a large camp of contraband slaves. 
 It did not, as did some other hospitals in its vicinity, support 
 a theatre, but there was a fine band and the convalescents 
 made a fair military display at guard mounting every morn- 
 ing. Dr. Wheeler became greatly interested in his work there 
 and Surgeon Judson remarked the few deaths that occurred 
 in the wards in his charge. In October he was ordered to 
 join a detachment of the Massachusetts Forty-second Regi- 
 ment, encamped on the Maryland side of the Great Falls of 
 the Potomac, a station about twenty miles north of Washing- 
 ton on the Chesapeake and Cumberland canal, at the head of 
 the aqueduct that supplies Washington with water. It was 
 considered an uncomfortable position, for Mosely and his 
 guerrillas were roaming the Virginia shore and making fre- 
 quent raids across the river and doing much mischief. It was 
 difficult to get transportation to the place, for even the offi- 
 cials were unwilling to trust the teams owned by the govern- 
 ment in that quarter, where horses were in such demand for 
 Early's army, that boats coming down the canal were robbed 
 of their animals and left adrift. Several other surgeons had 
 been ordered to the place before that, but found a way to 
 evade the order. At this post he found many sick with 
 typhoid fever and malaria, and beside the soldiers in his ex- 
 temporized hospital he numbered among his patients many of 
 the inhabitants of that region, black as well as white, who 
 along our lines were accustomed to receive medical treatment 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 419 
 
 gratis. Life there was very exciting, for there were alarms 
 from those on picket duty almost nightly. The military force 
 was not sufificient to oppose the squads of men frequently cross- 
 ing the river at the ford, two miles north. The little town of 
 Poolsville was destroyed in one of these raids. The Potomac 
 was very low at that time, and Dr. Wheeler, in talking with the 
 officers, once suggested the possibility of the enemy crossing on 
 the rocks above the falls to the wooded land above the camp. 
 The colonel laughed at the idea, but he learned later that our 
 boys were in the habit of crossing the river in that way fre- 
 quently to gather chestnuts on the Virginia side. After a 
 month at this post the command was relieved and Dr. Wheeler 
 again reported for duty at Carver Hospital, where he would 
 have remained to the end of the war but for complications in 
 affairs at home. While in service at Carver Hospital he re- 
 ceived a communication from Adjutant-General Head that a 
 commission as assistant surgeon in the Fifth Regiment New 
 Hampshire Volunteers awaited his order at Concord. He 
 regretted exceedingly his inability to accept that position. ' ' 
 
 His good wife accompanied him and was ever present to 
 assist in his work at Carver Hospital and at other places 
 where he was detailed for duty. The compiler of these 
 sketches has asked Mrs. Wheeler to give something of her 
 experience during these months of duty with her husband. 
 The following is her reply : 
 
 "Yes, our experience in the field was somewhat unusual, 
 but as I remember now, after thirty-seven years, it all seems 
 like a picnic with just enough danger and hardship to give 
 zest, and not to be mentioned with the record of the many 
 New Hampshire surgeons whose heroic deeds will be given to 
 the world through the volume you are preparing. 
 
 ' ' You ask me to write a .sketch of my husband 's work in the 
 hospital and with the Massachusetts regiment ; I do not think 
 he would wish me to do so, neither do I feel equal to the task. 
 The suffering and grief of the past year have made me dull 
 and disinclined to mental effort." 
 
 Dr. Wheeler became a member of the New Hampshire Medi- 
 
420 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 cal Society in 1853, was constant in his attendance upon the 
 annual meetings, was its president in 1885, and was an hon- 
 ored member of the association. 
 
 Married Mary H. Garland, November 13, 1856. 
 
 Dr. Wheeler died at his home in Pittsfield, N. H., December 
 21, 1900. 
 
 Phineas How Wheeler, M. D. 
 
 Alton Corner, N. H. 
 
 Surgeon Wheeler was born May 7, 1840, at Barnstead 
 Parade, N. H., and was the son of Hazen and Jane (Jewett) 
 Wheeler, a grandson of Abner Wheeler, who was in Capt. 
 Elisha Woodbury's Company of Stark's Eegiment at Bunker 
 Hill. His maternal grandfather. Dr. Jeremiah Jewett, was a 
 native of Massachusetts and was in the Revolutionary War 
 connected with a Massachusetts military organization. Dr. 
 Wheeler's preliminary education was received in the common 
 schools in Barnstead and at Pittsfield and Barnstead Acad- 
 emies, New Hampshire. He commenced the study of medi- 
 cine in Pittsfield, N. H., in 1862, under the direction of his 
 brother, John Wheeler, M. D. He attended medical lectures 
 at Dartmouth and Harvard, taking two courses at Dartmouth 
 and two recitation courses at Harvard, receiving his degree 
 of M. D. from the Medical Department of Dartmouth College 
 in 1865. Previous to graduation, he commenced the practice 
 of medicine in the United States General Hospital at Mt. 
 Pleasant, near Washington, D. C, in 1864, on a certificate 
 approved by Profs. Dixi Crosby and E. R. Peaslee, and also 
 Medical Director E. N. McLaren, surgeon. United States 
 Navy. Afterwards he was in the Seventh Regiment Veteran 
 Reserve Corps at the Lincoln General Hospital in Washington. 
 After graduating, he was located in Henniker and Manchester 
 (one year in each place), when he removed to Alton, N. H., in 
 1868, and has remained there ever since. 
 
 He was a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, 
 of the Masonic Fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, was on 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 421 
 
 the school board of Alton for four years, and has taken an 
 active part in whatever was for the interest of the citizens of 
 Alton. 
 
 Married, first, Sarah Colby, in 1866, who died in 1875 ; sec- 
 ond, Augusta E. P. Coffin, in 1878. 
 
 Children by first marriage : John and Alice Wheeler ; by his 
 second marriage, Annie Wheeler. 
 
 The son has taken up his father's profession and is a grad- 
 uate A. B. and M. D. of Dartmouth College and is located in 
 the practice of his profession at Plymouth, N. H. 
 
 Dixi Crosby, M. D. 
 
 The compiler of these sketches has had occasion many times 
 to refer to Dr. Dixi Crosby as the medical preceptor of the 
 student before he entered the army. Dr. Crosby was so well 
 known throughout the state and has had obituaries written by 
 abler men, that it is unnecessary to more than refer to the 
 fact that he was born in 1800 in the town of Gilmanton, and 
 was the son of Dr. Asa Crosby of Gilmanton. He received 
 the degree of M. D. from Dartmouth Medical College in 1824. 
 *'In 1827 he married Mary Jane Moody of Gilmanton, who 
 (at the time of writing this obituary) with two sons survived 
 him." Both sons were in the army and Dr. A. B. Crosby, 
 who succeeded Dixi in the Dartmouth Medical College, was 
 the surgeon of the First New Hampshire Regiment. 
 
 He was a member of many medical societies, always kept in 
 touch with his students, and his memory will be long cherished 
 by many in this state, as well as by many scattered through 
 the length and breadth of the land, as that of a skilful surgeon, 
 an intelligent and reliable counselor, a faithful teacher and a 
 genial friend. 
 
 During the war he did not join the army, but was for two 
 years employed in the arduous and unpleasant duties of ex- 
 amining surgeon in the provost marshal's office. 
 
 He died September 26, 1873. 
 
 (From obituary by Dr. C. P. Frost.) 
 
422 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 SURGEONS WHOSE SERVICE WAS IN REGIMENTS 
 OUTSIDE THE STATE. 
 
 Otis Ayer, M. D, 
 Late of Lesueur, Minn. 
 
 Otis Ayer was born in New Hampton, N. H., June 19, 1817, 
 and was the son of John and Judith (McCutcheon) Ayer. He 
 was educated at the New Hampton Academical Institution, 
 and pursued his medical studies in the Medical Department of 
 Dartmouth College, at Hanover, N. H., and at the Jefferson 
 Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa. ; was graduated at the 
 former in November, 1841, and at the latter in March, 1842. 
 He settled first at New Hampton in the last named year, where 
 he remained until 1852. In the following year he removed to 
 New London, N. H., where he practiced until 1856. He then 
 permanently established himself in Leseur, Minn. He was 
 in general practice, but giving special attention to surgery, in 
 the practice of which he was successful in performing various 
 major operations. He was a member of the Minnesota State 
 Medical Society, and was its president in 1877. During the 
 War of the Rebellion, from April, 1863, to December of the 
 same year, he was assistant surgeon of the Second Minnesota 
 Regiment of Infantry ; from 1865 to 1875 he was an examining 
 surgeon for pensions. 
 
 Thus for fourteen years he was intimately connected with 
 the affairs of the state of New Hampshire, and received the 
 universal respect of the profession. He was a member of the 
 New Hampshire Medical Society, and of such local societies 
 as the state afforded at that time. A few years before his 
 death he returned to New Hampshire, making a long \'1sit, 
 attended the meetings of the various medical societies, and 
 with much interest sought out his old-time friends, of whom 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 423 
 
 there were living Drs. Gage and Robinson of Concord, East- 
 man of Hampstead, and some others. For this reason it 
 seems just and fitting to give him a place with New Hamp- 
 shire surgeons. 
 
 Married, January 27, 1845, Narcissa V., daughter of Joseph 
 and Esther (Burnham) Smith of Shoreham, Vt., who died 
 June 1, 1873. 
 
 No children. 
 
 Dr. Ayer died of pneumonia, January 27, 1889, at Leseur, 
 Minn. 
 
 John Waterman Harris Baker, M. D. 
 Late of Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Chesterfield, N. H., 
 August 21, 1821, and was the son of Dr. Oliver Baker, Jr., and 
 Sallie (Ticknor) Baker, grandson of Dr. Oliver Baker, Sr. 
 
 He received his academic education at Kimball Union 
 Academy, Meriden, N. H., and his medical education at the 
 Medical School of Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., and 
 was graduated from the latter in October, 1842. In 1843 
 he located for the practice of his profession in Newport, N. H. ; 
 was in Meriden, N. H., in 1844; at Kokelumne Hill, Cal., in 
 1853, and settled in Davenport, Iowa, in 1855. 
 
 He served as assistant surgeon to the United States Hospi- 
 tal at Camp McClellan, near Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 Dr. Baker was a member of the Iowa State Medical Society ; 
 was its president in 1866; has held all the offices of the 
 Scott County Medical Society, and was vice-president of the 
 Illinois and Iowa Central District Medical Society and a mem- 
 ber of the American Medical Association. He was a member 
 of the New Hampshire Medical Society in 1852. 
 
 Married, January, 1845, Julia Ann Richardson. 
 
 Dr. Baker died April 7, 1905. 
 
424 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Ira Norton Barnes, M. D. 
 
 438 West North Street, Decatur, 111. 
 
 Surgeon Barnes was born in Claremont, N. H., December 
 19, 1829, and was the son of Ira Norton and Harriet (East- 
 man) Barnes, and a grandson of William Barnes, who moved 
 to Claremont, N. H., in 1772. The mother of Ira Barnes, Har- 
 riet (Eastman) Barnes, was a member of the Eastman family, 
 from which sprung Daniel Webster and other distinguished 
 citizens. 
 
 Ira Barnes received his preliminary education in the common 
 schools of Claremont ; fitted for college at the Kimball Union 
 Academy of Meriden; graduated A. B. from Dartmouth Col- 
 lege in 1855, and received the degree of A. M. from the same 
 college in 1858. He commenced his professional education 
 in 1858, at Hanover, N. H., under the direction of Profs. 
 E. R. Peaslee and Dixi Crosby; attended lectures in the Medi- 
 cal Department of Dartmouth College, and at Jefferson Medi- 
 cal College, Philadelphia, Pa., from which he was graduated 
 M. D. in 1862. 
 
 Locating in Decatur, 111., he became surgeon of the One 
 Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment Illinois Volunteer In- 
 fantry, and soon after surgeon-in-chief of the Fifteenth Army 
 Corps, and took part in the battles of Vicksburg, Champion 
 Hills, Jackson, Lliss., Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Knox- 
 ville, Tenn., Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Stone Moun- 
 tain, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Fort MeCallister, Ga., and with 
 Sherman's march to the sea; was at the burning of Columbia, 
 S. C, and thence through the Carolinas and Virginia to Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 During his thirty-eight years' residence in Decatur he has 
 been president of the board of health of the city of Decatur, 
 president of the Decatur Medical Society ; is a member of the 
 American Medical Association, the Illinois Army and Navy 
 Medical Association, Illinois State Medical Society, Decatur 
 Medical Society, and Central District Medical Society of 
 Illinois. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 425 
 
 Like many of the sons of New Hampshire, he still remem- 
 bers his native state ; has educated his son at Exeter and Har- 
 vard, and says : "I shall esteem it an honor to have my name 
 enrolled with the physicians of the old Granite State." 
 
 ]\[arried, first, September 25, 1861, Diantha G. Sargent of 
 Claremont, X. IT. ; second, July 8, 1886, Mary Wilder of De- 
 catur. 111. 
 
 Children, one : Lynn Moore Barnes, graduated at Phillips 
 Exeter Academy in 1892 and at Harvard University in 1896 ; 
 is also a graduate of the Harvard iMedical School. 
 
 Nathaniel Ghout Brooks, M. D. 
 Charlestown, N. H. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Acworth, N. H., Octo- 
 ber 14, 1838, and was the son of Lyman and Mary (Graham) 
 Brooks, grandson of Jonah Brooks. Surgeon Brooks re- 
 ceived his preliminary education in the common schools of 
 Sullivan county, and commenced the study of medicine in 
 1858 with Dr. Lyman Brooks of Acworth, N. H. He at- 
 tended three courses of medical lectures at Dartmouth and 
 Albany ^ledical Colleges, and was graduated from the latter 
 in 1861. He commenced practice in 1862, in Acworth, N. H., 
 that being his residence until 1874, when he removed to 
 Charlestown. Early in 1862 he was appointed assistant sur- 
 geon of the Sixteenth Vermont Volunteers, remaining with 
 that regiment until mustered out of the service, September, 
 1863, by reason of expiration of service. He v.as then ap- 
 pointed first assistant surgeon in the United States General 
 Hospital at Brattleboro, Vt., and remained there until March, 
 1865. Returning to Acworth, he resumed the practice of 
 medicine; became a member of the Vermont State Medical 
 Society, and was a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society. He has represented the town of Charlestown in both 
 
426 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 branches of the legislature, been a member of the school board, 
 etc. He is a Knight Templar Mason, and enjoys the confi- 
 dence and esteem of his fellow townsmen. 
 
 Married, December 5, 1876, Emma Preston of Baltimore, Vt. 
 
 Children, three : Lyman, Nathaniel P. and Philip P. 
 
 Gates B. Bullard, M. D. 
 
 Late of St. Johnsbury, Vt. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in New Hampshire, and 
 received considerable of his education in the same state, like 
 many others located outside, and was in the service of a Ver- 
 mont regiment during the war. 
 
 Gates B. Bullard, M. D., was born in Plainfield, N. H., Feb- 
 ruary 1, 1829, and was the son of Jonathan and Rebecca 
 (Gates) Bullard, a grandson of Ebenezer Bullard. Pie re- 
 ceived his preliminary education in the common schools of 
 Plainfield, and afterwards attended academies at Craftsbury, 
 Brownington and Newbury, Vt. He commenced his profes- 
 sional education in Newbury, Vt., in 1851, under the direction 
 of Dr. E. V. Watkins; this was continued under the direction 
 of Professors Peaslee and Dixi Crosby, at Hanover; he at- 
 tended medical lectures at Woodstock Medical College and the 
 Medical Department of Dartmouth College, taking three full 
 courses of lectures, and was graduated M. D. from Dartmouth 
 in the class of 1855. He located first in the practice of medi- 
 cine at Canaan, Vt., late in the fall after his graduation in 
 November. He remained there three and one-half years, when 
 he removed to East St. Johnsbury, where he was located when 
 the War of the Rebellion broke out in 1861. 
 
 He was appointed assistant surgeon of the Fifteenth Ver- 
 mont Volunteers, of which the late Prof. Carlton P. Frost of 
 Hanover was surgeon. On the resignation of Surgeon Frost in 
 May, 1863, Dr. Bullard was appointed surgeon, and remained 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 427 
 
 with the regiment until it was mustered out in August, 1863. 
 His service in the army was with the Second Vermont Brigade, 
 under Generals Stoughton and Stanard. On being mustered 
 out of the service he returned to St. Johnsbury, where he 
 died September 4, 1901. 
 
 He has been president of the White Mountain Medical So- 
 ciety of New Hampshire, of the State ]\Iedical Society of Ver- 
 mont, and was a member of the American Medical Association. 
 He read several papers before these societies which have been 
 published. He was representative of the town of St. Johns- 
 bury in 1863 and 1864 ; senator from Caledonia county, 1867- 
 '68 ; health officer of the town of St. Johnsbury from 1894 to 
 1897. 
 
 Dr. Bullard was a member of the fraternal associations of 
 Odd Fellows, Masons and Grand Army. He was a general 
 practitioner and frequently took winter vacations, attending 
 post-graduate courses in New York. 
 
 Married, Lefie P. Wheeler, in 1860. 
 
 Children, three : Harry, Rebecca and Agnes Bullard. 
 
 John Freeman Butler, M. D. 
 
 Spofford, N. H. 
 
 Butler, John F. F. and S.; 39 Mass. Inf.; b. Marlow; age 32; 
 res. Chesterfield; app. Asst. Surg. Mar. 27, 'C4; must, in June 14, 
 'C4, for 3 yrs.; disch. June 2, '05; P. 0. ad., Chesterfield. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 103C.) 
 
 Surgeon Butler was born in the town of I\Iarlow, N. H., 
 June 14, 1881, and was the son of Jonathan and Martha (Rus- 
 sel) Butler, and a grandson of Jonathan Butler, a soldier in 
 the Revolutionary War. The grandfather was at Bunker 
 Hill and served during the Revolutionary War three years. 
 Martha Russel, his mother, was the daughter of a Revolution- 
 ary soldier, his maternal grandfather being a Minute Man, 
 
428 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 and left home in season to be at the battle of Lexington, and 
 did not return to his home until discharged at the close of the 
 war, being in the service eight years. 
 
 Surgeon Butler's education was received in the common 
 schools of New Hampshire, supplemented by an academic 
 course at the Marlow and Tubbs Union Academy at Washing- 
 ton, N. H. His professional education commenced in 1850 
 at Marlow under the direction of Marshall Perkins, M. D., 
 late assistant surgeon of the Fourteenth New Hampshire Vol- 
 unteers. He took special courses of medical instruction at 
 the Tremont Medical School in Boston, and Harvard Medical 
 College, and at the Medical Department of Dartmouth Col- 
 lege, graduating from Harvard Medical College in March, 
 1854. He located for the practice of medicine in what is now 
 Spofford, then called Chesterfield Factory Village, Cheshire 
 county, N. H., and has never changed his residence. 
 
 He was assistant surgeon of the Thirty-ninth Massachusetts 
 Infantry of Volunteers from May 27, 1864, to June 2, 1865, 
 and during the winter of 1864- '65 was surgeon in charge of 
 the Sixteenth Maine Volunteers, in addition to his duties with 
 the Thirty-ninth Massachusetts. Later he was placed on de- 
 tached duty in charge of the Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania, and 
 was present at the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox. 
 
 Surgeon Butler was representative in the New Hampshire 
 legislature for two terms, in 1874 and 1875; town moderator 
 for many years, and has been a member of the school board for 
 the past thirteen years ; also a trustee of the Chesterfield Pub- 
 lic Library. 
 
 Dr. Butler performed the operation of ovariotomy as early 
 as 1857, and has had signal success in the treatment of diph- 
 theria and other diseases. 
 
 Married, first, December 17, 1857, Julia Quimby of Leba- 
 non, N. H. ; second, Celia A. Brewster of Lowell, Mass., Jan- 
 uary 17, 1863. 
 
 No living children. 
 
miscellaneous organizations. 429 
 
 Edgar L. Carr, M. D. 
 Late of Pittsfield, N. H. 
 
 (15 N. H. V.) 
 
 Carr, Edgar L. Co. G; b. Gilmanton; age 21; res. Pittsfield, cred- 
 Chichester; enl. Nov. 6, 'G2; must, in Nov. 6, '62, as Priv.; must, 
 out Aug. 13, '63. P. O. ad., Pittsfield. See Miscel. Organizations. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 741.) 
 
 (Miscel. Organizations.) 
 
 Carr, Edgar L. F. and S.; 21 Mass. Inf.; b. Gilmanton; age 23; 
 res. Pittsfield; app. Asst. Surg. June 21, '64; must, in June 22, 
 '64, for 3 yrs.; disch. Aug. 30, '64; app. Asst. Surg. 35 Mass. Inf. 
 Sept. 26, '64; must, in Oct. 7, '64; tr. to 29 Mass. Inf. June 7, '65; 
 must, out July 29, '65. P. 0. ad., Pittsfield. See 15 N. H. V. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1036.) 
 
 Edgar LeRoi Carr was born in Gilmanton, N. H., May 12, 
 1841, a son of Isaac Smith and Lueinda Jane (Osgood) Carr, 
 and a grandson of John Carr of Gilmanton. He received his 
 preliminary education in the Pittsfield public schools and 
 Pittsfield Academy, and his professional education com- 
 menced in 1861, under the direction of John Wheeler, M. D., 
 of Pittsfield. He attended the medical departments of Dart- 
 mouth and Bowdoin Colleges, and \vas graduated from the 
 latter in June, 1864. 
 
 In the mean time he was acting hospital steward of the 
 Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteers from November, 1862, 
 to August, 1863, and from June, 1864, to August, 1865, assist- 
 ant surgeon in the Twenty-first, Thirty-fifth and Twenty- 
 ninth Massachusetts Volunteers. 
 
 Returning to New Hampshire, he commenced the practice 
 of medicine in Candia, N. H., March, 1866, where he re- 
 mained for four years, when he removed to Pittsfield, and was 
 an honored physician for thirty-three years. He was a mem- 
 ber of the New Hampshire Medical Society, for which he has 
 read medical papers which have been published in the trans- 
 actions of the same. 
 
 Married, July 3, 1867, Addie J. B. Osborne. 
 
 Children, two : Burt Wilbur and Belle 0. Carr. 
 
 Dr. Carr died December 22, 1903. 
 
430 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Albert A. Chase, M. D. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Meredith, N. H., Sep- 
 tember 10, 1839, and was the son of Luther Martin and Rox- 
 ana (Gordon) Chase, and a grandson of John Chase of New 
 Hampshire. He received his preliminary education in the 
 common schools and academies of New Hampshire. His profes- 
 sional education was commenced at Meredith, N. H., with Dr. 
 John H. Sanborn, who was afterwards assistant surgeon of 
 the Twelfth New Hampshire Volunteers, and continued under 
 the direction of Prof. Dixi Crosby of Hanover. He was grad- 
 uated in medicine from Dartmouth Medical School in the 
 class of 1865, probably receiving his degree in November of 
 the preceding year, as was the regulation in those days. He 
 commenced the practice of medicine on the border line of Ver- 
 mont and Canada, remaining about one year. During the 
 period of his medical education he was for a short time with 
 the Twenty-eighth Massachusetts Volunteers; afterwards be- 
 came connected with the Freedman's Bureau, October 11, 
 1865, at Raleigh, N. C. 
 
 Albert Warren Clark, M. D. 
 
 Dr. Albert W. Clark practiced his profession at Littleton 
 for a period of about ten months in 1856, and left this field, 
 locating at Woburn, Mass. From that place he was appointed 
 assistant surgeon of the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry, 
 August 14, 1862. He resigned, and was honorably discharged. 
 May 1, 1863. The next year he returned to Littleton and re- 
 sumed practice. He continued there until his death, March 
 27, 1867. He was born in Lisbon, July 25, 1828. He took 
 his degree in medicine at Dartmouth Medical College in 1851. 
 
 His widow and three children survive him, all residing in 
 Massachusetts. — {Granite Monthly, A. S. Batchellor.) 
 
miscellaneous organizations. 431 
 
 David Small Clarke, M. D. 
 Derry, N. H. 
 
 Clarke, David S. F. and S.; 59 Mass. Inf.; b. Limington, Me.; 
 age 40; res. Derry; app. Asst. Surg. Mar. 26. '65; must, in 
 Mar. 26, '65, for 3 yrs.; tr. to 57 Mass. Inf. June 1, '65; must, out 
 July 30, '65. P. O. ad.. Derry. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, 
 p. 1038.) 
 
 Surgeon Clarke was born in Limington, Me., August 16, 
 1824, and was the son of Nathaniel and Mary (Small) Clarke, 
 a grandson of Ebenezer Clarke. He received his preliminary- 
 education in the common schools of Maine, and from Liming- 
 ton Falls Academy. He commenced his professional educa- 
 tion in 1851, under the direction of Charles Millett, ]\L D., of 
 the same town; attended three courses of medical lectures at 
 the Castleton, Vt., Medical College, from which he was 
 graduated in the class of 1854. He then took a post-graduate 
 course in New York City during the winter of 1854- '55. 
 
 He commenced the practice of medicine in New Gloucester, 
 i\Ie., where he was located two years. He then removed to 
 LaCrosse, Wis., where he practiced medicine for four years. 
 Returning to New Hampshire, he located in Hampstead for 
 three years, and has been in Derry, N. H., for over forty 
 years. He was formerly a member of the New Hampshire 
 Medical Society. 
 
 His military service was in the Massachusetts regiments as 
 assistant surgeon of the Fifty-ninth and Fifty-seventh Massa- 
 chusetts Infantry, with the following record : 
 
 "David S. Clarke, M. D., Field and Staff, Fifty-ninth Mas- 
 sachusetts Infantry ; born in Limington, Me. ; age forty ; resi- 
 dent Derry, N. H. ; appointed assistant surgeon March 26, 
 1865 ; mu.stered in March 26, 1865, for three years ; transferred 
 to Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Infantry, June 1, 1865 ; mus- 
 tered out, July 30, 1865." 
 
 Married, in 1856, Mary S. Latham. 
 
 Children, six, four living: Carrie, Howard L., Herbert G., 
 and Sylvia Clarke. 
 
432 suegical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Granville Priest Conn, M. D. 
 Concord, N. H. 
 
 Surgeon Conn was born in Hillsborough, N. H., January 25, 
 1832. and is the youngest of eight children of William and 
 Sarah (Priest) Conn, of Scotch-Irish and English descent, re- 
 spectively; grandson of George Conn, and fifth in descent 
 from John Conn, who immigrated to New England about 1710. 
 Until sixteen years of age he lived upon his father's farm, 
 attending the country schools and doing farm work. After 
 this he was a student for a few months at the Francestown 
 and the Pembroke Academies, and spent two years at Capt. 
 Alden Partridge's Military Institute, at Norwich, Vt. He 
 also taught occasionally in the common and select schools in 
 New Hampshire and Vermont. Beginning in 1852, and until 
 1856, he read medicine in the office of Dr. H. B. Bro^vn, Hart- 
 ford, Vt., in the mean time being instructor in mathem.atics 
 at the academy in that town ; attended two courses of lectures 
 at the Vermont Medical College, Woodstock, and one course 
 at Dartmouth Medical College, Hanover, N. H., receiving the 
 degree of M. D. from the latter institution, November 12, 
 1855. In 1880 the honorary degree of A. M. was conferred 
 upon him by Norwich University. 
 
 Dr. Conn practiced medicine at East Randolph, Vt., 1856 to 
 1861, when he removed to Richmond, in the same state. Au- 
 gust 19, 1862, he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the 
 Twelfth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, with orders to ren- 
 dezvous at Brattleboro, and, in connection with the late Sur- 
 geon Phelps of Windsor, Vt., organized a United States Hos- 
 pital of one thousand beds. A month later his regiment en- 
 tered the field, and with it he served in Virginia during nine 
 months, first in the Twenty-second Army Corps, and later 
 with the Second Vermont Brigade; was transferred to the 
 First Army Corps, and was mustered out of the service with 
 the regiment at Brattleboro, Vt., July 14, 1863. 
 
 In the autumn of 1863, Dr. Conn located in Concord, N. H., 
 where he has since remained. In 1864 he formed a partner- 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 433 
 
 ship with the late Dr. Charles Pinckney Gage, which continued 
 until 1881. He was city physician from 1872 to 1876, and in 
 1866 secured the passage of a city ordinance requiring a house- 
 to-house sanitary inspection, the first in the state, and, so far 
 as can be learned, the first in this country. He was largely 
 instrumental in securing the passage of the act by the state 
 legislature, in 1881, creating a state board of health, and has 
 been a member of the board and its president continuously 
 since its organization. About 1880 it was largely through his 
 influence that an ordinance was passed in Concord requiring 
 burial permits, which was soon afterwards adopted by the 
 state. 
 
 While a resident of Vermont, Dr. Conn became a member 
 of the Vermont State Medical Society, and has since been made 
 an honorary member of that society ; became a member of the 
 New Hampshire Medical Society, of which he has been secre- 
 tary since 1869, except during the years 1880 and 1881, when 
 he was vice-president and president, respectively ; is a member 
 of the Centre District Medical Society ; American Medical As- 
 sociation ; American Public Health Association, vice-president 
 in 1895, chairman of the section on car sanitation ; New York 
 Medico-Legal Society; honorary member of the Strafford 
 County (N. H.) Medical Society; is a member of the various 
 Masonic associations, and of E. E. Sturtevant Post, Grand 
 Army of the Republic, and the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion. He was a member of the board of railroad commis- 
 sioners of New Hampshire, 1877, 1881, being twice elected by 
 the popular vote of the state, and has been surgeon to the Bos- 
 ton & Maine Railway since 1880. He was a member of the 
 United States board of pension examiners at Concord, 1872 to 
 1885 ; is a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society, 
 and was elected to fill the chair of hygiene at Dartmouth Med- 
 ical College, in 1894. 
 
 Married, May 25, 1858, at East Randolph, Vt., Miss Helen 
 M., daughter of Edward Sprague. 
 
 Children, two: Frank W. and Charles F. Conn. 
 
 28 
 
434 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Charles Augustine Davis, M. D. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Concord, N. H., Feb- 
 ruary 17, 1823, and was the son of Robert and Almira (Dear- 
 born) Davis. He received his preliminary education in the 
 common schools. Commenced the study of medicine with Dr. 
 Chadbourne, at Concord, in 1845 ; continued the same with Dr. 
 George Bailey, at Chelsea, Mass., and at the Medical School of 
 Harvard University, and was graduated M. D. from the same 
 in 1848. He commenced the practice of his profession in 
 Lowell, Mass. In 1853 he was appointed surgeon of the Ma- 
 rine Hospital at Chelsea, Mass. ; was also its superintendent. 
 In February, 1862, Dr. Davis was commissioned surgeon of the 
 Thirty-second Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers; served in 
 most of the Peninsular campaign in General Hooker's Divi- 
 sion, but, prostrated by fever, went to Derry in the fall of 
 1862, and eventually died, deeply regretted as a distinguished 
 ornament of his profession. 
 
 Married, October 29, 1850, Mary, daughter of James B. 
 Thornton of Nashville. 
 
 George R. Dinsmoor, M. D. 
 
 Keene, N. H. 
 
 (1 N. H. Cav.) 
 
 Dinsmoor, Geobge R. F. and S.; b. Keene: age 24; res. Keene; app. 
 Asst. Surg. March 13, '65; not must. P. O. ad., Keene. See Mis- 
 eel. Organizations. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 862.) 
 
 (Miscel. Organizations.) 
 
 Dinsmoor, George R. F. and S.; 20 Mass. Inf.; b. Keene; age 24; 
 res. Keene; app. Asst. Surg. March 31, '65; must, in April 14, '65, 
 for 3 years; disch. July 15. '65. P. 0. ad., Keene. See I N. H. 
 Cav. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1043.) 
 
 Surgeon Dinsmoor was born in Keene, May 28, 1841, and 
 was the son of William and Julia Ann (Fiske) Dinsmoor of 
 Keene. His preliminary education was received at the public 
 and private schools in Portsmouth, N. H., where he fitted for 
 college and entered Harvard in 1859. In his junior year 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 435 
 
 (January, 1862) at Harvard College, while at home for the 
 Christmas vacation, an accident befell his father, which re- 
 quired his care and attention, and while performing this duty- 
 he became interested in the study of medicine and under the 
 direction of Dr. George B. Twitchell of Keene began the study, 
 of anatomy while caring for his father in 1862. He continued 
 the study of medicine, taking lectures in Boston and New York, 
 and received the degree of M. D. from Bellevue Hospital 
 Medical College in the spring of 1865. In the mean time, he 
 had served as medical cadet in the United States Military Hos- 
 pital at Keadville, Mass., and was appointed a recruiting officer 
 for New Hampshire at Keene, and enlisted in Captain Barker's 
 company in the Fourteenth New Hampshire Infantry. Before 
 the regiment left the state, he received an accident in which 
 his leg was fractured, which incapacitated him for active ser- 
 vice. It was during this time that he made great advancement 
 in the study of medicine. In 1865 he received a commission 
 from Governor Gilmore as assistant surgeon in the First New 
 Hampshire Cavalry, but at that time there were not men 
 enough enlisted in the regiment to allow his being mustered 
 into the United States service. Soon after he received a com- 
 mission from Governor Andrew as assistant surgeon in the 
 Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry, and joined his regiment at 
 Burkesville, Va., just in time to hear of the news of Lee's sur- 
 render. He remained in camp a short time at this place, when 
 the regiment moved by easy marches to the neighborhood of 
 Washington, D. C, and participated in the grand review of 
 May, 1865. About July 1, of the same year, the regiment was 
 transported to Readville, Mass., where it was soon mustered 
 out of the service. In the autumn of 1865 he entered the 
 Brooklyn General Hospital as resident surgeon, remaining 
 there about a year, when he went West with the intention of 
 locating in the practice of medicine, or of establishing him- 
 self at an army post on the frontier, but he never became per- 
 manently settled and in the autumn of 1869 he went South. 
 The years 1871 and 1872 were spent in Europe, mostly in Eng- 
 land, Germany and Italy. 
 
436 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 He returned from the army suffering from malaria and 
 medical experts attribute to that cause his present ill health. 
 He has lived temporarily in Germantown, Pa., and at Ports- 
 mouth, N. H., and now with greatly impaired health is re- 
 siding in Keene, N. H. 
 
 Married, in 1874, to Miss Helen Jones of Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Children, two : A daughter, who is dead, and a son, who was 
 a graduate of the class of 1899 of Harvard College, 
 
 Dr. Dinsmoor died in Keene, April 28, 1901. 
 
 Samuel Lane Button, M. D. 
 Newton Centre, Mass. 
 
 (Fortieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.) 
 
 Surgeon Button was born in Acton, Mass., July 15, 1835, 
 and was the son of Solomon Lane and Olive Charlotte (Hutch- 
 inson) Button, a grandson of Samuel Button. He received 
 his preliminary education in the common schools, supple- 
 mented by academic courses at the Appleton in New Ipswich, 
 the Appleton Academy in Mont Vernon, and the Francestown 
 Academy, all in New Hampshire. He commenced his pro- 
 fessional studies in Chelmsford, Mass., in 1856, under the di- 
 rection of Levi Howard, M. B. He attended three courses 
 of lectures at the Albany Medical College, at the Harvard 
 University Medical School, and was graduated from the lat- 
 ter institution in 1860. 
 
 ' ' He commenced the practice of medicine in May of the 
 same year at Berrj^, N. H., and after two years and a half 
 there, entered the service, and upon return, located in Boston, 
 which has been his place of residence since that time. Br. 
 Button was assistant surgeon, First Massachusetts Heavy 
 Artillery ; promoted to surgeon of the Fortieth Massachusetts 
 Infantry and surgeon-in-chief, Third Brigade of the First 
 Bivision, Eighteenth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 437 
 
 "On his return from the service in the army, he located in 
 Boston for the practice of his profession, and became a member 
 of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Norfolk District Medical 
 Society, and was formerly a member of the Boston Society for 
 Medical Observation, and of the Gynaecological Society of Bos- 
 ton, being one of the founders of the latter society. Early in 
 his professional career Dr. Dutton gave particular attention, 
 through special training, to gynaecological work. He was pen- 
 sion surgeon (Boston board of examining surgeons), under 
 President Harrison; visiting physician to St. Elizabeth's Hos- 
 pital, 1868 to 1883, and consulting physician to the same insti- 
 tution, 1883 to 1890. He is a member of the Grand Army of 
 the Republic, of the Loyal Legion, etc. 
 
 "Married, in 1860, Miss Surviah Parkhurst Stevens of 
 Chelm^ord, Mass. 
 
 "Children: Edgar F., Bertha H. and Mary E., living, and 
 Grace S., who died at the age of twelve and a half years." 
 
 Nathaniel W. French, M. D. 
 Late of Penacook, N. H. 
 
 Fbench, Nathaniel W. F. and S.; 50 Inf. Mass. Vol. Militia; b. 
 Deerfield; age 29; res. Concord (Fisherville, novr Penacook); app. 
 Asst. Surg. Oct. 31, '62; must, in Nov. 11, '62, for 9 mos.; died, 
 dis. April 21, '63, Baton Rouge, La. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 1048.) 
 
 Surgeon French was the son of Richard J. and Mehitable 
 (Wells) French, and was born in Deerfield, N. H., February 
 20, 1833. His preliminary education was received in the pub- 
 lic schools of Deerfield and Penacook, and he received an aca- 
 demic education at Colby Academy, New London. His pro- 
 fes.sional education was under the direction of Dr. Mirror of 
 Fall River, Mass., and Dr. Thomas Wells of New Haven, 
 Conn., and he was graduated from the Medical Department of 
 Yale College in the class of 18162. 
 
 Surgeon French was appointed assistant surgeon of the Fif- 
 tieth Massachusetts Infantry October 31, 1862. This was the 
 
438 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Massachusetts regiment that went South with Butler late in 
 the fall of 1862, and he suffered so severely from the effects 
 of the climate in the swamps and bayous of Louisiana, that he 
 died of disease in Baton Rouge, La., April 21, 1863, having 
 been less than six months in the service. 
 He never married. 
 
 Carlton P. Frost, M. D. 
 Hanover, N. H. 
 
 Carlton Pennington Frost was the son of Benjamin and 
 Mary Catherine (Brant) Frost, and was born in Sullivan, 
 N. H., May 29, 1830. "When he was six years of age his father 
 removed with his family to Thetford, Vt., for the purpose of 
 educating his children at Thetford Academy. After graduat- 
 ing from the academy, young Frost entered Dartmouth College 
 in the summer of 1848, and took his degree of A. B. at that in- 
 stitution in 1852. He registered his name soon after as a stu- 
 dent of medicine with Dr. E. C. Worcester of Thetford. Like 
 most of the young sons of Vermont and New Hampshire who 
 have made their way by their own efforts from the farm to a 
 college degree, he began early to teach school. He taught at 
 Dublin, N. H., before entering college. In those days Dart- 
 mouth had in the winter what was in effect a vacation of three 
 months for the benefit of pedagogues. 
 
 Teaching for bread-winning, he pursued diligently his medi- 
 cal studies at the same time. Between 1853 and 1857 he at- 
 tended five courses of lectures in four institutions; the Ver- 
 mont Medical College at Woodstock, Bowdoin Medical Col- 
 lege, Dartmouth, and New York Medical College. He took 
 his M. D. at Dartmouth in 1857. After some months spent 
 in the hospitals on Blackwell's island, he went to St. Johns- 
 bury, Vt., and began his medical practice in June, 1857. 
 
 In 1862 he heard the call of his country, and went to the 
 seat of war as surgeon of the Fifteenth Vermont Volunteers. 
 After some months in the field he was assigned to duty as 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 439 
 
 inspector in the provost office, located at first at Woodstock, 
 Vt., and later at Windsor. In this service he continued until 
 the close of the war, in 1865. 
 
 In 1868 he was called to lecture at Dartmouth Medical Col- 
 lege on the Theory and Practice of Medicine and Pathological 
 Anatomy. In 1870 he was appointed associate professor of 
 the same branch, and in 1871 full professor of the Theory and 
 Practice of Medicine. In 1871 he removed to Hanover. On 
 settling in Hanover he became secretary and treasurer of the 
 Medical Faculty, and later received the title of Dean, combin- 
 ing in himself all the official functions of the college. 
 
 In 1887 he was chosen a trustee of Dartmouth College, to 
 serve for five years, being one of the first elected to that office 
 by the alumni. He was for many years, and until his death, 
 a trustee of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane. 
 
 In 1892 he received from Dartmouth College the degree of 
 LL. D. 
 
 Dr. Frost became a member of the Vermont Medical So- 
 ciety October 26, 1859. He was elected its president in 1867. 
 He always retained his connection with it, and occasionally 
 attended its meetings. He was a member of the New Hamp- 
 shire Medical Society, and one of its presidents; also of the 
 American Medical Association, of the White Mountains Med- 
 ical Society, of the White River Medical Society, and of the 
 American Academy of Medicine. 
 
 Dr. Frost's greatest and most enduring work was done 
 during his residence of nearly twenty-five years in Hanover. 
 When he assumed the management of Dartmouth Medical Col- 
 lege, .succeeding the Crosbys, the teaching work of the college 
 was confined to the lecture term of eighteen weeks in length. 
 The medical faculty consisted of nine members, and the num- 
 ber of medical students was forty-eight. In the last cata- 
 logue published during his life, the active members of the 
 faculty numbered twelve, the medical students numbered one 
 hundred and sixty-one, and the working year consisted of 
 forty-two weeks. He organized a winter class of about half a 
 
440 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 dozen, and was their sole instructor in all departments, as Na- 
 than Smith was at the founding of the college. 
 
 Dr. Albert Smith says of him: "Hs was a public spirited 
 and enterprising man. The village of Hanover owes its con- 
 crete walks and electric lights largely to his persistent efforts. 
 As trustee of the college, and at the same time an influential 
 citizen, he rendered great service in the promotion of the sys- 
 tem of water-works which are such a boon to town and college. 
 
 Many years ago, with far foresight, he organized in the 
 medical faculty a Hospital Association. He quietly bought, at 
 a moderate cost, a suitable tract of land in the village, and 
 when Mr. Hiram Hitchcock resolved to erect a hospital, the 
 site was ready, and it was to his confidence in Dr. Frost, and to 
 Dr. Frost's counsel, we are largely indebted for that beauti- 
 ful and beneficent structure. 
 
 Married, October 5, 1857, Eliza A., daughter of Earl C. 
 and Anna (Lamson) DuBois of Randolph, Vt. 
 
 They have two sons. 
 
 Professor Frost died at his home in Hanover, May 24, 1896. 
 
 James Lang Harriman, M. D. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Peacham, Vt., May 
 11, 1833. He was educated at the academies in Meriden and 
 Exeter, and in 1855 entered the office of Dr Albert Winch, at 
 Whitefield, where he pursued the usual course of study. He 
 attended three full courses of lectures at the medical col- 
 leges at Woodstock, Vt., Albany, N. Y., and Brunswick, Me., 
 and was graduated from the latter in 1857. The same year 
 he began the practice of his profession in Littleton, where 
 he remained for four and one-half years. On July 31, 1862, 
 he entered the service of the United States as assistant surgeon 
 of the Thirteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, and 
 was dischargd for disability, January 30, 1863. He then set- 
 tled in Hudson, Mass., where he now resides. He is a member 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 441 
 
 of the White Mountain, Middlesex Southern and Massachu- 
 setts Medical Societies. While residing in Littleton he was 
 chairman of the school committee. 
 
 William Henry Weed Hinds, M. D. 
 Late of Milford, N. H. 
 
 Surgeon Hinds was born in Chichester, N. H., August 1, 
 1833. He was the son of Barzillai and Selura (Aldrich) 
 Hinds, and a grandson of Rev. Orlando Hinds, a somewhat 
 noted divine of the Methodist persuasion and member of the 
 New Hampshire Conference; a pioneer of that body in the 
 eastern states. He received his preliminary education in the 
 common schools of New Hampshire and afterwards at the 
 Otis grammar school in Boston, where he received the Frank- 
 lin medal of honor in 1847, and afterwards at the English 
 high school in Boston, which he entered in 1847 and grad- 
 uated in 1850, afterwards he attended the seminary at Til- 
 ton, N. H., three terms. He commenced the study of medicine 
 under the direction of Dr. 0. S. Sanders of Boston, attended 
 two courses of lectures at Hanover and was four years assist- 
 ant physician at the Tewksbury State of Massachusetts alms- 
 house, where he studied under Drs. Brown and Holt, attending 
 medical lectures at Cambridge Medical University and was 
 graduated in 1861. 
 
 He was appointed assistant surgeon of the Seventeenth 
 Massachusetts Volunteers until 1864, when he was transferred 
 and made surgeon of the Twelfth Massachusetts Volunteers, 
 where he remained until the close of the war. 
 
 Surgeon Hinds located in Milford, N. H., in January, 1865, 
 where he remained until his death, which occurred July 27, 
 1897. After leaving the army he took a course of medical 
 education with Dr. Sanders of Boston, and became a disciple 
 of homeopathy and practiced the same during his residence 
 in Milford, N. H. 
 
 He was a fraternal member of the Masonic associations, 
 Grand Army of the Republic, Odd Fellows, Loyal Legion, 
 
442 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 with the rank of major, Golden Cross and Knights of Honor. 
 He enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens, 
 was representative from the town of Milford in 1874 and 1876, 
 was senator from that district in 1884 and 1885 ; was president 
 of the Milford Savings Bank, 1893 to 1897, and was elected 
 trustee of the same in 1884. He was honored by the Masonic 
 Fraternity by being made grand high priest of New Hamp- 
 shire, 1893 and 1894. He was also a member of the school com- 
 mittee and board of health of the town of Milford. While in 
 the practice of medicine, he gave special attention to the 
 branch of obstetrics. 
 
 Married, first, August 23, 1861, Harriet M. Twiss of Antrim, 
 N. H. ; second, in 1880, Margaret A. Twiss of Amherst, N. H. 
 
 Children : Edwin H. Hinds, Winchester, Mass., and William 
 H. W. Hinds, M. D., of Milford, N. H. 
 
 WiLLARD O. HURD, M. D. 
 Late of the Soldiers' Home, Tilton. 
 
 "Dr. Hurd was born in Lempster, N. H., 66 years ago, and 
 was educated at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., and 
 the New York Medical University. He was assistant surgeon 
 in the Fifty-third New York Infantry, serving three years, 
 after which he practiced medicine at Hyde Park, Mass., and 
 Ottawa, Ont." 
 
 In 1896 he entered the Soldiers' Home, at Tilton, N. H., as 
 hospital steward, and held that position until his death, which 
 occurred January 11, 1900. 
 
 He is survived by a widow, son and daughter. 
 
 YoRiCK Gordon Hurd, M. D. 
 
 Late of Ipswich, Mass. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Lempster, N. H., 
 February 17, 1827, and was a son of Smith and Mehitable 
 (Emerson) Hurd. His preliminary education was received 
 in the common schools and at Hancock Academy ; com- 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 443 
 
 menced the study of medicine with Dr. Albert Smith of Peter- 
 borough, N. H. ; attended lectures at the Vermont Medical 
 College and Dartmouth Medical College and was graduated 
 M. D. from the latter in 1854. In 1876 he received the degree 
 of A. ;M. from Bowdoin College. He commenced the practice 
 of medicine in Amesbury, Mass., in 1853. 
 
 September, 1862, he was appointed post surgeon at Camp 
 Lander, Wenham, Mass., and in December, 1862, was ap- 
 pointed surgeon. Eighth Massachusetts Volunteers. 
 
 In the latter part of the sixties he removed to Ipswich, 
 Mass., where he continued in the practice of his profession 
 until his death. He was superintendent of the Massachusetts 
 house of correction and insane asylum from January, 1869, to 
 January, 1887. In 1866 he received the election of senator to 
 the state legislature ; was medical director of the Massachusetts 
 Volunteer Militia from 1867 to 1876. 
 
 Married, first, May 17, 1853, Mary A., daughter of Eli 
 and Lyma (Silsby) Twitchell of Dempster, N. H., who died 
 October, 1858; second, November 5, 1861, Ruth A. Brown 
 of Salisbury, Mass., who died July 26, 1888. 
 
 Dr. Hurd died at his home in Ipswich, Mass., September 24, 
 1888. 
 
 George H. Larabee, M. D. 
 Late of Suncook, N. H. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was of English and Huguenot de- 
 scent, and was born in Bradford, Vt., September 15, 1840, and 
 was the son of Stephen C. and Cynthia (Sawyer) Larabee. 
 When between four and five years of age, both of his parents 
 died, when he was cared for and practically adopted by a 
 sister of his mother, who was a teacher in the public schools 
 of Edgartown, Mass., and Surgeon Larabee 's preliminary 
 education was received under her tuition and in the Edgar- 
 town and Dukes County Academies. His professional educa- 
 tion was commenced with Drs. I. H. Lucas and Edwin May- 
 
444 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 bury of Edgartown. The first course of medical lectures he 
 attended at Bowdoin College, Maine, and the following year 
 he attended Harvard Medical College, from which he was 
 graduated in March, 1864. The same week in which he was 
 graduated. Dr. Larabee volunteered, and upon examination 
 received a commission as assistant surgeon, and was assigned 
 to the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, and immediately 
 joined his regiment and was in active service until the close 
 of the war, when he was honorably discharged for disability. 
 He was with his regiment in the engagements at Spottsylvania, 
 North Anna, Cold Harbor, Deep Bottom and Petersburg, and 
 was on detail duty at City Point General Hospital. 
 
 About 1866 Surgeon Larabee located in the village of Sun- 
 cook where he remained in the practice of his profession until 
 his death, October 31, 1896. He was a member of the New 
 Hampshire Medical Society, Centre District Medical Society, 
 Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and had taken the thirty- 
 third degree in Masonry. He was also a prominent Grand 
 Army man and Granger, and was universally beloved by his 
 fellow townsmen and enjoyed the respect and confidence of the 
 profession. 
 
 Married, February 25, 1889, Susie Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Josiah Kittredge and Malinda Chaplain Clifford. 
 
 Charles Frederick Little, M. D. 
 Manhattan, Kan. 
 
 Surgeon Little was born in Milford, N. H., January 27, 
 1836, and was the son of Caleb Jewett Tenney and Eliza Ann 
 (Brooks) Little, and a grandson of Abner B. Little. At a very 
 early age he removed with his parents to Illinois, and received 
 his preliminary education in the common schools of Weathers- 
 field, 111. He commenced the study of medicine in 1858, with 
 T. D. Fitch, M. D., of Kewanee, 111., attending two courses of 
 lectures at Rush Medical College of Chicago, and was gradu- 
 ated from the same in the class of 1863. Prior to graduation, 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 446 
 
 he commenced the practice of medicine in Green Vallej'-, 111., 
 April, 1861, remaining there about one year. He then entered 
 the army as first assistant surgeon of the Nineteenth Illinois 
 Volunteers February, 1862, and remained in the service until 
 n^uly, 1864, in the mean time passing the examination for sur- 
 geon, but was not commissioned. After leaving the array he 
 practiced for a time in Princeton, 111., removing to Manhattan, 
 Kan., in 1866, where he still remains in active practice. He 
 has been city health officer of Manhattan for many years ; be- 
 longs to the Masonic Fraternity and Grand Army Post of that 
 city. He has taken some part in politics, and was elected to 
 the lower house in the Kansas legislature, January 1, 1876 ; is 
 pension examining surgeon and vice-president of the First 
 National Bank of Manhattan, Kan. 
 
 Married, February 22, 1866, Charlotte Swift. 
 
 Children, six : of which Eliza Ada, Nellie Perkins, Bessie 
 Belle, are now living; Blanche Alfina, Fred Swift, and an in- 
 fant, are dead. 
 
 John Quincy Adams McCollester, M. D. 
 Waltham, Mass. 
 
 Dr. ]\IcCollester, son of Silas and Achsah (Holman) McCol- 
 lester, grandson of Samuel McCollester, was born May 3, 1831, 
 in Marlborough, N. H. He was educated in the district and 
 select schools of the town, at the academies of Fitzwilliam, 
 N. H., Westminster and South Woodstock, Vt., and Walpole, 
 N. H., and at Norwich University, A. B., 1853, and A. M., 
 1856. The doctor often refers with pride and satisfaction to 
 his experience as a "country pedagogue" in the Fay district, 
 Wa'lpole, N. H., where he taught three sucessive winters, the 
 first of which he "boarded 'round." He commenced the 
 study of medicine in 1853, at Marlborough, his preceptors be- 
 ing Dr. James Baehellor of that place, Dr. Washburn of Ver- 
 Don, Vt., and Dr. Moriarty of Deer Island Hospital, at which 
 institution Dr. McCollester was ranking student from May to 
 
446 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 October, 1855. He attended two courses of medical lectures, 
 one each at Dartmouth Medical College and Jefferson Medical 
 College, being graduated from the latter March 8, 1856. 
 From May 7 to November 1, of the same year, he practiced 
 medicine in South Deerfield, Mass. ; from December 1, 1856, 
 to March, 1887, at Groton Junction, now Ayer, Mass., and 
 since the latter date, at Waltham. 
 
 Dr. McCollester is a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
 Society; Middlesex East District Medical Society; Middlesex 
 South District Medical Society, and of Waltham Medical Club. 
 He was examining surgeon for recruits, by appointment of 
 Surgeon-General Dale; Massachusetts Volunteer surgeon un- 
 der Medical Director McClellan, 1862; surgeon of the Fifty- 
 third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, with the rank of 
 major; United States pension examining surgeon; superin- 
 tending school board, Groton, Mass., before and after the 
 war, in all, seven years, and filled the same office in Harvard, 
 Mass., 1872 to 1875. 
 
 Married, first. May 6, 1856, Miss Sarah E. Hazen of Shir- 
 ley, Mass., who died May 5, 1858, leaving one child, Anna; 
 second, September 9, 1859, Miss Georgianna Hunt of Groton, 
 Mass. 
 
 Children : Lucretia I., Edward Q., May Emma, Harvey 
 Gray, John F. and H. Hortense. 
 
 George Henry No yes, M. D. 
 Late of Nashua, N. H. 
 
 Surgeon Noyes was born in Nashua, N. H., March 19, 1831, 
 and was the son of Leonard White and Anne Sewall (Gard- 
 ner) Noyes, and grandson of Moody Noyes. He received his 
 preliminary education in the common schools and academies 
 of New Hampshire; was in the University of Vermont and 
 Union College at Schenectady, N. Y., and received the degree 
 of A. B. from the latter in 1854, and a degree of A. M. in 
 course in 1857. He commenced the study of medicine in 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 447 
 
 1853, at Burlington and Castleton, Vt. ; attended medical lec- 
 tures in both places; also at Harvard Medical College and at 
 Berkshire Medical College in Pittsfield, Mass., receiving his 
 degree of M. D. from Berkshire Medical College, in the fall of 
 1856. He commenced the practice of medicine in Clinton, 
 Clinton county, Iowa, in the fall of 1856, remaining there for 
 five years. 
 
 Dr. Noyes entered the army as assistant surgeon September 
 10, 1861, in the Eighth Iowa Infantry, and was transferred to 
 the Second Iowa Cavalry September 19, 1861, as assistant 
 surgeon ; was promoted to surgeon of the same regiment June 
 9, 1862. He was surgeon-in-chief of the Cavalry Division of 
 the Sixteenth Army Corps; also the Cavalry Corps of the 
 District of West Tennessee; also of the Military Division of 
 the Department of Blississippi, and superintendent of General 
 Hospitals of IMurfreesboro, Tenn., all these services being in 
 the Army of Tennessee. He was mustered out of the service 
 October 23, 1865. 
 
 Married, July 18, 1868, Miss Anne Learned, daughter of 
 Dr. E. J. Learned of Fall River, Mass. 
 
 Child : One daughter, Anna Lenora, born June 8, 1869. 
 
 Dr. Noyes was a brother of Col. Frank G. Noyes of Nashua, 
 N. H. He left the service considerably broken down in 
 health, returned to Nashua and died of disease contracted in 
 the service of the United States, December 12, 1881, and was 
 buried in the family lot in Nashua, N. H. 
 
 John William Parsons, M. D. 
 Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Surgeon Parsons was born in Rye, N. H., August 1, 1841, 
 and w^as the son of Thomas Jefferson and Eliza (Brown) Par- 
 sons. His paternal grandfather was John Wilkes Parsons of 
 New Hampshire. His preliminary education was received 
 in the public schools of Rye, Hampton Falls Academy, Pem- 
 broke Academy, Franklin Academy, Phillips Exeter Acad- 
 
448 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 emy and Norwich University. He commenced the study of 
 medicine in 1861, with Dr. Levi Gerrish Hill of Dover, N. H., 
 attending three courses of medical lectures at Dartmouth and 
 Harvard Medical College, and was graduated from the latter 
 in March, 1865. He commenced the practice of medicine by 
 being appointed assistant surgeon of the Twenty-fourth Mas- 
 sachusetts Volunteers in April, 1865, remaining with the regi- 
 ment until January, 1866, being mustered out of the United 
 States service by reason of the close of the war. He located 
 in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1866, and has remained there ever 
 since. 
 
 He is a member of the American Medical Association, the 
 New Hampshire Medical Society, Strafford District Medical 
 Society, Portsmouth Medical Association, and Harvard Medi- 
 cal Alumni Association. He has held the position of vice- 
 president of the American Medical Association; president, 
 counsellor and censor of the New Hampshire Medical Soci- 
 ety; president of the Strafford District Medical Society and 
 the Portsmouth Medical Association ; vice-president of the 
 Harvard Medical Alumni Association ; is now president of the 
 Rockingham County Medical Society. He is a member of the 
 Portsmouth Cottage Hospital Staff; has been pension exam- 
 ining surgeon ; is a member of the Grand Army of the Repub- 
 lic, of the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, Military Or- 
 der of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and Sons of the 
 Revolution. He now holds the position of trustee of the 
 Portsmouth Cottage Hospital, trustee Chase Home for Chil- 
 dren, has for many years been trustee of the New Hampshire 
 Medical Society, and justice of the peace. 
 
 Married, in 1873, Mary Augusta Adams. They have no 
 children. 
 
 George Edwin Pinkham, M. D. 
 
 LfOwell, Mass. 
 
 PiJWCHAM. George E. F. and S.; 3 Mass. H. Art.; age 24; res. 
 Farmington; app. Asst. Surg. Mar. 6, '65; must, in Mar. 10, '65, 
 for 3 yrp.; resigned Aug. 16, '65. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 p. 1071.) 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 449 
 
 Surgeon Pinkham was born in Lowell, Mass., April 17, 
 1840, and was the son of Nicholas and Olive (Murphy) Pink- 
 ham, a grandson of Nicholas Pinkham. It seems that his fam- 
 ily moved to New Hampshire while he was a youth, as his 
 preliminary education was received by passing through all 
 the grades of the public schools of Dover, N. H., graduating 
 from the high school, and also at the Franklin Academy, 
 Dover, N. H. He commenced his professional education in 
 1859, at Dover, N. H., under the direction of the late Dr. Levi 
 G. Hill and A. J. H. Buzzell, M. D., afterwards surgeon of 
 the Third New Hampshire Volunteers. He continued his pro- 
 fessional education at Harvard and Dartmouth Colleges, tak- 
 ing two courses at Harvard and one at Dartmouth, and was 
 graduated M. D. from Dartmouth Medical College in the class 
 of 1863. He located in the practice of medicine at Dover, 
 N. H., where he remained a few months, then moved to Farm- 
 ington, N. H., for one year, and has been located in Lowell, 
 Mass., for thirty-three years. 
 
 While located in Dover, N. H., he entered the service of the 
 United States as assistant surgeon of the Sixth Massachusetts 
 Volunteers December 23, 1862, and was mustered out with 
 the regiment. He returned to New Hampshire and located 
 in Farmington for one year, and was then appointed assistant 
 surgeon of the Third Massachusetts Heavy Artillery March 6, 
 1865, and resigned August 16, 1865. 
 
 During his long residence in Lowell he has been an active 
 worker in the profession, having been president, counsellor and 
 censor of the North Middlesex Medical Society of Massachu- 
 setts; advisory physician on the staff of the Lowell General 
 Hospital, also upon the staff of the Lowell City Hospital. He 
 was city physician of Lowell for three years, and medical di- 
 rector of the First Brigade, Massachusetts Militia, for seven 
 years. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the 
 Loyal Legion of Massachusetts, of the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public Post of Lowell, and of various other fraternal associa- 
 
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450 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 tions. He has also served upon the school committee for five 
 years ; was a member of the common council for one year, and 
 an alderman for the same length of time. 
 
 Dr. Pinkham gives special attention to gynaecology. 
 
 Married, August, 1863, Ella M. Rice. 
 
 Child : Harriet G. Pinkham. 
 
 George Loring Porter, M. D. 
 Bridgeport, Conn. 
 
 George Loring Porter, Bridgeport, Conn., born in Concord, 
 N. H., April 29, 1838, is the son of George and Clarissa (Ayer) 
 Porter, grandson of Isaac Porter, who was of the seventh gen- 
 eration from John Porter, who left England April 25, 1645, 
 upon the "Ann and Elizabeth," and settled in Hingham, 
 Mass. ; also grandson of Peter Ayer, descended from Simond 
 Ayer, who left England early in 1635, upon the "Increase," 
 and settled in Haverhill, Mass. 
 
 George Loring Porter was a student at the Little Blue Acad- 
 emy, Farmington, Me., was graduated from the Pembroke 
 (N. H.) Academy in 1853; from the New London (N. H.) 
 Academy in June, 1855; and from Brown University, Provi- 
 dence, R. I., A. M., in 1859. He read medicine with Dr. J. P. 
 Dake, at Pittsburgh, Pa., 1859- '60, and was under the pre- 
 ceptorship of Doctors Brinton and DaCosta, Philadelphia, Pa., 
 1860 to 1862 ; attended two general and three special courses 
 of lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, which 
 institution conferred upon him the degree of M. D., in March, 
 1862. On April 29, following, Dr. Porter passed the army 
 medical examining board at Philadelphia, and was assigned to 
 duty as a " proof candidate ' ' at the General Hospital at Stras- 
 burgh, Va., where he reported for duty to Major-General 
 Banks May 10, 1862. On the 25th of the same month, when 
 the Union forces retreated down the Shenandoah Valley, Dr. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 451 
 
 Porter volunteered to remain with the sick and wounded, and 
 was captured by Colonel Ashby, of the Virginia Cavalry ; but 
 General "Stonewall" Jackson at Once placed him in charge 
 of the hospital and requested him to care for the Confederate 
 wounded also. This was probably the first recognition of the 
 right of medical officers to claim the protection of the rules of 
 war governing non-belligerents in the War of the Rebellion. 
 When the Confederates were driven up the valley, he was 
 placed in charge of the wounded from both armies; after the 
 battle of Cross Keyes, Va., established a general hospital for the 
 Germans of Blenke's Division; on the twelfth of June was 
 transferred to the General Hospital at Winchester, Va. ; on the 
 first of July was assigned to Best's Battery, and served with 
 it during the summer of 1862 ; was present at the battle of 
 Cedar ilountain, the combats along the Rappahannock, the sec- 
 ond battle of Bull Run and the battle of South Mountain. 
 July 17, 1862, he was commissioned assistant surgeon, United 
 States Army, with the rank of first lieutenant; served in the 
 General Hospital at Braddock Barracks, Frederick, Md., from 
 September 17 to November 18, 1862 ; was then ordered to join 
 the Army of the Potomac at Falmouth, Va., assigned to the 
 Fifth Cavalry, and served with the regiment until IMay 10, 
 1864. He was present at the battles of Fredericksburg, Bev- 
 erly Ford, Gettysburg, Brandy Station, Todd's Tavern, Flem- 
 ing's Cross-Roads, Manassas Gap, Kelley's Ford, Middleton, 
 Upperville, Williamsport, Boonsboro (wounded in the left 
 arm), Funkstown, Falling Waters, Beaver Dam, Warrentown, 
 Ashby 's Gap, Front Royal, Culpepper Court House and Mor- 
 ton's Ford. By order of the War Department, Dr. Porter 
 was relieved from duty April 29, 1864, and ordered to report 
 at Washington ; but the Army of the Potomac severed its con- 
 nection with the railway before the order was received, and 
 for a time had no communication with the capital, and he 
 therefore served with the regiment in the Wilderness cam- 
 paign. After the Battle of the Wilderness he remained with 
 
462 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 the wounded at Fredericksburg for a few days, and was then 
 sent, in charge of the first train of wounded, to Belle Plain, 
 whence he proceeded with dispatches to Washington. He 
 often performed important operations on the field and under 
 a heavy fire. 
 
 In referring to his services with the Fifth United States 
 Cavalry, Capt. Julius Mason, United States Army, addressed 
 the board of officers on staff brevets as follows : 
 
 "During this time the regiment was engaged in many bat- 
 tles, losing heavily in killed and wounded ; Assistant Surgeon 
 Porter's faithfulness to the sick and wounded is gratefully 
 remembered by the officers and men, and his conspicuous gal- 
 lantry during the battles of Upperville, Aldie, Gettysburg, 
 Williamsburg, Funkstown and Brandy Station, where he took 
 the dead and wounded almost from the hands of the enemy, 
 entitles him to the greatest praise and consideration. He was 
 under my command during all the above mentioned battles, 
 and for his gallant conduct, and faithful and intelligent ser- 
 vices, he is justly entitled to a brevet captaincy and a brevet 
 majority." 
 
 Dr. Porter was post surgeon at Washington Arsenal from 
 May, 1864, to May, 1867 ; was the only commissioned officer 
 present at the burial of John Wilkes Booth; had medical 
 charge of the conspirators against President Lincoln, impris- 
 oned in the old penitentiary building ; was present at the hang- 
 ing of five of them, and accompanied the others to Tortugas. 
 
 Dr. Porter was brevetted captain and major March 13, 
 1865, for faithful, gallant and meritorious service in the field 
 during the War of the Rebellion, In May, 1867, he was or- 
 dered to report at St. Paul, Minn., and was assigned to duty 
 at Camp Cook, Montana, where he reported August 27, fol- 
 lowing; served during the spring of 1868 with an expedition 
 to the mouth of the Mussleshell river, and during April and 
 May, in addition to his medical duties, did volunteer service 
 as "officer of the day," to relieve the line officers, who were 
 greatly overworked by the constant presence of hostile Indians 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 453 
 
 under the command of "Sitting Bull." Dr Porter tendered 
 his resignation, to take effect July 18, 1868, but as no medical 
 officer had then reported, he continued on duty until the ar- 
 rival of his successor; then crossed the continent, on horse- 
 back and alone, over the Lewis and Clark trail, returned to the 
 Eastern states by the Isthmus route, and has been in the pri- 
 vate practice of medicine at Bridgeport, Conn., since October, 
 1868. 
 
 Since living in Connecticut he has served in the State Na- 
 tional Guard for seven years, four years as surgeon of the 
 Fourth Kegiment, and three as medical director upon the 
 staff of Gen. T. L. "Watson, the commanding general. 
 
 Dr. Porter is a member of the Bridgeport Medical Associa- 
 tion, president in 1876-77; of the Fairfield Medical Associa- 
 tion, president in 1883; of the Connecticut Medical Society, 
 president in 1888- '89; of the American Medical Association, 
 member of the judicial council, 1891 to 1894 ; of the American 
 Academy of Medicine; of the Ninth International Medical 
 Congress, vice-president of the section on military surgery, 
 1887; president of the board of health of Bridgeport, 1882- 
 '83 ; member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion ; of the 
 thirty-second degree of the Masonic Fraternity; of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic; of the Oquosoc Angling Association; 
 of the Metabetchonan and Island Brook fishing and game 
 clubs; of the Young Men's Christian Association; of the Sea 
 Side Club ; of the Eclectic Club ; and of the Bridgeport Scien- 
 tific Society. He has been visiting physician to the Hartford 
 Retreat since 1880 ; was president of the Bridgewater Library 
 Association in 1879 ; and is medical examiner for many life 
 in.surance companies and benefit organizations. 
 
 Married, in 1862, Miss Catherine Maria, daughter of M, 
 Chaffee, the inventor of the Chaffee cylinder for vulcanizing 
 rubber, Providence, R. I. 
 
 Children : Clara Elizabeth, George, James Benton, Ethel, 
 Lindsay, May, Alice, Aaron, Hugh, Grace, Anna and Clarissa 
 Porter. 
 
464 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 (Taken from "Physicians and Surgeons of America," by 
 I. A. Watson, A. M., M. D., 1896.) 
 
 John Lombard Robinson, M. D. 
 
 Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Surgeon Robinson, late of Manchester, was born in Pem- 
 broke, N. H., in 1835, and was the son of Samuel and Betsey 
 (Webster) Robinson, being the grandson of Ezekiel Robin- 
 son. His early education at the common schools was supple- 
 mented at the Pembroke, N. H., and Wilbraham, Mass., Acad- 
 emies. He commenced his professional education in 1854, 
 with Dr. Hook of Lowell, Mass. ; attended medical lectures at 
 Dartmouth Medical College one year, and two years at Har- 
 vard Medical School, and was graduated ]\L D. from the latter 
 in 1859. He located in Wenham, Mass., in 1859, and made 
 that town his home until 1879, when he left Massachusetts and 
 located in Manchester, N. H., where he remained until his 
 death, June 13, 1896. 
 
 He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society ; the 
 New Hampshire Medical Society, and the Harvard Alumni 
 Association. He was physician to Elliot Hospital, Manches- 
 ter, N. H. ; member of the Franklin Street Church ; member of 
 the Manchester Art Association; member of Washington 
 Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; member of the 
 Grand Army of the Republic, and companion of the INIilitary 
 Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. 
 
 Surgeon Robinson was commissioned first lieutenant and 
 assistant surgeon of the Eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- 
 unteer Militia in the service of the United States, November 
 7, 1862, and was mustered out August 7, 1863; was commis- 
 sioned major and surgeon July 26, 1864, and was mustered 
 out of the United States service November 10, 1864, but con- 
 tinued as surgeon of the regiment until January 23, 1875. 
 
 Married, November 27, 1861, Phebe A. Hadley. 
 
 Children : Annie M. and J. Franklin Robinson. 
 
miscellaneous organizations. 455 
 
 Ira Russell, M. D. 
 Late of Rindge, N. H. 
 
 Dr. Ira Russell, son of Eliakim and Sarah (Converse) Rus- 
 sell, was born in Rindge, N. H., November 9, 1814, and gradu- 
 ated at Dartmouth College in 1841, His education was em- 
 phatically the result of his own industry and perseverence. 
 He studied medicine under the direction of Dr. Dixi Crosby 
 of Hanover, N. H., with Dr. Abell of Rindge, and Dr. Alvah 
 Godding of Winchendon. While attending lectures at the 
 University of New York, he received an appointment as dis- 
 trict physician, and was connected for several months with 
 one of the city hospitals. Receiving his degree in 1844, he 
 imm.ediately formed a partnership with Dr. Godding, his for- 
 mer instructor. He continued in active practice in Winchen- 
 don about nine years, when he removed to Natick, Mass. In 
 1861 Dr. Russell relinquished a lucrative practice and ac- 
 cepted an appointment as surgeon of the Eleventh Massachu- 
 setts Regiment. A few months later he was appointed to 
 brigade surgeon, and assigned to General Grover's Brigade, in 
 Hooker's Division. He remained with this brigade until the 
 summer of 1862, when he repaired to Baltimore and organized 
 the Stuart Mansion Hospital, subsequently known as the Jarvis 
 Hospital, of which he continued the surgeon in charge until 
 the following November. After a brief charge of the Law- 
 son Hospital, in St. Louis, he was appointed medical director 
 of the Army of the Frontier, then under the command of 
 General Curtis. The following spring finds him again at St. 
 Louis, in charge of the post hospital at Benton Barracks, one 
 of the largest hospitals in the West. Later, Dr. Russell was 
 upon the staff of General Thomas, and while in Tennessee he 
 organized the Wilson Hospital, at Nashville, of which he re- 
 mained in charge until the close of the war, receiving, mean- 
 while, the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel, for long and meri- 
 torious service. Subsequently for a year or more he was en- 
 
456 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 gaged in the preparation of many valuable contributions to the 
 "Medical and Surgical History of the War," for which his 
 prolonged and varied experience in the army furnished ample 
 material. At the close of these labors he returned to Winchen- 
 don, and in partnership with his son, Dr. Fred W. Russell, 
 is engaged in an extensive regular and consulting practice. 
 Constantly familiar with the innovations of his profession and 
 the progress of the schools, he belongs to the foremost rank of 
 progressive practitioners. 
 
 "He married Rosannah, daughter of Henry Greenwood of 
 Winehendon, Mass., April 29, 1844." 
 
 (History of Rindge, N. H.) 
 
 ("Alumni Dartmouth College," by Campbell.) 
 
 John E. Sanborn, M. D. 
 Late of Melrose, Mass. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Gilmanton, N. H., in 
 1824, and was the son of Rev. Jacob Sanborn, a prominent 
 Methodist clergyman. His early education was received at 
 Phillips Exeter Academy, and in 1845 he was graduated from 
 Wesley an University; in 1850, and for two years following, 
 he practiced at Maiden. In 1852 he accepted the position of 
 professor of chemistry and materia medica in the University 
 of Iowa. 
 
 At the breaking out of the civil war he was appointed sur- 
 geon of the Twenty-seventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry and 
 served for three years, being mustered out in 1865 as surgeon- 
 in-ehief of the Sixteenth Army Corps, Army of the Cumber- 
 land. At the close of the war he continued to practice his 
 profession, locating at Rockport, later going to Salem, and in 
 1890 settling in Melrose. He was for several years chairman 
 of the Melrose board of health. 
 
 Dr. Sanborn died at his home in Melrose, April 1, 1903. 
 
miscellaneous organizations. 457 
 
 Betton Webster Sargent, M. D. 
 Late of Rochester, N. H. 
 
 Sargent, Betton W. F. and S.; 30th Mo. Inf.; res. Rochester; app. 
 Asst. Surg. July 31, '62; must, in July 31, '62; app. Surg. Aug. 18, 
 '62; tr. to 6 U. S. Colored Heavy Art. Nov. 1, '63; disch. May 13, 
 '62. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1075.) 
 
 Surgeon Sargent was born in Thornton, N. H., January 
 3, 1827, and was the son of Jacob and Martha (Webster) Sar- 
 gent. His preliminary education was received in the common 
 schools, at Meredith Village Academy and Franklin, N. H. He 
 commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Luther M. Knight 
 of Franklin, N. H., continued the same at Vermont Medical 
 College at Woodstock, Vt., and Jefferson Medical College, 
 Philadelphia, Pa., and was graduated M. D. from the latter. 
 In 1848 he located in North Barnstead, N. H., for the practice 
 of his profession, afterwards was at Rockford, 111., for a few 
 months, when he settled in Rochester, N. H. 
 
 His biographer says of him : 
 
 "Like many other men who have gained a marked position 
 in the community, his education was obtained by hard work, 
 self-denial and persistent industry, unaided by anyone. He 
 was emphatically his own architect, working nights and morn- 
 ings to get books and pay tuition. ' ' 
 
 Dr. Sargent's military service commenced with the Thir- 
 tieth Missouri Infantry; July 31, 1862, he was appointed 
 assistant surgeon, and Augiist 18, 1862, was promoted to sur- 
 geon. His biographer says of his military service : 
 
 "In the early part of the war he was in St. Louis, where he 
 joined the Union Army, and was on the staff of Adjutant-Gen- 
 eral Thomas as medical director. He served throughout the 
 war with distinction, and was a special favorite with General 
 Thomas, who more than once, after the war was over, came 
 North to visit him." 
 
 He was transferred to the Sixth United States Colored 
 Heayv' Artillery November 6, 1863, and was discharged May 
 13, 1866, when he returned to Rochester, remaining there in 
 
468 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 the active practice of his profession until his death, which oc- 
 curred July 21, 1880. 
 
 He was a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society 
 and of the Stratford District Medical Societj^ of which he was 
 an honored ex-president. 
 
 Married, September 16, 1852, Mary S. Farrington of Roch- 
 ester, N. H. 
 
 Children, two: Frank Farrington Sargent and Alice Sar- 
 gent, Mrs. Edwin R. Bartlett, Somersworth, N. H. 
 
 Arthur Train, M. D. 
 
 Late of Washington, N. H. 
 
 Dr. Train was born in Washington, N. H., August 16, 1823, 
 and was a son of Harry and Sarah (Andrews) Train, formerly 
 of Hillsborough, N. H. Dr. Train was educated in New 
 Hampshire, and rem.oved to Ohio. While there he entered the 
 service of the United States during the civil war in an Ohio 
 Regiment. He afterwards came back to New Hampshire, and 
 died at Washington, N. H., June 4, 1889. 
 
 Samuel Crook Whittier, M. D. 
 Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Surgeon Whittier was the third son of John and Hannah 
 (Hanson) Whittier, a grandson of Obadiah, and a cousin to 
 the poet, John Greenleaf Whittier, and was born in Dover, 
 N. H., January 3, 1837. 
 
 "He attended school at West Lebanon, Me., and was fitted 
 for college at Franklin Academy, Dover. He graduated from 
 Harvard Medical College in the Summer of 1862, and on 
 August 29 of the same year, was commissioned assistant sur- 
 geon of the Eleventh ]\Iassachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which 
 regiment he joined at Fairfax Seminary, Va., on the fourth of 
 September following. He remained with this regiment, render- 
 ing his country distinguished service, until May 26, 1864, when 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 459 
 
 he was commissioned surgeon of the Twenty-third Massachu- 
 setts Volunteer Infantry, with which organization he remained 
 until his muster out in June, 1865. Both commissions bear the 
 autograph of Massachusetts ' celebrated war governor, John A. 
 Andrew. At the battle of Gettysburg, Surgeon Whittier was 
 placed in charge of a large number of wounded Confederate 
 officers, captured in Pickett's memorable charge, and it was 
 to him the dying Mississipian, General Barksdale, said: 'Why 
 was Hooker succeeded by Meade? We will whip you tomor- 
 row.' Returning from the war, he practiced medicine and 
 surgery for a time in Lynn and Boston, j\Iass., and in Great 
 Falls, this state. At the latter place. May 28, 1868, he lost his 
 wife (born A. Augustus Huckins), whom he married August 
 29, 1862, the day on which he was commissioned an assistant 
 surgeon in the Eleventh Massachusetts Infantry." 
 
 Surgeon Whittier died in Portsmouth, February 1, 1893. 
 
 George Edwin Woodbury, M. D. 
 Methuen, Mass. 
 
 Woodbury, George E. Second D. C. Inf.; age 24; res. Bedford; app. 
 Asst. Surg. Nov. 14, '62; must, in Nov. 14, '62, for 3 yrs.; must, 
 out Sept. 12, '65, Alexandria, Va. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 1086.) 
 
 Surgeon Woodbury was born in Bedford, N. H., February 
 9, 1838, and was the son of Peter Perkins and Eliza Bailey 
 (Gordon) Woodbury, and was a gi-andson of Hon. Peter 
 Woodbury of Bedford. His preliminary education was re- 
 ceived in the common schools and academies, and his profes- 
 sional education was commenced in 1856, under the direction 
 of his father, Dr. Peter Perkins Woodbury of Bedford, N. H., 
 and later under the direction of Prof. Albert Smith of Peter- 
 borough, N. H. He attended four courses of lectures at the 
 Medical Department of Dartmouth College, and was graduated 
 M. D. from the same, in the class of 1860. He commenced the 
 practice of medicine in Bedford, remaining there from 1859 
 to 1862. From September to November, 1862, he was acting 
 
460 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 assistant surgeon, United States Army, and from November, 
 1862, until November, 1865, he was assistant surgeon of the 
 Second Regiment, District of Columbia Volunteers. 
 
 During his term of service he was for a considerable period 
 surgeon of the board of enrollment at Washington, D. C. 
 
 On his return from the army he located, in 1866, in Me- 
 thuen, Mass., and has remained there to this date. He is a 
 member of the North Essex and Massachusetts Medical Soci- 
 eties; the Masonic Fraternity, and the Grand Army of the 
 Eepublic. He also holds the office of trustee of Nevins' Me- 
 morial Library. 
 
 Married, Hariette Emily Reed. 
 
 Children, seven: Peter Perkins, Charlotte Eliza, David 
 Dana, Carrie, Isabel, George and Addie Woodbury. 
 
 PRIVATES WHO AFTERWARDS BECAME 
 PRACTITIONERS OF MEDICINE. 
 
 Bradley Horatio Bartlett, M. D. 
 Late of Amherst, N. H. 
 
 (1 N. H. Vol. Heavy Art.) 
 
 Bartlett, Bradbury H. Co. E; b. Grantham; age 34; cred. Pitts- 
 field; enl. Sept. 3, '64, for 1 yr.; must, in Sept. 10, '64, as Priv.; 
 must, out June 15, '65. Died Dec. 29, '78, Amherst. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 923.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Grantham, N. H., 
 March 18, 1829, and was the son of Richard and Caroline 
 Olive (Williams) Bartlett, and a grandson of Samuel Bartlett 
 of Grantham. From the best information I can obtain, Dr. 
 Bartlett 's name was Bradley, instead of Bradbury. He re- 
 ceived his preliminary education in the public schools and at 
 Pittsfield Academy. He commenced his professional educa- 
 tion in Pittsfield, N. H., in 1854, under the direction of Dr. 
 Charles T. Berry and continued the same under the direction 
 
MISCELLANEOUS OEGANIZATIONS. 461 
 
 of different physicians in Illinois, where he taught school for 
 a considerable time. He attended medical lectures at the 
 University of I^fedicine and Surgery in Philadelphia, from 
 which he was graduated M. D. February 21, 1866. 
 
 In the meantime, he served in 1864 and 1865 in the First 
 Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Heavy Artillery, which 
 was doing duty in detachments along the defenses of Wash- 
 ington. He was a private and was stationed for some time 
 at Fort Sumner, situated on a high bluff south of the Potomac, 
 near the Chain Bridge. Being a student of medicine, he be- 
 came connected with the hospital department of this regiment, 
 doing good service, and was beloved by his associates. 
 
 After graduating from the University at Philadelphia, he 
 located in 1868 in Chichester, N. H., where he remained for 
 two years, when he removed to Amherst, N. H., where he 
 practiced his profession until incapacitated by illness. He 
 died in Amherst, December 29, 1878. 
 
 While in Amherst he served upon the school committee for 
 several years, and was a highly respected citizen and enjoyed 
 the confidence of the people of the town. 
 
 Married Ruth, widow of John French of Pittsfield, N. H. 
 
 Robert Allen Blood, M. D. 
 Surgeon General, Massachusetts, 39 High Street, Charlestown, Mass. 
 
 (11 N. H. V.) 
 
 Blood. Robert A. Co. F.; b. New London; age 24; res. Springfield, 
 cred. Springfield; enl. Aug. 13, '62; must, in Aug. 29, '62, as Corp.; 
 wd. sev. Dec. 13, '62, Fredericksburg, Va. ; disch. disab. May 11, 
 '63, Concord. P. 0. ad., New London. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 561.) 
 
 Surgeon Blood was born in New London, N. H., April 30, 
 1838, and was the son of Luke W. and Mary A. (Bickford) 
 Blood, and a grandson of Eben Blood, great-grandson of 
 Simeon Blood, who served nearly eight years in the War of 
 the Revolution. He enlisted from the town of Hollis, N. H. 
 
462 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 His preliminary education was received in the common 
 schools and at Colby Academy, New London. While a student 
 in New London he enlisted in Company F of the Eleventh 
 New Hampshire Volunteers, in company with the late Charles 
 C. Pike, M. D., of the same town. They were students 
 together at Colby Academy, were mustered into the service at 
 the same time, and received wounds in the battle of Fredericks- 
 burg, December 13, 1862. Both of these young men, after 
 being discharged from the service because of disability in- 
 curred by reason of wounds received in the battle of Fred- 
 ericksburg, Va., returned to New London, completed their 
 academic education and afterwards read medicine. Dr. Blood 
 commenced his professional education in 1864 under the direc- 
 tion of H. C. Bickford, M. D. He attended four courses 
 of medical lectures at Harvard Medical College and was grad- 
 uated from the same in the class of 1870. He immediately 
 located for the practice of his profession in New London, 
 N. H., where he remained for about three years, since which 
 time he has resided at Charlestown, Mass. 
 
 He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of 
 the Society for Medical Observation and Harvard Alumni 
 Association in Boston ; was medical director of the First Bri- 
 gade Massachusetts Volunteer Militia and surgeon-general of 
 the state after the decease of Surgeon E. J. Forster in May, 
 1896. He is also a member of the Sons of the American Revo- 
 lution, Society of Military Surgeons of the United States, 
 Grand Army of the Republic, and a fraternal member of the 
 Masons and Odd Fellows. 
 
 Austin S. Bronson, M. D. 
 New Hampton, N. H. 
 
 Dr. Bronson was born December 11, 1843, at Wethersfield, 
 Vt., and was the son of Simon and Betsey E. (Scott) Bronson. 
 His early education was in the common schools and at the 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 463 
 
 Methodist Conference Seminary at Springfield, Vt. His pro- 
 fessional education was commenced in 1866, under the direc- 
 tion of Langdon Sawyer, M. D., at Springfield, Vt., and con- 
 tinued under the direction of Prof. N. W. Webber of Detroit, 
 Mich. He attended three courses of medical lectures : first, at 
 Dartmouth; second. University of Michigan; third, at the 
 Detroit Medical College, Mich., and was graduated from the 
 latter in June, 1869. His medical education was supple- 
 mented by a course at Harvard Medical College in 1870-71, 
 and Detroit Medical College in 1885- '86. He practiced medi- 
 cine in New Hampton, Sutton and Canterbury, returning to 
 New Hampton a few years since, where he now resides. 
 
 He enlisted in Company E, Sixteenth Regiment Vermont 
 Volunteers, August, 1862, was made corporal, and was mus- 
 tered out the last of August, 1863, the regiment being for nine 
 months. This regiment was attached to the Second Vermont 
 Brigade, composed of the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and 
 Sixteenth Regiments, under General Standard, and was called 
 into the service as nine months' men. The Sixteenth Regi- 
 ment was under the command of Col. Wheelock G. Veasey, 
 Brattleboro, Vt., and was engaged in the battle of Gettysburg, 
 where it suffered severely, being a part of that brigade which 
 faced Pickett's terrible charge on the third day of the battle. 
 Dr. Bronson was wounded in the head that day by a fragment 
 of shell, from which he has never fully recovered, and at one 
 time there were nine years that he was unable to do any 
 physical labor. 
 
 He is a member of the Grand Array and of the Patrons of 
 Husbandry, town superintendent of schools and a member of 
 the local board of health. 
 
 He married, April 22, 1872, Emma F. Lovering of Canter- 
 bury, N. H. 
 
 Children, two: Herbert Asa, born December 15, 1876, and 
 died September 13, 1895; Lena C. Bronson, born June 30, 
 1883. 
 
464 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Mahlon C. Dix, M. D. 
 Troy, Vt. 
 
 Mahlon C. Dix was born January 12, 1844, and was the son 
 of Samuel and Maria B. (Church) Dix, and a grandson of 
 John Dix. 
 
 His preliminary education was received at the Albany (Vt.) 
 Academy. He commenced the study of medicine in 1873 with 
 Dr. George W. Woodward, at Albany, Vt., and attended three 
 courses of lectures at the Medical Department of the Univer- 
 sity of Vermont, receiving the degree of M. D. from the same 
 in 1875. 
 
 He commenced the practice of medicine at Hinsdale, N. H., 
 August 1, 1875. He served for nine months in Company T, 
 Fifteenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, was discharged, but 
 was re-enlisted in 1864 and served till the close of the war as a 
 private. 
 
 He was a member of the board of education of Hinsdale 
 for twenty years; a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society and read several papers before that association, which 
 were published in the transactions of the society; was a fra- 
 ternal member of the Masons, Sheridan Post, G. A. R., the 
 Red Men, the Pilgrim Fathers, Golden Cross and Order of 
 United Workmen. 
 
 Married, August 14, 1877, Addie E. Marble, daughter 
 of Deacon Alfred Marble of Hinsdale, N. H. 
 
 Died June 27, 1900. 
 
 Levi Parker Dodge, M. D. 
 Late of Farmington, Minn. 
 
 (6 N. H. V.) 
 
 Dodge, Levi P. Co. G; b. Sunapee; age 22; res. New London; enL 
 Nov. 19, '61; must, in Nov. 28, '61, as Priv.; app. Hosp. Steward 
 July 1, '62; disch. disab. Dec. 31, '62, near Falmouth, Va. P. 0. 
 ad., Farmington, Minn. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 301.) 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 465 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Sunapee, N. H., May 
 25, 1839, and was the son of Mark and Elizabeth (Wilson) 
 Dodge. His early education was received in the common 
 schools of Sunapee, N. H., and Beverly, Mass., and he also 
 attended Colby Academy at New London, N. H. His profes- 
 sional education commenced in 1858, under the direction of 
 the late Solomon M. Whipple, M. D., of New London, and 
 was continued under the faculty of the Medical Department of 
 Dartmouth College. He attended two courses of medical lec- 
 tures, one being at the Medical Department of the University 
 of Vermont, the second at Hanover, N. H., and he was grad- 
 uated ]\L D. from the Medical Department of Dartmouth Col- 
 lege in the class of 1864. He commenced the study of medi- 
 cine while teaching in the common schools of Wilmot, N. H., 
 and before graduation enlisted in Company G, Sixth Regiment 
 New Hampshire Volunteers; was appointed hospital steward 
 and for a period did the work of acting assistant surgeon. 
 He was in the second battle of Bull Run and while taking a 
 wounded comrade, who had had one leg amputated, to the 
 rear, the same comrade was hit again and the other leg shat- 
 tered. At the battle of Antietam he received an injury from 
 a fractious horse, from which he never fully recovered. He 
 was mustered out of the service for the disability received at 
 Antietam, January 1, 1863, at Falmouth, Va. 
 
 As .soon as his health would permit, he completed his medical 
 studies and began the practice of medicine in New London, 
 N. H., with his late preceptor, Dr. Whipple. He afterwards 
 was at Sutton, N. H., when he removed to Farmington, Minn., 
 and remained there until his death, September 29, 1893. 
 
 He was a member of St. Peter Masonic Lodge at Bradford, 
 N. H., a charter member of a Masonic lodge in Farmington, 
 Minn., and also a charter member of Canby Post, No. 47, G. 
 A. R., and a past commander of the same post. For twenty- 
 six years he was a member of the school board of Farmington, 
 and for four years a member of the board of control of the 
 State Public School for Dependent Children. He was an 
 
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466 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 active politician and during the campaign of 1890 was chair- 
 man of the third district Republican committee in Minnesota. 
 From the records of the fourteenth annual encampment of 
 the G. A. R., Department of Minnesota, in 1894, at Minneap- 
 olis, we extract the following: 
 
 "As a man and citizen his character was unblemished and 
 without reproach. As a physician he stood among the best 
 in the state. 
 
 ' ' He was at the time of his death, and had been almost con- 
 tinuously for twenty-six years, a member of the school board 
 of the village of Farmington. He was also a member of the 
 board of control of the State School for Indigent Children at 
 <Owatonna. He was a charter member of Canby Post, No. 47, 
 G. A. R., of which post he was a past commander. 
 
 "Comrade Dodge was the confidential friend of all his 
 patrons. The country in which he lived loses a patriotic and 
 valued citizen. Canby Post mourns a loved comrade and 
 friend. The Grand Army of the Republic numbers one less 
 here, and one more will respond to the roll-call on the other 
 side." 
 
 From an editorial taken from the Dakota County Tribune, 
 published in Farmington, Minn., it is evident that Dr. Dodge 
 was held in high esteem by the inhabitants of that village. 
 The following is of interest to New Hampshire people as show- 
 ing that her sons are respected wherever they may locate : 
 
 "Dr. L. P. Dodge, whose death we chronicle in this issue, 
 was one of the old settlers of the village of Farmington, and 
 his familiar form will be missed on the streets and at public 
 gatherings. He was active in politics, interested in good, 
 orderly government, a stanch friend of education, a ruling 
 spirit in the management of our high school and a much inter- 
 ested and warm adherent of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
 Not fluent in speech but always speaking to the point, he 
 always commanded attention on all public questions which 
 interested him. A man of upright and honorable principles, 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 467 
 
 he had many friends of a quarter of a century's growth. In 
 his practice of medicine in this community for over twenty- 
 five years he has done a vast amount of hard, laborious work, 
 incidental to the large practice he had." 
 
 The following is an extract from a speech of Dr. Dodge, the 
 occasion being ]\Iemorial Day exercises in Farmington: 
 
 "America is for true Americans, be they native or foreign 
 born "We welcome the foreigner, as we see in him the antici- 
 pated typical American. If he is to become American he 
 must drink of the pure waters of American intelligence as 
 they flow from our institutions, without dilution or pollution 
 by foreign creeds, customs or laws. 
 
 "He who breathes our free air and partakes of our prof- 
 fered freedom, from whatever clime he may hail, must cast off 
 the life customs and tongue of his nativity and put on the 
 true American colors, the stars and stripes. He must accept 
 and maintain the fundamental principles that underlie our 
 free institutions; nothing less will constitute him a typical 
 American citizen." 
 
 In 1864 Dr. Dodge was a member of the New Hampshire 
 Medical Society. 
 
 He married, at Fredericksburg, Va., October 1, 1865, Hen- 
 rietta C, daughter of Warner D. and Ethelin M. (Proctor) 
 Shackelford. 
 
 Two children : Warren M. Dodge, M. D., who takes his 
 father's place in Farmington, Minn., and Albert A. Dodge, 
 M. D., physician and surgeon to the Shattuck School for boys 
 at Faribault, Minn. 
 
 Orlando Benajah Douglas, M. D. 
 
 Concord, N. H. 
 
 The subject of this sketch, Orlando B. Douglas, M. D., now 
 a resident of Concord, N. H., was born in Cornwall, Vt., Sep- 
 
468 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 tember 12, 1836, and was the son of Amos and Almira (Bal- 
 eom Douglas, and a grandson of Benajah Douglas. He came 
 from the old Scotch, being the eighth generation from Deacon 
 William Douglas, who came to Boston, Mass., in 1640 and 
 later moved to New London, Conn. 
 
 He received his preliminary education in the common 
 schools of Vermont and at Brandon (Vt.) Seminary; after- 
 wards removed to Missouri. He commenced his professional 
 education in 1858, in Brunswick, Mo., with the medical pre- 
 ceptor. Dr. John H. Blue ; continued the same at the Medical 
 Department of the University of Vermont and at the Univer- 
 sity of New York, graduating from the latter in 1877. 
 
 While a student of medicine he enlisted as a private, Sep- 
 tember, 1861, in the Eighteenth Missouri Volunteers; was 
 promoted lieutenant of Company K, same regiment, March, 
 1862 ; adjutant of the same regiment January, 1863 ; and act- 
 ing assistant adjutant-general the same year. He had been 
 reading medicine for nearly three years before he entered the 
 service. He was wounded twice during his service, the last 
 time at Shiloh. 
 
 Dr. Douglas commenced the practice of his profession in 
 1877 at the Demilt Dispensary and the Manhattan Eye and 
 Ear Hospital in New York, remaining there permanently 
 until 1892, when he took a summer residence in Suncook, 
 N. H. He took a post-graduate course in the Post-Graduate 
 Medical School in 1888, where he afterwards served as pro- 
 fessor. He has visited many of the hospitals in Europe, Lon- 
 don to Moscow^ and Stockholm to Vienna. Soon after 1900 
 he suspended practice in New York and removed to New 
 Hampshire, now residing in Concord, limiting his practice to 
 diseases of the ear, nose and throat. 
 
 He is a member of the New York County Medical Society, 
 permanent member of the New York State Medical Society, 
 fellow of the New York Academy of jMedicine, member of 
 the New Hampshire Medical Society, honorary member of 
 the Vermont Medical Society, member of the American Laryn- 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 469 
 
 gological, Rhinological and Otological Society, American Elec- 
 tro-Therapeutical Association, Physicians' Mutual Aid Asso- 
 ciation of New York, Therapeutical Society of New York, etc., 
 with all of which he has been prominently connected. 
 
 Dr. Douglas is also a member of Linnasan Society and Sci- 
 entific Alliance of New York, American Geographical Society, 
 New York Botanical Garden Association, American Park and 
 Outdoor Art Association, a fraternal member of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, Reno Post, Department of New York, 
 Loyal Legion of the United States, Department of Vermont, 
 IMa.sonic Order, thirty-second degree. 
 
 Dr. Douglas has written many articles, among them "The 
 Upper Air-Passages and Their Diseases" (Medical Record, 
 December 12, 1891) ; "Modern Methods of Treating Diseases 
 of the Nose and Throat" (New York Medical Journal, October 
 26, 1895) ; "Is the Cure of Chronic Nasal Catarrh as Difficult 
 as Has Been Supposed?" {New York Medical Journal, March 
 22, 1890); "Edema of the Larynx" {The Post Graduate, 
 June, 1896); "Examination of Patients," " Hypertrophied 
 Turbinated Bodies" {International Clinics, Vol. I, 1893) ; 
 "Relative Importance of Physical Signs in the Diagnosis of 
 Disease" {Internatioyial Clinics, Vol. II, 1893) ; "Electricity 
 for Medical Purposes as Supplied by the Edison Dynamo" 
 {New York Medical Journal, September 21, 1889). He has 
 been interested in original research and has devised numerous 
 instruments for use in treating diseases of the nose and 
 throat. Has been interested in Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciations in Vermont and elsewhere since 1867, and in Sunday- 
 school work during early manhood. 
 
 Married, first. Miss Mary A. Rust of Orwell, Vt., Decem- 
 ber, 1864, who died August 31, 1873; second, Mrs. Maria L. 
 Manson Tiddy, September, 1875. 
 
 One son, Edwin Rust Douglas, ;M. E., born at Brandon, Vt., 
 September 26, 1872; married, in Claremont, N. H., July 12, 
 1899. 
 
470 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Egbert L. Ela, M. D. 
 Late of Short Falls, N. H. 
 
 (6 N. H. V.) 
 
 Ela, Robert L. Co. I; b. Concord; age 23; res. Concord; enl. Nov, 
 28, '61, as Priv.; app. Capt. Nov. 30, '61; must, in Nov. 30, '61, as 
 Capt.; wd. sev. Aug. 29, '62, Bull Run, Va.; July 20, '64, Mine Ex- 
 plosion, Petersburg, Va.; re-must. Nov. 30, 'Qi, as Capt, for 3 yrs.; 
 app. Maj. June 1, '65; must, out July 17, '65. P. O. ad., Newman, 
 Cal. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 304.) 
 
 Dr. Robert Lane Ela, the elde.st son of George W. and Ade- 
 laide L. Ela, was born at Concord, N. H., April 17, 1838. 
 When he was five years old his mother died. His childhood was 
 spent in part with his grandfather. Dr. Robert Lane of Sutton, 
 and in part with his father at Concord. He was educated at 
 New London, Pembroke and Meriden academies. On com- 
 pleting his studies at these schools he was employed on his 
 father's farm at Allenstown, and subsequently went to Stone- 
 ham, Mass., where he engaged in the manufacture of boots 
 and shoes, which he continued until the spring of 1861. 
 
 When the War of the Rebellion broke out he responded to 
 the president's call for volunteers and, returning to Concord, 
 recruited a company for the Sixth New Hampshire Regiment. 
 He was commissioned a captain, and joining the regiment at 
 Keene, was mustered into the United States service Novem- 
 ber 30, 1861. He went with his regiment to Washington, 
 D. C, where they remained in camp a few weeks, and early 
 in January, 1862, the regiment joined Burnside's expedition 
 to Hatteras, Roanoke island and Newbern, N. C. In July 
 they were transferred by water to General Pope's command 
 in Virginia. They participated in the battle of Cedar Moun- 
 tain and the second battle of Bull Run, August 29, 1862, where 
 Captain Ela was severely wounded in the right arm. He 
 went home on a furlough and remained until he had partly 
 recovered the use of his arm, rejoining his regiment in March, 
 1863, while it was on the way to Kentucky. He was with the 
 regiment through the Kentucky campaign and went with it 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 471 
 
 to Vicksburg, where he was present during the siege and at 
 the surrender of that stronghold, and also in the operations 
 against Jackson, which resulted in the capture of that place. 
 The regiment then returned to Kentuckj' and was stationed 
 at Frankfort, where Captain Ela acted as provost marshal. 
 On the reorganization of the army under General Grant, in 
 1864, he went with his regiment to Virginia and participated 
 in the Wilderness battles of May 5 and 6 ; the battles of Spott- 
 sylvania, May 12 and 18; North Anna River, May 29; Cold 
 Harbor, June 3 and 4 ; then moving across the James river to 
 the front of Petersburg, engaging in the battle of June 17 and 
 18, and being under fire every day until the explosion of the 
 mine, July 30. Captain Ela was in command of the regiment 
 at this time, and the Sixth New Hampshire being one of those 
 selected to charge the enemy after the blowing up of the mine, 
 he led it into the crater and in the fight which followed was 
 wounded by the explosion of a spherical case shot in front of 
 him. Both legs were partially paralyzed, causing injuries 
 from which he never fully recovered. He was afterwards 
 detailed for duty as acting adjutant-quartermaster at Camp 
 Gilmore, Concord, N. H. He returned to his regiment and 
 was promoted to the rank of major before the close of the 
 war. He w^as mu.stered out of the service with his regiment 
 July 17, 1865. 
 
 ^lajor Ela was popular with the men under his command, 
 for he was thoughtful of their comfort and watchful of their 
 interests. He was intimate with but few of his brother offi- 
 cers, but with those he was especially friendly and always 
 ready to give them a cordial greeting. As an officer he was 
 prompt and faithful in the discharge of duty and performed 
 well his part in the war for the Union. 
 
 After his return from the army he studied medicine and 
 surgery with Dr. A. H. Crosby of Concord and at the Dart- 
 mouth Medical School and Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 
 taking degrees from both schools; in 1870 he received the 
 degree of M. D. from Dartmouth Medical College. He com- 
 
472 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 menced the practice of medicine in 1871 in Kansas City, Mo. 
 After a short time he gave up the practice of medicine and 
 went to Nevada and California, where he was engaged in gen- 
 eral building of roads, canals and carpentry. While in these 
 remote and sparsely settled sections he used his professional 
 knowledge and skill in emergency cases. On the death of his 
 father he returned to New Hampshire and resided at Short 
 Falls, N. H. 
 
 Died May 4, 1905. 
 
 George Henry Elliott, M. D. 
 Late of New York City. 
 
 (7 N. H. V.) 
 
 Elliott, Geoege H. Non.-Com. Staff; b. Manchester; age 19; res. 
 Manchester; enL Sept. 30, '61; must, in Dec. 14, '61, as Sergt.- 
 Maj.; disch. disab. Nov. 25, '62, St. Augustine, Fla. P. 0. ad., 
 Manchester. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 368.) 
 
 George Henry Elliott, son of William H. and Serena Fran- 
 ces (Celley) Elliott, and grandson of John W. Elliott, was 
 born in Manchester, June 3, 1844, and was educated in the 
 public schools of Manchester and in the Highland Military 
 Academy of Worcester, Mass. 
 
 ' ' At the age of seventeen his attention was diverted from his 
 studies by the breaking out of the civil war and he left the 
 military academy and returned to JNIanchester, where he was 
 engaged in drilling the raw recruits. Soon after, he enlisted 
 under Colonel Putnam in the Seventh New Hampshire Volun- 
 teers in the capacity of sergeant-major." He was discharged 
 for disability, having been in the service about one year. 
 
 He commenced the study of medicine about 1878, at Colum- 
 bus, Ohio, about one year afterwards completed his course of 
 medicine at the Denver Medical College, taking the rank of 
 valedictorian of his class. He commenced the practice of his 
 profession at Breckenridge, Col., before the date of his gradu- 
 ation, removing to Denver to complete his professional studies. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 473 
 
 He removed to New York in 1884 and was actively engaged 
 in the practice of his profession until his health failed early 
 in 1900. He then came to New Hampshire, hoping to regain 
 his health, and was in the northern part of the state for sev- 
 eral months and early in November came to Manchester, where 
 he died at his father's home, December 17, 1900. 
 
 He was a member of the fraternal associations of Free and 
 Accepted Masons, Grand Army of the Republic and an hon- 
 orary member of the Lambs' Club of New York City. 
 
 "Dr. Elliott stood high in the medical profession, was very 
 much endeared to his calling and at the time of his death was 
 a commissioner of lunacy in New York. He never failed to 
 see life's brightest side and never lost an opportunity to try 
 and have his friends see the same. 
 
 "He leaves a widow and one son, George W. Elliott of New 
 York, a father, William H. Elliott of Manchester, one brother, 
 the Rev. C. F. Elliott of Hinsdale, 111., one sister, Ida F. Elli- 
 ott of Southern Pines, N. C, and two grandchildren." 
 
 Leonard M. Eudy, M. D. 
 
 Late of Eartlett. N. H. 
 
 (15 N. H. V.) 
 
 Eudy, Lkonaro M. Co. C; b. Bethlehem; age 19; res. Bethlehem, 
 cred. Bethlehem; enl. Sept. 15. 'C2; must, in Oct. 8. '62. as Priv.; 
 must, out Aug. 13, 'G3. Died Nov. 29. '7G, Bartlett. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 744.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Bethlehem, N. H., 
 January 8, 1843, and was the son of William Eudy. His pre- 
 liminary education was received in the schools of Bethlehem 
 and he enlisted in the service of the United States as private 
 in Company C, Fifteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volun- 
 teers, September 15, 1862, and was mustered in October 8, 
 1862, where he served until August 13, 1863, when he was 
 mustered out of the service. 
 
 In 1865 he commenced his medical education under the 
 direction of the late Drs. Charles M. Tuttle and Henry L. 
 
474 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Watson, continued the same in the Medical Department of 
 Hai-vard University in 1867 and 1868. He located for the 
 practice of medicine in Littleton in the year 1870 and after 
 one year's residence removed to Upper Bartlett, where he 
 remained until his death. 
 
 From the Hon. J. R. Jackson we obtained the following: 
 ' ' While practicing at Bartlett in 1877, an epidemic of small- 
 pox broke out there in a lumber camp, and Dr. Eudy assumed 
 charge of the camp, established a pest house, contracted the 
 disease and died November 28, 1877." 
 
 Joseph Hanson Farrington, M. D. 
 Late of Rochester, N. H. 
 
 (15 N. H. V.) 
 
 Faeringto:\, Joseph H. Co. I; b. Rochester; age 2C; res. Rochester, 
 cred. Rochester; enl. Aug. 31, 'G2; must, in Oct. 14, '62, as Priv.; 
 must, out Aug. 13, 'G3. See 8 N. H. V. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 744.) 
 
 (S N. H. V.) 
 
 Farrington, Joseph H. Unas'd; b. Rochester; age 28; cred. Roch- 
 ester; enl. Mar. 21, 'C5, for 1 yr. ; must, in Mar. 21, '65, as Priv.; 
 disch. May 6, '65, Galloup's Is!., B. H., Mass. See 15 N. H. V. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 422.) 
 
 Joseph Farrington was a younger brother of Dr. James 
 Bonaparte Farrington, and was born in Rochester, July 5, 
 1836, and was a son of Dr. James and Mary Dame (Hanson) 
 Farrington, a grandson of Stephen Farrington. He received 
 his preliminary education in the common schools of Rochester, 
 at Wolfeborough Academy, New Hampshire, and at the acad- 
 emy in Lebanon, Me. He studied medicine with his father 
 and Dr. B. W. Sargent, but having a ta-ste for mechanical 
 work did not graduate in medicine but turned his attention 
 to dentistry. 
 
 During his term of service he acted as hospital steward. 
 
 Married Susie A. Clough of Laconia, N. H. 
 
 Dr. Farrington died in Rochester, December 10, 1896. 
 
miscellaneous organizations. 475 
 
 Edwin Brant Frost. 
 
 "Edwin Brant Frost, the son of Benjamin and Mary 
 (Brant) Frost, was born at Sullivan, December 30, 1832, and 
 was killed in battle at Cold Harbor, Va., gallantly fighting 
 against the enemies of the Union, June 3, 1864, aged 31. He 
 taught at Pittsfield a short time, also at Royalston, Mass. ; 
 then read law a few months until studying medicine with his 
 brother, Dr. C. P. Frost, named below, at St. Johnsbury, Vt. ; 
 continued thus to May, 1862, when, having recruited a com- 
 pany in the Tenth Regiment of Vermont Volunteers, of which 
 the captaincy was conferred upon him, civil duties were ex- 
 changed for a soldier's life and heroic death. Carlton Penn- 
 icgton Frost, D. C, 1852, and Henry Martin Frost, D. C, 
 1857, were his brothers." ("Alumni of Dartmouth College," 
 by Chapman, p. 435.) 
 
 Zeeb Oilman, Jr., M. D. 
 
 (Dartmouth Cavalry.) 
 
 GiXMAN, Zeeb, Jr. Dartmouth Cav.; b. Piermont; age 20; res. Pier- 
 mont; enl. .June 24, '€2; must, in July 3, 'G2, as Prlv. ; app. Q. M. 
 July 17, '62; must, out Oct. 2, 'G2. P. O. ad., San Diego, CaL 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1094.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Piermont, May 13, 
 1841. was the son of Dr. Zeeb and Naomi (McNeal) Oilman, 
 His early education was obtained in the public schools; at- 
 tended Dartmouth College and was graduated from the same 
 with the degree of A. B. in 1863 ; received the honorary 
 degree of A. M. from the same institution later; attended med- 
 ical lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New 
 York City, and was graduated from the same in 1867. 
 
 While a student in Dartmouth College he enlisted, June 24, 
 1862, in the Seventh Rhode Island Cavalry, was appointed 
 quartermaster July 17, 1862, and was mustered out with the 
 regiment October 2, 1862. 
 
 He afterwards located in San Diego, Cal., as a physician 
 and lawyer. 
 
 (General Catalogue of Dartmouth College, 1900.) 
 
476 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 Frank Walker Graves, M. D. 
 Late of "Woburn, Mass. 
 
 Gbaves, Frank W. B. Rumney; age 19; res. Concord; enl. June 24, 
 '62; must, in June 24. '62. as Sergt; must, out Oct. 2, '62. P. O. 
 ad., Woburn, Mass. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 1094.) 
 
 Dr. Graves was born in Rumney, N. H., June 26, 1842, and 
 was the son of Willard and Elizabeth (Walker) Graves, grand- 
 son of Abner Graves, a soldier in the War of 1812. On his 
 maternal side the family is intimately connected with the 
 early history of New England and had a military record dating 
 back to Capt. Richard Walker of London, Eng., who joined the 
 Honorable Artillery Company of London in 1622. Captain 
 Richard came to this country with the Massachusetts Bay 
 Colony and joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- 
 pany of Massachusetts the first year of its organization. Some 
 members of the Walker family for some time have been resi- 
 dents of Woburn, Mass., from whence they removed to Con- 
 cord, then called Penacook, being among the original pro- 
 prietors of the town. 
 
 Dr. Graves received his early education in the common 
 schools of New Hampshire, at the Phillips Exeter School, in 
 Boston, Nashua Literary Institution of Nashua, N. H., and at 
 Barre Academy, Barre, Vt. He commenced his professional 
 education in 1863 under the direction of Dr. Charles P. Gage 
 of Concord, N. H. Attended medical lectures at the Medical 
 Department of Harvard, the College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons of New York, at the University of Vermont, and was 
 graduated M. D. from the Medical Department of the Uni- 
 versity of Vermont in 1866. He located for the practice of 
 medicine, first, in Sutton, N. H., where he remained only a few 
 months, removing to Warner, N. H., where he remained for 
 eleven years, after which time he was in the practice of medi- 
 cine in Woburn, Mass. 
 
 He was a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, 
 the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the East Middlesex 
 District Medical Society. Of the latter he has been its presi- 
 
MISCELLANEOUB ORGANIZATIONS. 477 
 
 dent and acted as councillor for this district in the Massachu- 
 setts Medical Society. He has been medical director of the 
 Department of Massachusetts, Grand Army of the Republic, 
 and was surgeon of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- 
 pany of Massachusetts, and accompanied the corps as surgeon 
 when the company visited London in 1896. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Masonic fraternity, including the Scottish Rite de- 
 gree, of the Grand Army of the Republic and Sons of the 
 American Revolution. (Maternal great-grandfather, Bruce 
 Walker, served with New Hampshire Continentals in the Rev- 
 olutionary War.) 
 
 Dr. Graves' service in the army commenced June 24, 1862, 
 when he was mustered into the service of the United States 
 as sergeant, Company B, Seventh Squadron of Rhode Island 
 Volunteer Cavalry. This company was known as the Dart- 
 mouth Cavalry and was enlisted for three months, and stands 
 unique among all the military forces contributed by colleges 
 of this country, to suppress the Rebellion. 
 
 John Scales, secretary and historian of the class of 1863, 
 Dartmouth College, says : 
 
 "Dartmouth is the only college that furnished anything of 
 the kind, and has just occasion to feel proud of that com- 
 pany of cavalrymen, not only for what they did, but also for 
 what they were ready and prepared to do, if more had been 
 demanded of them." 
 
 The war spirit among students was very exciting at that 
 time. The capital of our country was regarded as in great 
 danger of being invaded and captured by the forces of General 
 Lee. President Lincoln had issued a call for forty thousand 
 men for three months. Sanford S. Burr of the class of 1863, 
 believing that it was a call of sufficient gravity to induce col- 
 lege men to join in putting down the rebellion, was the moving 
 spirit in enlisting this company of Dartmouth Cavalry. He 
 applied to the governor of New Hampshire and also to the 
 governor of Vermont for permission to enlist a company of 
 college students, but the service was declined. Afterwards he 
 received the assurance of Governor Sprague of Rhode Island 
 
478 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 that their services would be accepted by that state. The his- 
 torian of the company says: 
 
 ' ' The news spread rapidly and the whole college was stirred 
 as never before or since. For a day or two it seemed as though 
 the whole college would respond to the President 's call. Parents 
 began to be alarmed lest their young sons should enlist and be 
 off for the war before they could reach them with letters for- 
 bidding rash and inconsiderate action. President Lord and 
 the faculty counselled aginst it also, on the ground that it 
 would be more beneficial to the students to keep to their books 
 than to go to war. These influences tended to dampen the 
 ardor of many of the students when the time actually came 
 to enroll their names, so finally it was found necessary to 
 admit a few from Norwich University, then just across the 
 Connecticut river from Hanover, a few from Union, Bowdoin 
 and one or two other colleges, with a contingent from Wood- 
 stock, Vt., not connected with any college, but nearly all were 
 Dartmouth boys." 
 
 This Company B did good service in the army, being drilled 
 in the vicinity of Washington from June 24 until July 18, 
 when "they considered themselves as good as experts in cav- 
 alry service. ' ' This whole region was infested with guerrillas 
 at this time and the cavalry were active in suppressing their 
 depredations. Dr. Graves was mustered out of the service 
 October 2, 1862. 
 
 Married, in 1868, Mary Louise Bennett. 
 
 No children. 
 
 Dr. Graves died at his home in Woburn, Mass., March 13, 
 1900, and was taken to Concord, N. H., for burial. 
 
 Hiram Tenney Hardy, M. D. 
 Kaneville, Kane County, 111. 
 
 Habdy, Hibam T. Dartmouth College; b. North Groton; age 24; res. 
 Grafton; enl. June 24, '62; must, in July 3, '62, as Priv.; must, out 
 Oct. 2, '62. P. O. ad., Kaneville, Kane Co., 111. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 479 
 
 Dr. Hardy was born March 12, 1838, at North Groton, 
 N. H., and was the son of Luther and Lucy (Tenney) Hardy, 
 a grandson of David Hardy of the same town. He received his 
 preliminary education in the common schools and at the 
 academies in Franklin, N. H., and Thetford, Vt. Commenced 
 his professional education in 1860 at Thetford, Vt., under the 
 direction of the late Dr. Ezra C. Worcester and attended lec- 
 tures at the Medical Department of Dartmouth College. Dur- 
 ing his first course he enlisted in the Dartmouth Cavalry and 
 served from June 24 to October 2, 1862. He was afterwards 
 hospital steward in the Third Vermont Battery, serving con- 
 tinuously at the front from the beginning of the battle of the 
 Wilderness, along the lines before Petersburg and in the final 
 movement which ended in the surrender of General Lee at 
 Appomattox, being present at that time. He was then sent 
 on detail to a hospital at Farmville, Va., where the sick and 
 wounded of both armies were to be cared for and sent to their 
 homes. This duty finished, he followed his battery to Bur- 
 lington, where he was mustered out. 
 
 He again entered the Medical Department of Dartmouth 
 College and was graduated M. D. in the class of 1866. After 
 graduating he located in Strafford, Vt., where he remained 
 until 1871 and spent the winter in Dorchester, Neb., when he 
 returned to Elgin, 111., and remained one and one-half years 
 and located at his present residence, Kaneville, in 1873, where 
 he has remained for nearly twenty-five years. 
 
 He is a member of the American Medical Association, the 
 State Medical Society of Illinois, Chicago Medical Society and 
 Fox River Valley Medical Society. While residing in Straf- 
 ford, Vt., he was superintendent of schools. He belongs to the 
 Masonic Fraternity and to an association of Modern Woodmen 
 of America. He is a member of the school board of the town 
 of Kaneville. 
 
 "Married, March 12, 1868, to Sophia E. Buzzell of Straf- 
 ford, Vt. Three children, Ralph Holmes, now married and 
 
480 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 living in Kaneville, 111., Mabel Le Rue died at the age of four 
 and one-half years, and Adra Genevieve." 
 
 Timothy Avans Haley, M. D. 
 Centre Tuftonborough, N. H. 
 
 (12 N. H. V.) 
 
 Haley, Timothy A. Co. K; b. Tuftonborough; age 22; res. Tufton- 
 borough, cred. Tuftonborough; enl. Aug. 18, '62; must, in Sept. 
 10, '62, as Priv.; tr. to I. C. Sept. 3, '63; assigned to Co. C, 18 I. C; 
 disch. July 10, '65, Washington, D. C. P. 0. ad., Tuftonborough. 
 (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. G23.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Tuftonborough, 
 N. H., July 24, 1840, and was the son of John Smith and 
 Mary Neal (Piper) Haley, and a grandson of William Haley, 
 He received his early education at Wolfeborough and Tufton- 
 borough Academy, Andover Christian In.stitute and Dart- 
 mouth College. His professional education was commenced 
 in 1860 under the direction of Luther J. Pattee, M. D., of 
 Wolfeborough, and William H. H. Mason, M. D., of Moul- 
 tonborough ; was two years at Dartmouth Medical College and 
 was graduated from the same October 24, 1867. 
 
 During this time he served three years in the United States 
 Army in the War of the Rebellion, being connected with the 
 Twelfth New Hampshire Regiment. Returning to New 
 Hampshire he located at Tuftonborough soon after his grad- 
 uation and has been in the same place for twenty-eight years. 
 He was at one time a member of the United States pension 
 board, medical examiner for various life insurance companies, 
 a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, James R. New- 
 ell Post, No. 61, Wolfeborough, and also superintendent of 
 schools in the town of Tuftonborough. 
 
 Married, December 19, 1869, Corinne C. Peirce of Som- 
 erset, Mass. 
 
 No children. 
 
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miscellaneous organizations. 481 
 
 Charles M. Kittredge, M. D. 
 Late of Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
 
 (13 N. H. V.) 
 
 KiTTEEDGE, Chables M. Co. B; b. Mont Vernon; age 24; res. Mont 
 Vernon, cred. Mont Vernon; enl. Aug. 26, 'G2; must, in Sept. 18, 
 '62, as 1 Sergt.; app. 2 Lt. Mar. 2G, '63; resigned Nov. 3, '63. 
 P. O. ad., Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 p. 674.) 
 
 Charles Marsh Kittredge was born April 30, 1838, in Mont 
 Vernon, N. H., and was the son of Timothy and Fanny 
 (Marsh) Kittredge, a grandson of Dr. Josiah Kittredge. He 
 received a liberal academic education, fitting for college at 
 Appleton Academy in his native town, and was graduated 
 from Amherst College in July, 1862. His professional educa- 
 tion was received at Harvard Medical College, which he en- 
 tered in 1863 and from which he was graduated M. D. in 1866. 
 
 He commenced the practice of his profession at Hartford 
 Retreat, an institution for the treatment of nervous diseases, 
 and afterwards located in Hyde Park, Mass., in 1869, but re- 
 mained there only a few months, when he removed to Fishkill- 
 on-Hudson, where he remained until ill health obliged him to 
 retire from the active practice of his profession. 
 
 After his graduation at Amherst and before he commenced 
 the study of medicine in Harvard Medical College, he enlisted 
 in Company' B, Thirteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volun- 
 teers, September 18, 1862, as first sergeant, and on March 26, 
 1863, was promoted to second lieutenant. Dr. Kittredge was 
 in the battle of Fredericksburg, and November 3, 1863, re- 
 signed on account of ill health. 
 
 Dr. Kittredge was a public spirited citizen, interested in all 
 good work, active in church matters and connected with 
 several of the financial institutions of the town. He never lost 
 his interest in his native town and state, but while residing in 
 Fishkill bought the ancestral farm, as well as an adjoining 
 one in Mont Vernon, and became interested largely in agricul- 
 ture, having on his farm at one time a fine herd of Swiss 
 cattle. 
 
 Dr. Kittredge was one of the founders of the New York 
 
482 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 State Medical Association and also a member of the Dutchess 
 County Medical Society of New York. He was a member of 
 the Delta Kappa Epsilon Society in college, the Grand Army 
 of the Republic and the New Hampshire State Grange. 
 
 Married, in 1870, Marcella E. Conant of Mont Vernon, 
 who died in 1892. 
 
 Children, six, of whom Charles A. Kittredge, M. D., Aida, 
 Harry M. and George D. Kittredge are living; Willie C. and 
 Eddie, deceased. 
 
 Dr. Kittredge died August 19, 1896. 
 
 Jonathan Perry Kittredge. 
 Concord, N. H. 
 
 (3 N. H. V.) 
 
 Kittredge, Perry. Co. B; b. Canaan; age 20; res. Concord; enl. Aug. 
 23, '61; must, in Aug. 23, '61, as Priv. ; app. Hosp. Steward Sept. 
 9, '62; must, out Aug. 23, '64. P. O. ad., Concord. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 129.) 
 
 The surgical history of the War of the Rebellion includes 
 the military history of many who never received a commis- 
 sion as surgeon or assistant surgeon. Among these was Jona- 
 than Perry Kittredge, who for three years was hospital stew- 
 ard of the Third New Hampshire Volunteers. 
 
 He was born December 13, 1840, in Canaan, N. H., and was 
 a son of Jonathan and Julia (Balch) Kittredge, a grandson 
 of Jonathan Kittredge, M. D. He received his education in 
 the common schools of New Hampshire, at the Union Acad- 
 emy at Canaan, Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, and at 
 Colby Academy, New London, N. H. Instead of taking a 
 medical education he devoted his attention to pharmacy. 
 
 He enlisted in the Third New Hampshire Volunteers August 
 23, 1861, was appointed hospital steward September 9, 1862, 
 and remained with the regiment for full three years. On his 
 return he located in Concord, N. H., and became a member of 
 the firm of Underbill & Kittredge, and has been one of the 
 leading business men ever since. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 483 
 
 He is a member of the New Hampshire Pharmaceutical 
 Association, the Grand Army of the Republic, Eureka Lodge, 
 No. 70, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; was representa- 
 tive from ward four in 1885 and 1886, and has been a justice 
 of the peace for several years. 
 
 Married, December 26, 1872, Ellen S. Bond of Worces- 
 ter, Mass. 
 
 Frank Tifft Moffett, M. D. 
 Late of Littleton, N. H. 
 
 (14 N. H. V.) 
 
 Moffett, Frank T. Co. D; b. Littleton; age 19; res. Littleton, cred. 
 Seabrook; enl. Aug. 15, '62; must, in Oct. 10, '62, as Priv. ; must, 
 out July 8, '65. P. O. ad., Littleton, N. H. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895. p. 718.) 
 
 Dr. ]Moffett was born in Littleton, N. H., August 6, 1842, 
 and was the son of Col. Alden and Almira (Blood) Moffett, 
 and a grandson of James Moffett. His early education was 
 received in the common schools of Littleton, N. H., and in 
 the academy at Bamet, Vt. He commenced the study of 
 medicine in 1867 at Littleton, N. H., with the late Dr. Charles 
 M. Tuttle. He attended three courses of lectures at Harvard 
 Medical College and was graduated M. D. from the same in 
 the class of 1870. He commenced the practice of medicine in 
 1871, in Littleton, N. H., remaining in that place until his 
 death. 
 
 He was a member of the White Mountain and New Hamp- 
 shire Medical societies and of the American Medical Associa- 
 tion; also of Masonic associations, including chapter, council 
 and commandery; was representative to the legislature in 
 1883, and for several years assistant and afterwards surgeon 
 of the Third Regiment New Hampshire National Guard. Like 
 many other patriotic young men. Dr. ^lofl'ett enlisted August 
 15, 1862, in Company D of the Fourteenth New Hampshire 
 Regiment and was discharged from the service July 8, 1865. 
 During a portion of this period he served as hospital steward. 
 
484 SUKGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 His biographer says of him : " He was with General Banks 
 on the Red river, went through the Valley campaign in West 
 Virginia with Sheridan, was in the vicinity of Savannah, Ga., 
 to meet Sherman's command on its march to the sea, and was 
 present at the capture of Jefferson Davis and went with the 
 detachment that conveyed Davis to the government trans- 
 port. ' ' 
 
 Married, May 23, 1871, Alice L. Tuttle, daughter of his 
 distinguished medical preceptor, Dr. Charles M. Tuttle. 
 
 Children, two: Bessie T. and Grace Isabelle Moffett. 
 
 Dr. Moffett died in his native town July 12, 1896. 
 
 Jacob Washington Mooar, M, D. 
 Late of Manchester, N. H. 
 
 (5 N. H. V.) 
 
 Mooar, Jacob W. Co. I; b. Hollis; age 30; res. Hollis; enl. Sept. 
 25, '61; must, in Oct. 15, '61, as Priv.; disch. Feb. 10, '64, Alexan- 
 dria, Va. P. O. ad., Manchester. (Record, Ayling's Register, 
 1895, p. 255.) 
 
 Surgeon Mooar was born March 7, 1831, in Hollis, N. H., 
 and was the son of John and Rebecca (Abbott) Mooar. His 
 parental grandfather was Jacob Mooar of New Hampshire, who 
 was in the battle of Bennington, and his father, John Mooar, 
 was colonel in the Fifth Regiment New Hampshire Militia. He 
 received his preliminary education in the district schools of 
 Hollis, N. H., and at the Normal Institute (now the McGaw 
 Institute) of Merrimack, N. H. He commenced his profes- 
 sional education at Manchester, N. H., in 1857, under the 
 direction of Sylvanus Bunton, M. D., afterwards surgeon of 
 the Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. He at- 
 tended two courses of medical lectures at Hanover, N. H., and 
 was graduated from the Medical Department of Dartmouth 
 College in the class of 1862. 
 
 He enlisted as a private in Company I of the Fifth Regi- 
 ment New Hampshire Volunteers, September 21, 1861, and 
 was detailed at once to act as hospital steward until August 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 485 
 
 18, 1862. At this time he was transferred to the Centre 
 Street Hospital in Newark, N. J., where he remained until 
 December, when he was transferred to Camp Distribution, 
 near Washington, afterwards to the McVeigh Hospital, Alex- 
 andria, Va., where he became a dispensary clerk; again he 
 was transferred to the Wolfe Street Hospital to serve in the 
 same capacity. While in the McVeigh Hospital he was in- 
 duced by Surgeon Charles Page, IJ. S. A., to accept the position 
 of acting assistant surgeon of the United States Army and 
 was discharged by special order from the Fifth Regiment, 
 March 10, 1864, and was assigned to duty at Claremont Hos- 
 pital in Alexandria, Va., and remained there until about Sep- 
 temper 5, 1865; was then transferred to Fort Whipple on 
 Arlington Heights, which was garrisoned by the Third United 
 States Infantry and the Fourth United States Heavy Artil- 
 lery. About Januarj-- 1, 1866, he was transferred to the Har- 
 wood Hospital, Washington, D. C, afterwards to a military 
 post at Vienna, Va., where he remained until October 14, 
 
 1866. At that time the post was discontinued and Surgeon 
 Mooar was mustered out of the service. On February 27, 
 
 1867, he was again appointed acting assistant surgeon. United 
 States Army, and assigned to duty at the Asylum for Refu- 
 gees, under the direction of the Freedman's Bureau, at Gar- 
 land, Ala. Surgeon Mooar remained in charge of this insti- 
 tution until October 31, 1868, when it was discontinued and 
 his duties terminated "by reason of service no longer re- 
 quired," and with the endorsement, "his service has been well 
 and faithfully rendered." 
 
 After leaving the service of the United States Dr. Mooar 
 located in Manchester, N. H. He was a member of the Ma- 
 sonic Fraternity, Louis Bell Post, No. 3, Department of New 
 Hampshire, Grand Army of the Republic, Sons of the Ameri- 
 can Revolution, and was a member of the local board of health 
 of Manchester for two years. 
 
 Married, June 20, 1878, Linda Mitchell Hunter. 
 
 Children : Linda Hunter, Mary Louise and Lucile S. Mooar. 
 
 Died August 17, 1905. 
 
486 surgical history in the rebellion. 
 
 David Batchelder Nelson, M. D. 
 Late of Laconia, N. H. 
 
 (New England Volunteer Cav.) 
 
 Nelson, David B. Co. K; b. Roxbury, Mass.; age 39; res. Manches- 
 ter; app. Capt. Oct. 9, '61; must, in Oct. 24, '61; app. Maj. Dec. 3, 
 '61; resigned June 3, '62. P. 0. ad., Laconia. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 840.) 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Roxbury, Mass., 
 June 7, 1823, and was the son of William and Lucy (Batchel- 
 der) Nelson. He received his preliminary education in the 
 common schools of New Hampshire and at the seminary in 
 Newbury, Vt., and the academy at Bradford, Vt., at which 
 he was valedictorian of his class. He commenced his profes- 
 sional education with Dr. Rufus Fellows of Hill, N. H., con- 
 tinuing the same with Dr. Ephraim Buck and J. C. Clark, M. 
 D., of Boston. He attended two courses of medical lectures, 
 one at Pittsfield, Mass., and the other at Harvard Medical 
 College, from which he was graduated M. D. in 1849. During 
 his period of study with Dr. Buck, an epidemic of Asiatic 
 cholera prevailed in Boston, and he with other students acted 
 as attendants during the epidemic. He was present at the 
 Massachusetts General Hospital October 16, 1846, and wit- 
 nessed the first operation performed under ether as an anes- 
 thetic. He first located in the practice of medicine in Boston 
 during the year 1849 ; he then removed to jNIanchester, where 
 he remained from 1850 to 1861, when he entered the volunteer 
 service of the United States Army, and on being mustered out 
 located in Laconia, where he remained until his death, which 
 occurred July 9, 1898. 
 
 He was a member of the Harvard Medical College Alumni 
 Association and of the New Hampshire Medical Society. He 
 has been one of the councilors of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society, city physician of Laconia, county physician for three 
 years, was United States pension examining surgeon at Laco- 
 nia for thirty-two years, member of the board of education 
 for six years and of the school committee for four years. He 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 487 
 
 was a member of Post No. 37, G. A. R., Laconia, and has held 
 the office of commander, surgeon, etc., and has been medical 
 director of the New Hampshire state encampment. He was 
 appointed colonel on the staff of Governor Berry in 1861, and 
 in that capacity attended to the special transportation for the 
 Third Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers; was afterwards 
 appointed by Governor Berry special mustering officer to 
 raise Troop K of the New Hampshire Cavalry, and in October, 
 
 1861, was appointed captain, and in November major, of the 
 Second Battalion. At the battle of Front Royal, May 30, 
 
 1862, Dr. Nelson commanded the First Squadron (four com- 
 panies) of the Rhode Island Cavalry. 
 
 Dr. Nelson was prominent in Grand Army circles and so 
 long as his health permitted was always present at their en- 
 campments. He was a highly respected and useful citizen of 
 the city of Laconia, having been a resident during its greatest 
 growth. He has been honored by positions of trust and left 
 many lifelong friends that mourn his decease. 
 
 Married, first, in 1851, Cornelia C. Weston; second, May 
 24, 1859, Susan E. Bridges. 
 
 Children : by first marriage, Arthur H. and Cornelia, both 
 deceased; by second marriage, Alice M., William and Louise 
 H., all living; David B. and Elizabeth H., deceased. 
 
 Edward Joseph O'Donnell, M. D. 
 
 Auburn, KLan. 
 
 (IG N. H. V.) 
 
 DoNNELL, Edwakd J. Co. Ci b. Lyndeborough; age 27; res. Mason, 
 cred. Mason; enl. Oct. 10, '62, as Priv. ; app. 2 Lt. Nov. 4, '62; must, 
 in to date Oct. 18, 'G2, as 2 Lt.; disch. to date Aug. 20, '63; volun- 
 teered for storming party at Port Hudson, La., under G. O. No. 49, 
 Dept. of the Gulf, June 15, 'C3. P. O. ad., Stockton, Kan. (Record, 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 772.) 
 
 Dr. O'Donnell enlisted and served in the Sixteenth New 
 Hampshire Volunteers before becoming a member of the pro- 
 
488 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 fession. He was born in Lyndeborough, N. H., May 11, 1835, 
 and was the son of James and Nancy A. (Stafford) O'Don- 
 nell, a grandson of James O 'Donnell of the same town. After 
 attending common schools in New Hampshire he took an 
 academic course at the Appleton Academy at New Ipswich, 
 N. H. He commenced the study of medicine in 1859, under 
 the direction of Thomas Marshall, M. D., of Greenville, N. H., 
 also S. W. Fletcher, M. D., of Pepperell, Mass. He attended 
 medical lectures at Bowdoin Medical College, Brunswick, Me., 
 and at the Medical Department of Dartmouth College at Han- 
 over, N. H., and was graduated from the latter in the class 
 of 1865. He commenced the practice of medicine in the army 
 on Maryland Heights, later at Athol, IMass. 
 
 While a student of medicine he enlisted and was appointed 
 second lieutenant of Company C, Sixteenth New Hampshire 
 Volunteers, and served through their term of service. After 
 his graduation he became an assistant surgeon of the Thir- 
 teenth Maryland Volunteers, in 1865, remaining until the regi- 
 ment was mustered out of the service. Later in the same year 
 he commenced the practice of medicine in Athol, Mass., where 
 he remained for one year. He was afterv/ards located at 
 Eichmond, N. H., four years: at West Tov/nsend, Mass., six 
 years, since which time he has resided and practiced his pro- 
 fession in Kansas. 
 
 While in New Hampshire he became a member of the 
 Masonic Fraternity, joining the Souhegan Lodge at Green- 
 ville, N. H., and since his residence in Kansas has been identi- 
 fied with the Masonic Fraternity of that state. While a resi- 
 dent of Townsend, Mass., he was superintendent of schools 
 from 1872 to 1876 ; was a member of the Kansas state senate 
 from 1884 to 1888. 
 
 Married, November 20, 1864, Ellen F. Prescott, daughter 
 of Hon. Charles Prescott of Mason, N. H. 
 
 Children : Charles, Hugh Virgil and Fanny Stafford 
 O 'Donnell. The daughter married N. N. Neher and resides 
 in Stockton, Kan. 
 
miscellaneous organizations. 489 
 
 Charles C. Pike, M. D. 
 
 (11 N. H. V.) 
 
 Pike, Charles C. Co. F; b. New London; age 18; res. New London, 
 cred. New London; enl. Aug. 9, '62; must, in Aug. 29, '62, as Priv. 
 wd. Dec. 13, '62, Fredericksburg, Va.; disch. disab. Apr. 18, '63, 
 Washington, D. C. Died Jan. 27, '94, Peabody, Mass. (Record. 
 Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 587.) 
 
 Surgeon Pike, the subject of this sketch, was born in New 
 London, N. H., May 5, 1844, and was the son of James L. and 
 Sarah (Colby) Pike. He was a student in that most excel- 
 lent institution, Colby Academy, New London, at the com- 
 mencement of the War of the Rebellion, when patriotism over- 
 came his earnest desire for an education and he enlisted as a 
 private in Company F, Eleventh Regiment New Hampshire 
 Volunteers, and was mustered into the United States service 
 August 29, 1862. He was badly wounded at the battle of 
 Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, and served some months 
 as hospital steward. Upon his return home, although still 
 suffering from his wound, he again attended Colby Academy, 
 completing his course there, and began the study of medicine 
 in 1865, under the direction of the late Dr. S. M. Whipple of 
 New London. He attended three courses of medical lectures, 
 two at Dartmouth and one at Harvard, and was graduated 
 M. D. from the former institution in 1869. Dr. Pike imme- 
 diately located in Sutton, N. II., and that year became a mem- 
 ber of the New Hampshire Medical Society. He soon built 
 up a large practice in Sutton, and in December, 1870, married 
 Miss Eveline Piper of Hopkinton, N. H., who died in 1872. 
 
 In 1872 Dr. Pike removed to Peabody, Mass., and in a short 
 time succeeded in establishing a very extensive business. He 
 became a member of the South Essex District and the Massa- 
 chusetts Medical Societies, of which he was a very active mem- 
 l)er, and was president of the district society in 1885. He 
 was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Masonic 
 and Odd Fellows Fraternities, and also a member of the Ortho- 
 dox Congregational Church. Under President Harrison, Dr. 
 
490 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Pike was president of the United States pension examining 
 board at Salem, Mass. 
 
 He married, second, January 29, 1874, Miss Susan S. Baker 
 of Peabody, Mass., who survives him. 
 
 He died very suddenly of appendicitis, January 27, 1894. 
 
 Following is a personal reminiscence, in an address deliv- 
 ered before Union Post, No. 50, G. A. R., Massachusetts, of 
 the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862 : 
 
 ' ' I should think it was now about three o 'clock in the after- 
 noon. I was struck by a bullet in the face, the missile strik- 
 ing on the left side near the angle of the jaw, passing through 
 my mouth, cutting off about one-half of my tongue, knocking 
 out eight double teeth, fracturing the bone on both sides and 
 emerging on the right side near the ear. The hemmorrhage 
 from this wound was very free and the loss of blood from this 
 and the other Avounds soon made things look hazy. I became 
 unconscious soon afterwards and the next I knew the firing 
 had ceased. 
 
 ''It was very dark and very cold, the ground was frozen 
 and the air was filled with the cries and groans of the wounded. 
 I was afterwards told that a large number of the severely 
 wounded were allowed to be carried off the field, when our 
 boys came over to bury the dead next day, but at this time I 
 had little recollection of events. I lost a large seal ring and 
 I have a dim rem.embrance of its being taken from my finger. 
 What money I had was in an inside vest pocket, and my 
 clothes being completely saturated with blood probably pre- 
 vented a careful search for it. At any rate it was not taken. 
 I had no watch. 
 
 "The next day I found myself in a tent with several other 
 men. I do not know where we were or when or how we got 
 there, but I soon learned that it was Falmouth, where those 
 who were too severely wounded to be moved were left. I 
 recollect that it was terribly cold. We had no fire and but 
 few blankets and but little straw to lie upon. Oh, the intol- 
 erable thirst! My mouth was much swollen. I could only get 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 491 
 
 relief by turning water upon it. A thoughtful, practical per- 
 son came into our tent one day and covered us up with news- 
 papers, tucking them well in around us. I quite expect that 
 my life was saved thereby, for by and by, when we got to 
 Washington, the skin peeled from my feet from having been 
 frost bitten at that time. At another time a young, solemn- 
 looking man came into our tents. I immediately made signs 
 to him for water. He did not readily understand me, appar- 
 ently not being well up in sign language, but he got out a 
 note-book and pencil and I managed to write the word 
 'water.' He considered carefully for a few moments and 
 they did seem long ones, and then kindly told me that he had 
 not got any water with him, but that he would gladly pray 
 for me, which he immediately proceeded to do, and a dryer 
 prayer I never listened to. Well meant, I am sure, but some- 
 how it did not reach my case. December 26, thirteen days 
 after the battle, I was sent to Washington, where I arrived 
 in a used up way and was sent to Harewood Hospital, receiv- 
 ing there the most kindly and skillful attention from both 
 surgeons and nurses. After some months I became able to 
 wait upon the sick and wounded as they were brought in, 
 and later was detailed as hospital steward." 
 Resolution adopted by Post No. 50, G. A. R. : 
 
 "Realizing that but a few years can elapse before we must 
 all follow our lamented comrade, and that it is not for us to 
 use idle and insincere words, we wish to publicly declare our 
 profound con\iction that of all the comrades who have been 
 connected with this post since it was formed to the present 
 time there has been no one who will be more sincerely and 
 justly mourned, or whose memory will be more fragrant, 
 grateful and lasting than that of Charles C. Pike." 
 
 Royal B. Prescott, M. D. 
 
 Late of Nashua, N. H. 
 
 Pbescott, Roval B. Co. E; b. Nashua; age 23; res. Nashua, cred. 
 Nashua; enl. Aug. 30, '62; must, in Sept. 30, '62, as Priv.; app. 
 Hosp. Steward Nov. 22, '62; 1 Lt., Co. C, Oct. 28, '64; must, out 
 June 21, '65. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 681.) 
 
492 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Nashua in 1839 and 
 was the son of Phinehas and Mary Conant (Gates) Prescott. 
 His preliminary education was received in the district school, 
 which he left at the age of thirteen and then commenced work 
 in a printing office. His professional education commenced 
 in 1865 at Marlborough, N. H., under the direction of Drs. 
 George B. Twitchell of Keene and Samuel Richardson of 
 Marlborough, both of whom were surgeons in the Thirteenth 
 Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. 
 
 Dr. Prescott attended three courses of medical lectures, two 
 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, 
 and one at Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 where he received his degree of M. D. in 1867. He commenced 
 the practice of medicine in New York City soon after gradua- 
 tion, remaining there for nearly twenty years, during which 
 time he was connected with the various dispensaries in New 
 York. He was a member of the New York County Medical 
 Society and the East River Medical Association, of which he 
 was one of the original members, and was also a member of 
 the Massachusetts Medical Society. 
 
 In 1885 he removed to Nashua, N. H., where his practice 
 was limited to diseases of the eye, ear and throat. His early 
 education in the printing office, his subsequent work as a 
 shorthand reporter, combined with a natural power to use 
 the English language, gave him prominence as a writer on 
 various medical subjects, and also as an orator on the occasion 
 of memorial exercises on Decoration Day since the war. 
 
 At one time he was acting assistant surgeon to a large camp 
 of colored refugees near Dismal Swamp, Va., during the year 
 1863 ; was surgeon to Post No. 7, G. A. R., for several years, 
 and medical director in the G. A. R., Department of New 
 Hampshire, for four years. He was a member of the Loyal 
 Legion of the Department of Massachusetts and examining 
 surgeon of the pension department of the United States Army 
 in Nashua. 
 
 His post-graduate education was in the form of special in- 
 
MISCELLANEOUS OEGANIZATIONS. 493 
 
 struction in the diseases of the chest, by Prof. Austin Flint, 
 Sr., and in diseases of the eye by Prof. C. R. A^ew. 
 
 His services in the army may be summed up as follows: 
 Private soldier, hospital steward, first lieutenant commanding 
 compan3% in command of Fort McConihe in the winter of 
 1864 and 1865, near Bermuda Hundred, participated in ten 
 engagements of the Army of the Potomac, nearly died of 
 smallpox, was wounded in the left thigh by a piece of shell, 
 and commanded the picket line, so that his command was the 
 first to enter Richmond, Va., April 3, 1865. 
 
 There was a class of soldiers in New Hampshire, of which 
 Dr. Prescott was one, whose service commenced as enlisted 
 men and whose surgical education was completed subsequent 
 to the war. These young men represented an enthusiastic 
 and patriotic class, whose education and profession was not 
 yet concluded or decided, but who subsequently became most 
 honored citizens of the state. This fact of itself entitles them 
 to recognition in a historic work of this kind. 
 
 Married, in 1890, Miss Hattie A. Nichols of Nashua, a 
 native of Merrimack, N. H. 
 
 No children. 
 
 Dr. Prescott died at his home in Nashua, January 2, 1902. 
 
 Thomas Osgood Reynolds, M. D. 
 
 Kingston, N. H. 
 
 (11 N. H. V.) 
 
 Reynolds, Thomas O. Co. I; b. Chester; age 19; res. Candia, cred. 
 Candia; enl. Aug. 28, '62; must, in Sept. 6, '62, as Priv.; wd. Dec. 
 13, '62, Fredericksburg, Va.; disch. May 20. '65. P. 0. ad., Kings- 
 ton. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 588.) 
 
 Dr. Reynolds was born in Chester, N. H., December 24, 
 1842, and was the son of Thomas Furnald and Mary (Currier) 
 Reynolds, and a grandson of Owen Reynolds. He received 
 his preliminary education in the common schools of Chester 
 and at the Chester Academy, New Hampshire. He com- 
 
494 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 menced the study of medicine in 1863, at Camp Nelson, Ken- 
 tuclcy, under the direction of Dr. A. C. Rankin, acting assist- 
 ant surgeon. United States Army, continuing the same at Long 
 Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., at Albany (N. Y.) 
 Medical College, and was graduated from the latter, Decem- 
 ber 24, 1866. He commenced the practice of medicine in 
 Deerfield, N. H., April, 1869, where he remained for ten 
 months, then removed to Kingston, N. H., where he has prac- 
 ticed since February, 1870, with the exception of one year 
 which was spent in Haverhill, Mass. 
 
 He is an ex-member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, 
 was a member of the Rockingham District Medical Society, 
 and a member of the Alumni Society of Albany Medical Col- 
 lege. He belongs to various Masonic Fraternities; General 
 Patten Post, G. A. R. ; the General Burnside Commandery, 
 IT. V. IT., of Haverhill, Mass., and the Congregational society 
 of Kingston, N. H. ; was meteorological reporter for Harvard 
 observatory for several years, a trustee of the Kingston Acad- 
 emy, town clerk, representative to the general court, coroner 
 for Rockingham county, justice of the peace, etc. 
 
 Dr. Reynolds has reported cases to the New York Medical 
 Record and to the Cincinnati Medical Clinic; one case, some- 
 what noteworthy, of a punctured wound of the heart, in 
 which the patient lived three days and an autopsy proved the 
 correctness of the diagnosis. 
 
 He is now president of the local board of health of Kings- 
 ton and for many years has been principal surgeon in that 
 section of Rockingham county. Dr. Reynolds takes great 
 interest in microscopy, making his own slides, corresponds ex- 
 tensively with microscopists and has been a regular contributor 
 to Microscopic and Polarizer Examination. 
 
 Dr. Reynolds' military record began with an enlistment as 
 private in Company I, Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment, 
 August 28, 1862. He was wounded at Fredericksburg Decem- 
 ber 13, 1862, and again at Jackson, Miss., in July, 1863. In 
 the meantime, he served as chief clerk and acting steward of 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 495 
 
 Nelson Convalescent Hospital, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, which 
 at that time was the headquarters of the Department of Ohio. 
 From October, 1863, to muster out, May 10, 1865, he was at 
 Lexington, Ky., and soon after, June 1, 1865, was employed 
 as acting assistant surgeon. United States Army, and had all 
 the medical and surgical duties to perform of the Freedman's 
 Hospital at Camp Nelson. This was a camp of three thousand 
 people, having a hospital with one hundred beds. He re- 
 mained in charge of the same until this camp was closed, 
 January 1, 1866. 
 
 Married, July 13, 1870, Mary Fanny Smith. 
 
 Children, one: Mabel Reynolds. 
 
 James Morrili. Rix, M. D. 
 
 Warner. N. H. 
 
 Dr. Rix belongs to that class of surgeons who have com- 
 pleted their medical education since the close of the war. He 
 was born in Littleton, N. H., December 30, 1834, and was the 
 son of Hale and Louise (Morrill) Rix, a grandson of Nathaniel 
 Rix. He received his preliminary education at the common 
 schools and select schools of Dalton and Whitefield, N. H., and 
 at Peaeham Academy, Peacham, Vt. He commenced the 
 study of medicine in 1859, at New Bedford, Mass., under the 
 direction of Dr. Orren Boynton, of Lisbon, N. H., attending 
 medical lectures at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New 
 York City, and at the Medical Department of the University 
 of Vermont in Burlington, graduating M. D. from the Belle- 
 vue Hospital Medical College of New York City, March 1, 
 1868. He located in Warner, N. H., April 12, 1868, and has 
 practiced medicine in that town ever since. 
 
 He has been a member of the New Hampshire Medical So- 
 ciety and of the Centre District Medical Society ; also the Odd 
 Fellows, Grand Army and the New Hampshire Grange. 
 
 The following is his military- record: Enlisted as private 
 in April, 1861, in Company G, Third Regiment Massachusetts 
 
496 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Volunteers, this enlistment being for three months, and sailed 
 immediately from Boston to Fortress Monroe. While in 
 Fortress Monroe Dr. Rix was detailed for duty in the assist- 
 ant surgeon's office and was mustered out at the end of the 
 term of enlistment; came back to New England and enlisted 
 again in the spring of 1862, at Littleton, N. H., in Company 
 D, Thirteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers; served 
 as corporal until early winter after the battle of Fredericks- 
 burg, when he Avas sent to the hospital in Washington, and 
 the following March (1868) he was discharged by reason of 
 disability. 
 
 Married, in 1869, Mary A. Adams. 
 
 Children, one: Learthur A. Rix, born in 1879. 
 
 Dr. Rix died February 16, 1906. 
 
 Albert Hamilton Taft, M. D. 
 Winchester, N. H. 
 
 (9 N. H. V.) 
 
 Taft, Albert H. Co. E; b. Nelson; age 24; res. Nelson, cred. Nel- 
 son; enl. July 29, '62; must, in Aug. 6, '62, as Corp.; disch. disab. 
 Nov. 13, '63, Concord. P. O. ad., Winchester. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 503.) 
 
 Dr. Taft was born December 23, 1837, at Nelson, N. H., 
 being the son of Nathan and Achsah (Hardy) Taft, and a 
 grandson of Nathan Taft of New Hampshire. He received 
 his preliminary education in the common and high schools in 
 Nelson, one term at Marlow Academy, and from 1860 to 1862, 
 when he enlisted, at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. 
 He commenced his professional education while doing hospital 
 work in the army under the direction of Dr. George B. Twitch- 
 ell and Nehemiah Rand, and attended medical lectures imme- 
 diately on the close of the war at Hanover and Brunswick, 
 Me., and was graduated M. D. from the Medical Department 
 of Bowdoin College in 1867 and located the same year at Han- 
 cock, N. H., where he remained for five years; then removed 
 to Winchester, where he has resided for twenty-five years. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 497 
 
 He is a member of the New Hampshire State and Cheshire 
 County Medical Societies, past commander of Post 19, G. A. R., 
 of the Department of New Hampshire, a member of the 
 Patrons of Husbandry, for four years a member of the board 
 of education in Hancock and for six years a member of the 
 board of health in the town of Winchester. He was corporal 
 in Company E, Ninth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, 
 from the date of his enlistment until November 13, 1863, when 
 he was discharged for disability; afterwards he served as 
 nurse and hospital steward in a field hospital. 
 
 Dr. Taft says of himself: "I have nothing in particular to 
 relate, except that mine has been a life of hard work with 
 poor health, yet I have tried to do my duty by my family and 
 my fellow-men." 
 
 Married, August 15, 1866, Mary L. Atherton of "Winches- 
 ter, N. H. 
 
 Children, four: Albert A., Harry A., Arthur R. and De- 
 Forest R. The second and third died young ; the first, Albert 
 A., graduated from Dartmouth Medical College in 1894; the 
 youngest, DeForest, is now (1898) a student at the State 
 Agricultural College at Durham, N. H. 
 
 George Pillsbury Titcomb, 'M. D. 
 
 Salisbury, N. H. 
 
 (5 N. H. V.) 
 
 TrTCOMB. George P. Co. I: b. Bopoawen; age 26; les. Danbury; enl. 
 Sept. 21, 'CI; must, in Oct. 15, 'Gl, as Corp.; disch. disab. Oct. 31, 
 '62. P. O. ad., Salisbury. (Record, Ay ling's Register, 1895, p. 273.) 
 
 Dr. Titcomb was the son of Jeremiah and Rebecca (Pills- 
 bury) Titcomb and was born in Boscawen, N. H., September 
 30, 1838. His preliminary education was received at the 
 common schools and the ficademy in Boscawen, and his pro- 
 fessional studies were under the direction of the Eclectic Med- 
 ical College of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in 1859. 
 
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498 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 He immediately comm-eneed the practice of medicine at Dan- 
 bury, N. H., and was located in the village when the War of 
 the Rebellion was precipitated by the firing on Fort Sumter. 
 He enlisted in the Fifth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, 
 and after a service as corporal for eleven months was assigned 
 to the field hospital department, being transferred from 
 the hospital at Harrison's Landing, Va., (where he had been 
 a patient,) to Point Lookout, Md., where he was assigned to 
 duty in the dispensary. He was discharged for disability 
 October 31, 1862. Returned to Danbury, but was able to 
 do but little physical w^ork ; removed to Salisbury in 1868, 
 where he afterwards resided. He never fully recovered his 
 health and died December 3, 1900. 
 
 Married Clara Jane Parsons, January 1, 1868. 
 
 Children : Fred Parsons Titcomb, born February 12, 1870, 
 and William Nettleton Titcomb, born March 16, 1872. 
 
 George Leonard Wakefield, M. D. 
 
 17 Pemberton Block, Manchester, N. H. 
 
 (9 N. H. V.) 
 
 Wakefield, George L. Co. G; b. Plymouth, Vt.; age 18; res. Clare- 
 mont, cred. Claremont; enl. July 2G, '62; must, in Aug. 13, '62, as 
 Priv.; app. Corp.; wd. May 12, '64, at Spottsylvanla, Va.; June 16, 
 '64, and July 15, '64, Petersburg, Va.; Sept. 30, '64, Poplar Springs 
 Church, Va.; app. Sergt. May 1, '65; must, out June 10, '65. P. O. 
 ad., Henniker. (Record, AyUng's Register, 1895, p. 505.) 
 
 Dr. Wakefield was born October 18, 1846, in Plymouth, Vt., 
 and was the son of Harve.y Milan and Mary (Ray) Wake- 
 field, a gi'andson of Silas Wakefield on his paternal side and 
 his maternal grandfather was Reuben Ray. He received his 
 preliminary education in the common schools of Vermont and 
 at the Academy of Claremont, N. H., when this somewhat 
 celebrated school was managed by C. C. Church and wife. 
 
 Before giving his attention to medicine he enlisted in Com- 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 499 
 
 pany G, Ninth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. This 
 was on July 26, 1862, he being at that time but fifteen years, 
 nine months and eight days old. His father died while with 
 the Fifth Xew Hampshire Volunteers, about the same time, 
 at the age of fifty-three. Young Wakefield was promoted to 
 sergeant of the company, was slightly wounded in the left side 
 of head, left side of body and right elbow and right shoulder, 
 but remained with his company and saw the entire service of 
 the regiment for three years. 
 
 While in the service, in 1863, he became interested in the 
 study of medicine under Andrew J. ]\roulton, M. D., who was 
 a private in the same company. Dr. Wakefield has said that 
 for two years he carried medical books in his knapsack and 
 spent what available time he could in reading medicine. Pri- 
 vate Moulton was located in the practice of medicine at Fran- 
 cestown, N. H., when he enlisted, and was killed September 
 30, 1864, at Poplar Springs Church, Va. 
 
 After the war Dr. Wakefield went to Wisconsin, doing more 
 or less practice, and in 1868 took what was called a Practition- 
 ers' Course, but was not graduated until 1882, after which 
 he took a post-graduate course at the Hahnemann College of 
 Chicago. During this time he had been in practice at Durand, 
 Wis., and at one or two other places in the same state. He 
 came east in 1888 and located first at Hillsborough Bridge, 
 afterwards at Henniker, and in 1894 went to Manchester, 
 N. H., where he is now in practice. 
 
 He is a member of the Clinical Society of the Hahnemann 
 Hospital of Chicago, of the State Homeopathic Society of New 
 Hampshire and medical examiner of the Homeopathic Aid 
 Association of Chicago. He is a member of the Grand Array 
 of the Republic, being a past com.mander, president of the 
 Veterans' Association of the Ninth New Hampshire at The 
 Weirs; was a delegate to the National Encampment at Port- 
 land, Me. ; member of the Council of Administration, and 
 various other civil and military organizations. 
 
500 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 He married, in 1870, Miss Sarah Ann Conger of Lima, 
 Pepin county, Wis. 
 
 Children, two: Electa Estella and George Herbert "Wake- 
 field. 
 
 William F. Wallace, M. D. 
 
 Plaistow, N. H. 
 
 (18 N. H. V.) 
 
 Wallace, William F. Co. I; b. Concord; age 16; res. Concord 
 (Fisherville, now Penacook), cred. Concord; enl. Mar. 6, '65, for 
 3 yrs.; must, in Mar. 6, '65, as Muse; must, out July 29, '65. (Rec- 
 ord, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 826.) 
 
 Dr. Wallace was an enlisted man and served as private 
 during the war. He was the son of William and Lydia M. 
 (Waterman) Wallace, and a grandson of John Wallace, and 
 was born in Concord, N. H., July 11, 1849. He received his 
 preliminary education in the common and high schools of 
 Epsom and of New Hampton Literary Institute. At the age 
 of sixteen he entered the United States service in the Eight- 
 eenth New Hampshire Regiment, in Company I, and on the 
 expiration of his service in the army he went West, taught 
 school in Ohio and Kansas for several years, and commenced 
 the study of medicine in Columbus, Ohio, in 1877, under the 
 direction of Drs. Woodruff, Hamilton and Coleman. He at- 
 tended two courses of medical lectures at the University of 
 Ohio, at Columbus, Ohio, and was graduated from the same 
 institution March 5, 1880. He commenced the practice of 
 medicine at Lafayette, Ohio, in March, 1881, and soon after 
 removed to Bradford, N. H., where he remained for seven 
 years ; was at Milton, N. H., ten years, and is now located at 
 Plaistow, N. H. 
 
 He has taken an active part in health and school matters, 
 having been a member of the local board of health and of the 
 school board in Milton, N. H. ; is a member of Grand Army 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 501 
 
 Post No. 56, Milton, N. H., Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, 
 Grand Templar Division, Milton, etc. He took a post-grad- 
 uate course in 1896 in New York. Dr. Wallace died in New 
 Hampshire early in September, 1906. 
 
 Eugene Wason, M. D. 
 
 Milford, N. H. 
 
 (18 N. H. V.) 
 
 Wasox, Eugene. Co. D; b. New Boston; age 20; cred. New Boston; 
 enl. Aug. 29, '64, for 1 yr.; must, in Sept. 20, '64, as Priv.; must, 
 out June 10, '65. P. 0. ad., Boston, Mass. (Record, Ayling's Reg- 
 ister, 1895, p. 826.) 
 
 Doctor Wason was born in New Boston, N. H., April 25, 
 1845, and was the son of Abraham and Sarah Theresa (Lam- 
 son) Wason, and a grandson of James Wason. His prelim- 
 inary education was received in the district schools of New 
 Boston, the public schools of Cambridgeport, Mass., and the 
 academy at Mont Vernon, N. H. His professional education 
 commenced at Hillsborough Bridge, N. H., under the direction 
 of William M. Parsons, M. D., now of Manchester. He at- 
 tended three courses of medical lectures at Harvard JNIedical 
 School and at Hanover, and was graduated in the class of 
 1872 from the Medical Department of Dartmouth College. 
 He commenced practice in Nashua, where he remained for 
 five years; was in Londonderry, N. H., for nine years; in 
 Hancock, N. H., seven years; one year in Boston in charge 
 of a private hospital, and has been in Milford since 1894. 
 He is a member of the Cheshire County (N. H.) Medical 
 Society ; was city physician of Nashua and examining surgeon 
 of the pension department; member of the board of health 
 of Nashua, as well as the Grand Army and Knights of 
 Pythias ; member of the school board and at one time superin- 
 tendent of public instruction in Nashua. He holds the posi- 
 tion of professor of obstetrics in the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons, Boston, ^Mass., and is a member of the board of 
 health of Milford, N. IL 
 
502 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Dr. Wason was one of a considerable number of New Hamp- 
 shire young men ^vho enlisted as private soldiers and did not 
 commence the study of medicine until after their service. 
 
 Dr. Wason enlisted in the Eighteenth New Hampshire Regi- 
 ment, July 29, 1864, as a private i.rom New Boston. He was 
 appointed hospital steward of the same regiment, and was 
 detailed as a member of the band of the Engineer Corps of 
 the Army of the Potomac, and also a member of the band of 
 the First Division of the Ninth Army Corps. His term of 
 service was only for one year, and he was mustered out June 
 10, 1865. His present post-office address is Milford, N. H. 
 
 Married, first, August 13, 1866, Hattie S. Wilkins, who 
 died July 23, 1883 ; second. May 2, 1888, Elsie D. Lee. 
 
 Children, one : Arthur, born March 20, 1868. 
 
 Uranus Owen Brackett Wingate, M. D. 
 
 Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 Dr. Wingate was born in Rochester, N. H., September 4, 
 1848, and was the son of David (2) and Lydia Thompson 
 (Wentworth) Wingate, and a grandson of David Wingate. 
 He received his preliminary education in the common schools 
 of Rochester and Lebanon Academy, Maine. He commenced 
 his professional education in 1871, in Haverhill, Mass., under 
 the direction of Dr. Jacob P. Whittemore and James H. Whit- 
 temore, father and son, the latter afterwards being superin- 
 tendent of the Massachusetts General Hospital for many years. 
 He continued his medical education at the Harvard Medical 
 School and at the Medical Department of Dartmouth College, 
 attending three courses of lectures and receiving his degree of 
 M. D. from the jMedical Department of Dartmouth College in 
 the class of 1875. He was located for a short time in Haver- 
 hill, Mass. ; was in Wellesley, Mass., for eleven years, and 
 since that time has resided in Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 He is a member of the American Medical Association, the 
 Massachusetts and Wisconsin State IMedical Societies, the New 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 50B 
 
 York ]\[edico-Legal, American Public Health Association, and 
 of various medical societies in Wisconsin. He has published 
 several articles and numerous papers in the Boston Medical 
 and Surgical Journal, Medical Record, Medical News, Jour- 
 nal of the American Medical Association, Medico-Legal Jour- 
 nal, Chicago Clinical Review, Milwaukee Medical Journal, etc. 
 
 He has been vice-president of the American ]Medical Asso- 
 ciation ; vice-president of the Wisconsin State ^Medical Society ; 
 president of the Milwaukee ^Medical Society; commissioner of 
 health, city of ^Milwaukee; he is director and professor of dis- 
 eases of the nervous sj'stem, Wisconsin College of Physicians; 
 member of the Masonic, Odd Fellows, Royal Arcanum, Na- 
 tional Union, Sons of the American Revolution, and other 
 fraternal association.;. At the present time he is secretary of 
 the Wisconsin state board of health; treasurer of the Mil- 
 waukee Medical Society and treasurer of the Milwaukee Chap- 
 ter Alpha Neu Pi Omega iledical Fraternity. He makes a 
 specialty of diseases of the nervous system and public hygiene. 
 His service in the array was with the Construction Corps of 
 the Mississippi Division. He served in the quartermaster's 
 department from September, 1866, to May, 1867. 
 
 Since the a])ove was written Dr. Wingate has resigned 
 from the position of secretary of the Wisconsin state board 
 of health, and has a private institution near ]Milwaukee for 
 the treatment of mental diseases. 
 
 ]Married, first, Georgie Knowles; second, Nellie W. Sehoon- 
 maker. 
 
 Cliildren, by first marriage: Lila May and Newell A. T. 
 Wingate. 
 
 Louis Augustus Woodbury, M. D. 
 Groveland, Mass. 
 
 (IG N. H. V.) 
 
 Woodbury. Louis A. Co. D; b. Salem; age 18; res. Concord, cred. 
 Chichester; enl. Nov. 13, '62; must, in Nov. 13, '02, as Priv.; must, 
 out Aus?. 20, '63. P. O. ad., Groveland, Mass. (Record, Ayling's 
 Register, 1895, p. 788.) 
 
504 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 "Louis A. Woodbury, Groveland, Mass., born October 1, 
 
 1844, at Salem, N. H., is the son of Washington Woodbury and 
 Dolly Head (Jones) Woodbury, granddaughter of General 
 Nathaniel Head of Pembroke, N. PI., and the grandson of 
 Luke Woodbury, the old planter, who was one of the first 
 settlers of Salem, Mass. He is the great-grandson of Gen. 
 Nathaniel Head of Pembroke, N. H., who was a captain in 
 the War of the Revolution. He is descended on his mother's 
 side from Arthur Head, who settled in Newcastle, N. H., be- 
 fore 1670. The subject of this sketch was educated in the 
 public schools of Concord, the family having moved there in 
 
 1845. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in Company D, Six- 
 teenth Regiment, and served until the muster out. After his 
 dischai-ge at Concord he went to Washington. D. C, and for a 
 time was employed by the government as forage master. 
 
 ' ' After returning home he began the study of medicine and 
 graduated from Harvard University Medical School, February 
 14, 1872, and soon after settled in Groveland, beginning the 
 ])ractice of his profession, in which he is still actively engaged. 
 
 "Dr Woodbury is a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
 Society and of the Haverhill (Mass.) Medical Club and is 
 post surgeon, Grand Array of the Republic. He is United 
 States examining surgeon for pensions, a member of the Sons 
 of the American Revolution, president of the Village Im- 
 provement Society, a trustee of the public library and a jus- 
 tice of the peace. He is a member of the New England His- 
 toric Genealogical Society and of the Essex Institute. He is 
 also a member of Doric Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted 
 Masons, Tilton, N. H. ; has been a member of Union Chapter, 
 Royal Arch Masons, of Laconia, for thirty years, and a Knight 
 Templar of Haverhill Commandery, of which he has been 
 prelate and generalissimo. 
 
 "Dr. Woodbury has contributed several papers to the medi- 
 cal societies of which he is a member and has done consider- 
 able historical and genealogical work. Among his papers and 
 published works are: 'A Contribution to the Early History 
 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 505 
 
 of Medicine in Haverhill, Mass.,' 'Inscriptions from the Old 
 Cemetery in Groveland,' 'Early Ministers of Bradford,' 'An 
 Historical Sketch of Bradford in the Eevolution.' 
 
 "Dr. Woodburv^ has been twice married, first, to Alice G. 
 Stanwood, who died in 1889 ; second, to Helen Hey Robinson 
 of Portsmouth, N. H." 
 
 (Sixteenth Regiment History, p. 441.) 
 
 Henry D. Wyatt, M. D., A. M. 
 Chattanooga, Tenn. 
 
 (15 N. H. V.) 
 
 Wyatt, Hexky D. Co. B; b. Campton; age 25; res. Campton; enl. 
 Sept. 15, '62, as Priv. ; app. 1 Lt. Nov. 3, '62; must, in to date Oct. 
 10, '62, as 1 Lt.; disch. to date Aug. 13, '63, tm. ex. P. 0. ad., 
 Chattanooga, Tenn. (Record, Ayling's Register, 1895, p. 758.) 
 
 "Henry D. Wyatt, M. D. and A. ]\I., and now principal of 
 the Chattanooga (Tenn.) high school, was the son of Daniel 
 and Phebe (Palmer) Wyatt, both natives of New Hampshire, 
 and both lived to be over ninety-one years of age. The sub- 
 ject of this sketch was born in Campton, Grafton county, N. 
 H., September 24, 1836, grew to manhood on the farm and 
 received his rudimentary education in the common public 
 schools and private schools of the day. Having early imbibed 
 a fondness for teaching, he taught several terms during the 
 winter season and worked on the farm during the summer. 
 
 "The war broke out about this time, and in 1862 he enlisted 
 as a private in Company B, Fifteenth New Hampshire Infan- 
 try, United States Army, and was soon promoted to the rank 
 of first lieutenant, had command of the company in front of 
 Port Hudson in 1863, when he was wounded and mustered out 
 of the service in August of that year. He soon gave his atten- 
 tion to teaching and the study of medicine, attending medical 
 lectures at Harvard College, and in 1865 became assistant 
 surgeon of a regiment of heavy artillery, which position he 
 filled acceptably, also had charge for a time of the post hos- 
 
606 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 pital, using the Bragg Hospital building in Chattanooga, 
 Tenn., until he v/as mustered out of the service in May, 1866. 
 After cessation of hostilities he graduated from the Medical 
 Department of Dartmouth College, and then, his old desire to 
 engage in teaching as a profession was so strong, he entered 
 Meriden (N. H.) Academy for a few months, took the classical 
 course in Dartmouth College, graduating in the class of 1871. 
 He then taught in the North until late in 1872, when he was 
 called to take charge of the Chattanooga school, which he or- 
 ganized, and was superintendent until 1892 ; then he was one 
 year in the normal department of the Chattanooga branch of 
 the U. S. Grant University ; one year president of Chattanooga 
 Academy, and has since been principal of the Chattanooga 
 high school." 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 The following was received too late to be inserted in its 
 proper place. Dr. Goodwin evidently was a contract surgeon, 
 but the proofs of that section have already been read, there- 
 fore we insert it as a supplement. 
 
 Richard James Plumer Goodwin, ]\I. D. 
 481 Pleasant Street, Maiden, Mass. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Boston, Mass., June 
 7, 1837, and was the son of Richard Hanson and Mary Ann 
 (Roberts) Goodwin, grandson of Joseph Goodwin. All his 
 ancestors were once residents of New Hampshire. Received 
 his preliminary education in the public and Chauncey Hall 
 schools of Boston, Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard Uni- 
 versity, and his professional education at Tremont Medical 
 School of Boston, and was graduated from the Medical De- 
 partment of Harvard University in July, 1865. Commenced 
 the practice of medicine before graduating in 1861, in ]\Ialden, 
 Mass., until April, 1862, when he entered the army as acting 
 assistant surgeon, and was mustered out of the service in 
 June, 1865. 
 
 During his service in the army was located at Washing- 
 ton, D. C, having charge of the smallpox hospital, and from 
 October 8, 1864, until June 1, 1865, was an assistant in 
 the Webster United States General Hospital at Manchester, 
 N. H., also superintendent of smallpox hospital at Manches- 
 ter. Remained in the practice of medicine in Manchester 
 until April, 1885, then removed to Boston, and in 1890 re- 
 moved to Maiden, where he still is in the practice of his pro- 
 
508 SURGICAL HISTORY IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 fession. He is a member of the Medford Hospital Society, 
 Maiden Historical Society, also Society of the Sons of the 
 Revolution; was city physician and chairman of the board of 
 health in Manchester, member of several fraternal societies 
 and surgeon of Post 66, Grand Army of the Republic, Med- 
 ford, Mass., and was once a member of the New Hampshire 
 Medical Society. 
 
 Married, December 29, 1859, Josephine Louisa Allen of 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Children, nine: Richard Herbert, Alice Gertrude, Carrie 
 Josephine, Mary Eliza, Ellen Louisa, Ezra Frederick, Laura 
 Anna, Beatrice Evelyn. 
 
INDEX. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Abbott 394 
 
 Col 9G 
 
 Dr. Joseph 82, 83 
 
 Dr. Josiah 279, 280. 281 
 
 Lucelia 306 
 
 Dr. E. O 257, 2G0 
 
 Ruth (Estabrook ) 280 
 
 Stephen G.'. 1-3 
 
 Abell, Dr 455 
 
 Abstract of the Historj' of 
 
 First N. H. Vols 1 
 
 Second N. H. Vols 10 
 
 Third N. H. Vols 27 
 
 Fourth N. H. Vols 41 
 
 Fifth N. H. Vols CO 
 
 Sixth N. H. Vols 72 
 
 Seventh N. H. Vols 82 
 
 Eighth N. H. Vols 101 
 
 Ninth N. H. Vols 114 
 
 Tenth N. H. Vols 120 
 
 Eleventh N. H. Vols 135 
 
 Twelfth N. H. Vols 145 
 
 Thirteenth N. H. Vols 155 
 
 Fourteenth N. H. Vols 170 
 
 Fifteenth N. H. Vols 181 
 
 Sixteenth N. H. Vols 190 
 
 Seventeenth N. H. Vols... 199 
 
 Eighteenth N. H. Vols 204 
 
 Dartmouth Cav 219 
 
 First N. H. and N. E. Cav.. 212 
 
 Fir.st N. H. Vol. Cav 225 
 
 First N. H. Vol. H. A 230 
 
 Second U. S. Vol. Sharp- 
 shooters 237 
 
 U. S. A 241 
 
 U. S. Vols 2G2 
 
 U. S. C. T 278 
 
 U. S. N 309 
 
 Miscellaneous 384 
 
 Academy: 
 
 Amherst 2S0 
 
 American, of Medicine 439, 459 
 American, of Political and 
 
 Social Science 245 
 
 Appleton 77, 109, 298 
 
 436, 481, 488 
 
 Atkinson (N. II.) 44, 307 
 
 Barre 476 
 
 33 
 
 Academy: 
 
 Black River (Vt.) 92 
 
 Brighton, North 57 
 
 California, of Sciences 245 
 
 Canaan Union 341, 344 
 
 Chapel 325 
 
 Chattanooga 506 
 
 Chester 493 
 
 Claremont 498 
 
 Colby 131, 197, 375, 437 
 
 462, 465, 482, 482 
 
 Crosby 217 
 
 Dukes County 443 
 
 Edgartown 443 
 
 Elliot 306 
 
 Exeter 341 
 
 Farmington 371 
 
 Female 275 
 
 Francestown 301, 314 
 
 387, 432, 436 
 
 Franklin 183, 284, 336 
 
 447, 449, 458 
 
 Gilford 335 
 
 Gilmanton ..153, 211, 234, 242 
 
 262, 295, 302, 395 
 
 Hampden 325 
 
 Hampton Falls 400,447 
 
 Hancocic 442 
 
 Hancock Literary and Sci- 
 entific 357 
 
 Highland Military 472 
 
 Dr. Hilliard's 400 
 
 Holmes 138 
 
 Hopkinton 110, 233, 339 
 
 Keene 79, 357 
 
 Kimball Union 21, 76, 129 
 
 179, 198, 319, 346, 354, 369 
 381, 423, 424, 442, 482, 496 
 
 Kingston 44, 494 
 
 Lancaster 18, 249 
 
 Lebanon 371, 502 
 
 Limerick 16 
 
 Limington Falls 431 
 
 Little Blue 450 
 
 Lyndon 201 
 
 Marlow 496 
 
 of Medicine 468 
 
 of Medicine, Minnesota 267 
 
514 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Academy: 
 
 of Medicine, New York.... 187 
 188, 358 
 
 Meredith Village 457 
 
 Meriden 470, 506 
 
 National, of Sciences of the 
 
 U. S. of America 245 
 
 of Natural Science ...243, 244 
 of Natural Sciences, Minne- 
 sota 244 
 
 New Hampton G2, 361 
 
 New London 450, 470 
 
 Newport 21 
 
 Norwich 275 
 
 Paris (Me.) 57 
 
 Peacham 495 
 
 Pembroke 37, 89, 208, 229 
 
 339, 432, 447 
 450, 454, 470 
 
 Phillips 112, 217, 242 
 
 282, 316, 355 
 
 Phillips Exeter. ..169, 187, 257 
 
 258, 280, 425, 447, 456 
 
 Pinkerton 217 
 
 Pittsiield 427, 460 
 
 Saco, Me 44 
 
 Sanborn ton 183 
 
 of Science 245 
 
 of Science of St Louis 244 
 
 of Sciences, Maryland 244 
 
 Strafford 400 
 
 Thetford (Vt.) 273, 303 
 
 357, 438 
 
 Tubbs Union 283, 428 
 
 Tuf tonborough 480 
 
 Tyler 128 
 
 Union 351, 482 
 
 Unity 179 
 
 U. S. Naval 324 
 
 Wakefield 257 
 
 Westbrook 381 
 
 West Point Military 44 
 
 Wilbraham 454 
 
 Wolfeborough ...184,474,480 
 Woodman 325 
 
 Acapulco, Mexico 329 
 
 Acton, Mass 354,355 
 
 Me 16, 239, 240, 272 
 
 Acworth, N. H 197, 235, 425 
 
 South 377 
 
 Adams, Col. Jack 26 
 
 Dr. Jeffrey 310, 311 
 
 Joseph 310 
 
 Joseph T 310 
 
 Adams, Mary A 448, 496 
 
 Mary Leavitt (Hobbs) 412 
 
 Capt. Oliver 80 
 
 Rebecca L 412 
 
 Dr. Stephen 412 
 
 Susan Peirce (Jarvis) . . . .310 
 
 Ager 342 
 
 Agnew, C. R 493 
 
 Aiken's Landing 364, 368 
 
 Albany 190, 440, 494 
 
 Me 57 
 
 Alden, John 327 
 
 Aldie 452 
 
 Alexandria, Va 8, 9, 102, 103 
 
 115, 136, 206, 222, 260 
 264, 266, 268, 305, 320, 485 
 
 Algiers 102 
 
 Algona, Iowa 297 
 
 Allen, David 193 
 
 Josephine Louisa 506 
 
 Dr. S. J 198 
 
 Allenstown, N. H 88, 347 
 
 348, 470 
 
 Alstead, N. H 118, 153 
 
 341, 377, 402 
 
 Alston, Mass 79 
 
 Altenburg 185 
 
 Alton 235 
 
 Alumni Asso. Albany Med. 
 
 College 494 
 
 Columbian University ....245 
 
 Harvard 340, 448, 454 
 
 462, 486 
 
 Am-erican Civil War 60 
 
 Am.es, Gen 42, 50 
 
 Doctor 194 
 
 Martha Wheeler 88 
 
 Rebecca Gerrish 88 
 
 Amesbury, Mass 321,443 
 
 Amherst, N. H. ...109. 133, 299 
 327, 331, 442, 460, 461 
 
 Amoy, China 365, 369 
 
 Amsterdam, N. Y 169 
 
 Anatomy Pathological 439 
 
 Ancient and Honorable Ar-til- 
 lery Company of Massachu- 
 setts 170, 476, 477 
 
 Anderson 172 
 
 Almira J 132 
 
 Isabelle S 303 
 
 Andersonville 290. 291, 372 
 
 Andover, N. H 120, 143. 217 
 
 Mass 33, 35, 112. 208 
 
 242, 295, 316, 355 
 
INDEX. 
 
 515 
 
 Andrew, Gov 435 
 
 John A 459 
 
 Ann Arbor, Mich. ..56, 375, 377 
 
 Annapolis 44, 95,353 
 
 Junction 242 
 
 Md. ...114, 135, 136, 143, 209 
 
 Antietam 63, G7, 90, 114 
 
 208, 224, 259, 465 
 
 Antrim, N. H 442 
 
 Aphonia 253 
 
 Appomattox 428, 479 
 
 Apponaug, R. 1 99 
 
 Aquia Creek, Va 225, 252 
 
 Arlington, Va. 325 
 
 Arlington Heights 485 
 
 Armstrong 349 
 
 Army of the Cumberland . . . 
 
 250, 456 
 
 of the James 149, 284, 379 
 
 of the Potomac 107 
 
 140, 146, 205, 207 
 209, 213, 225, 252, 281 
 334, 379, 451, 493, 502 
 
 of the Shenandoah 2 
 
 of Tennessee 447 
 
 United States 241, 261, 263 
 
 275, 278, 281, 312, 328 
 
 Arnold, Gen 103 
 
 Arthur, Mary E 110 
 
 Artillery, Third Mass. Light. 259 
 
 First N. H. Heavy 168 
 
 N. H. Vol. Heavy 230, 231 
 
 232, 233, 234, 235, 236 
 
 Fourth U. S. Heavy 485 
 
 Fifth U. S. Colored 257 
 
 Sixth U. S. Colored Heavy 
 
 458 
 
 Seventh U. S. Heavy 21 
 
 Ashby, Col 451 
 
 Doctor 305, 306 
 
 Ashby's Gap 356, 451 
 
 Ashmont, Mass 1C3 
 
 Assignments, Brigade, Divi- 
 sion and Corps: 
 
 First N. H 3 
 
 Second N. H 11 
 
 Third N. H 27 
 
 Sixth N. H 73 
 
 Seventh N. H 84 
 
 Eighth N. H 105 
 
 Ninth N. H 115, 116 
 
 Tenth N. H 121 
 
 Eleventh N. H 136 
 
 Twelfth N. H 147 
 
 Assignments: 
 
 Thirteenth N. H 157 
 
 Fourteenth N. H 172 
 
 Fifteenth N. H 182 
 
 Sixteenth N. H 192 
 
 Eighteenth N. H 207 
 
 First N. E. Cav 215 
 
 First N. H. Cav 226 
 
 First N. H. Vol. H. A 232 
 
 Association, American Medical 45 
 152, 177, 185, 186, 254 
 267, 273, 315, 340, 353 
 358, 375, 386, 392, 400 
 423, 424, 427, 433, 439 
 448, 453. 479, 502, 503 
 American, for the Advance- 
 ment of Science 245 
 
 265, 267, 340 
 American Electro-Therapeu- 
 tical 469 
 
 American Park and Out- 
 look 469 
 
 American Public Health ..185 
 265, 267, 433, 4S3, 503 
 
 Bridgewater Library 453 
 
 Bunker Hill Monument. . .335 
 Kearsarge Naval Veterans 345 
 
 Manchester Art 454 
 
 Naturalists, Spencer F. 
 
 Baird 245 
 
 N. H., of Military Sur- 
 geons 247 
 
 N. H. Pharmaceutical 483 
 
 N. Y. Botanical Garden 469 
 
 N. Y. Physicians' Mutual 
 
 Aid 177, 469 
 
 Veterans 499 
 
 Asylum, McLean 316 
 
 for Refugees 485 
 
 Atherton, Mary 497 
 
 Athol, Mass 169, 377, 488 
 
 Atkinson. N. H 274, 307 
 
 Atlanta, Ga 264, 386, 424 
 
 Exposition 141 
 
 Attica, N. Y 296 
 
 Auburn 129, 34 2 
 
 N. Y 487 
 
 Auger, Gen 230. 232 
 
 Augusta, Me 307, 31 6 
 
 Au=;tin, Tox 253 
 
 Olinda Ann 313 
 
 Ayer, Mass 281, 446 
 
 Doctor Ill 
 
 John 422 
 
516 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Ayer, Judith (McCutcheon) . .422 
 
 Dr. Otis 422, 423 
 
 Peter 450 
 
 Simond 450 
 
 Ayers, Almira Samantha 
 
 (Gerrish) 312 
 
 Charles Haines 312, 313 
 
 Jonathan 312 
 
 Joseph Gerrish 312, 313 
 
 Ayling, Adj. Gen 8 
 
 Ayling's Register 52, 279 
 
 Babcock 298 
 
 Bacomb, Eng 386 
 
 Bacon 345 
 
 Bahia, S. A 329 
 
 Bailey 317 
 
 Dr. George 434 
 
 Harriet 333 
 
 Baker, Dr. John 35 
 
 Dr. John W. H 423 
 
 Dr. Oliver 423 
 
 Sallie (Ticknor) 423 
 
 Miss Susan S 490 
 
 Ball's Bluff 6 
 
 Ballard, John 396 
 
 Baltic 48, 95 
 
 Baltimore, Md 89, 90, 110 
 
 120, 143, 246, 254, 255 
 256, 258, 390, 420, 455 
 
 Vt 426 
 
 Bancroft, Dr. J. P 141, 317 
 
 Bangor 321 
 
 Baniff 297 
 
 Bank, City Guaranty Sav- 
 ings 382 
 
 Five Cent Savings 184 
 
 Lake National 184 
 
 Lancaster Savings 247 
 
 Milford Savings 442 
 
 Banks, Maj. Gen 450 
 
 Gen. N. P 3, 193. 195 
 
 Barbados 329 
 
 Barker, Prof 100 
 
 Capt. Thomas E 146, 435 
 
 Barksdale, Gen 459 
 
 Barlow, Gen 60 
 
 Barnes, Harriet (Eastman) . .424 
 
 Dr. Ira N 424 
 
 Lynn Moore 425 
 
 William 424 
 
 Barnet, Robert A 272 
 
 Vt 37, 483 
 
 Barney, John W.18, 64, 126, 249 
 
 Barnstable, Mass 128 
 
 Barnstead, N. H 22, 247 
 
 248, 361 
 
 North, N. H 273, 457 
 
 Barre, Vt 476 
 
 Barstow, Dr. J. W 2 
 
 Bartholomew, Fannie E 380 
 
 Bartlett 284, 316 
 
 Capt. A. W 149 
 
 Dr. B. H 460 
 
 Caroline O. (Williams) 460 
 
 Mrs. Edward R 458 
 
 Elisha 13, 397 
 
 Dr. Ezra 385, 38G 
 
 Hannah (Gale) 385 
 
 Helen 342 
 
 Josiah 44, 45, 385 
 
 Josiah Calef 386 
 
 Dr. L. S 44 
 
 Richard 460 
 
 Samuel 460 
 
 Rev. Samuel C 275 
 
 N. H 473, 474 
 
 Barton, Ira McL 231 
 
 Bassett, Dr. Thomas 44 
 
 Batchelder, Q. M. R. N 2, 3 
 
 Sarah B 113 
 
 Batcheller, Dr. James... 164, 445 
 
 Batchellor, A. S 387 
 
 Bates, Mary E 244 
 
 Bath, N. H 66, 67, 68, 69 
 
 137, 138, 151, 385, 389 
 
 Baton Rouge, La 437, 438 
 
 Baxter, J. H 52 
 
 Bay St. Andrews, F]a...311, 361 
 
 Bay St. Joseph 317, 361 
 
 Bayou Rapids 102 
 
 Beale 367 
 
 Bean, Alfred E 58 
 
 Charles H 203 
 
 Fanny (Wardwell) 58 
 
 Elizabeth M 203 
 
 Elizabeth R. (Harper) 202 
 
 Dr. Luther C 35, 201, 202 
 
 203, 351 
 
 Scribner H 202 
 
 Susan A 203 
 
 Susan E ..203 
 
 Willie A 203 
 
 Beaufort, S. C 34 
 
 42, 47, 48, 93, 95 
 283, 287, 288, 345, 387 
 
 Beaver Dam 451 
 
 Beckley, Annie M 57 
 
INDEX. 
 
 517 
 
 Beckley, Dr. Charles C ic 
 
 Chester 
 
 Chester C 
 
 Eunice K. (Field) 
 
 Josiah 
 
 Bedee, Lieut. Edwin E 
 
 Bedford 59, 132, 134, 
 
 Beebe, Dr. George 
 
 Hannah L 
 
 Mary Ann 
 
 Phineas 
 
 Bell, Col 
 
 Charles H 
 
 Dr. John 241, 
 
 Col. Louis 41, 
 
 Lucy Dana (Smith) 
 
 Samuel 
 
 Belle Island 
 
 Plain 225, 
 
 Bellefontaine 
 
 Bellows, Mary A 
 
 Belmont, Mass 
 
 Benham 
 
 Bennett, Mary L 
 
 Bennington, N. H..303, 355, 
 
 Benton Barracks 
 
 Berkshire, Mass 
 
 Berlin, N. H 57 
 
 Falls 
 
 Heights, Ohio 
 
 Bermuda Hundred, Va 51 
 
 205, 
 
 Berry, Gov 44, 90, 124, 
 
 145, 181, 213. 
 
 Dr. Charles T 
 
 Dr. J. J 
 
 Berwick, Me 
 
 South, Me 
 
 Best's Battery 
 
 Bethel, Great 
 
 Bethlehem. N. H.. 365,387, 
 Beverly, Mass 71, 373, 
 
 Ford 
 
 Bickford, Abigail (Eastman) 
 
 Dr. H. C 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Biddeford, Me. Ill, 139, 210. 
 Bigelow 
 
 Benjamin F 
 
 Clarence S 
 
 Elizabeth P 
 
 Dr. Henry J 
 
 Lucius A.. Jr 
 
 Bird Key 
 
 Birney, Maj. Gen 
 
 . 56 Bisland 102 
 
 56 Bixby, A. W 235 
 
 56 Dr. Amos S 232, 235, 236 
 
 56 Dr. George H 313, 314, 315 
 
 56 Hannah M. (Stoddard) 235 
 
 146 Joseph 235 
 
 459 Kate Salvina 236 
 
 386 Levi 313 
 
 242 Mary A 236, 315 
 
 242 Mary A. (Lobata) 313 
 
 242 Thomas 314 
 
 42 Wentworth M 236 
 
 ,204 Wilbur Fisk 236 
 
 242 Blackmer, Esther (Bartlett) .316 
 
 51 Dr. John 316, 317 
 
 ,242 John A 318 
 
 , 242 Blackwell's Island 249 
 
 ,356 Hospital 76 
 
 452 Blaisdell, Rev. Wm 150 
 
 ,190 Blanchard, George Henry 197 
 
 , 119 Blaney, Surgeon 132 
 
 ,257 Blinke's Division 451 
 
 , 205 Blodgett, Dr. Eben 461 
 
 ,478 John H 318 
 
 484 Luke W 461 
 
 .455 Mary A. (BickJord) 461 
 
 .175 Dr. Robert A 461 
 
 , 58 Simeon 461 
 
 . 57 Bloody Angle 114 
 
 . 229 Blue Grass 114 
 
 , 96 Blue. Dr. John H 468 
 
 493 Board of Health, Wis 503 
 
 143 Naval Retiring 324 
 
 487 Bohun, Margaret 296 
 
 , 4G0 Boise City, Idaho 377 
 
 , 63 Boliver Heights 222 
 
 139 Bond, Ellen S 483 
 
 .386 "Bonnie Briar Bu.sh" 363 
 
 451 Boonsboro 451 
 
 .199 Booth, John Wilkes 452 
 
 473 Borland 345 
 
 465 Boscawen, N. H 275, 342, 497 
 
 .451 West, N. H 355 
 
 396 Boston, Mass... 10, 37, 39, 52 
 
 .462 53, 66, 67, 79, 97 
 
 .396 101, 109, 138, 157, 163 
 
 361 169, 170, 175, 176, 185 
 
 .345 244. 254, 259, 272. 290 
 
 ,313 304. 310. 314. 315, 317 
 
 , 98 330, 334, 335, 340. 344 
 
 . 98 345, 347, 348, 353, 361 
 
 ,208 364, 368. 383. 428, 435 
 
 , 98 436, 437, 441. 459. 461 
 
 , 93 468. 476. 486. 496. 501 
 
 , 51 East 379, 387 
 
518 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Boston Harbor 205 
 
 Botany Bay Island 39 
 
 Bowditcli 345 
 
 Dr. Henry 1 173 
 
 Boxford, Mass 316 
 
 Boylston, West, Mass 281 
 
 Boynton, Dr. Henry. 77, S5, 91 
 92, 93, 94 
 
 Isaac 92 
 
 John Henry 94 
 
 Dr. Orren 495 
 
 Sybil (Lawrence) 92 
 
 Sybil Verona 94 
 
 Brackett, Maj. Aaron 139 
 
 Laura 2G8 
 
 Martha Ann 139 
 
 Braddock Barracks 451 
 
 Bradford, Dr. P. D 334 
 
 Mass 390 
 
 N. H 14, 15, 193 
 
 194, 195, 19G, 197 
 286, 288, 465, 486 
 
 Vt 300, 443, 486 
 
 Bragg, Dr. Ira Wilson 319 
 
 Mercy ( Clement) 319 
 
 Nathaniel 319 
 
 Braintree, Mass 20 
 
 Brandon, Vt 469 
 
 Brandy Station 67, 451, 452 
 
 Brashear City 102 
 
 Brattleboro, Vt 53, 54,233 
 
 311, 425, 432 
 
 Brazier City, La 297 
 
 Brazos 307 
 
 Breckenridge, Col 472 
 
 Brentwood, N. H 288 
 
 Brewster, Celia A 425 
 
 Mary A 346 
 
 Brickett, Dr. Geo. F 320, 321 
 
 Bridgeport, Conn 450, 453 
 
 Bridges, Susan E 487 
 
 Bridgewater, Mass 117, 148 
 
 Bridgton, Me 33 
 
 Briggs, Miss Annie A 19 
 
 James F 135 
 
 Bright, Anne E. (Mason) 321 
 
 Dr. George A 321, 322 
 
 George A., Jr 321 
 
 John 321 
 
 Mary 321 
 
 Brisbins, Hari'iet C 281 
 
 Bristoe Station, Va 209 
 
 Bristol, N. H..148, 150, 305, 326 
 
 Bronson, Dr. A. S 462 
 
 Betsey E. (Scott) 462 
 
 Simon 462 
 
 Brookfield, Vt 71 
 
 Brookline, N. H 112 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y 109, 125 
 
 1G8, 173, 174, 210, 211 
 275, 345, 386, 492, 494 
 
 Brooks, Jonah 425 
 
 Lyman 425, 426 
 
 Mary (Graham) 425 
 
 Nathaniel 426 
 
 Dr. Nathaniel G 425 
 
 Brown 205, 286 
 
 Doctor 441 
 
 Abner 79 
 
 Charles 88 
 
 Charles E 382 
 
 Mrs. F. V. R 395 
 
 Fidelia A 80 
 
 Fred Whittier 88 
 
 George Ames 88 
 
 Grace Foster 88 
 
 Dr. H. B 432 
 
 Helen Adams 80 
 
 Henry Kirke 397 
 
 Dr. John Mills 310 
 
 Lebanon 79 
 
 Marenda (Blanchard) 79 
 
 Dr. Marshall L 74, 79, 80 
 
 Mary Frances 80 
 
 Ruth A 443 
 
 Wm. J 204 
 
 Dr. W. W 83, 85, 87, 88 
 
 William 88 
 
 Browne 322,323,324,325 
 
 Dr. John Mills... 322, 323, 324 
 
 Brownington, Vt 426 
 
 Brownsville, Tex 285, 307 
 
 Brunswick, Me 306,325,393 
 
 440, 4G8, 496 
 
 Bryant, Ellen R 234 
 
 Buchanan 352 
 
 Buck, N. D 153 
 
 Dr. Ephraim 486 
 
 Dr. Horatio B 269 
 
 Lyman 153 
 
 Dr. N. L 307 
 
 Dr. Reuben 239, 272 
 
 Susan G 272 
 
 Dr. Wm. D..47, 59, 99, 229 
 
 Buckingham, Gov 276 
 
 Buckland, Annie C 65 
 
 Bucknam, Annie W 65 
 
 Edward 64 
 
 Dr. John W 61, 64, 65 
 
 Sarah B. (Weeks) 64 
 
 Budd's Ferry, Md 19 
 
 Buddhist Temple 367 
 
INDEX. 
 
 519 
 
 Buffalo 190, 250 
 
 Buffum, Francis H 171 
 
 Bugbeo, Dr. Ralph 249 
 
 Bull Run 2, 10, 14, 23 
 
 78, 133, 143, 214, 217 
 393, 395, 451, 465, 470 
 
 Bullard, Abbie A 20 
 
 Agnes 427 
 
 Dr. Alfred R 344, 352 
 
 Bbenezer 42G 
 
 Dr. Gates B 42G 
 
 Harry 472 
 
 Jonathan 42G 
 
 Rebecca 427 
 
 Rebecca (Gates ) 426 
 
 Bunker Hill 4, 46, 89 
 
 373, 398, 427 
 
 Bunton, Dr 450 
 
 Andrew 88 
 
 Colonel 263 
 
 Henry S 91 
 
 Lavinia (Holden) 88 
 
 Louisa P 263 
 
 Dr. Slyvanus.13, 20, 85, 88 
 89, 90, 91, 484 
 Bureau of Medicine and Sur- 
 gery 313, 324 
 
 Freedman's 128,430,485 
 
 Burgoyne 46 
 
 Burke, N. Y 17 
 
 East, Vt 127 
 
 Burkeville, Va 140, 435 
 
 Junction, Va 115 
 
 Burleigh, Alice 326 
 
 Dr. Daniel C 325, 326 
 
 Deborah ( Coffin ) 325 
 
 Lucy Winslow 326 
 
 Nathaniel 325 
 
 Burlington, Vt 64, 71, 86, 109 
 
 128, 273, 447, 479, 495 
 
 Burnham, Dr 33, 38, 40 
 
 Dr. A. C 333 
 
 Dr. Charles A 28, 37 
 
 Charles G 37 
 
 Mary A 37 
 
 Burnside, Col A. E 10 
 
 Barracks 52 
 
 Expedition 470 
 
 General 136, 208, 209 
 
 Burr, Capt. S. S 219. 220, 447 
 
 Busiel, Gov 132 
 
 Bussey, Gen. Cyrus 272 
 
 Butler, Gen. B. F 32, 42, 149 
 
 301, 317, 328, 438 
 
 Butler, Expedition 101 
 
 Dr. Geo. H 326 
 
 Dr. John F 427 
 
 Jonathan 427 
 
 Martha (Russel) 427 
 
 Buxton, Me 125, 126 
 
 Euzzell, Dr. A. J. H 28, 30, 31 
 
 32, 33, 36, 39, 2S4, 449 
 Sophia E 479 
 
 Cairo, 111 104, 182 
 
 190, 209, 388 
 
 Caldwell, Gen 60 
 
 Calef , Josiah 386 
 
 Joseph 44 
 
 Miriam (Bartlett) 44 
 
 Sarah 386 
 
 Susan (Hussey) 386 
 
 Calkins, Mar.shall 296 
 
 Call, Dr. Royal 396 
 
 Cambridge, Mass 4, 290 
 
 292, 331 
 
 Vt 168, 334 
 
 Cambridgeport, Mass 501 
 
 Camden Station 2 
 
 Camp Barker 275, 400 
 
 Berry 2 
 
 Broad Rock Road 157 
 
 Brooks 73 
 
 Cameron 2 
 
 Cheshire 171 
 
 Codman 221 
 
 Colby 155 
 
 Cook, Mont 452 
 
 Currier 101 
 
 Distribution 485 
 
 Douglas 257 
 
 Ford 104 
 
 Gilmore 104, 471 
 
 Goodwin 2 
 
 Lander 443 
 
 McClellan 423 
 
 Nelson 494, 495 
 
 Parapet 197 
 
 Parks 135 
 
 Pillsbury 120 
 
 Stoneman 52, 225 
 
 Union 1 
 
 Warner, Ore 257 
 
 Campbell 456 
 
 Daniel 391 
 
 Horace 197 
 
 Isaac 197 
 
 Sally (Grant) 197 
 
520 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Campbell, Dr. Sylvester. .191, 
 
 197, 
 
 Campton, N. H..262, 338, 339, 
 
 Canaan, N. H 258, 259, 
 
 344, 351, 
 
 Vt 
 
 Candia, N. H 429, 
 
 Cannibals 
 
 Canterbury ...300,312,300, 
 Cape Good Hope 
 
 Haitien 
 
 Town 
 
 Verde, Cuba 
 
 Carbee, Annie (Powers) . . . . 
 
 Joel 
 
 John H 
 
 Dr. Samuel P. 148, 151, 152, 
 
 William 
 
 Carbonic Acid , 
 
 Carpenter, A. P 
 
 Prof. Walter 
 
 Carr, Belle 
 
 Burt W 
 
 Dr. Edgar L 
 
 James W 
 
 jonn 
 
 Gen. J. B 
 
 Lucinda J. (Osgood) 
 
 Carroll, Gen 
 
 Mrs. C. H 
 
 N. H 
 
 Carrollton, La 183, 191, 
 
 Carter 
 
 Elijah 
 
 Mahala J 
 
 Dr. Miles Olcutt 
 
 Oliver 
 
 Patience M. (Waterman) . 
 
 Casey, Gen 
 
 Castleton, Vt 40, 54, 75 
 
 98, 
 
 Caswell, Lt 
 
 Catlin, Dr. A. W 
 
 Cavalry, Dartmouth 350, 
 
 477, 
 
 First La 
 
 Second Mass 
 
 N. E 212, 213, 214, 
 
 216, 
 
 First N. H...101, 225, 226, 
 228, 229, 
 
 Second N. H..101, 102, 103, 
 
 Eighteenth N. Y 
 
 R. 1 218, 219, 221, 223, 
 
 192 
 356 
 505 
 314 
 482 
 420 
 493 
 339 
 403 
 329 
 358 
 329 
 
 152 
 152 
 152 
 153 
 152 
 177 
 
 66 
 
 71 
 429 
 429 
 429 
 204 
 429 
 121 
 429 
 
 52 
 134 
 
 19 
 197 
 281 
 281 
 303 
 281 
 281 
 281 
 5 
 , 97 
 447 
 200 
 177 
 474 
 479 
 111 
 371 
 215 
 217 
 227 
 435 
 104 
 273 
 224 
 
 Cavalry, Seventh R. 1 356 
 
 475, 477 
 
 First Texas 103 
 
 Third U. S 213, 268 
 
 Fifth U. S 242, 452 
 
 Caverly, Dr. A. M 38 
 
 Cavities, Suppurating 315 
 
 Cedar Falls, Iowa 297 
 
 Cedar Mountain 214, 451, 470 
 
 Cemetery, National 325 
 
 Century Dictionary 244 
 
 Chadbourne, Dr 97, 356, 434 
 
 Chaffee, Catherine M 453 
 
 M 453 
 
 Chain Bridge 461 
 
 Chamber of Commerce, N. Y. 199 
 
 Chamberlain 371 
 
 Harriet F 381 
 
 Mary 249 
 
 Champion Hills 161, 424 
 
 Chancellor House 151 
 
 Chancellorsville, Va 67, 140 
 
 149, 151, 152, 252, 265 
 
 Battle 394 
 
 Chandler, Dr. C. B 75 
 
 Chantilly, Va 77, 78 
 
 Chanin Farm 23, 349 
 
 Chapman 294, 393, 475 
 
 Charles City 67 
 
 Charleston, S. C 23, 32, 33 
 
 133, 279, 287, 289, 292 
 293, 294, 323, 358, 379 
 
 West, Vt 70 
 
 Charlestown 330, 337, 345 
 
 Mass 186, 461, 462 
 
 N. H 307, 308, 425 
 
 Chase 326, 327 
 
 Dr. Albert A 430 
 
 Harriet M 296 
 
 Dr. Henry M 326 
 
 Henry M., Jr 327 
 
 John 430 
 
 Luther M 430 
 
 Mary H 327 
 
 Moses 326 
 
 Philip M 327 
 
 Roxana (Gordon) 4^0 
 
 Sally (Minot) 326 
 
 William L 326 
 
 Home for Children 448 
 
 Chattanooga, Tenn. .135, 276, 424 
 505, 506 
 
 Cheefoo 329 
 
 Cheever 445 
 
INDEX. 
 
 521 
 
 Cheever, Dr. Charles A 332 
 
 Chelmsford, Mass 436, 437 
 
 Chelsea, Mass 5, 217, 319, 330 
 
 331, 332, 363, 379, 388, 434 
 
 Cherbourg 324 
 
 Cheshire Fair Ground 73 
 
 Chesley 361 
 
 Annette 235 
 
 Chester, N. H..179, 180, 207, 208 
 241, 242, 274, 344, 493 
 
 Ohio 233 
 
 Chesterfield, N. H 391, 395 
 
 423, 427 
 
 Chesterfield Factory Village. 428 
 
 Chicago...;.... 182, 202, 245, 250 
 
 277, 282, 401, 444 
 
 Chichester 193, 194, 44i 
 
 461, 503 
 
 Chickahominy 25, 63 
 
 Child, Dr 62 
 
 Bernard V 69 
 
 Dwight Fennel 06 
 
 Helen Adams 80 
 
 Henry 131. 397 
 
 James D 69 
 
 John 66 
 
 John D 66 
 
 John L 69 
 
 Kate 69 
 
 Nancy (Morse) 66 
 
 Susan W 69 
 
 Dr. William 9.01,66, 07 
 
 68, 69 
 
 William 60 
 
 William Clinton 69 
 
 Childs, Prof. H. H 13 
 
 China, Me 307 
 
 Chinkiang 329 
 
 Choate 351. 352 
 
 Chocorua 240 
 
 Cholera, Report on 177 
 
 Church, C. C 498 
 
 Cilloy, A. H 373 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio 374, 396 
 
 City Point, Va. .115, 136, 140, 204 
 205, 207, 343 
 
 Claremont, N. H 54,56, 76 
 
 77, 230, 232, 310, 311, 346 
 350, 376, 377, 424, 425, 469 
 
 Clarence, Iowa 78 
 
 Clark 327, 345, 402 
 
 Albert Warren 430 
 
 Alonzo 13. 40, 131 
 
 Bishop 222 
 
 Clark, Jennette 19 
 
 Dr. J. C 486 
 
 Dr. John Howe 327 
 
 Rebecca Elizabeth (Howe) 327 
 
 Rev. Samuel Wallace 327 
 
 Clarke, Carrie 431 
 
 Carrie Loring 110 
 
 Dr. David S 431 
 
 Ebenezer 431 
 
 Edith 109 
 
 Dr. Ellory C 106, 109, 110 
 
 Ephraim 109 
 
 Grace Virginia 110 
 
 Herbert G 431 
 
 Howard L 431 
 
 Loring McC 110 
 
 Mary (Small) 431 
 
 Nathaniel 431 
 
 Rev. Stillman 109 
 
 Susannah (Spaulding).. . . 109 
 
 Sylvia 431 
 
 Claypool. Ind 313 
 
 Clement. Betsey (Peckett) . . 128 
 
 Lizzie Prince 129 
 
 Richard 128 
 
 Thomas R 122, 127, 128 
 
 129, 217 
 
 Cleveland, President. 277 
 
 Rev. Edward 66 
 
 Ohio 317, 357 
 
 Clifford, Josiah Kittredge... 444 
 
 Malinda Chaplain 444 
 
 Susie Elizabeth 444 
 
 Clinton, Iowa 321, 447 
 
 Cloud's Mills, Va 226 
 
 Clough, Col 205, 207 
 
 Joseph M 204 
 
 Susie A 474 
 
 Dr. Willard 21 
 
 Club, Boys 288 
 
 Eclectic 453 
 
 Harvard 265 
 
 Haverhill (Mass.) Medical 504 
 
 Lambs 473 
 
 Metabetchonan and Island 
 
 Brook 453 
 
 Minnesota 265 
 
 Sea Side 453 
 
 Veterans 144 
 
 Woman's Suffrage 288 
 
 Coaticook. P. Q 70 
 
 Coffin 325 
 
 Cogswell, Leander W 135 
 
 Colby, Dr 62 
 
522 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Cold Harbor.. 23, G7, 90, 143, 149 
 152, 154, 220, 229 
 390, 444, 471, 475 
 
 Colebrook, N. H 19 
 
 Coleman 500 
 
 College, Agricultural 497 
 
 Amherst 112, 2S0, 305, 383, 481 
 
 Bowdoin..7, 16, 57, 66, 96, 108 
 
 129, 130, 143, 186, 220 
 
 282, 234, 295, 321, 325 
 
 390, 393, 429, 443, 444, 478 
 
 Dartmouth 4, 5, 9, 15, 17, 44, 46 
 
 56, 79, 86, 89, 92, 93, 94 
 
 110, 112, 129, 138, 141 
 
 148, 186, 218, 219, 222 
 
 229, 234, 242, 249, 257 
 
 262, 273, 274, 278, 281 
 
 327, 333, 346, 352, 354 
 
 355, 357, 377, 424, 438 
 
 439, 454, 455, 459 
 
 475, 477, 506 
 
 Eclectic 497 
 
 Gonzaga 243 
 
 Hahnemann 53, 499 
 
 Harvard.. 57, 141, 173, 327, 331 
 333, 342, 360 
 434, 436, 449 
 
 Iowa Agricultural 141 
 
 State Agricultural 263 
 
 Tufts 302 
 
 Union 220. 446, 448 
 
 Virginia Agricultural.... 244 
 
 Wellesley 286 
 
 Williams 92, 141, 314, 369 
 
 College, Medical: 
 
 Albany Med 425, 436 
 
 Bellevue Med. Hospital... 97 
 100, 324, 34G, 435, 495 
 
 Berkshire Med 80, 153, 228 
 
 349, 391, 447 
 
 Bowdoin Med 193, 239, 257 
 
 259, 261, 284, 285, 299 
 300, 371, 438, 488, 496 
 
 Boylston Med 174 
 
 Castleton Med 54, 97, 310 
 
 334, 431 
 
 Cincinnati Med 248, 286 
 
 Dartmouth Medical... 7, 21, 36 
 44, 62, 64, 74, 75, 79 
 86, 88, 98, 100, 107 
 111, 118, 126, 128, 138 
 139, 170, 183, 187, 193 
 194, 197, 198, 201, 202 
 217, 233, 235, 239, 246 
 
 College, Medical: 
 
 Dartmouth Med . .248, 268, 275 
 
 278, 301, 302, 303, 306, 307 
 
 314, 319, 320, 327, 342, 344 
 
 350, 355, 356, 301, 362 
 
 363, 375, 376, 385, 387 
 
 388, 392, 393, 395, 396 
 
 400, 422, 423, 424, 425 
 
 426, 428, 430, 432, 433 
 
 443, 446, 448. 449, 463 
 
 465, 471, 479, 480, 484 
 
 488, 489, 501, 502, 506 
 
 Denver Med 472 
 
 Detroit Med 463 
 
 Fairfield Med 280 
 
 Georgetown Med.. 257, 259, 298 
 360, 402 
 
 Harvard Med 33, 37. 38, 98 
 
 108, 173, 179, 208, 217 
 251, 283, 284, 302, 314 
 319, 321, 322, 332, 346 
 352, 371, 428, 444, 447 
 448, 454, 458, 462, 463 
 478, 481, 483, 486, 489 
 501, 502, 505 
 
 .Jefferson Med 107, 111, 141 
 
 201, 241, 258, 268 
 
 306, 332, 360, 369 
 
 422, 424, 446, 450, 457 
 
 Long Inland Med 7, 211 
 
 McGill Med 71 
 
 Minnesota Hospital 267 
 
 National Med 243, 244 
 
 N. E. Woman's Med 288 
 
 N. Y. Med 76, 438 
 
 Physicians and Surgeons. . 5 
 18, 46, 70, 78, 187, 198 
 211, 275, 302, 312, 358, 381 
 400, 402, 475, 476, 492, 501 
 
 Rush Med 282, 444 
 
 Vermont Med... 18, 46, 92, 133 
 153, 174, 202, 217 
 286, 314, 349, 396 
 432, 438, 443, 457 
 
 Woodstock (Vt.) 131, 202 
 
 296, 426 
 
 Yale Med 280, 437 
 
 Collins, Moses H 135 
 
 Colored Troops, First S. C. 287 
 Twenty-ninth Connecticut. 301 
 
 First U. S 306 
 
 Third U. S 282 
 
 Fifth Cav. U. S 302 
 
 Fifth and 34th U. S 283 
 
INDEX. 
 
 523 
 
 Colored Troops, Sixth U. S. . 299 
 
 Ninth U. S 81, 300 
 
 Thirteenth U. S. H. A 280 
 
 Fifteenth U. S 2S5 
 
 Eighteenth U. S 299 
 
 Nineteenth U. S 281, 303 
 
 Twenty-first U. S 2S7 
 
 Seventieth U. S 307 
 
 Seventy-eighth U. S 297 
 
 Ninety-eighth U. S 297 
 
 Ninety-ninth U. S 298 
 
 One Hundred and Fif- 
 teenth U. S 284, 300 
 
 One Hundred and Six- 
 teenth U. S 295 
 
 One Hundred and Eight- 
 eenth U. S 307 
 
 One Hundred and Nine- 
 teenth U. S 280, 295, 304 
 
 One Hundred and Twentv- 
 
 fourth U. S 128, 129 
 
 Colt 212 
 
 Columbia, S. A 264, 424 
 
 Columbus 190, 472, o.O 
 
 Comanches 250 
 
 Comings, Dr. D. L. M.43, 54, 56 
 
 Leonard 54 
 
 Sarah (Robinson) 54 
 
 Uriel 54 
 
 Commaudery, Gen. Surnside 494 
 Commission, Western Sani- 
 tary 314 
 
 Conant, Caroline H 340 
 
 Clara E 89 
 
 Josiah 89 
 
 Lucy (Jewett) 89 
 
 Concord, N. H 1, 3, 17, 18 
 
 22, 29, 30, 66. 104 
 115, 118, 134, 136, 138 
 139, 141, 142, 143, 152 
 157, 169, 171. 182, 190 
 191, 201, 203, 212, 225 
 226, 233. 208, 312, 317 
 318, 320. 321, 330, 337 
 338, 345, 347, 354, 303 
 367, 308, 373. 377, 378 
 388, 396, 397, 400, 407 
 408, 423, 432, 461, 470 
 471, 470, 478, 482, 500 
 503, 504 
 
 Vt 391 
 
 Confederates 23 
 
 Conger, Sarah Ann 500 
 
 Conn, Charles F 433 
 
 Frank Winslow 433 
 
 George 432 
 
 Dr. G. P 432, 433 
 
 John 432 
 
 Sarah (Priest) 432 
 
 William 432 
 
 Conrad's Ferry 3 
 
 Consul, U. S 314 
 
 Continental Army 373 
 
 Ccntoocook 194, 197 
 
 Contrnct Surgeons 384*, 421 
 
 Convulsions 177 
 
 Conway 373 
 
 Cooper. Lemuel 76 
 
 Dr. Sherman 74, 76 
 
 Copenhagen 324, 331 
 
 Corp 258 
 
 Corcoran, Col 125 
 
 Corinne, Utah 257 
 
 Corliss, Maj 222, 223 
 
 Cornish, Dr. Aaron 316 
 
 N. H 54, 70, 392 
 
 Cornwall, Vt 467 
 
 Corps, Vet. Res 260 
 
 Thirteenth Vet. Res 388 
 
 Coues 242, 331, 332 
 
 Charlotte H. (Ladd) 242 
 
 Clara ( Pearce) 331 
 
 Dr. Elliott 242, 243. 244, 246 
 
 Elliott, Publications of 245 
 
 Franklin 332 
 
 Poter 331 
 
 Robert W 332 
 
 Samuel Elliott 242, 331 
 
 Dr. Samuel F 331 
 
 William P 332 
 
 Coughlin, John 120 
 
 Council, Administration 499 
 
 Country Pedagogue 445 
 
 Courtney 296 
 
 Covington, Ky 258 
 
 Cowdrey, Abigail 355 
 
 Dr. Harris 355 
 
 Cowles, Dr. Edward 259 
 
 Cowley, Charles 290, 292 
 
 Crafts 296 
 
 Craftsbury, Vt 108. 426 
 
 Crater 115 
 
 Crockett 375 
 
 Crombie, Dr. Charles 387 
 
 Dr. .James H 3S7 
 
 Joan (Jones) 387 
 
524 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Crosby, Surgeon 7, 8 
 
 Albert H 347, 388, 389, 471 
 
 Alpheus B. . .3, 4, 9, 3G, 79, 273 
 281, 376, 377 
 
 Ann 4 
 
 Dr. Asa 4, 262, 388, 421, 439 
 
 Dr. Dixi..4, 7, 36, 64, 262, 303 
 307, 327, 376, 381, 368 
 421, 424, 426, 430, 455 
 
 Dr. Josiah 59, 262 
 
 Mary J. (Moody) 388 
 
 Mildred 7 
 
 Simon 4 
 
 Dr. Thomas R 262, 263 
 
 William P 7 
 
 Cross, Col 65 
 
 Cross Keyes, Va 451 
 
 Crowell, Eunice R 229 
 
 Croydon, N. H. 20, 21, 76, 179, 319 
 
 Crump's Hill 102 
 
 Cuba 358 
 
 Culpepper Court House 451 
 
 Cumanings, Alice M 333 
 
 Dr. Alvah R 377 
 
 Dr. Edward P 332 
 
 Harriet E 333 
 
 Harriet (Tewksbury) 332 
 
 Rev. Jacob 332 
 
 Mary W 333 
 
 Solomon 332 
 
 Willis B 333 
 
 Cundurango 313 
 
 Currie, Dr. Thomas H...344, 351 
 
 Currier 389, 390 
 
 Dr. George W 389, 390 
 
 Mary J. Frazier 390 
 
 Nathan 390 
 
 Curtis, Gen 455 
 
 Annie E 326 
 
 Gushing, Sarah W 94 
 
 Cutter, Dr. Nehemiah 92 
 
 Da Costa, Dr 450 
 
 Dake, Dr. J. P 450 
 
 Dale, Col 95 
 
 Surgeon Gen 446 
 
 Dalton 378, 379, 424, 495 
 
 Ed. B 140 
 
 Dr. John C 46, 357 
 
 Dame, Harriet P...10, 11, 13, 22 
 23, 24, 25, 26 
 
 James C 22 
 
 Phebe Agnes 22 
 
 Dana, Annie H 315 
 
 Danbury 17, 18, 375, 497, 499 
 
 Danforth, Sarah K 109 
 
 Daniels, Fanny W 57 
 
 Kate Ellen 57 
 
 William H 57 
 
 Danvers, Mass 402 
 
 Danville Notch, N. H o04 
 
 Darling, Dr. Daniel 390, 391 
 
 Daniel, Jr 391 
 
 Elizabeth 391 
 
 Elizabeth (Leavitt) 390 
 
 Dr. J. Horner 333, 334 
 
 Lydia 391 
 
 Sarah 391 
 
 Susan 391 
 
 Darnestown 226 
 
 Dartmouth 221, 247, 295, 438 
 
 Dascomb, Rev. A. B 8 
 
 Daughters of Veterans 11 
 
 Davenport, Iowa 423 
 
 David, Dr. William G 299 
 
 Davidson, Gen 108 
 
 Davis, Dr 13, 349 
 
 Abby J 343 
 
 Almira (Dearborn) 434 
 
 Dr. Charles A 434 
 
 Col. David 368 
 
 Dr. E. H 20, 133, 283 
 
 Col. E. J 103 
 
 Jefferson 171, 484 
 
 Joseph B 18 
 
 Robert 434 
 
 Col. W. H 50 
 
 Dead Line 291 
 
 Dearborn, Charles E 54 
 
 Rev. Daniel M 53 
 
 Dr. David P 43, 53, 54 
 
 Edmund 106, 107 
 
 Ellen S 318 
 
 Frank A 107 
 
 Harriet G 54 
 
 Helen M 335 
 
 Dr. John Gage 334, 335 
 
 Josiah 53 
 
 Mary J. (Gordon) 53 
 
 Mary 54 
 
 Dr. Samuel G 106, 107, 112 
 
 128, 207 
 
 Dr. Sam S 107 
 
 Sarah (Gerrish) 106 
 
 Sarah M 107 
 
 Decatur, 111 424, 425 
 
 Declaration of Independence 44 
 385, 398 
 
INDEX. 
 
 525 
 
 Decoration Day 292, 492 
 
 Deep Bottom 67, 364, 368, 444 
 
 Deerfield, N. H 437, 494 
 
 Mass 446 
 
 Delectable Mountains 5 
 
 DeMeritt, Miss A. L 186 
 
 Dennison, Dr. Joseph 304 
 
 Denver, Col 472 
 
 Dept, East and West 170 
 
 DePeyster, N. Y 133 
 
 Derry, N. H 135, 217, 242, 310 
 
 387, 430, 434, 43G 
 
 Des Moine*-. Iowa 140 
 
 Detroit, Mich 112, 463 
 
 Devens, Gen. Charles 121, 1.56 
 
 Dewey, Admiral 53 
 
 Prof. Charles 13 
 
 Dr. Julius Y 53 
 
 Mary P 53 
 
 William S 221 
 
 Dexter 222 
 
 Dickey, Dr. A. 303 
 
 Dictionary, Century 246 
 
 National Medical 340 
 
 N. American Birds 246 
 
 Dinsmoor, Dr. Geo. R 227, 434 
 
 Julia A. (Fiske) 434 
 
 William 434 
 
 Dinsmorc, Gov 45 
 
 Dismal Swamp 398, 492 
 
 Dispensary, Demilt 468 
 
 District Society, Berkshire.. 177 
 
 Division, Hooker's 25 
 
 Dix, Gen 230 
 
 John 464 
 
 Dr. M. C 464 
 
 Maria E. (Church) 464 
 
 Samuel 464 
 
 Dodge, Dr. Albert A 467 
 
 Elizabeth (Wilson) 465 
 
 Dr. L. P 466, 467 
 
 Mark 465 
 
 Dr. Warren M 46/ 
 
 Donohoe, M. T 120 
 
 Dorchester, Mass 169 
 
 Neb 479 
 
 D'Orsay, John F 313 
 
 Douglas, Almira (Balcom). 468 
 
 Amos 468 
 
 Benajah 468 
 
 Edwin R 469 
 
 Dr. Orlando B 467. 469 
 
 William 468 
 
 Dover, N. H 30, 31 
 
 32, 33, 83, 94, 97 
 120, 184. 185, 235, 242 
 257, 258, 259, 263, 264 
 266, 273, 284, 285, 286 
 287, 302, 448, 449, 458 
 
 Dover Loctalities 286 
 
 Dow, Dr. Enoch C 299 
 
 Downing, Lewis, & Son 1 
 
 Downs, M 373 
 
 Dracut, Mass 306 
 
 Drainage, Pelvic 315 
 
 Drake, John 296 
 
 Daniel 397 
 
 Dresden, Me 345 
 
 Germany 325 
 
 Saxony 326 
 
 Drury's Bluff 149, 152, 154 
 
 Dry Tortugas 92 
 
 Dublin, N. H 124, 163, 438 
 
 DuBois, Anna (Lamson) .... 440 
 
 Earl C 440 
 
 Eliza A 440 
 
 Dudley. Col 103 
 
 Duffie, Maj. A. N 213 
 
 Dumfries, Va 214 
 
 Dunbarton 342 
 
 Duncan, Gen. S. A 362 
 
 Dunham, Ira 391 
 
 Mary R 392 
 
 Savonia ( Prentice) 391 
 
 Thomas 391 
 
 Wm. R 391, 392 
 
 Dunl.ip, Andrew 311 
 
 Dunton. Ill 258 
 
 Durand. Wis 499 
 
 Durgin, Anna 300 
 
 Durham, N. H 497 
 
 Nev/, N. H 30G 
 
 Dustin, Hannah 278 
 
 Lucretia 283 
 
 Dutton, Bertha H 437 
 
 Edgar F 439 
 
 Grace S 437 
 
 Mary E 437 
 
 Olive C. (Hutchinson) 436 
 
 Dr. Samuel L 436, 437 
 
 Samuel 436 
 
 Solomon Lane 436 
 
 Dwight, Dorothy 66 
 
 Dyer, C. H Ill 
 
 Eastman 336, 396. 427 
 
 Abigail (Gale) 44 
 
526 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Eastman, Miss Ellen 45 
 
 Dr. Joseph 44 
 
 Dr. Josiah C 43, 44, 45 
 
 Mirinra (Calef) 44 
 
 Susie A 45 
 
 Timothy 44 
 
 Easton, Pa 169 
 
 Eaton, Surgeon B. F 28, 29 
 
 31, 35, 36 
 
 John S 220 
 
 Eddy, Col. A. C 221 
 
 Edgartown, Mass 443 
 
 Edinburgh, Scotland 217 
 
 Edwards, Dr. F. S 357 
 
 Susan 335 
 
 Effingham, N. H 316 
 
 Ela, Adelaide L 470 
 
 George W 470 
 
 Dr. Robert L 470, 471 
 
 Eldredge 229 
 
 Capt 39 
 
 Daniel 27 
 
 Dr. Frederick A 227, 229 
 
 Hezekiah 229 
 
 Micah 229 
 
 Sarah (Bonnett) 229 
 
 Elgin, 111 479 
 
 Ellington, Conn 296 
 
 Elliott, Me 392 
 
 Rev. C. F 473 
 
 Dr. Charles A 392 
 
 Dr. Charles F 392 
 
 Dr. George H 472 
 
 Dr. George W 473 
 
 Ida F 473 
 
 .Tohn W 472 
 
 Serena F. (Celley) 472 
 
 William H 472, 473 
 
 Elmira, N. Y 52 
 
 Ely, Dr. James W. C 208 
 
 Emerson, Charles B 210 
 
 Clarissa G 208 
 
 Rev. J. C S3 
 
 John 208 
 
 Dr. John S 116, 119 
 
 207, 208, 209, 210 
 
 Margaret C 210 
 
 Mary H 210 
 
 Nathaniel F 208 
 
 Emery, Dr. Alfred E 336 
 
 337, 338 
 
 Anne K 338 
 
 Arthur B 338 
 
 Chellis 168 
 
 Emery, Eliza (Eastman) ... .336 
 
 Martha ( Cross) 168 
 
 Mary Stark 338 
 
 Minnie F 169 
 
 Samuel 168 
 
 Dr. Stephen M 320 
 
 Emmittsburgh, Pa 146 
 
 Emory, Dr. John C 159, 168 
 
 Gereral 195 
 
 Encyclopgedia, Am 246 
 
 Enfield, N. H...128, 344, 351, 352 
 Engagements, Second U. S. 
 
 S. S 237 
 
 First N. E. Cav 216 
 
 First N. E. Cav 
 
 First N. H. Vol. Cav 226 
 
 Second N. H 12 
 
 Third N. H 27 
 
 Fourth N. H 42, 43 
 
 Fifth N. H 61 
 
 Sixth N. H 74 
 
 Seventh N. H 84, 85 
 
 Eighth N. H 105, 106 
 
 Ninth N. H 116 
 
 Tenth N. H 122 
 
 Eleventh N. H 136, 137 
 
 Twelfth N. H 147 
 
 Thirteenth N. H 158, 159 
 
 Fourteenth N. H 172, 173 
 
 Fifteenth N. H 182 
 
 Sixteenth N. H 192 
 
 Engineers, U. S. Top 83 
 
 Enosburg, Vt 1/ 
 
 Epping, N. H 335 
 
 Epsom, N. H 500 
 
 Ericson 330 
 
 Esoteric C. U. of London. . . .245 
 
 Essex Institute 244 
 
 Estabrook 280 
 
 Eudy, Dr 474 
 
 Dr. Leonard M 473 
 
 William 473 
 
 Evans 299 
 
 Evehth, Dr. J. A 246 
 
 Everett, Prof. Erastus 275 
 
 Exeter, N. H..109, 169, 170, 187 
 204, 288, 322, 323, 341 
 385, 386, 388, 425, 440 
 
 Expedition, Paraguay 323 
 
 Eye, Diseases of 254 
 
 Eythra, Saxony 184 
 
 Fairbault, Minn 467 
 
 Fairfield, N. Y 280 
 
INDEX. 
 
 527 
 
 Fair Oaks.... 19, 22, 63, 120, 349 
 
 Fall River 362, 437, 447 
 
 Falliug Waters 451 
 
 Falmouth, Mass 316 
 
 Va 114, 149, 154 
 
 213, 451, 465, 490 
 
 Heights 214 
 
 Faneuil Hall 157 
 
 Farley, E. Wilder 101 
 
 Farmington, N. H..120, 248, 306 
 307, 370, 392, 469 
 
 Me 448, 449, 450 
 
 Minn 465, 466 
 
 Farmville, Va 479 
 
 Farnham 239 
 
 Farnsworth 363 
 
 Farr, Evarts W 135 
 
 Farragut 322, 328 
 
 Farrar, Dr. Daniel. .28, 33, 38, 39 
 
 Col. D. W 38 
 
 Farrington, Edgar 282 
 
 Dr. James 282, 474 
 
 Dr. .James B 282, 474 
 
 Dr. Joseph H 474 
 
 Mary D. (Han.son) 282, 474 
 
 Mary S 458 
 
 Stephen 282, 474 
 
 Willis 282 
 
 Fearing, Col. Hawkes 101 
 
 Fellows, Col. E. Q 3, 208 
 
 Dr. Rufus 486 
 
 Ferguson, Catherine Iz3 
 
 Charles 123, 124, 125 
 
 David 123 
 
 Dr. John 122, 123, 124, 125 
 
 Dr. .John D 125 
 
 Mary C 125 
 
 William 125 
 
 Fernald, Capt. W. F 146 
 
 Fernandina. Fla 42, 48, 95 
 
 Fernando de Noroha 324 
 
 Ferrero, Gen 205 
 
 Fever, Yellow, Prevention.. 287 
 
 Fevers, History of 177 
 
 Fisherville 83, 445 
 
 Flshkill, N. Y 481 
 
 Fisk, Arabella S 37G 
 
 Clara Eva 197 
 
 Dr. Cyrus M 192, 193, 194 
 
 195, 196, 197 
 
 Ephraim 194 
 
 Fiske, Harriet A 179 
 
 Margaret ( Dow ) 194 
 
 Mary Jane 197 
 
 Fitch, Dr. T. D 
 
 Fitchburg, Mass 133, 
 
 Fitzwilliam, N. H...80, 402, 
 
 Flanders, Col 
 
 Fleet, North Atlantic 
 
 Fleming's Cross Roads 
 
 Fletcher 
 
 Dr. S. W 
 
 Flint, Amos 
 
 Austin 382, 383, 
 
 Daniel 
 
 Dr. James Milton 
 
 339, 
 
 Mary ( Stickney ) 
 
 Follet, Maria C 
 
 William 
 
 Folsom 
 
 Agnes ( Sanborn ) 
 
 Alice E 
 
 Flora M 
 
 James 
 
 Dr. James D 201, 
 
 James I 
 
 Nellie E 
 
 Foochow 
 
 Forbes, Josephine S 
 
 Forceps, Use of 
 
 Ford, Col 
 
 Ford's Station 
 
 Formosa 364, 367, 
 
 Forster, Surgeon E. J 
 
 Fort Bayard 
 
 Bunker Hill 
 
 Burnham 
 
 Clinch 
 
 Constitution 2, 
 
 Davis 
 
 Edward, N. Y 
 
 Ethan Allen, Vt 
 
 Fisher 32, 33, 34, 42, 
 
 337, 343, 
 
 Foote 
 
 Gaines 
 
 Harrison 121, 
 
 Hays, Kan 
 
 Hindman 
 
 Independence 
 
 Jackson 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 Lincoln 
 
 McCallister, Ga 
 
 McClary 
 
 Mitchell 
 
 444 
 298 
 445 
 103 
 332 
 451 
 392 
 488 
 339 
 493 
 339 
 338 
 340 
 339 
 228 
 228 
 395 
 201 
 202 
 202 
 201 
 202 
 202 
 202 
 329 
 392 
 126 
 223 
 206 
 309 
 462 
 231 
 231 
 121 
 
 48 
 230 
 205 
 
 94 
 254 
 317 
 380 
 231 
 231 
 349 
 257 
 314 
 101 
 328 
 
 92 
 254 
 231 
 424 
 231 
 
 39 
 
528 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Fort Moultree 95 
 
 Myers, Va 260 
 
 Pillow 314 
 
 Porter 250 
 
 Preble 250, 260 
 
 Randall, Dak 243 
 
 St. Phillip 328 
 
 Saratoga 231 
 
 Sill 250 
 
 Smith, Ark 270, 271, 272 
 
 Stedman 205, 210 
 
 Steele 48 
 
 Stevens, Ore 257 
 
 Sumter 95, 292, 379, 397 
 
 4G1, 498 
 
 Wagner 93, 95 
 
 Walker 41 
 
 Wallace, Kan iio7 
 
 Wardsworth 2G0 
 
 Warren 48, 254 
 
 Whipple 2G0, 485 
 
 Fortress Monroe. .95, 96, 131, 254 
 257, 263, 343, 390, 496 
 
 Foster, Surgeon 394 
 
 Esther (Haley) 393 
 
 John G 382 
 
 Dr. Timothy S 393 
 
 William B 395 
 
 Fowler 396 
 
 Ca!5t. Blake 148 
 
 David 148 
 
 Dr. H. B 148, 149, 304 
 
 Ruth (Sleeper) 148 
 
 Fox, G. V 336, 337 
 
 Fractures 119 
 
 Framingham, Mass 202, 240 
 
 279, 280 
 
 Francestown 313, 314, 333 
 
 388, 499 
 
 Franconia, N. H 62, 304, 305 
 
 Frankfort 471 
 
 Franklin 62, 63, 102, 153, 154 
 
 325, 444, 449, 457 
 
 Franklin, Gen 102 
 
 Frazier 390 
 
 Frederick, Md...2, 223, 270, 451 
 
 Fredericlisburg, Va 24, 37 
 
 63, 67, 68, 90, 114, 140 
 143, 149, 154, 164, 214 
 225, 451, 452, 461, 4G2 
 467, 481, 490, 493, 490 
 Freedman's Bureau.. 160, 240, 290 
 
 Freedom, N. H IG, 18G 
 
 Fremont, N. H 86 
 
 Fremont, John C 228 
 
 French, Andrew 263 
 
 Dr. Charles P 395 
 
 Dr. David B 66 
 
 Elizabeth A 268 
 
 Dr. George F 263, 264, 265 
 
 266. 267 
 
 John 385, 461 
 
 Dr. John 138 
 
 John A 263 
 
 Dr. John 395 
 
 Lucy (Prescott) 395 
 
 Mary E. (Tv,'ombly) 263 
 
 Dr. Nathaniel W 437 
 
 Ruth 461 
 
 Dr. V/illiam M 118 
 
 and Indian War 89 
 
 Friends 235 
 
 Prisbee, Dr. J. F 2.59 
 
 Front Royal 213, 222, 451 487 
 
 Frost, Dr. C. P. 426, 438, 440, 475 
 
 Edwin B 475 
 
 Gilm.an D 475 
 
 Mary (Brant) 475 
 
 Mary C. (Brant) 438 
 
 Frye. Gen 373 
 
 Fryeburg, Me 373 
 
 Frying Pan Shoals 41 
 
 Fuller 348 
 
 Funkstown 451, 452 
 
 Gage, Dr. Charles P 29, 248 
 
 312, 336, 348, 363, 398 
 397, 398, 423, 433, 476 
 
 Charles S 400 
 
 Elizabeth Fowler 396 
 
 John 396 
 
 Mary Agnes 400 
 
 Sally (Bickford) 396 
 
 Gaines' Mill 259 
 
 Gainesville, Va 259 
 
 Gale, Col 44 
 
 Dr. George W 341, 385 
 
 Mary C 321 
 
 Gallatin 199 
 
 Galloup's Island 205 
 
 Galveston, Tex 7, 328 
 
 Gardner, Mass 77 
 
 Colonel 222 
 
 Garland, Dr Ill 
 
 Alva 485 
 
 Celia 401 
 
 Claudius 401 
 
 George T 491 
 
INDEX. 
 
 529 
 
 Garland, Dr. Jeremiah C.400, 401 
 
 Joseph 400 
 
 Lydia C 400 
 
 Miiry E 376 
 
 Nathaniel 400 
 
 Willard Parker 401 
 
 Gastritis 177 
 
 Genealogy, Emery 169 
 
 Geneva, N. Y 396 
 
 Geographic Society, National. 245 
 
 Geological Survey 246 
 
 Georgetown, D. C 89, 206 
 
 Georgia Landing 102 
 
 Germania Ford 209 
 
 Germantown, Pa 436 
 
 Gerould, Cynthia (Locke) .. .341 
 
 Dr. Martin L 341 
 
 Moses 341 
 
 Samuel G 341 
 
 Gerrish, Almira Samantha. ..312 
 
 Caroline 88 
 
 Susan 203 
 
 Gettysburg, Pa. 23, 65, 67, 63, 90 
 
 93, 146, 149, 151. 152, 154 
 
 215, 270, 451, 452, 459 
 
 Ghost Club of London 245 
 
 Gibraltar 331 
 
 Gibson. Arrington 118 
 
 Charles B 119 
 
 Charles O 119 
 
 Ellen C 119 
 
 Emily (Barnard ) 118 
 
 Dr. Francis N 110, 118 
 
 Ruel 118 
 
 Giesborough Point 225 
 
 Gihon, Dr. Albert L. (U. S. 
 
 N.) 322 
 
 Gilbert, Med. Director 131 
 
 Gilford, N. H..10S, 111, 150, 335 
 
 Gilman. Col. E. H 386 
 
 Naomi (McNeal) 475 
 
 Dr. Zeeb 475 
 
 Gllmanton, N. H 4, 234 
 
 235, 251, 202, 263, 299 
 300, 388, 395, 429, 456 
 
 Gilmore. General 32 
 
 Gen. Q. A 50 
 
 Governor 90, 204, 390, 435 
 
 Gilsum. N. H 401, 402 
 
 Gieason, Dr. Aaron R 173 
 
 401. 402, 403 
 
 Maude W 403 
 
 Sophia (Clark) 402 
 
 Windsor 402 
 
 34 
 
 Glendale 19 
 
 Gloucester, Mass 349 
 
 Me 431 
 
 Point, Va 50 
 
 Godding, Dr. Alvah 455 
 
 Goffstown, N. H 89 
 
 Goggin, Alfred W 125 
 
 Mrs. W. H 125 
 
 Golden Cross 442 
 
 Goldsboro 34, 90, 334 
 
 Goldsmith, Prof. M 97 
 
 Gonic, N. H 248, 249 
 
 Goodhue, David H 343 
 
 Dr. David P 342, 343 
 
 Jacob 342 
 
 Lauretta M 343 
 
 Libbie A 343 
 
 Lucia F 343 
 
 Mary (.^yer) 342 
 
 Seth 342 
 
 Goodwin, Alice G 507 
 
 Beatrice Evelyn 507 
 
 Carrie J 507 
 
 Ellen L 507 
 
 Ezra Frederick 507 
 
 Ichabod 47 
 
 Laura Anna 507 
 
 Marian 1 359 
 
 Mary Eliza 507 
 
 Dr. R. J. P 506 
 
 Richard Herbert 507 
 
 Gorham, N. H 57, 58 
 
 Gorringe 347 
 
 Gosport, N. H 387 
 
 Gould, Mariah 76 
 
 Grafton, N. H 349, 478 
 
 Mass 340 
 
 W. Va 379 
 
 Grand Army Republic. .19, 22. 38 
 54,58.68.79,81,87,97 
 108, 113, 118, 130, 134 
 139, 141, 144, 170, 188 
 196, 210, 218. 228, 229 
 259, 265. 267. 209. 279 
 281. 285. 290. 301. 303 
 308. 333. 337. 345. 382 
 393. 402, 427, 433. 4.J7 
 441, 444, 445, 41S, 449 
 453. 454. 460. 462, 465 
 406, 469, 473. 477. 480 
 482. 483. 485, 487. 489 
 490. 491, 492, 494, 495 
 497, 499. 501. 505 
 Grand Gulf 330. 338, 374 
 
530 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Grand Rapids, Mich 142 
 
 Grange 444, 495 
 
 Granges, State and National. 393 
 
 Granite Monthly 387, 430 
 
 Grant 209, 252 
 
 Grant, President 277 
 
 Grant, U. S 264 
 
 Gen 190, 260, 2C6, 278, 3G6 
 
 278, 379, 386, 471 
 
 Dr. Jasper S 404 
 
 Maria Churchill 273 
 
 Nathaniel 403, 404 
 
 Sophronia C. (Hobbs).403, 404 
 
 Dr. William Henry 403, 404 
 
 Willis C 403 
 
 Grant's Army 161 
 
 Grantham, N. H 21, 35, 198 
 
 354, 460 
 
 Graves, Dr 477, 478 
 
 Abner 476 
 
 Elizabeth (Walker) 476 
 
 Dr. Frank Walker 476 
 
 Dr. J. G 78 
 
 Dr. Leiand J 346 
 
 Willard 476 
 
 Gray, Dr 211 
 
 Dr. George 46, 217 
 
 Great Falls, N. H 65, 138, 139 
 
 142, 239, 258, 269, 459 
 
 Greeley, Ezekiel 46 
 
 Dr. George P. .13, 43, 45, 46, 47 
 49, 50, 51, 52, 54 
 
 Dr. Guy H 218 
 
 Dr. James B. .216, 217, 218, 381 
 
 Dr. James T 218 
 
 Joseph 217 
 
 Josiah 46 
 
 Hannah (Thornton) 217 
 
 Henry W 218 
 
 Sarah (Pollard) 46 
 
 Greencastle, Pa 224 
 
 Green Coats 237 
 
 Greenfield, Mass 162, 273 
 
 Greenleaf, Dr. Arthur W.282, 283 
 
 Daniel 283 
 
 Fred A 283 
 
 Pierson R 283 
 
 Sarah H. (Munroe) 283 
 
 William P 283 
 
 Greenough, Capt 206 
 
 Green Valley, 111 445 
 
 Greenville, N. H 20, 112, 488 
 
 Greenwich, R. 1 99 
 
 Greenwood, Miss 235 
 
 Greenwood, Mo 235 
 
 Henry 4o6 
 
 Kosannah 456 
 
 Grenada, Miss 257 
 
 Grenville 296 
 
 Griffin, Gen. S. G 138 
 
 Grimes, James W 2(6 
 
 Gross, Samuel D 397 
 
 Groton, Vt 2oi 
 
 Mass 446 
 
 North 478, 479 
 
 Groveland, Mass 503, 504 
 
 Grover's Brigade 455 
 
 Groveton 114, 214, 247 
 
 Guard, Granite State 295 
 
 National 247, 483 
 
 Guildhall, Vt 65, 126, 201 
 
 Gulf of Mexico 92, 334, 358 
 
 Gynecological Society, N. E...93 
 393, 437 
 
 Hadley, Phebe A 454 
 
 Haime, Mary A 118 
 
 Haines Bluff 209 
 
 Haley 393 
 
 John S 480 
 
 Mary N. (Piper) 480 
 
 Dr. T. A 480 
 
 William 480 
 
 Hall, Surgeon 185 
 
 Doctor 374 
 
 Fanny S 144 
 
 Dr. Jeremiah F 182 
 
 Rev. S. R 138 
 
 Ham, Abigail D. (Bartlett) . .284 
 
 Charles 284 
 
 Emily H 286 
 
 Ephraim 284 
 
 John 284 
 
 John M 286 
 
 Dr. John R 284, 285, 286 
 
 Hamblett, Rowena L 59 
 
 Hamilton, Dr 500 
 
 Prof. Frank H 382 
 
 Mary E 327 
 
 Hammond, Gen 243 
 
 William A 270 
 
 Hampden, Me 326 
 
 Hampstead, N. H.43, 44, 423, 431 
 
 Hampton 180 
 
 New, N. H 141, 274, 422 
 
 Roads 48, 319, 352 
 
 Hancock, N. H 561 
 
 General 52, 60, 63, 295 
 
INDEX. 
 
 531 
 
 Handerson, Helen M 98 
 
 Hankow 329 
 
 Hanover, N. H 4, 8, 9 
 
 31, 35, 36, 56, 64 
 79, 86, 109, 150, 220 
 224, 235, 262, 268, 273 
 281, 303, 306. 320, 327 
 355, 361, 376, 387, 395 
 422, 430, 438, 440, 455 
 465, 478, 484, 488, 496 
 
 Court House 225, 226, 259 
 
 Hanson, Dr. J. C 233 
 
 Harbor, Boston 388 
 
 Charlotte, Fla 361, 368 
 
 N. Y 253, 326 
 
 Portland 250 
 
 Presidio 250 
 
 Hardin 232, 234 
 
 Hardwick, Vt 305 
 
 Hardy. Adra G 480 
 
 David 479 
 
 Dr. Hiram T 478 
 
 Lucy (Tenney) 479 
 
 Luther 479 
 
 Mabel S 480 
 
 Ralph H 479 
 
 Harper's Ferry 2, 222, 223 
 
 Harriman, Dr. James L 440 
 
 Col. Walter 131 
 
 Harris, Dexter 344 
 
 Dr. George D 344 
 
 Harriet B. (Tilton) 344 
 
 Dr. Jerome 45 
 
 Mary E 45 
 
 Mary (Tewksbury) 45 
 
 Harrison 2oa 
 
 Landing 23, 498 
 
 Hartford 320 
 
 Ct 160, 169, 3»0 
 
 Retreat 481 
 
 Vt 35. 37, 235, 354, 432 
 
 Hartshorne, Juliett M 129 
 
 Harvard, Mass 266, 425, 446 
 
 Harvey 300 
 
 Ira 99 
 
 James 373 
 
 Mary S 99 
 
 Surgeon 52 
 
 Harwood. Dr. Henry J.. 1 22, 127 
 
 Hatcher's Run ^^ i 
 
 Hatteras 41, 470 
 
 Havana 358 
 
 Haverhill, N. H 151. 152, 251 
 
 383, 385, 502 
 Mass 37, 66, 169, 450, tdi 
 
 Hawks, Mrs 290 
 
 Clarissa (Brown) 286 
 
 Colburn 286 
 
 Dr. Esther H 286 
 
 Farrington 286 
 
 Dr. John M 286, 288, 289 
 
 Park, Fla 286, 287 
 
 Hayes, Cyrus W 392 
 
 David 268 
 
 Fred L 140 
 
 Hannah A 392 
 
 Helen L 140 
 
 James 131 
 
 Jennie 249 
 
 Dr. John A 122, 130, 135 
 
 137, 139, 140 
 
 .John E. R 140 
 
 Maria D 307 
 
 Mary 140 
 
 Haynes, Lizzie B 269 
 
 Col. M. A 10, 11, 18 
 
 Nellie S 269 
 
 Rebecca 268 
 
 Sallv (Clark) 131 
 
 Dr. Timothy 97,138,268 
 
 Hayti 358 
 
 Hazelton. Isaac B 346 
 
 Dr. Isaac H 344. 345, 346 
 
 Margaret P 346 
 
 Mary B 346 
 
 Moses K 3 
 
 Olivia B 346 
 
 Susan P 344 
 
 Thomas 341 
 
 Hazen, Sarah E 446 
 
 Head. Gen. Natt 104, 504 
 
 Almira E 58 
 
 Arthur 504 
 
 Heintzelman's Corps 19 
 
 Helena 190 
 
 Henderson. Ellen 174 
 
 Thomas A 83 
 
 Henderson's Hill 102, 103 
 
 Hill, Clara A 267 
 
 James R 1 
 
 Jane Kimball 288 
 
 Katherine S 268 
 
 Lavosier 45 
 
 Dr. L. G 31, 259, 267 
 
 273, 284, 448, 449 
 
 Margaret L 268 
 
 Mary (Bartlett) 45 
 
 Mercy A 142 
 
 Parmenas 288 
 
 Dr. R. W 168 
 
632 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Hill, Dr. T. P 193 
 
 Hilliard 376, 377 
 
 Hillsborough 258, 333 
 
 339, 458, 499, 501 
 
 Hilton Head, S. C.31, 39, 41, 44 
 
 48, 49, 50, 55, 95, 371 
 
 Hinds, Dr. W. H. W 441, 442 
 
 Earzillai 441 
 
 Edwin H 442 
 
 Rev. Orlando 441 
 
 Hingham, Mass 450 
 
 Hinsdale, N. H 322, 391 
 
 111 473 
 
 Hiogo, Japan 3G3, 366, 378 
 
 History, Marlborough 166 
 
 N. H. Med. Soc 316 
 
 Hitchcock, Hiram 440 
 
 Hobbs 206 
 
 Dr. Benjamin 294, 295 
 
 Josiah H 294 
 
 Laura E 296 
 
 Rhoda D (Chapman) 294 
 
 Hodges 345 
 
 Hclden, David 89 
 
 Holland, Mary A. G 26 
 
 Hollis, N. H...46, 75, S9, 90, 92 
 109, 305, 306, 461, 484 
 
 Phalanx 47 
 
 Holliston, Mass 109 
 
 Holmes, Dr. O. W...175, 208, 397 
 
 Holmgren 330 
 
 Holt, Dr 441 
 
 Home, National Soldiers' 370 
 
 Old Ladies' 288 
 
 Soldiers' loz, 442 
 
 Hong Kong 229, 369 
 
 Honolulu 330 
 
 Hook, Dr 454 
 
 Hooker, Gen 213,454,459 
 
 Hooker's Division 455 
 
 Hooksett, N. H 288 
 
 Hopkinton, N. H 13, 97, 110 
 
 194, 396, 489 
 
 Hopoin 222 
 
 Horsch, Dr. C. H...1S2, 184, 185 
 
 Christiana F 184 
 
 Johann G 134 
 
 Hosmer 320 
 
 Hospital, Albany 1G4 
 
 Balfour, General 132 
 
 Bellevue 48, 362, 471 
 
 Blackwell's Island 350 
 
 Bragg 505 
 
 Brooklyn 211, 435 
 
 Hospital, Campbell 394, 402 
 
 Carney 315 
 
 Carver 395 
 
 Charity 249 
 
 Chelsea, U. S. N 381 
 
 Chesapeake 131 
 
 City Point 444 
 
 Claremont 485 
 
 Columbia ...260, 270, 342, 388 
 
 Deer Island 388,445 
 
 Douglas 298 
 
 Eckington 370 
 
 Elliot 454 
 
 Elliot City 162 
 
 Field 140 
 
 Flying 32, 165 
 
 Fort Jefferson 242 
 
 Freedman's 128, 495 
 
 Harvey 250 
 
 Harwood 485, 491 
 
 for Insane 139, 316 
 
 317, 345, 439 
 
 Jarvis 455 
 
 Judiciary Square 360 
 
 Kings 347 
 
 Knoxville Court House.... 143 
 
 Lawrence 327 
 
 Lawson 455 
 
 Lincoln 37, 257, 391 
 
 Lon<^,- Island. 117, 381, 492, 494 
 
 Lowell 196, 302, 449 
 
 Lynn City 210 
 
 Ophthalmic, London 347 
 
 Ophthalmic, N. Y 468 
 
 McVeigh 485 
 
 Maine General 126, 265 
 
 Marine, U. S 34, 40 
 
 217, 319, 388 
 
 Mass. General 174, 446, 502 
 
 Minnesota 265 
 
 Mt. Pleasant 90 
 
 Naval ..320, 321, 330, 331, 332 
 
 Nelson 495 
 
 for N. H. Insane 141, 162 
 
 184, 228 
 
 New York 188, 249 
 
 Point of Rocks 152, 304 
 
 St. Elizabeth 315, 437 
 
 St. John's 196 
 
 St. Mary's 256 
 
 Staff, Portsmouth 448 
 
 Stuart Mansion 455 
 
 Trinity 394 
 
 U. S 271, 272, 311, 312, 323 
 
INDEX. 
 
 533 
 
 Hospital, Webster U. S. Gen- 
 eral 50G 
 
 Wilson 405 
 
 Wolfe Street 485 
 
 Woman's, N. Y 188 
 
 Hotel, Eagle 268 
 
 Houghton, Dr. L. W 57 
 
 House Beautiful 4 
 
 How, Dr. L. B 118, 229 
 
 Howard, Daniel E 190 
 
 Dr. Levi 436 
 
 Maj. Gen. O. loO 
 
 Hoyt. Dr. A. B 349, 350 
 
 Benjamin 349 
 
 Dr. Enos. 202 
 
 Fanny (Armstrong) 349 
 
 Hubbard, Florence M 15 
 
 Dr. George H 12, 13, 14 
 
 15, 133, 286 
 
 George J 15 
 
 Harry 15 
 
 John 13, 386 
 
 Lucy A 15 
 
 Lucy (Kimball) 13 
 
 Mary L 15 
 
 Hubbell, Dr 15 
 
 Huckins, A. A 459 
 
 Dr. David T 381 
 
 Hudson, N. H 46 
 
 Mass 440 
 
 N. Y 8G 
 
 Hughes, Eleanora 125 
 
 Mary B 332 
 
 Humphries, Gen k;05 
 
 Hunt, Dr. C. W 148, 149, 150 
 
 Enoch 150 
 
 Georgianna 446 
 
 Julia A. (Blaisdell) 150 
 
 Thomas J 150 
 
 Hunter, Gen. David 93 
 
 Linda H 485 
 
 Huntress, Charles 405 
 
 David 405 
 
 Edward 405 
 
 Elizabeth 405 
 
 Huldah (Leavitt) 404 
 
 Ida 405 
 
 Dr. Joseph 404 
 
 Samuel 404 
 
 Hurd, Mehitable (Emerson) .442 
 
 Smith 442 
 
 Dr. W. 442 
 
 Dr Yorick G 442 
 
 Hussy 259, 386 
 
 Hutchins, Abel 140 
 
 Dr. Edward R...137, 140, 141 
 
 George 140, 141 
 
 James D 141 
 
 Martha 66 
 
 Sarah (Tucker) 140 
 
 Hyde Park, Mass 91, 169 
 
 287, 442, 481 
 
 Hygiene U. S. N 324 
 
 Hypnotism 359 
 
 Improvement Society 79 
 
 Indianapolis, Ind 47, 52, 190 
 
 Indianola, Tex 235,285,300 
 
 Indians 365 
 
 Ingraham, Col 195 
 
 Institute, Am. Homeo 233 
 
 Berkshire Med 174 
 
 Elmwood 342, 360 
 
 Essex 504 
 
 Hancock Scientific 164 
 
 Lowell Savings 196 
 
 Military, Capt. Partridge. .432 
 
 Nashua 39, 381, 476 
 
 New England 228 
 
 New Hampton 108, 139 
 
 422, 500 
 
 New London 361, 363, 381 
 
 Normal 164 
 
 Smithsonian 243, 244 
 
 Technology 274 
 
 Ward's 346 
 
 International Congress 187 
 
 Iowa Circle 275 
 
 Ipswich, Mass 274,442,443 
 
 New, N. H 436, 488 
 
 Island Pond, Vt 70 
 
 Island, Blackwell's 438 
 
 Coneoro 329 
 
 David's 253 
 
 Douglas 253 
 
 Edisto 286, 287 
 
 Folly 33, 49 
 
 Galloupe 474 
 
 Harts 253 
 
 James 29, 31, 36, 48 
 
 Jenkins 39 
 
 Mare 254, 324 
 
 Morris 34. 50, 93 
 
 No. 10 314 
 
 Roanoke 470 
 
 Ship 101, 108, 317 
 
 Staten 125 
 
 Tybee 41, 48, 95 
 
534 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Islands, Bahama 358 
 
 West Ind 358 
 
 Jackman, Lyman 73 
 
 Jackson 161, 209, 345, 471 
 
 Miss 424, 494 
 
 Jackson, Miss ^8 
 
 Col 29 
 
 J. R 474 
 
 John H 30 
 
 Gen. Stonewall 451 
 
 Jacksonville, Fla 34, 42, 44 
 
 48, 95, 287 
 
 Jamaica Plain, Mass 378 
 
 379, 380 
 
 Janes, Dr. Henry 9 
 
 Janesville, Wis 382 
 
 Janvrin, E. R. P J-o9 
 
 Dr. Joseph A 182, 187, 188 
 
 Lydia A. (Colcora) 189 
 
 Marguerite L 1*9 
 
 Japanese Tommy 367 
 
 Jarvis 310, 311 
 
 Dr. S. G 54, 56, 370 
 
 Jefferson, N. H 249 
 
 111 282 
 
 Jeffersonville, Ind 276 
 
 Jenkins, Caleb 350 
 
 Jenkins Ferry, Ark 14 
 
 Jenness, Dea. S 94 
 
 Jersey City, N. J 169 
 
 Jesuits 123 
 
 Jewett, Abigail (Colcord)... 22 
 
 Alvira H 22 
 
 Dr. Geo. B 334 
 
 James 22 
 
 Dr. Jeremiah 417, .420 
 
 Johnston, Gen 2 
 
 Jones 387 
 
 Captain 78 
 
 Doctor 349 
 
 Bishop M 142 
 
 Dr. Charles M 137, 142 
 
 Daniel 142 
 
 Edgar A 154 
 
 Harriet A. ( Stanton) 142 
 
 Harriet E 142 
 
 Helen 436 
 
 Ida M 414 
 
 Sally W 15 
 
 Dr. S. W 133 
 
 Theodore S 142 
 
 Dr. Wm. B 414 
 
 Jonesboro 424 
 
 Journal, Am. Med. Asso 503 
 
 Berkshire Med 177 
 
 Boston Med.. 119. 173. 287, 503 
 
 Brooklyn Med 174 
 
 Gaillard's 189 
 
 Gynecological 188, 189, 315, 346 
 
 Med. News 189 
 
 Medico-Legal 503 
 
 Memphis 189 
 
 Milwaukee 503 
 
 N. H. Med 14 
 
 New York Med 315, 321 
 
 New York Med. Rec 188 
 
 New York State Med 189 
 
 Obstetrics 188 
 
 Judkins, Dr. E. G 350, 351 
 
 Moses 350 
 
 Sarah (True) 350 
 
 Julius Creek, Va 134 
 
 Jungle 365 
 
 Kalorama 2 
 
 Kanagowa 369 
 
 Kaneville, 111 478, 479 
 
 Kansas City, Mo 472 
 
 Kearney, Gen 26 
 
 Keene, N. H 73, 79 
 
 159, 160, 161, 162 
 163. 173, 174. 249, 333 
 334. 387. 391. 392. 401 
 402. 434, 435, 436, 492 
 
 Kelley. Prof 256. 392 
 
 Kelley's Ford 214. 451 
 
 Kemp, Benjamin 405 
 
 Dr. E. A 402, 405 
 
 Jessie Isabel 406 
 
 Lydia (Woods) 405 
 
 Kempton, Calvin 21 
 
 Rachel (Clough) 21 
 
 Dr. Willard 13, 20, 21 
 
 Kenesaw, Mt 424 
 
 Kent. C. N 199 
 
 Kettell 386 
 
 Kewanee, 111 444 
 
 Key, Francis Scott 225 
 
 West, Fla 317, 327, 370 
 
 Kimuall 261 
 
 Doctor 34, 35, 39, 341 
 
 Daniel 351 
 
 Dr. FranKlin B 28, 33 
 
 Dr. Gilman 193 
 
 Dr. Heil J 344, 351 
 
 Joseph B 351 
 
 Miriam (Choate) 351 
 
INDEX. 
 
 535 
 
 Kinch, Dr 198 
 
 King, Dr 364, 369 
 
 Capt. D. W 104 
 
 Oscar 330 
 
 Kingiang 329 
 
 Kingman, Cal 183 
 
 i^mgston, N. H 242, 251 
 
 288, 334, 493, 494 
 
 East 44 
 
 Kiowas 250 
 
 Kirkwood, Gov , . .297 
 
 Mo 341, 342 
 
 Kittenger, Dr. M. L 50 
 
 Kittery Point, Me 231, 299 
 
 Kittredge, Aida 482 
 
 Dr. Charles A 482 
 
 Dr. Charles M 481 
 
 Eddie 482 
 
 Fannie (Marsh) 481 
 
 George D 482 
 
 Dr. George W 352 
 
 Harry M 482 
 
 Jonathan 482 
 
 J. P 482 
 
 Josiah 481 
 
 Julia (Balch) 4S2 
 
 Timothy 481 
 
 Willie C 4<i2 
 
 Knight 274 
 
 Abigail (Knapp) 62 
 
 Edwin A 63 
 
 Jonathan 280 
 
 Dr. L. M 61, 62, 63, 64, 457 
 
 Thomas 62 
 
 Knights of Honor 337, 442 
 
 of Pythias 259, 281, 297 
 
 301, 382, 444, 501 
 
 of the Temple 504 
 
 Knowles, Georgia 503 
 
 Knoxville, Tenn 143, 424 
 
 Kobe 330 
 
 Kokelumme, Cal 423 
 
 Komeda Kaigero 367 
 
 (Japanese Tommy.) 
 
 Labadieville 102 
 
 Labrador 243 
 
 Laconia 107 
 
 108, 111, 150, 234 
 235, 335, 393, 48G, 504 
 
 LaCross, Wis 431 
 
 Ladd, Marion M 118 
 
 Dr. Wm 3.50 
 
 Capt. Wm. J 156 
 
 Lafayette, Ohio 500 
 
 Laighton, Charles E 184 
 
 Frances E 184 
 
 Lake 360 
 
 Lakeport 10 
 
 Lancashire 4 
 
 Lancaster, N. H...18, 19, 22, 64 
 125, 126, 201, 246, 249, 250 
 
 Landaff 127, 128 
 
 Lane, Prof 264 
 
 Dr. Robert 470 
 
 Lanesboro, Mass. ...173, 174, 175 
 
 Lang, Lenia 69 
 
 Sherburn 69 
 
 Langdon, N. H 346 
 
 Lausingburg, N. Y 13, 14 
 
 Larabee, Cynthia (Sawyer).. 443 
 
 Dr. George H 443, 444 
 
 Stephen C 443 
 
 Latham, Mary S 431 
 
 Lathrop 298 
 
 Elizabeth (Drake) 296 
 
 Dr. Moses C 296, 297 
 
 Rowland 296 
 
 William 296 
 
 LaWall, Laura L 189 
 
 Lawrence, Olive 88 
 
 Mass 19, 168 
 
 240, 320, 326 
 
 Lawton, Col. R. B 213 
 
 Laxfield, Eng 194 
 
 Leacti, Elizabeth H 154 
 
 George A 353 
 
 Rev. Giles 154 
 
 Sarah A. (Wiggin) 352 
 
 Thomas F 352 
 
 Dr. Thomas W 352, 353 
 
 League. N. E 93 
 
 Learned, Anne 447 
 
 Dr. E. J 447 
 
 Leaves from Afloat and 
 
 Ashore 292 
 
 Leavitt 390 
 
 Dr. Almond 354 
 
 Betsey (Brown) 354 
 
 Dudley 354 
 
 Josiah 354 
 
 Lebanon 392 
 
 Me 139, 300, 370. 471 
 
 N. H 35, 202 
 
 West, Me 458 
 
 Lee, N. H 205, 214, 428, 435 
 
 Mass 296 
 
 Gen 68, 104, 136. 157 
 
 219, 233, 276, 477, 479 
 Gen. A. L 102, 103 
 
536 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Lee, Maj. A. T 52 
 
 Elsie D 5U:i 
 
 Leipzig, Saxony 184 
 
 Lempster, N. H 442, 443 
 
 Leominster, Mass 39 
 
 Leonard, Ann A 45 
 
 Lesueur, Minn 422, 423 
 
 Levenstaler, H. C bO 
 
 Lewis and Claris 453 
 
 Lewiston, Me 24G 
 
 Lexington 428, 495 
 
 Libby Prison.. 157, 214, 224, 35G 
 
 Liberia 323 
 
 Libraries, Public 45 
 
 Library Asso., Am 245 
 
 Nevins' Memorial 460 
 
 Liddell, Gen 103 
 
 Lima, Wis 500 
 
 Limington, Me 431 
 
 Lincoln, Neb US 
 
 President 1. 10, GS, 135 
 
 136 160, 181, 190, 199 
 209, 213, 219, 220, 241 
 266, 270, 284, 452, 477 
 
 Dr. John D 393 
 
 Martha B 240 
 
 Lisbon, N. H..137, 393, 430, 495 
 
 Little, Abner B 444 
 
 Benjamin ./. 355 
 
 Bessie Bell 445 
 
 Blanche A 445 
 
 Caleb J. T 414 
 
 Dr. Charles 354, 355 
 
 Dr. Charles F 444 
 
 Eliza A 445 
 
 Eliza A. (Brooks) 444 
 
 Fred S 445 
 
 Henry F. W 82 
 
 Mary C. (Pillsbury) 355 
 
 Nellie P 445 
 
 Richard 355 
 
 Rock 272 
 
 Littlefield, Miss F. A 18G 
 
 Littleton, N. H 138, 139 
 
 212, 249, 387, 430 
 
 440, 474, 483, 495, 496 
 
 Livermore, Col. Thomas L...204 
 
 205, 206 
 
 Liverpool, Eng 319 
 
 Ohio 376 
 
 Livy, Annette M 184 
 
 Lobata 313 
 
 Lock, Orrin 150 
 
 Sarah 150 
 
 Locke 341 
 
 Lockport, N. Y 52 
 
 Logan, Gen 279 
 
 London, Eng 217, 245 
 
 268, 277, 319, 324 
 347, 358, 468, 477 
 
 Londonderry 39, 40, 88, 129 
 
 130, 131. 132, 133, 501 
 
 Ireland 327, 373 
 
 Vt 118 
 
 Long, Charles H ... .230, 232 
 
 Pine, Neb 247 
 
 Longstreet, Gen 223 
 
 Lord, President 220, 478 
 
 Brothers' Co 69 
 
 Nathan, Jr 66 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal 321 
 
 Loudon 43, 110 
 
 Louisburg 373 
 
 Louisville, Ky 276, 285 
 
 Lovering, Prof 2G4 
 
 Lowell, Mass 13, 98 
 
 127, 169, 193, 198 
 
 281, 290, 302, 341 
 
 428, 434, 448, 449, 454 
 
 Lucas, Calysta 373 
 
 Dr. J. H 443 
 
 Samuel 373 
 
 Luckley, Surg. Geo 51 
 
 Ludlow, Vt 235 
 
 Lull, O. W 101 
 
 Lunenburg, Mass 303 
 
 Lyceum Natural History. .. .244 
 
 Lyme, N. H 273, 303, 326 
 
 Lvnchburg, Va 21 
 
 Lyndeborough 301, 487, 488 
 
 Lynn, Mass 21, 100, 207, 210 
 
 239, 240, 288, 289, 409 
 Lyons, N. Y 299 
 
 Macao 364, 368 
 
 Mackenzie 365 
 
 Mackie's Point. S. C 49 
 
 Maffit, John N 323 
 
 Magazine, Semi-Tropical 287 
 
 Malabar, Fla 286 
 
 Maiden, Mass 456 
 
 Malvern Hill 63, 259 
 
 Manassas 63 
 
 Gap 451 
 
 Manchester ....13, 14, 19, 20, 24 
 
 39, 40, 41, 58, 59, 83 
 
 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 95 
 
 100, 101, 117, 120, 121 
 
INDEX. 
 
 537 
 
 Manchester. 123, 124, 125, 132, 
 134, 204, 229, 255, 
 282, 283, 287, 288, 
 307, 320, 349, 371, 
 454, 472, 473, 484, 
 486, 498, 499, 501, 
 
 Mass 
 
 Vt ., 
 
 24, 
 
 Manhattan, Kan 444, 
 
 Manson, Albert Charles. 356, 
 Dr. Charles Albert. . .356, 
 
 Maria L 
 
 Mary Jane (Brown) 
 
 Capt. William 
 
 Manter, Dr. George W.28, 39, 
 
 IMarathon to Waterloo 
 
 Marble, Addie E 
 
 Alfred 
 
 Marcy, Dr. Henry 290, 
 
 Mariana, Fla 
 
 Marlborough 163, 
 
 166, 445, 
 
 Mass 
 
 Marlow, N. H..179, 319, 427, 
 
 Marshall, Dr 
 
 Lieutenant 
 
 Dr. Thomas 
 
 Marston, Col 
 
 Gen. Gilman 19, 
 
 Martin, Gen 
 
 Martinsburg, Va 
 
 "Martyrs of the Race Course" 
 219, 
 
 Maryland Heights 
 
 Mason 218, 382, 390, 
 
 N. H 128, 
 
 Village 
 
 Bela 
 
 Ethel Osgood 
 
 Capt Julius 
 
 Prudence (Woods) 
 
 Dr. R. Osgood 357, 
 
 Rufus 
 
 Dr. William H. H 
 
 Masonic Fraternity. .. .14, 19 
 22, 32, 40, 54. 08. 71, 76 
 87, 98, 100, 108, 113. 
 126, 130, 132, 134, 
 154, 167. 170. 193. 
 198, 202. 203, 210. 
 247, 248, 253, 2.59. 
 280. 281. 282, 285, 
 295. 297. 302. 325. 
 335, 337, 347, 353. 
 
 133 Masonic Fraternity.. 358, 359, 373 
 
 262 382, 390, 399, 402, 408, 426 
 
 303 427, 433, 441, 442, 444, 445 
 
 384 448, 449, 453, 454, 460 
 
 485 462, 464, 465, 469, 473 
 
 506 477, 479, 483, 485, 487 
 
 144 488, 489, 494, 503, 504 
 
 118 Massure, Mary E 169 
 
 445 Materia Medica, Our Native. 379 
 
 357 Mather, Dr. Rockwood G 159 
 
 357 Mathewson, Dr. Arthur 174 
 
 197 Mattoon 190 
 
 356 111 300, 361 
 
 356 Maximilian 285, 329, 374 
 
 40 May, Dr. James 360 
 
 93 Maybury. Edwin 443 
 
 464 Mayport Mills, Fla 48 
 
 464 McCammon. Carrie Loring...llO 
 
 292 McCarthy, Mrs. Anna 125 
 
 298 McClellan, Gen 45,143 
 
 164 224. 252, 446 
 
 492 McClure, Dr 363 
 
 280 McCoUi.ster, Dr 446 
 
 428 Achsah (Holman) 445 
 
 305 Anna 446 
 
 34 Edward Q 446 
 
 488 H. Hortcnse 446 
 
 10 Harvey Gray 446 
 
 24 John F 440 
 
 260 Dr. John Q. A 445 
 
 2 Lucretia 1 446 
 
 May Emma 446 
 
 293 Samuel 445 
 
 488 Silas 445 
 
 399 McCollom., Dr. Wm 302 
 
 305 McCoy, Jno H 50 
 
 112 McDorsee, Gen 260 
 
 357 McGregor, Chas 181 
 
 359 McMillan, Gen 102 
 
 452 McMurphy, Archibald 133 
 
 357 McNab, Dr. John 67 
 
 359 Meade, Gen 205, 459 
 
 357 Meadow, Horse 256 
 
 480 Mechanics Falls, Me 246 
 
 20 Mechanicsville 259 
 
 ,78 Medford 507 
 
 118 Medical Congress, Intenia- 
 
 152 tional 45, 453 
 
 195 Medical News 503 
 
 235 League, N. Y 188 
 
 269 Record 503 
 
 287 Meaicinc, Theory and Prac- 
 
 333 tice of 439 
 
 357 Melrose, Mass 456 
 
538 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Memorial Day G8, 279, 294 
 
 First observance 290 
 
 Memoriam, In 266 
 
 Memphis 190,314,336,386 
 
 Mercer, Me 112 
 
 Meredith 28, 29, 44, 110 
 
 111, 153, 321, 335, 430 
 
 Meriden 35, 54 
 
 76, 129, 198, 346, 354 
 
 369, 440, 442, 482, 496 
 
 Merrick, Mrs. Katherine. . . .125 
 
 Merrimack 397, 484, 493 
 
 Merritt, Maj. Gen Ill 
 
 Merrow, Dr. Augustus D 16 
 
 Dr. James M 12, 13, 16 
 
 Joseph 16 
 
 Lucy (Davis) 16 
 
 Methuen, Mass 459, 460 
 
 Middleboro, Mass 99 
 
 Middleburgh 214 
 
 Middlesex, Vt 118 
 
 Middleton 451 
 
 Middletown, Va 228 
 
 Milan 70 
 
 Miles, Gen 60 
 
 Col 223 
 
 Milford ...67, 106, 107, 112, 204 
 229, 301, 441, 442, 501, 502 
 
 Military Dept. of Texas 250 
 
 Military Order of the Loyal 
 
 Legion .170, 188. 265, 267, 280 
 303, 335. 340, 346, 375 
 380. 433, 437, 441, 448 
 449, 453, 454, 469, 492 
 
 Mill Village 401 
 
 Miller 208, 305 
 
 Dr. Luke 316 
 
 Millett, Dr. Chas 431 
 
 Milliken's Bend 328 
 
 Mills, Sarah Frances 387 
 
 Milton 239, 240, 269 
 
 299, 300, 500, 501 
 
 Mass 173 
 
 Milwaukee 282, 502, 503 
 
 266, 267, 466 
 Mine 114, 115 
 
 Explosion 143 
 
 Minneapolis 263, 265 
 
 Minot 326, 345 
 
 Mirror, Dr 437 
 
 Missionary Ridge 424 
 
 Mississippi Sound 101 
 
 Mitchell, Gen 42 
 
 Ernest H 247 
 
 Mitchell, Dr. Ezra , 246 
 
 Mary (Perry) 246 
 
 Modern Woodmen of America 
 
 479 
 
 Moffett, Aldeu 483 
 
 Almira (Blood) 483 
 
 Bessie T 484 
 
 Dr. Frank Tift 483 
 
 Grace Isabelle 484 
 
 James 483 
 
 Monocacy 2 
 
 Monroe 168 
 
 Montgomery, Gen 373 
 
 Montpelier, Vt 52, 53 
 
 Montreal 297 
 
 Mont Vernon 88, 90, 107 
 
 127, 128, 436, 481, 501 
 
 Mooar, Dr 485 
 
 Jacob 484 
 
 Dr. Jacob Washington 484 
 
 John 484 
 
 Linda Hunter 485 
 
 Lucille S 485 
 
 Mary Louise 485 
 
 Rebecca (Abbott) 484 
 
 Moody 388 
 
 Moore, La 328 
 
 Dr. Adams 138 
 
 Dr. E. G 143 
 
 E. M 131 
 
 Edith 144 
 
 Dr. Edward B 37 
 
 Eliza (Hidden) 143 
 
 Dr. Isaac 389 
 
 Dr. John C. W 137, 142 
 
 143, 144 
 
 Moody 389 
 
 Dr. N. J 381 
 
 Rebecca 389 
 
 Morgan, Dr. Arnold 341 
 
 Moriarty. Dr 445 
 
 Dr. John M 346 
 
 Morrill, Alpheus 233 
 
 Dr. Alpheus Baker 234 
 
 Annie Stickney 234 
 
 Edward Henry 234 
 
 Dr. Ezeklel 159, 168 
 
 232, 233, 234 
 
 Hannah (Baker) 233 
 
 Morrison, Chas R 135 
 
 Lewellen 72 
 
 Morsp Bertha Lewise 361 
 
 Prof 66 
 
 Charles 360 
 
INDEX. 
 
 539 
 
 Morse, Charles Abbott 
 
 Prof. Edwin M 
 
 Eunice (Lake) 
 
 Rev. Jedediah 
 
 Johnson 
 
 Dr. Leroy Frederick 
 
 Mary M 
 
 Dr. Norman 
 
 Persis L 
 
 Morton's Ford 
 
 Moscow 
 
 Moscow, Ark 
 
 Mott, Dr. Valentine 
 
 Moulton, Dr 31, 36, 
 
 Dr. Albert A.. 28, 29, 335, 
 
 Dr. Andrew J 
 
 Caleb 
 
 Dr. Chas. A 106, 
 
 Mary (Mardin) 
 
 Moultonborough 
 
 Mt. Holly, Vt 
 
 Mountains, Rocky 
 
 Mullins, Priscilla 
 
 Munroe 
 
 Munson, Mass 
 
 Murfreesboro, Tenn 
 
 Murray, Samuel F 
 
 Museum, U. S. National 
 
 Hygiene, U. S. Naval. .380, 
 
 Muskegon, Mich 
 
 Muzzey, Prof. Reuben Dia- 
 mond 4, 268, 388, 
 
 3G0 
 
 13 
 
 360 
 
 66 
 
 134 
 
 360 
 
 132 
 
 217 
 
 134 
 
 451 
 
 468 
 
 14 
 
 99 
 
 363 
 
 348 
 
 110 
 110 
 110 
 480 
 235 
 297 
 327 
 283 
 296 
 447 
 237 
 340 
 381 
 142 
 
 397 
 
 Nagasaki 330, 364, 365, 369 
 
 Nahant, Mass 383 
 
 Naples 331 
 
 Napoleon 285 
 
 Narcotic Cure, Houston 67 
 
 Na.shua ...11, 45, 46, 53, 75, 76 
 77, 78, 106, 107. 120, 128 
 157, 168, 169, 210, 211 
 217, 218, 305, 376, 381 
 382, 389, 390, 400, 446 
 447, 476, 491. 492, 561 
 
 Nashville 46, 135, 455 
 
 Nassau 358 
 
 Natal 329 
 
 Natchez 105, 107, 108, 190 
 
 Natchitoches 102 
 
 Natick, Mass 79, 455 
 
 R. 1 99, 100 
 
 National Union 503 
 
 Naturalist, American 246 
 
 Navy, U. S 309 to 383 
 
 Neal, Dr. Elias Craig... 361, 362 
 
 Esther Wilder 363 
 
 George Arthur 363 
 
 Milron 363 
 
 Saxon Kingsley 363 
 
 Sophia George (Chesley) . ..361 
 
 Thomas 361 
 
 William 361 
 
 Necropsy 329 
 
 Neher, N. N 488 
 
 Nelson, N. H 496 
 
 Alice M 487 
 
 Arthur H 487 
 
 Cornelia 487 
 
 Dr. David Batchelder.486, 487 
 
 Elizabeth H 487 
 
 Louise H 487 
 
 Lucy (Batchelder) 486 
 
 William 486, 487 
 
 Neuro-Myology 246 
 
 Neurosis, Case of Hystero. . .315 
 
 Newark, N. J 301, 485 
 
 New Berne. N. C 348, 380 
 
 Newberue, N. H 470 
 
 New Bedford, Mass 495 
 
 New Boston, N. H 501, 502 
 
 Newburj', N. H 130, 131, 132 
 
 Mass 355 
 
 Vt 152, 326, 426, 486 
 
 Newburyport, Mass. 333, 374, 396 
 
 Nevv^ Carthage, La 336, 338 
 
 Newcastle, N. H 98, 504 
 
 New Chang 329 
 
 New Durham, N. H 249 
 
 Newell, Agnes 249 
 
 Arthur 249 
 
 Dr. Arthur Clark. 247, 248, 249 
 
 Charles C 127 
 
 Flora 202 
 
 Flora W 127 
 
 Harriet 127 
 
 Olive (Dennett) 248 
 
 Dr. Selim 201 
 
 William Hill 248 
 
 Newfield. Me 16, 306 
 
 New Hampton 57, 59. 168 
 
 248, 296, 312, 462, 463 
 
 New Haven, Conn 437 
 
 New Iberia. La 297 
 
 New Ipswich 77, 79. 109 
 
 119, 298, 301 
 
 New London 13, 99, 131, 193 
 
 197, 204, 375, 422, 437 
 461, 462, 465, 482. 489 
 
540 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 New London, Conn 468 
 
 Newmarket, N. H 44, 186 
 
 273, 352 
 
 New Market Road 156 
 
 New Orleans 102 
 
 103, 108, 110, 185, 195 
 235, 273, 295, 299, 317 
 319, 320, 328, 329, 362 
 
 Newport, N. H 22, 192 
 
 193, 197, 343, 423 
 
 R. 1 315 
 
 News, Va 75, 76, 114 
 
 Nev/ton 63, 175 
 
 Center, Mass 436 
 
 New York... 2, 10, 78, 83, 92, 98 
 109, 123, 124, 125, 131 
 133, 183, 187, 188, 191 
 242, 254, 302, 317, 332 
 343, 346, 350, 352, 355 
 359, 373, 380, 391, 471 
 472, 473, 492, 495, 501 
 
 City 5, 7, 30 
 
 45, 128, 179, 249, 275 
 357, 358, 402, 431, 435 
 
 Harbor 34, 260 
 
 Nice 331 
 
 Nichols, Anna Moriarity 383 
 
 George Merrick 296 
 
 Hattie A 493 
 
 Lyman 383 
 
 Nicholsonville, Ky 209 
 
 Ningpo 329 
 
 Nonett's Bluff 103 
 
 Norcross, Daniel 298 
 
 Dr. Geo. Jones 298 
 
 Jeremiah 298 
 
 Mary (Pillsbury) 298 
 
 Norfolk 30, 132, 323 
 
 Northampton, Mass 383 
 
 North Anna 444 
 
 North Conway, N. H 79 
 
 Northfield 106, 183. 312 
 
 Mass SO, 94 
 
 North Haverhill 254 
 
 Northwood, N. H 335 
 
 Norton, Col. Chas. L 297 
 
 Norwalk, Conn 109, 275, 277 
 
 Norway, Me 71 
 
 Norv.-ich, Vt 179, 432 
 
 Ncyes, Anna Lenora 447 
 
 Anne Sewall (Gardner) .. .446 
 
 Col. Frank G 447 
 
 Dr. George Henry. .. .446, 447 
 Henry J 77 
 
 Noyes, Dr. James H 74, 77 
 
 Jane L. (Gates) 77 
 
 Leonard White 446 
 
 Mary S 78 
 
 Moody 446 
 
 Sarah M 71 
 
 Nurses, Army 26 
 
 Oberlin, Ohio 69 
 
 Odd Fellows.. .54, 62, 68, 71, 78 
 
 98, 100, 130, 134, 248 
 
 259, 281, 295 301, 303 
 
 333, 382, 393, 402, 427 
 
 429, 441, 444, 462, 489 
 
 495, 501, 503 
 
 Odell, George 406 
 
 James 406 
 
 Dr. Joseph Warren 407 
 
 O'Donnell, Charles 488 
 
 Dr. Edward J 487 
 
 Fanny S 488 
 
 James 488 
 
 Lillian A 409 
 
 Nancy H 488 
 
 Sarah Bartlett (Towle) . . .406 
 
 Ogden, Iowa 77, 78 
 
 O'Hanlon, Dr. Philip 124 
 
 Old Fort Shaw 250 
 
 Operating 331 
 
 Orange, N. J 125 
 
 Orcutt, Lucina 351 
 
 Ord, Gen. E. 121 
 
 Oriental Society, Am 245 
 
 Ormsby, England 274 
 
 Ornithological Bibliography. . 246 
 
 Ornithological Club 242 
 
 244, 245, 246 
 Ornithologique International 
 
 Congres 245 
 
 Ornithology, Field 245 
 
 Oroya 323 
 
 Orwell, Vt 469 
 
 Osaca 366, 367 
 
 Osaka 330 
 
 Osborne, Addie J. B 429 
 
 Osier, Prof 256 
 
 Osterville, Mass 127, 128, 129 
 
 Otology, Am. Journal of 246 
 
 Ottaway, Ont 429 
 
 Ovaries, Tumors of 315 
 
 Ovariotomy 315 
 
 Owatonna 466 
 
 Palmer, Dr. Alden D 50 
 
INDEX. 
 
 541 
 
 Palmer, B. Rush 13, 92, 153 
 
 Charles H 300 
 
 Dr. Daniel Evans 299, 300 
 
 Emma F 300 
 
 Frank 300 
 
 Joseph 299 
 
 Lydia (Evans) 299 
 
 Dr. N. T 393 
 
 Parke, Gen 205 
 
 Parker, Abigail Davis 3G9 
 
 Caleb 3C9 
 
 Clara 252 
 
 Clarissa (Chamberlain) .. .371 
 
 Rev. Clement 311 
 
 Dr. David T 371 
 
 Elizabeth 212 
 
 Francis 41 
 
 Dr. George A 3C9 
 
 Prof. Henry E 7 
 
 Joseph 3G9 
 
 Nathaniel C 207 
 
 370, 371, 372, 373 
 
 Willard 46, 396 
 
 Parsons, Clara J 498 
 
 Eliza (Brown) 447 
 
 Phebe (Palmer) 505 
 
 Thomas J 447 
 
 Dr. William M 501 
 
 Patrons of Husbandry 497 
 
 Pavilion Hospital 
 
 Pawnee Fork 232 
 
 Pawtucket, R. 1 212 
 
 Peabody, Dr. L. W 351 
 
 Rev. Stephen 274 
 
 City, Mass 489, 490 
 
 Peacham, Vt 440, 495 
 
 Pearce 331 
 
 Peaslee, Abigail (Chase) 407 
 
 Prof. Edmund Randolph 16 
 
 249, 251, 275, 386 
 395. 407, 409, 424, 426 
 
 Edward H 409 
 
 Hannah ( Folsom ) 395 
 
 James 407 
 
 Martha B 395 
 
 William 395 
 
 Peck, Gen 5 
 
 Pembroke, Me 303 
 
 N. H 37. 208, 229 
 
 278, 348, 375, 454, 504 
 
 Pemigewassett 64 
 
 Penacook 83, 202, 303 
 
 336, 337, 338, 437, 476 
 Peninsular 143, 263 
 
 Penobscot 375 
 
 Pensacola, Fla 159 
 
 Pepperell, Mass 91, 109 
 
 110, 305, 448 
 
 East 305 
 
 Percival, Nancy 395 
 
 Perkins. Annie E 179 
 
 Anna (French) 179 
 
 Charles A 179 
 
 Daniel H 179 
 
 Hattie F 179 
 
 James 179 
 
 James M 179 
 
 Jessie M 179 
 
 Kate L 179 
 
 Dr. Marshall 173 
 
 179, 319, 428 
 
 Martha 179 
 
 Perry 246 
 
 George C 99 
 
 Dr. George T 80, 99 
 
 James P C8 
 
 Nancy Ann Shrieves 99 
 
 Dr. Wra. G 99, 170, 187 
 
 Perrymansville 258 
 
 Personality, Alternating 359 
 
 Double 359 
 
 Peterborough 109, 164, 198 
 
 318, 346, 443, 459 
 
 Petersburg, Va 23. 32. 51 
 
 60. 67, 96, 114, 115 
 136, 143, 159. 205. 206 
 210, 301. 306. 343. 348 
 379, 444. 471, 479. 498 
 
 Peterson. Dr. James 53 
 
 Pharmacopceia, U. S 340 
 
 Phelps, Prof. E. E 118, 432 
 
 Philadelphia ....31, 45, 138, 141 
 164, 225, 240, 258. 263 
 268, 269, 306, 330. 337 
 338, 343, 300, 361, 369 
 422, 424, 450, 457, 461 
 
 Phillips Academy 109 
 
 Phillips. Dr. Butler H 339 
 
 Philosophical Society of Amer- 
 ica 245 
 
 Philosophical Society of Wash- 
 ington 244 
 
 Physicians and Surgeons of 
 
 America (Watson) 44. 454 
 
 Physicians of Dover 28. 56 
 
 Picard 300. 344 
 
 Daniel 300 
 
 Dr. Isaiah 300 
 
542 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Picard, Susan Hardy 300 
 
 Pickett's Charge 459 
 
 Pierce, Abbie E 228 
 
 Alexander F 228 
 
 Corinne 480 
 
 Dr. Elihu P 74, 80 
 
 Franklin 302 
 
 Dr. George W 227, 228 
 
 Dr. Hosea 80, 228 
 
 Ho.sea Dean 81 
 
 Piermont, N. H 66, 69, 475 
 
 Pike, Dr. Charles C.462, 489, 491 
 
 James L 489 
 
 Sarah (Colby) 489 
 
 Pillsbury 298, 355 
 
 Sarah C 391 
 
 Pinkham, Dr. George E 448 
 
 449, 450 
 
 Harriet G 450 
 
 Nicholas 449 
 
 Olive (Murphy) 449 
 
 Pinkney, Dr 338 
 
 Island 39 
 
 Piper, Eveline 489 
 
 Pittsburg, Pa 450 
 
 Landing 14 
 
 Pittsfield, N. H..21, 80, 169, 248 
 296, 429, 460, 461, 475 
 
 Mass 21, 80, 92, 118 
 
 153, 349, 391, 447, 486 
 
 Plainfield, N. H 20, 21 
 
 54, 56, 57, 179 
 
 Plaistow, N. H 500 
 
 Plantagenet, Elizabeth 296 
 
 Plattsburg, N. Y 254 
 
 Players' Club 380 
 
 Pleasant Hill 102 
 
 Valley 223 
 
 Plummer, Dr. Albert 122 
 
 129, 130 
 
 B. Rush 131 
 
 Henry S 130 
 
 Mehitable 129 
 
 Nathan 129 
 
 William A 129 
 
 Plymouth, N. H 57, 138 
 
 153, 316, 380, 498 
 
 South, Mass 316 
 
 Pocotaligo 42, 49 
 
 Point Lookout 23, 67 
 
 72, 150, 498 
 
 Orange 287 
 
 of Rocks 2, 90, 149, 307 
 
 Poole, Dr. George 318 
 
 Poole, Dr. John 86 
 
 Poolesville, Md 6 
 
 Pope, Gen 39, 214, 470 
 
 Poplar Springs Church 114 
 
 488, 499 
 
 Poplin 86 
 
 Port Gibson 161 
 
 Hudson 102, 108 
 
 181, 185, 195, 299, 487, 505 
 
 Royal 41, 44, 95. 330, 379 
 
 Porter 381 
 
 Aaron 453 
 
 Alice 453 
 
 Anna 453 
 
 Captain 206 
 
 Clara Elizabeth 453 
 
 Clarissa 453 
 
 Clarissa (Ayer) 450 
 
 D. D 338 
 
 Ethel 453 
 
 George 450, 453 
 
 Dr. George Loring 450 
 
 452, 453, 457 
 
 Grace 453 
 
 Hugh 453 
 
 Isaac 450 
 
 James Benton 453 
 
 John 450 
 
 Lindsay 453 
 
 May 453 
 
 Portland, Me 125, 126 
 
 260, 266, 395, 499 
 
 Harbor 254, 260 
 
 Oregon 257 
 
 Portsmouth 10, 120 
 
 183, 184, 242, 295, 324 
 330, 331, 353, 360, 361 
 370, 373, 375, 377, 434 
 436, 447, 448, 459, 505 
 
 Grove 312 
 
 Harbor 1, 98, 230, 370 
 
 Va 306, 352 
 
 Post, George Sweatt 63 
 
 Potomac 24, 222, 461 
 
 Potter 374 
 
 Colonel 151 
 
 Major 207 
 
 Dr. Frederick E..373, 374, 375 
 
 Dr. Frederick F 373 
 
 Col. Joseph H 121 
 
 Prairie d'Arm 14 
 
 Grove 14 
 
 Pray, Dr. Ezra 375 
 
 Prentice 391 
 
INDEX. 
 
 543 
 
 Prescott 335, 395 
 
 Charles 488 
 
 Ellen F 488 
 
 George F 345 
 
 Mary Conant (Gates) 492 
 
 Phinehas 492 
 
 Dr. Royal B.156, 491, 492, 493 
 
 Preston, Emma 42G 
 
 Price 234, 235 
 
 Ethelyn M 235 
 
 Minnie ' 235 
 
 Moses 234 
 
 Dr. Reuben W 232, 234 
 
 Sarah (Page) 234 
 
 Susan Putnam 228 
 
 Verlina (Putnam) 80,228 
 
 "William 234 
 
 Willard A 235 
 
 Princeton, 111 445 
 
 Iowa 370 
 
 Mass 317 
 
 Pri.son, Race Course 292 
 
 Prohibition Herald 318 
 
 Providence, R. 1 208,221 
 
 222, 450, 453 
 
 Pryor, Mrs 279 
 
 Psi Upsilon 357 
 
 Psychical Research of Munich, 
 
 Bavaria 245 
 
 Puget Sound 323 
 
 Purington 242 
 
 Purson, Celia 77 
 
 Putnam, Amanda 197 
 
 Colonel 472 
 
 Haldimand S 83 
 
 Quebec 373 
 
 Quimby, Julia 428 
 
 Quincy, Mass 89 
 
 Race Course 290, 292 
 
 Racine, Minn 129, 130 
 
 Railroad, N. & R 40 
 
 P. & W 275 
 
 Sullivan County 308 
 
 Raleigh, N. C 380, 430 
 
 Rand, Fannv D. (Symonds) .301 
 
 Dr. John B 354 
 
 Dr. John M 301 
 
 Nehemlah 490 
 
 Randolph, Vt 8G 
 
 East, Vt 432. 433 
 
 Mass 354 
 
 Rankin, Dr. A. C 495 
 
 Ranney, Dr. Lafayette 351 
 
 Ransom, Gen. T. A 54 
 
 Rappahannock River.... 24, 457 
 
 Rathkeale, Ireland 124 
 
 Ray, Reuben 49S 
 
 Reading, Vt 17 
 
 Readville, Mass 435 
 
 Ream's Station 67 
 
 Rebellion 283, 327 
 
 Red Men 402 
 
 Redpath, James 289, 290, 292 
 
 Reed, Col 4 
 
 Harriette E 460 
 
 Reed's Ferry 164 
 
 Regiment, First N. H 3, 4 
 
 Register, Ayling's 310 
 
 Regulations, Naval 324 
 
 Relay House, Md 152 
 
 Reminiscences, Peace and 
 
 War 279 
 
 Reno, Gen 208 
 
 Reports, Med. and Surg... 188, 189 
 
 Resaca 424 
 
 Research, Psychical 358 
 
 Retreat, Hartford 453 
 
 Review, Clinical 503 
 
 Revolution 152, 155 
 
 314, 341, 396, 398 
 
 Sons of 259, 485 
 
 Revolutionary War. .46, 89, 427 
 
 Reynolds, Allen D 240 
 
 Clifford L 240 
 
 Edgar G 240 
 
 Horatio M 240 
 
 Lillian 240 
 
 Owen 493 
 
 Thomas F 493 
 
 Dr. William B 106 
 
 237, 238, 239 
 
 Rice, Dr 15 
 
 Ellen M 450 
 
 Mary J 281 
 
 Richardson, Abijah 1 63 
 
 General 60 
 
 Julia A 423 
 
 Mary B 168 
 
 Mary (Hoyt) 163 
 
 Dr. S. A 51, 159. 163 
 
 164, 165, 166. 167. 492 
 
 Richmond. N. H 488 
 
 Va 23. 24, 32 
 
 47. 104, 121, 146 
 
 152, 156, 169. 223 
 
 224, 284. 343, 349, 379 
 
544 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Richmond, Vt 493 
 
 Ridgeley, Capt. Daniel B 323 
 
 Rindge, N. H..279, 280, 334, 455 
 
 Rio Grande, Tex 284 
 
 Janeiro 229 
 
 River, Atctiafalaya 103 
 
 Connecticut 220, 478 
 
 Cumberland 374 
 
 James 157, 284, 343 
 
 348, 384, 368, 471 
 Mississippi .103, 328, 374, 398 
 
 Pamunky 347 
 
 Red 103, 374, 484 
 
 St. John's 48 
 
 Yazoo 328 
 
 Rivers, Colonel 165 
 
 Rix, Dr. Daniel 304 
 
 Dr. James M 495 
 
 Learthur 496 
 
 Louise (Morrill) 495 
 
 Nathaniel 495 
 
 Roberts, Capt. John H 42 
 
 Robinson, Dr. A. H 409, 423 
 
 A. H 412 
 
 Annie M 454 
 
 B. N 71 
 
 Betsey (Webster) 454 
 
 Blanche L 71 
 
 Dr. Don A 61, 70, 71 
 
 Elijah 70 
 
 Eliza A. (Smith) 70 
 
 Ezekiel 454 
 
 Dr. H. F 50 
 
 Helen Hey 505 
 
 Dr. J. Franklin 454 
 
 Jasper 70 
 
 John 409 
 
 Dr. John L 454 
 
 John W 412 
 
 Samuel 454 
 
 Winifred G 71 
 
 Rochester, N. H 117, 257, 290 
 
 400, 457, 458, 474 
 
 N. Y 131 
 
 Rockford, 111 457 
 
 Rockport 456 
 
 Rodentia, Monographs 246 
 
 Roderick, E. A 309 
 
 Rogers, Dr. Alexander 110 
 
 Battery 260 
 
 Dr. Tristram 43, 57 
 
 Rollin-, Mary A 140 
 
 Rollinsford 16, 138 
 
 Rome, Ga 264 
 
 Rome and her Ruins 94 
 
 Ross, Fanny P. (Smith) 137 
 
 Dr. J. S 138, 208, 248 
 
 Jonathan 137 
 
 Samuel 137 
 
 W. S 139 
 
 Roundy 346 
 
 Roxbury 296 
 
 Mass 486 
 
 Royal Arcanum 503 
 
 Royalton, Vt 304 
 
 Rumney, N. H 390, 391, 476 
 
 Runals, Samuel 239 
 
 Runnells, Hannah (Farnham) 
 
 239 
 
 Ruschenburger, Dr 336, 337 
 
 Russell. Dr. Fred W 456 
 
 Dr. Ira 455 
 
 Martin 427, 502 
 
 Sarah (Converse) 455 
 
 Rust, Mary A 469 
 
 Rye, N. H 447 
 
 Sabine Cross Roads 104 
 
 Pass 359 
 
 Saco, Me 386 
 
 St. Augustine.. 42, 44, 45, 48, 49 
 53, 92, 93, 95, 99, 240 
 
 St. Helena Island 33 
 
 Sound 133 
 
 St. Johnsbury, Vt...l26, 201, 355 
 426, 438, 475 
 
 East 426, 427 
 
 Medical and Surg. Club 202 
 
 St. Joseph, Mo 248 
 
 St. Lavv'rence 373 
 
 St. Louis. . .257, 270, 314, 355, 357 
 
 St. Paul, Minn 452 
 
 St. Thomas 329 
 
 Salem 108, 233 
 
 456, 490, 503, 504 
 
 Salinas, Cal 282 
 
 Salisbury, Conn 319 
 
 N. H 98, 497, 498 
 
 Mass 443 
 
 Salmon Falls, N. H 16 
 
 S;impson, Grace 386 
 
 Dr. Ira 386 
 
 San Antonio, Tex 249, 250 
 
 Sanborn, Dr. Beniah 201 
 
 Christopher 193 
 
 Dyer H 202 
 
 Eben K 46 
 
 Elizabeth Thompson 154 
 
INDEX. 
 
 645 
 
 Sanborn, Dr. George 335 
 
 Giles Leach 154 
 
 Harriet Leach 154 
 
 Dr. J. A 153 
 
 Rev. Jacob 456 
 
 James A 120 
 
 Jeremiah 153 
 
 John 153, 430 
 
 Dr. John E 456 
 
 Dr. John H 148, 153, 154 
 
 Dr. Noah 412 
 
 Relief (Brown) 412 
 
 Solomon 412 
 
 Susan (Hubbard) 153 
 
 Susan Lillian 154 
 
 Dr. Thomas. 192, 193, 195, 197 
 
 Sanborn ton 28, 30, 53 
 
 192, 193, 202, 325 
 
 Bridge 107,197,356,381 
 
 Sanders, Abagail (Miles) .. .412 
 
 Laban Miles 412 
 
 Dr. 0. S 441 
 
 Wm. F 412 
 
 San Diego, Cal 475 
 
 Sandwich, N. H 207 
 
 208, 316, 317 
 
 Center 380 
 
 Sandy Hook 2 
 
 Sanford, Me 20, 21 
 
 Hall Asylum, N. Y 8 
 
 San Francisco. 250, 254, 329, 330 
 
 Saratoga 46 
 
 Sargent, Alice 458 
 
 Dr. B. W 282, 457, 474 
 
 Diantha 425 
 
 Emmeline (Crockett) 375 
 
 Dr. Fernando Coello 375 
 
 Frank F 458 
 
 Jacob 457 
 
 Martha (Webster) 457 
 
 Sylvanus Thayer 375 
 
 Saunders 307 
 
 Saunderson 305 
 
 Sausalito, Eng 322 
 
 Savage Station 19 
 
 Savannah. Ga.l28, 379, 38G, 484 
 
 Morning Ngw.»< 288 
 
 Savory, Dr. Chas. A 194, 196 
 
 Sawyer 285 
 
 Anna M 30 
 
 Dr. Langdon 463 
 
 Levi P 159, 168 
 
 Martha R 30 
 
 R. H 30 
 
 Saxony, Gen 184 
 
 Saxton, Gen 287 
 
 Saxton's River, Vt 391 
 
 Sayles, Col 213 
 
 Scales, John 219 
 
 Schenectady, N. Y 446 
 
 Schnell, Mrs. Emma E 81 
 
 School, Chandler Scientific. .295 
 
 Chauncey Hall 173 
 
 of Medicine, Portland 126 
 
 Phillips Exeter 476 
 
 St. Paul's 347, 389 
 
 Shattuck 467 
 
 Tremont Medical 179,428 
 
 Schoonmaker, Nellie W 503 
 
 Schroeder, Dr. Wm 175 
 
 Seabrook 39, 234, 235 
 
 Sedgwick, Gen 5 
 
 Seminary, Andover Theolog- 
 ical 327 
 
 Brandon, Vt 468 
 
 Burr 118 
 
 Fairfax 458 
 
 Methodist Conference 463 
 
 Parsonsfield 16 
 
 Tilton 233 
 
 Westminster 402 
 
 Serenoles 348 
 
 Seymour, Hon. Horatio 45 
 
 Shackelford, Ethelin M 467 
 
 Henrietta C 467 
 
 Warner D 467 
 
 Shanghai 329,364,366,369 
 
 Sharp 212 
 
 Sharpsburg 2 
 
 Sharpshooters 237, 238, 239 
 
 Shattuck 345 
 
 Shaw, Dr. Henry C 3, 8, 9 
 
 Sheffield, Eng 277 
 
 Shelburne, N. H 58 
 
 Falls, Mass 80 
 
 Shepard, Dr. Aaron W 207 
 
 210, 211 
 
 Eliza (Burns) 211 
 
 John W 211 
 
 Shepardstown 259, 260 
 
 Sherburn Falls, Mass 228 
 
 Sheridan, General 115. 226 
 
 349, 484 
 
 Sherman 484 
 
 General 95. 380, 386 
 
 Thomas W 41, 47. 297 
 
 Gen. Wm. T 157 
 
 Sherman's Army 226 
 
 35 
 
546 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Sherman's March to the Sea. .264 
 
 424 
 
 Shields, Gen 213 
 
 Shiloh 264, 279, 468 
 
 Shippen, Dr 143 
 
 Shirley, Mass 109, 446 
 
 Shoreham, Vt 422 
 
 Short Falls, N. H 470, 472 
 
 Shreveport 102, 111 
 
 Sibley, Gov 311 
 
 Nancy Geo 400 
 
 Stephen 400 
 
 Sickles, Maj.-Gen. D. E. . .103, 215 
 
 Siege of Petersburg 152, 154 
 
 Sigma Phi 370 
 
 Simpson, James T 217 
 
 Singapore 329 
 
 Sitting Bull 453 
 
 Sleeper, Hiram Lewis 198 
 
 Dr. Hubert 192, 198 
 
 Mary (Leavitt) 198 
 
 Sanborn 198 
 
 Small, Abbie A. (Jose) 126 
 
 Dr. Horatio N 122 
 
 125, 126, 159, 201 
 
 Richard 126 
 
 Smart, Annie Wentworth 98 
 
 Col. Benning 97 
 
 Nancy (Farrington) 97 
 
 Dr. Wm. Hutchins 97, 98 
 
 Dr. "William H., Jr. . .85, 97, 98 
 
 Smith 51, 218, 242 
 
 Albert 109, 164, 198 
 
 301, 346, 443, 459 
 
 Amanda C 235 
 
 Benjamin 376, 377 
 
 Caroline L 150 
 
 Carrol Haven 303 
 
 Charles E 150 
 
 Daniel 83 
 
 Daniel F Ill 
 
 Ervin H 225 
 
 Esther (Burnham) 423 
 
 Forster Hanson 303 
 
 George H 150 
 
 Dr. Henry H 376 
 
 Henry Sumner 376, 377 
 
 Dr Hermon Joseph 302 
 
 Dr. Hosea H. .106, 110, 111, 112 
 
 Isaac 429 
 
 Dr. J. A 36 
 
 John 302 
 
 Jonathan 137 
 
 Joseph 46 
 
 Smith, Joseph Haven 302 
 
 Lovell Bolivar 377 
 
 Lydia B m 
 
 Mrs. M. C 141 
 
 Mary Fanny 495 
 
 Mary (Hilliard) 376, 377 
 
 Meribah 302 
 
 Mildred Grassell 7 
 
 Narcissa V 423 
 
 Nathan 440 
 
 Norman 156 
 
 Reginald Forster 303 
 
 Dr. Robert K 299 
 
 Dr. Sumner T 377 
 
 William Benjamin Tyng. .377 
 
 Dr. William R 7 
 
 Smyth, Gov 104 
 
 Society, American Gynecologi- 
 cal 187, 469 
 
 Am. Laryngological, Rhino- 
 logical and Otological 469 
 
 Arizona Historical 245 
 
 Army of Tennessee 265 
 
 Boston Gynecological. . .79, 188 
 
 Boston Obstetrical 315 
 
 Bridgeport Scientific 453 
 
 Brooklyn Pathological. 174, 177 
 
 Cincinnati 170 
 
 of Colonial Wars 188, 340 
 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon 482 
 
 Dover Historical 285 
 
 Gamma Sigma 138 
 
 Linnsean, of New York 245 
 
 of Mayflower Descendants. 188 
 Merrimack County Agricul- 
 tural 1 
 
 of Military Surgeons of the 
 
 U. S 462 
 
 of Naturalists of the East- 
 ern U. S 245 
 
 of New England 380 
 
 New England Historic Gen- 
 ealogical 504 
 
 N. H. Historical 108, 278 
 
 N. Y. Freedman's Aid 289 
 
 Strafford Historical 285 
 
 Therapeutical, of New York 469 
 
 Village Improvement 504 
 
 of Washington, Biological.. 340 
 of Washington, Philosophi- 
 cal 340 
 
 Societies, Medical: 
 
 California State Medical. . .282 
 Canadian Medical 297 
 
INDEX. 
 
 547 
 
 Societies, Medical: 
 
 Center District Medical. . .154 
 337, 343, 347 
 433, 444, 495 
 
 Clinical Medical 479 
 
 Connecticut Medical 453 
 
 Connecticut River Medical. 55 
 Connecticut River Valley 
 
 Medical 167, 203 
 
 377, 391, 402 
 
 Coos County Medical 247 
 
 Decatur Medical 424 
 
 District of Columbia Medi- 
 cal 340 
 
 Dover Medical 285 
 
 Dutchess County 482 
 
 East River Medical 492 
 
 Essex County Homoeopattiic 
 
 333 
 
 North 460 
 
 South, District 489 
 
 Fairfield Medical 453 
 
 Fillmore Medical 130 
 
 Fox River Valley Med.... 479 
 
 Franklin District Med 273 
 
 Grafton County Med 203 
 
 Hillsborough County Med.. 401 
 
 Illinois 423, 479 
 
 Illinois Army and Navy... 424 
 
 Iowa State Medical 78, 423 
 
 Kennebec Medical 112 
 
 King's County Medical. .. .174 
 177, 211 
 
 Lake County 203 
 
 Maine Medical. . .112, 265, 267 
 Massachusetts Medical.. 46, 53 
 79, 176, 186, 196, 210 
 273, 280, 315, 327, 333 
 335, 345. 377, 386, 437 
 441, 446, 454, 400, 462 
 476, 489, 492, 502, 504 
 
 Medical Improvement 176 
 
 Medical Observation. .176, 462 
 Middlesex District Medical, 
 
 East 446, 476 
 
 North 196, 449 
 
 South 441, 446 
 
 Milwaukee 503 
 
 Minnesota Medical 265 
 
 267, 422 
 
 Southern, Medical 130 
 
 Moosilauke Medical 391 
 
 Nashua Medical. .107, 382, 390 
 Neu Pi Omega Medical 
 
 Fraternity 503 
 
 N. E. Hospital Medical 288 
 
 Societies, Medical: 
 
 N. H. Homeopathic Medi- 
 cal 233, 499 
 
 New Hampshire Medical 6 
 
 8, 14, 18, 45 
 
 46, 55, 62, 63, 69 
 
 76, 107, 108, 112, 152 
 
 154, 102, 107, 177, 183 
 
 194, 197, 203, 210, 228 
 
 235, 242, 247, 248, 259 
 
 269, 280, 285, 297, 302 
 
 308, 316, 320, 337, 349 
 
 350, 373, 375, 380, 389 
 
 393, 398, 402, 422, 423 
 
 425, 429, 431, 439, 444 
 
 448, 454, 458, 4G8, 476 
 
 483, 486, 489, 494, 497 
 
 New York County Medical. 187 
 
 188, 468, 492 
 
 New York Medical 14, 15 
 
 177, 380 
 New York Medico-Legal. .185 
 433, 503 
 New York Obstetrical. 187, 188 
 New York State Medical.. 468 
 Norfolk District Medical. . .437 
 Orleans County Medical... 71 
 
 Portsmouth Medical 448 
 
 Renssalaer County 14 
 
 Rhode Island 100 
 
 St. Francis Medical 70 
 
 St. Louis Medical 342 
 
 Scott County 423 
 
 Somersworth Medical.. ..269 
 
 Strafford County Medical.. 184 
 
 185, 248, 269, 2S5, 297 
 
 373, 386, 433, 448, 458 
 
 Suffolk District 176 
 
 Vermont Homeopathic 54 
 
 Vermont Medical. .70, 93, 176 
 425, 427, 433, 439, 468 
 
 Waterville Clinical 112 
 
 White Mountain 152, 201 
 
 247. 427. 439. 441 
 White River Valley Medical 
 
 93. 439 
 Winnipesaukee Academy of 
 
 Medicine 393 
 
 Wisconsin State Medical.. 502 
 
 503 
 
 Woodstock Medical 104 
 
 Somerset. Mass 480 
 
 Somersworth 64, 65. 137 
 
 138. 139. 142. 239. 269 
 
 294. 356. 392, 393. 458 
 
 Somerville. Mass 186, 316 
 
5-48 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Sons of New Hampshire.... 10 
 
 Sons of the Revolution. .340, 448 
 
 462, 477, 503, 504 
 
 South Mountain G7, 90 
 
 117, 208, 451 
 
 Southern Pines, N. C 473 
 
 Spalding, Dr. James A 254 
 
 Spanish Wells 39 
 
 Spezia 331 
 
 Spofford, N. H 427, 428 
 
 Spottsylvania 114, 143 
 
 444, 471, 498 
 
 Sprague, Edward 433 
 
 Helen M 433 
 
 Springfield 20, 342, 461, 463 
 
 Mass 80, 316, 318 
 
 356, 357, 383 
 
 Springvale, Me 22, 258, 259 
 
 Squadron, Asiatic 312, 340 
 
 353, 368 
 
 Atlantic 317 
 
 North Atlantic 337, 341 
 
 South Atlantic... 320, 327, 375 
 
 Gulf 352, 353 
 
 East Gulf 364, 370 
 
 East Gulf Blockading.. 311, 367 
 
 West Gulf 327, 328, 335 
 
 West Gulf Blockading 319 
 
 Mississippi. ..314, 336, 342, 374 
 
 Pacific 324, 330 
 
 Stamford, Eng 322 
 
 Stanard 427 
 
 Standard Natural History. .. .246 
 
 Staniels, Capt. Rufus P 156 
 
 Stanley, Fabius 322 
 
 Stanton 243 
 
 Edwin M 255 
 
 Dr. Joshua O 227, 413 
 
 Stanwood, Alice G 505 
 
 Stanyan, Capt 104 
 
 John M 101 
 
 Star Spangled Banner 325 
 
 Stark, Gen 94, 129 
 
 Annie E 338 
 
 Daniel Fuller 19 
 
 Fannie Dennett (Blake)... 19 
 
 William F 20 
 
 William G 13, 19 
 
 Starrett, Henrietta M 107 
 
 State Board of Health, N. H..185 
 Statesman, Neio Hampshire . . 80 
 
 Station, Asiatic 329 
 
 Pacific 331 
 
 Steam Cotton Press 102 
 
 Steamship "Active" 323 
 
 "Alabama" 324,358 
 
 "Alaska" 329 
 
 "Albatross" 313 
 
 "Ann and Elizabeth" 450 
 
 "Ashuelot" 365 
 
 "Atlantic" 257, 323 
 
 "Baltic" 41, 382 
 
 "Baltimore" 330, 331 
 
 "Barnes, Gen. J. K." 382 
 
 "Belvidere" 48 
 
 "Ben Denford" 49 
 
 "Boston" 48, 49 
 
 "Brooklyn" 352 
 
 "California" 353 
 
 "Cambridge" 375 
 
 "Chenango" 343 
 
 "City of Madison" 182 
 
 "Clyde" 333, 334 
 
 'Commodore Hull" 347, 348 
 
 "Commorant" 347, 348 
 
 "Constellation" 323 
 
 "Cora" 323 
 
 "Cornubia" 334, 335 
 
 "Cumberland" 319 
 
 "Daniel Webster" 362 
 
 "Daylight" 360 
 
 "Decatur" 323 
 
 "Delaware" 48 
 
 "De Soto" 349, 370 
 
 "Dolphin" 323 
 
 "Echo" 323 
 
 "Eliza and Ella" 101 
 
 "Empire City" 48 
 
 "Empress" 314 
 
 "Ethan Allen" 338 
 
 "Eugenia" 370 
 
 "Eutaw" 363, 364, 368 
 
 "Florida" 311, 323, 324 
 
 "Hale. E. B." 360 
 
 "Hartford" 330, 353 
 
 363, 364, 368 
 
 "Hastings" 338 
 
 "Housatonic" 331 
 
 "Huron" 48, 380 
 
 "Increase" 450 
 
 "Iroquois" 353 
 
 "Katahdin" 319 
 
 "Kearsarge" 322, 323, 324 
 
 "Kengpshea" 360 
 
 "Keystone State" 336 
 
 337, 338 
 
 "Lackawanna" 352 
 
 "Lafayette" 311 
 
INDEX. 
 
 549 
 
 steamship "Lancaster" 344 
 
 "Louisiana" 14 
 
 "Magnolia" 344 
 
 "Mahaska" 326 
 
 "Maine" 358 
 
 "Massachusetts" 321, 323 
 
 "Massasoit" 356 
 
 "Maumee" 342, 343 
 
 "Merrimac" 319 
 
 "Minnesota" 319 
 
 "Mohongo" 329 
 
 "Monadnock" 337 
 
 "Monitor" 319, 330 
 
 "Montauk" 337 
 
 "Montgomery" 316, 317 
 
 "Monticello" 373, 374 
 
 "Morning Light" 350 
 
 "Morse" 318 
 
 "Nantucket" 378, 379 
 
 "Narragansett" 373, 374 
 
 "Nashville" 359 
 
 "Nereus" 343 
 
 "New Hampshire" 330 
 
 "Niagara" 323, 352 
 
 "North Carolina" 343 
 
 "Northville" 358 
 
 "Nyack" 313 
 
 "Ohio" 320, 333 
 
 335, 345, 356 
 
 "Oreta" 358 
 
 "Passaic" 360 
 
 "Potomac" 354 
 
 "Proteus" 360 
 
 "Pursuit" 316, 317, 333, 334 
 
 "Red River" 313 
 
 "Red Rover" 314, 315, 336 
 
 "Restless"... 360, 361, 363, 368 
 
 "Richmond" 353 
 
 "Roanoke" 380 
 
 "Rover" 364 
 
 St. Mary's Government Ship 
 and Nautical School. . .32, 56 
 
 "Saginaw" 331 
 
 "Sallie List" 190 
 
 "San Jacinto" 319 
 
 "Santiago de Cuba"... 357, 358 
 
 "Satellite" 323 
 
 "Shawmut" 325 
 
 "Shenandoah" 367 
 
 "Shepard Knapp" 133 
 
 "Sonoma" 346 
 
 "Supply" 377 
 
 "Susan and Ellyn" 4 
 
 "Tennessee" 353 
 
 Steamship "Thos. Freeborn". 376 
 
 "Tioga" 325 
 
 "Unadilla" 325 
 
 "Vermont" 344 
 
 "Wabash" 330, 378, 379 
 
 "Wachusett" 364, 366, 369 
 
 "Warren" 322, 323 
 
 "Winona" 354, 355 
 
 "Wyoming" 365, 366, 367 
 
 Stearns' History 17 
 
 Stebbins, Walter 228 
 
 Steere, Isabelle 130 
 
 Stevens, Aaron F 3, 164, 166 
 
 Dr. Bela Nettleton 414, 416 
 
 Fanny (Nettleton) 414 
 
 Col. George W 145 
 
 Josiah 414 
 
 Surviah Parkhurst 437 
 
 Mrs. William H 269 
 
 Stevenson, Dr 279 
 
 Stewartstown 19, 71 
 
 Stickney 339 
 
 Stiles, Jane S 236 
 
 Dr. R. C 174, 177 
 
 Stimpson, Susie 72 
 
 Stockade, Morris Island 292 
 
 Stockbridge, Vt 168 
 
 Stockholm 330, 331, 468 
 
 Stockton, Kan 487, 488 
 
 Stone, Gen 5 
 
 Benjamin P 17 
 
 Charles P 6 
 
 David 17 
 
 Lydia (Perkins) 17 
 
 Dr. William P 12, 13, 17, 18 
 
 Stoueham, Mass 470 
 
 Stoneman, Gen 214 
 
 Stone Mountain (Tenn.) 424 
 
 Stons Inlet 49 
 
 Stoodley, Nathan D 156 
 
 Storer, Dr. Horatio R 315 
 
 Stoughton 427 
 
 Stowell, David 112 
 
 Dr. David P 106, 112 
 
 Emily Caroline (Starrette).112 
 
 Strafford 202, 400 
 
 Vt 479 
 
 Straits of Magellan 329 
 
 Strasburg, Va 450 
 
 Stratham, N. H 332 
 
 Stratton. Frank A 135 
 
 Suffolk. Va 127 
 
 Sullivan. N. H 357. 402. 438 
 
 George 169 
 
550 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Sullivan, John 155, 169 
 
 Dr. John 159 
 
 Olivia (Rowe) 169 
 
 Sumner 379 
 
 Sumter 172 
 
 Sunapee, N. H 465 
 
 Suncook, N. H. .170, 288, 347, 348 
 374, 443, 444, 468 
 Surgeons : 
 
 Abbott, Josiah 279 
 
 Adams, Jeffrey T 310 
 
 Ayer, Otis 422 
 
 Ayers, Joseph G 312 
 
 Baker, John W. H 423 
 
 Barnes, Ira N 424 
 
 Bartlett, Bradley H 460 
 
 Bartlett, Ezra 385 
 
 Bean, Luther C 202 
 
 Beckley. Charles C 56 
 
 Beebe, Rev. George 386 
 
 Bell, John 241 
 
 Bigelow, Benjamin F 313 
 
 Bixby, Amos S 235 
 
 George H 313 
 
 Blackmer, John 316 
 
 Blodgett, John H 318 
 
 Blood, Robert A 461 
 
 Boynton, Henry 91 
 
 Bragg, Ira W 319 
 
 Brickett, George F 320 
 
 Bright, George A 321 
 
 Bronson, Austin S 462 
 
 Brooks, Nathaniel G 425 
 
 Brown, Marshall L 79 
 
 William W 85 
 
 Browne, John Miles 322 
 
 Buckman, John W 64 
 
 Bullard, Gates B 426 
 
 Bunton, Sylvanus 88 
 
 Burnham, Charles A 37 
 
 Butler, George H 326 
 
 John F 127 
 
 Buzzell, Andrew J. H 30 
 
 Campbell, Sylvester 197 
 
 Carbee, Samuel P 151 
 
 Carr, Edgar L 429 
 
 Carter, Miles 281 
 
 Chase, Albert A 430 
 
 Henry M 326 
 
 Child, William 66 
 
 Clark, Albert W 430 
 
 John Howe 327 
 
 Clarke, David S 431 
 
 Ellery C 109 
 
 Surgeons: 
 
 Clement, Thomas R 127 
 
 Comings, David L. M 56 
 
 Conn, Granville P 432 
 
 Cooper, Sherman 76 
 
 Coues, Elliott 242 
 
 Samuel 331 
 
 Crombie, James H 387 
 
 Crosby, Albert H 388 
 
 Alpheus B 4 
 
 Dixi 421 
 
 Thomas Russell 262 
 
 Cummings, Edward P 332 
 
 Currier, George W 389 
 
 Darling, Daniel 390 
 
 Darling, J. Homer 333 
 
 Davis, Charles A 434 
 
 Dearborn, David P 53 
 
 John G 334 
 
 Samuel G 106 
 
 Dinsmoor, George R 434 
 
 Dix, Mahlon C 464 
 
 Dodge, Levi P 464 
 
 Douglas, O. B 467 
 
 Dunham. William Russell. 391 
 
 Dutton, Samuel Lane 436 
 
 Eaton, Benjamin F 35 
 
 Eastman, Josiah C 43 
 
 Ela, Robert L 470 
 
 Eldredge, Frederick A 229 
 
 Elliott, Charles Amos 392 
 
 George H 472 
 
 Emerson, John S 207 
 
 Emery, Alfred E 336 
 
 Emory, John C 168 
 
 Eudy, Leonard M 473 
 
 Farrah, Daniel 38 
 
 Farrington, James B 282 
 
 Joseph H 474 
 
 Ferguson, John 123 
 
 Fiske, Cyrus M 193 
 
 Fletcher, William K 392 
 
 Flint, James Milton 338 
 
 Folsom, James D 201 
 
 Foster, Timothy S 393 
 
 FoTv'ler, Hadley B 148 
 
 French, George F 263 
 
 J. O 395 
 
 Nathaniel W 437 
 
 Frost, Carlton P 438 
 
 Edwin B 475 
 
 Gage, Charles P 396 
 
 Gale, George W 341 
 
 Garland, Jeremiah C 400 
 
INDEX. 
 
 551 
 
 Surgeons; 
 
 Gerould, Martin L 341 
 
 Gibson, Francis N 118 
 
 Oilman, Zeeb 475 
 
 Gleason, Aaron R 401 
 
 Goodhue, David P 342 
 
 Goodwin, Dr. Richard 506 
 
 Grant. Jasper S 404 
 
 Vvllliam H 403 
 
 Graves, Frank W 476 
 
 Greeley, George P 45 
 
 James B 217 
 
 Greenleaf Arthur W 282 
 
 Haley, Timothy A 480 
 
 Hall, Jeremiah F 183 
 
 Ham, John R 284 
 
 Hardy, Hiram T 478 
 
 Harriman, James L 440 
 
 Harris, George D 344 
 
 Harwood, Henry J 127 
 
 Hawks, Mrs. Esther H 288 
 
 John M 286 
 
 Hayes, John A 139 
 
 Haynes, John 130 
 
 Timothy 268 
 
 Hazelton. Isaac H 344 
 
 Hiland. Thomas 346 
 
 Hildreth, Charles F. P 347 
 
 Hinds, William H. W 441 
 
 Hobbs, Benjamin 293 
 
 Horsch, Carl H 184 
 
 Hoyt, Ahira B 349 
 
 Hubbard, George H 13 
 
 Hunt, Charles W 150 
 
 Huntress, Joseph 404 
 
 Hurd, Willard 442 
 
 Yorick G 442 
 
 Hutchins, Edward R 140 
 
 Janvrin, Joseph E 187 
 
 Jones, Charles M 142 
 
 Judkins, Emery G 350 
 
 Kemp, Edwin A 405 
 
 Kempton, Vv'illard C 20 
 
 Kimball, Franklin B 33 
 
 Heil J 351 
 
 Kittredge, Charles M 481 
 
 J. Perry 482 
 
 Knight, Luther M 62 
 
 Larabee, George H 443 
 
 Lathrop. Moses C 296 
 
 Lejich, Thomas W 352 
 
 Leavitt, Almond 354 
 
 Little. Charles 354 
 
 Charles Fred 444 
 
 Manson, Charles A 356 
 
 Surgeons: 
 
 i^.Ianter, George W 39 
 
 Mason, Rufus O 357 
 
 May, James R 360 
 
 McCollester, J. Q. Adams.. 445 
 
 Merrow, James M 16 
 
 Mitchell, Ezra 246 
 
 Moffett, Frank T 483 
 
 Mooar, Jacob W 484 
 
 Moore, John C. W 142 
 
 Morrill, Ezekiel, 233 
 
 Morse, Leroy F 360 
 
 Moulton, Albert A 28 
 
 Charles A 110 
 
 Neal, Elias C 361 
 
 Nelson, David B 486 
 
 Newell, Arthur C 247 
 
 Norcross, George J 298 
 
 Noyes, George Henry 446 
 
 James H 77 
 
 Odell, Joseph Warren 406 
 
 O'Donnell, Edward J 487 
 
 Page, Charles H: 363 
 
 Palmer, Daniel E 299 
 
 Parker, George A 369 
 
 Nathaniel C 370 
 
 Parsons, John William. .. .447 
 
 Peaslee, Edmund R 407 
 
 Perkins, Marshall 179 
 
 Pickard, Isaiah L 300 
 
 Pierce, Elihu P 80 
 
 George W 228 
 
 Pike, Charles C 489 
 
 Pinkham, George E 448 
 
 Plummer, Albert 129 
 
 Porter, George L 450 
 
 Potter, Frederick E 373 
 
 Prescott, Royal B 491 
 
 Price, Reuben W 234 
 
 Rand, John M 301 
 
 Reynolds, Thomas O 493 
 
 William B 239 
 
 Richardson, Samuel A 163 
 
 Rix, James M 495 
 
 Robinson, Abraham H 409 
 
 Don A 70 
 
 John L 454 
 
 Ross, Jonathan S 137 
 
 Russell, Ira 455 
 
 Sanborn, John E 456 
 
 John H 153 
 
 Noah 412 
 
 Thomas 192 
 
 Sanders, Laban M 412 
 
 Sargent, Betton W 457 
 
552 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Surgeons : 
 
 Sargent, Fernando C 375 
 
 Sawyer, Levi P 168 
 
 Shaw, Henry C 8 
 
 Shepard, Aaron W 210 
 
 Sleeper, Hubert 198 
 
 Small, Horatio N 125 
 
 Smith, Henry H 37G 
 
 Hermon J 302 
 
 Hosea T 110 
 
 Sumner T 377 
 
 Stanton, Joshua O 413 
 
 Stark, William G 19 
 
 Stevens, Bela N 414 
 
 Stone, William P 17 
 
 Stowell, David P 112 
 
 Sullivan, John, Jr 169 
 
 Swasey, Charles E 269 
 
 Taft, Albert H 49G 
 
 Thayer, William H 173 
 
 Thompson, Andrew J 107 
 
 Titcomb, George P 497 
 
 Topliff, Charles C 303 
 
 Towle, Benjamin N 186 
 
 Towne, Francis L 249 
 
 Tracy, William A 75 
 
 Train, Arthur 458 
 
 Trask, Charles M 71 
 
 Treadwell, Passmore 377 
 
 Tredick, John, Jr 257 
 
 Tucker, Edward M 259 
 
 Twitchell, George B 159 
 
 Wakefield, George L 498 
 
 Walker, Augustus C 273 
 
 Walker, James P 58 
 
 Wallace, William F 500 
 
 Wardwell, Henry F 57 
 
 Wason, Eugene 501 
 
 Webster, Claudius B 274 
 
 Warren 251 
 
 William A 118 
 
 Weeks, Franklin C 179 
 
 Weld, Francis M 378 
 
 Wells, Daniel E 304 
 
 Wheeler, John 417 
 
 Phineas H 420 
 
 White, Charles H 380 
 
 Whittier, Samuel C 458 
 
 Wilbur, George P 381 
 
 Wingate, U. O. B 502 
 
 Woodbury, George E 459 
 
 Louis A 503 
 
 Wright, John H 383 
 
 Surgery, Lost Art in 6 
 
 Surinam, S. A 313, 314 
 
 Sutton. .13, 463, 465, 470, 476, 489 
 
 Swanzey 54, 56 
 
 Swasey, Dr 270 
 
 Charles 269, 328 
 
 Dr. Chas. Emerson 269, 270 
 
 Clara Ellen 240 
 
 Eunice ( Paul ) 269 
 
 Nathaniel 269 
 
 Sarah Jessie 272 
 
 Sweat, Dr. Moses 186 
 
 Swift, Annie L 258 
 
 Charlotte 445 
 
 Daniel M 258 
 
 Louisa 258 
 
 Swift Creek 152 
 
 Symonds 301 
 
 Tacoma, Wash 245 
 
 Taft, Achsah (Hardy) 496 
 
 Albert A 497 
 
 Dr. Albert H 496, 497 
 
 Arthur R 497 
 
 DeForest R 497 
 
 Harry A 497 
 
 Nathan 496 
 
 Takan 386 
 
 Tallahassee, Fla 298 
 
 Tamworth, N. H 143, 240 
 
 Tappan, M. W 3 
 
 Taunton, Mass... 96, 97, 378, 386 
 
 Taxidermist Society 245 
 
 Taylor, Eliza W 56 
 
 Tenney, Dr 400 
 
 Terre Haute, Ind 361 
 
 Terry, Gen. A. H 32, 50, 121 
 
 357, 380 
 Tewksbury, Mass... 307, 332, 471 
 
 Thames to the Tiber 94 
 
 Thayer, Abbott 174 
 
 Gen. John M 271, 272 
 
 Lipheon 173 
 
 Susan E 163 
 
 Dr. Wm. H 46, 173, 175, 177 
 
 Theosophical Society. .. .243, 245 
 
 Thetford, Vt 208, 438, 479 
 
 Thibodeaux, La 102 
 
 Thomas, Gen 455, 457 
 
 Thompson 363 
 
 Gen 226 
 
 Maj. A. B 362 
 
 Dr. Andrew J 106, 107, 108 
 
 David 108 
 
 Edward C 228 
 
INDEX. 
 
 553 
 
 Thompson, Dr. Fred 109 
 
 Capt. J. L 213 
 
 Levi B 108 
 
 Mehitable (Brown) 108 
 
 S. M 155 
 
 Willis 109 
 
 Thornton, N. H 457 
 
 James B 434 
 
 Mary 434 
 
 Thornton's Ferry 217 
 
 Tiddy, Mrs. M. L 467 
 
 Tifft 249 
 
 Tigerville 102 
 
 Tiltoh, N. H 28, 30, 69 
 
 94, 107, 128, 197, 202 
 344, 381, 441, 442, 504 
 
 Miss Charlotte C 63 
 
 James P 63 
 
 Mary G 63 
 
 Tipton. Mo 14 
 
 Titcomb, Fred P 498 
 
 Dr. George P 497 
 
 Jeremiah 497 
 
 Rebecca (Pillsbury) 497 
 
 William 489 
 
 Todd's Tavern 457 
 
 Togas 307 
 
 Tokio 330 
 
 Tolland, Ct 296 
 
 Tolles, Dr. Nathaniel 350 
 
 Topliff, Abijah 303 
 
 Calvin 303 
 
 Dr. Calvin 186 
 
 Dr. Charles C 303 
 
 Susan (Miller) 303 
 
 Topsham, Me 109 
 
 Tortugas, Fla 283, 452 
 
 Toulon 331 
 
 Towle, Amos 186 
 
 Dr. Benjamin N 182, 186 
 
 Lovell 186 
 
 Mary (Bennette) 186 
 
 Towne 249 
 
 Hon. Amos 249 
 
 Barton G 249 
 
 Harriet F. (Tifft) 249 
 
 Dr. Francis Laban 249 
 
 Townsend, E. D 215 
 
 Mass 89, 92, 112 
 
 Vt 228 
 
 West, Mass 488 
 
 Tracy, Cyrus 75 
 
 Elisha T 75 
 
 Laura A. (Peabody) 75 
 
 Tracy, Mary L 76 
 
 William A 74, 75, 76 
 
 William H 76 
 
 Train, Dr. Arthur 458 
 
 Harry 458 
 
 Sarah (Andrews) 458 
 
 Trask, Dr. C. M 61, 71, 72 
 
 Sarah M. (Clark) 71 
 
 William 71 
 
 William D 71 
 
 Travels, Lewis and Clark.... 246 
 
 Treadwell, Elizabeth B 378 
 
 John P 378 
 
 Lydia ( Greenough ) 378 
 
 Passmore 377 
 
 Robert H 378 
 
 Thomas P 378 
 
 Tredick, Dr. John. . .257, 258, 259 
 
 Mary W. (Copp) 258 
 
 Tremont, Me 361, 362 
 
 Trevitt, James T 91 
 
 Sally (Gillis) 91 
 
 Sarah J 91 
 
 Tribune, Dakota 46G 
 
 Tripler, Surgeon 6 
 
 Troopers, Granite State 213 
 
 Troops, U. S. C 235, 379 
 
 Troy, N. H. . .15, 39, 168, 230, 316 
 
 N. y 14, 170 
 
 True 350 
 
 Ella T 321 
 
 Truell, R. T 391 
 
 Tucker, Dr. E. M 258, 259 
 
 Eleanor 386 
 
 Eliza (Hussey) 259 
 
 Ezra 259 
 
 John 259 
 
 Luie A 261 
 
 Nathaniel 386 
 
 Tuftonborough. .29, 299, 300, 480 
 
 Tumors of Abdomen 315 
 
 Tunbridge, Vt 75, 376 
 
 Turner, Alice K 325 
 
 James 325 
 
 Tuttle, Alice 484 
 
 Charles M 473. 483, 484 
 
 Twitchell, Dr. Geo. B...159, 160 
 161, 162, 169, 165 
 402, 435, 492. 496 
 
 Mary 160, 163, 443 
 
 Samuel 150 
 
 Susan (Watson) 159 
 
 Timothy 159 
 
 Twiss, Harriet M 442 
 
554 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Twiss, Margaret A 442 
 
 Twombly 263 
 
 Tyler, Texas 104 
 
 Tyngsboro, Mass 286 
 
 Umbilical Hemorrhage 177 
 
 Underbill & Kittredge 482 
 
 Union British Ornithologists. 244 
 
 Club, Boston 380 
 
 N. H 240, 295 
 
 Veterans 113 
 
 Unions 23 
 
 United States Marine Hosp.. 5 
 
 University. Brown 316, 450 
 
 Columbia 243, 244 
 
 Georgetown 402 
 
 Harvard 59, 109, 246, 264 
 
 273, 316, 339, 345, 348 
 
 354, 363, 379, 380, 381 
 
 383, 391, 393, 425, 434 
 
 436, 441, 474, 504 
 
 Iowa 456 
 
 Johns Hopkins 256 
 
 Madison 168 
 
 Medicine and Surgery 461 
 
 Michigan 7, 375, 463 
 
 Minnesota 267, 268 
 
 New York 7, 107, 112, 197 
 
 335, 356, 442, 455, 468 
 
 Norwich (Vt.) . .46, 54, 179, 220 
 
 244, 263, 356, 377 
 
 390, 445, 448, 478 
 
 Ohio 500 
 
 Pennsylvania 138, 160, 242 
 
 269, 347 
 
 Philadelphia 461 
 
 Teaching, American Society 
 
 for Extension of 245 
 
 Union League 380 
 
 Upsala 330 
 
 U. S. Grant 506 
 
 Vermont. 14, 70, 76, 79, 109, 128 
 273, 336, 342, 356, 360 
 446, 465, 468, 476, 495 
 
 Vienna 347 
 
 Wesleyan 456 
 
 Yale 143 
 
 Upperville 451, 452 
 
 Valparaiso 301, 329, 330 
 
 Vanderveer, Charlotte 359 
 
 Ventilation, Errors in 177 
 
 Vernon, Vt 445 
 
 Verrugas 323 
 
 Vershire, Vt 85 
 
 Vesuvius and Pompeii 94 
 
 Vevay, Switzerland 326 
 
 Vicksburg 104, 161, 190, 209 
 
 228, 257, 264, 314, 336 
 338, 374, 398. 424, 471 
 
 Victoria, Texas 235 
 
 Vienna 79, 314, 468, 485 
 
 Virginia 369 
 
 Volunteers, District of Co- 
 lumbia 460 
 
 Nineteenth Illinois 445 
 
 One Hundred and Sixteenth 
 
 Illinois 424 
 
 Second Iowa Cavalary 447 
 
 Eighth Iowa Infantry 447 
 
 Nineteenth Iowa Infantry. .297 
 Twenty-seventh Iowa Inf. .456 
 
 Ninth Maine Infantry 247 
 
 Sixteenth Maine Infantry. .428 
 Eighteenth Maine Infantry 468 
 First Mass. Heavy Art. 436, 444 
 Second Mass. Infantry. . .2, 273 
 
 Third Mass. Infantry 448 
 
 449, 495 
 Sixth Mass. Infantry. .. .2, 449 
 Eighth Mass. Infantry 443, 454 
 Eleventh Mass. Infantry. . .455 
 458, 459 
 Thirteenth Mass. Infantry.. 440 
 
 Seventeenth Mass. Inf 441 
 
 Twentieth Mass. Inf.. 434, 435 
 
 Twenty-first Mass. Inf 429 
 
 Twenty-third Mass. Inf 383 
 
 459 
 Twenty-fourth Mass. Inf... 448 
 Twenty-eighth Mass. Inf... 430 
 
 Twenty-ninth Mass. Inf 266 
 
 429 
 Thirty-second Mass. Inf... 434 
 Thirty-fifth Mass. Inf.. 429, 430 
 
 Thirty-ninth Mass. Inf 428 
 
 Fortieth Mass. Inf 348, 436 
 
 Forty-seventh Mass. Inf.... 316 
 
 317 
 
 Fiftieth Mass. Inf 437 
 
 Fifty-first Mass. Inf 206 
 
 Fifty-third Mass. Inf 446 
 
 Fifty-seventh Mass. Inf 206 
 
 431 
 Fifty-ninth Mass. Inf. 206, 431 
 
 Second Minn. Inf 422 
 
 Thirtieth Missouri Inf 457 
 
 First N. H. Inf.. 5, 9, 24, 3G, 397 
 
 Second N. H. Inf. . .7, 10. 11, 16 
 
 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23 
 
 24, 25, 37, 47, 90, 131 
 
 133, 143, 170, 286, 402 
 
INDEX. 
 
 555 
 
 Volunteers, Third N. H. Inf. . 28 
 
 29, 31, 36, 37, 38, 39, 94 
 
 120, 335, 449, 482 
 
 Fourth N. H. Inf. .41, 42, 43, 44 
 
 45, 4C, 47, 48, 49, 50 
 
 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56 
 
 57, 58, 59, 95, 204. 371 
 
 Fifth N. H. Inf.. 60, 61, 62, 63 
 
 64, 65, 66, 67, 68 
 
 69, 70, 71, 72, 204 
 
 229, 484, 498, 499 
 
 Sixth N. H. Inf.. 59, 73, 75, 76 
 
 77, 78, 79, 80, 88, 465, 470, 471 
 
 Seventh N. H. Inf... 20, 49, 82 
 
 83, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89 
 
 90, 91, 92, 93, 94 
 
 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 
 
 100, 283, 472, 484 
 
 Eighth N. H. Inf 102, 103 
 
 104, 105, 106, 107 
 108, 109. 110, 111 
 112, 113, 180, 474 
 
 Ninth N. H. Inf 52, 114, 115 
 
 116, 117. 118, 204 
 208, 209. 497, 499 
 Tenth N. H. Inf.. 120, 121, 122 
 123, 124, 125, 126 
 127, 128, 129, 130 
 131, 132, 133, 134 
 
 Eleventh N. H. Inf 134 
 
 130, 137, 138, 139, 140 
 141, 142, 143, 144, 248 
 258. 461, 462, 4S9, 494 
 
 Twelfth N. H. Inf 121 
 
 145. 146, 147, 148, 149 
 152, 153, 248, 304, 480 
 Thirteenth N. H. Inf... 121, 126 
 155, 156, 157, 158, 159 
 160, 161, 103. 104, 165 
 167, 109, 170, 233, 481 
 
 Fourteenth N. H. Inf 46 
 
 171, 172. 173, 174 
 
 175, 177, 179, 319 
 
 402, 435, 483, 496 
 
 Fifteenth N. H. Inf. 21, 182, 183 
 
 185, 186, 187, 312, 355 
 
 397, 429, 473, 474, 505 
 
 Sixteenth N. H. Inf 190 
 
 191. 192, 193, 195. 197 
 198, 356, 487, 488, 504 
 
 Seventeenth N. H. Inf 199 
 
 200, 201 
 
 Eighteenth N. H. Inf.. 107. 119 
 
 129. 204, 205. 206 
 
 Volunteers, Eighteenth N. H. 
 
 Inf 207, 208, 209. 210 
 
 211, 372, 500, 502 
 
 Fifty-third N. Y. Inf 133 
 
 273, 442 
 
 Eighteenth Ohio Inf 240 
 
 Eighty-eighth Penn. Inf... 428 
 One Hundredth Penn. Inf.. 256 
 
 258 
 
 First S. C. Colored 289 
 
 Union 172 
 
 U. S 5, 14, 47, 139 
 
 160, 187, 241, 257, 202 
 266, 272, 273, 395, 485 
 
 Second Vermont Inf 427 
 
 Fifth Vermont Inf 89 
 
 Tenth Vermont Inf 475 
 
 Twelfth Vermont Inf 432 
 
 Fifteenth Vt. Inf. .420, 438, 464 
 
 Sixteenth Vermont Inf.... 425 
 
 Sixth West Virginia Inf... 379 
 
 Vose, Col 224 
 
 Wadleigh, Helen F 357 
 
 Martha A 321 
 
 Wagner 33 
 
 Waitsfield, Vt 8, 350 
 
 Wakefield 240, 250, 257 
 
 258, 294, 295 
 
 E. E 500 
 
 Dr. G. L 114, 498, 499 
 
 Harvey M 498 
 
 Mary (Ray) 498 
 
 Silas 498 
 
 Walden, Vt 57 
 
 Walker, Mrs 32 
 
 Dr. Augustus Chapman. .. .273 
 
 Abbie S 390 
 
 Abigail (Murray) . . .32, 50, 273 
 
 Betsey (Parker) 59 
 
 Bruce 477 
 
 James 59 
 
 Dr. James P 43, 58, 59, 74 
 
 Joseph Alcott 273 
 
 Dr. Mark 273 
 
 Capt. Richard 476 
 
 Robert Turner 274 
 
 Sidney Grant 274 
 
 William 273 
 
 William Augustus 274 
 
 Wallace, John 500 
 
 Lydia M. (Waterman) 500 
 
 William 500 
 
 Dr. William F 500, 501 
 
556 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Walpole, N. H 
 
 
 
 .445 
 
 Wapping Heights.. 
 
 
 
 .152 
 
 War, Colonial 
 
 
 
 . 68 
 
 French and Indian... 
 
 
 . 4 
 
 Indian 
 
 
 
 3^3 
 
 Spanish-American 
 
 
 
 .141 
 
 with Mexico 
 
 
 
 .386 
 
 of the Rebellion, 5 
 
 1, 6,8 
 
 :2, 89 
 
 .130 
 
 160, 198, 
 
 199, 
 
 217, 
 
 241 
 
 254, 278, 
 
 389, 
 
 392 
 
 422 
 
 42G, 451, 
 
 452, 
 
 470, 
 
 498 
 
 of the Revolution 
 
 ....68, 71, 75 
 
 150, 351, 
 
 355, 
 
 461, 
 
 504 
 
 of 1812 
 
 
 
 355 
 
 Ward, Prof 
 
 
 
 40'^ 
 
 Wardwell, Chas. H. 
 
 
 
 . 58 
 
 Fanny (Frost).., 
 
 
 
 . 57 
 
 Dr. Henry F 
 
 
 ...43, 57 
 
 James 
 
 
 
 57 
 
 Mary Elizabeth . . 
 
 
 
 . 58 
 
 Peter 
 
 
 
 57 
 
 Vv^'arehouse Point, C 
 
 onn. 
 
 
 . 65 
 
 Warminster Vu 
 
 
 
 '^86 
 
 Warner 
 
 ..99, 
 
 476. 
 
 495 
 
 AVarren, Mass 
 
 
 
 .332 
 
 Dr. M B 
 
 
 
 ^57 
 
 N. H 
 
 
 
 ?85 
 
 Vt 
 
 
 .401, 
 
 40? 
 
 Warrentown 
 
 
 .451 
 
 Warrington, Va. . . . 
 
 
 
 .149 
 
 Warsaw Island, Ga. 
 
 
 
 . 48 
 
 Warwick, R. 1 
 
 
 ..99, 
 
 100 
 
 Washburn, Gov 
 
 
 .394, 
 
 395 
 
 Dr 
 
 
 
 445 
 
 Washington 
 
 
 .2, 6 
 
 . 10 
 
 19, 41, 44, 90 
 
 '. 95. 
 
 115 
 
 120, 136, 
 
 170. 
 
 206. 
 
 209 
 
 215, 222, 
 
 223, 
 
 225. 
 
 231 
 
 244, 254, 
 
 255, 
 
 263. 
 
 266 
 
 269, 270, 
 
 273. 
 
 275. 
 
 377 
 
 286, 388, 
 
 389, 
 
 390, 
 
 391 
 
 D. C 
 
 37, 47, 52 
 
 :. 82 
 
 109, 
 
 130, 
 
 131, 
 
 140 
 
 242, 
 
 243, 
 
 249. 
 
 268 
 
 295, 
 
 298, 
 
 321. 
 
 322 
 
 324, 
 
 331, 
 
 338. 
 
 342 
 
 370, 
 
 380, 
 
 384. 
 
 394 
 
 395, 
 
 402, 
 
 424. 
 
 428 
 
 431, 
 
 435, 
 
 452. 
 
 460 
 
 461, 
 
 485, 
 
 491. 
 
 504 
 
 N. H 131, 282, 
 
 283, 
 
 458. 
 
 496 
 
 Arsenal 
 
 
 
 45? 
 
 East, N. H 
 
 
 
 . 14 
 
 Little, N. C 
 
 
 
 .348 
 
 University 
 
 
 
 . 89 
 
 Wason, Abraham 501 
 
 Arthur 502 
 
 Dr. Eugene 501 
 
 James 501 
 
 Sarah Theresa (Lamson) . .501 
 
 Waterman 281 
 
 Watertown, Mass 67, 322 
 
 357, 380, 381 
 
 Waterville, Me 112, 113 
 
 Vt 168 
 
 Watkins, Dr. E. V 326, 426 
 
 Watson, Dr. George M 255 
 
 Dr. H. L 473 
 
 Dr. Henry P 251 
 
 Dr. Irving A 44, 454 
 
 Gen. T. L 453 
 
 Watts, Robert 397 
 
 Waukegan, 111 202, 203 
 
 Weare 53 
 
 South 202 
 
 Weathersfield, 111 444 
 
 Vt 56, 462 
 
 Webber, Prof. N. W 463 
 
 Webster 354. 355, 399 
 
 Webster, Mass 381 
 
 Dr 211 
 
 Caleb 251 
 
 Dr. Claudius B 274, 275 
 
 276, 277, 278 
 
 Daniel 47, 274, 424 
 
 Elizabeth C 349 
 
 Elizabeth (Knight) 274 
 
 Etta D 403 
 
 Hannah (Peaslee) 251 
 
 Rev. Josiah 274 
 
 Dr. Kimball D 402, 403 
 
 Mary E 278 
 
 Sidney 251 
 
 Susan A 117 
 
 Thomas 274 
 
 Dr. Warren 251, 252 
 
 253, 254, 255 
 
 Dr. William A 116, 117, 118 
 
 William G 117 
 
 Webster Groves, Mo 342 
 
 Weeks, Dr. Franklin C 173 
 
 179, 180 
 
 Dr. L. T 360 
 
 Weir Bottom Church, Va 50 
 
 Weirs 25, 26, 200, 499 
 
 Weitzel, Gen. Godfrey 284 
 
 Weld, Christopher Minot 380 
 
 Dr. Frances Minot 378 
 
 379, 380 
 Sarah Fitch (Sumner) 379 
 
INDEX. 
 
 557 
 
 Weld, Sarah Swan 380 
 
 Thomas Swan 379 
 
 William Gordon 379 
 
 Wellesley, Mass 502 
 
 Wellesley Hills, Mass 344 
 
 Wellfleet, Mass 39, 40 
 
 Wellman 383 
 
 Wells, Me 142, 143, 306 
 
 Dr. Daniel E 304, 305 
 
 Gideon 337 
 
 Dr. Thomas 437 
 
 Wells River, Vt 67, 72, 388 
 
 389, 391 
 
 Wendell, Dr. Daniel A 85, 94 
 
 95, 96 
 
 Daniel H 94 
 
 H. J. (Jeuness) 94 
 
 Wenham, Mass 443, 454 
 
 Wentworth, N. H 390, 391 
 
 John 275 
 
 Wesselhoeft, Dr 185 
 
 Westerly, R. 1 377 
 
 Westfield, N. J 76, 77 
 
 Mass 109 
 
 Westf ord. Mass 117 
 
 West Indies 319 
 
 West Lyman 168 
 
 Westminster, Vt.18, 118, 402, 445 
 
 Westmoreland, N. H 80, 391 
 
 Weston, Cornelia C 487 
 
 West Point 82, 257 
 
 West Springfield, N. H 2 
 
 Wheeler, Abner 417, 420 
 
 Alice 421 
 
 Annie 421 
 
 Hazen 417, 420 
 
 Dr. James H 284 
 
 Jane (Jewett) 417, 420 
 
 John 421 
 
 Dr. John 61, 248, 417 
 
 418, 419, 420 
 
 Lefie P 427 
 
 Hon. Phineas 420 
 
 Surgeon 370 
 
 Wheelock, Vt 201 
 
 Whipple, Dr. Alonzo A 300 
 
 Dr. S. M 131, 465, 489 
 
 Thomas J 3, 145 
 
 Whitaker, Jane Benton 307 
 
 Dr. James Munroe 307, 308 
 
 Roxana (Saunders) 307 
 
 Wliite 224, 345, 380, 381 
 
 Arminda P 281 
 
 Charles 381 
 
 Dr. Charles Henry 380 
 
 White, Harriet S 54 
 
 Dr. Jeremiah W 159, 169 
 
 Samuel 381 
 
 Sarah D. (French) 381 
 
 Hills 305 
 
 House Landing 96, 390 
 
 House 140, 225 
 
 Plains 89 
 
 White's Ranch, Texas 295 
 
 Whitefield 18, 440, 495 
 
 Whitehall 334 
 
 White River Junction 71, 72 
 
 198. 221 
 
 Whitney, Mary (Griffin) 168 
 
 Mary J 168 
 
 Whiton, Dr. H. B 15 
 
 Whittemore, Dr. Jacob P 502 
 
 James H 502 
 
 Dr. James P 242 
 
 Whittier, Hannah (Hanson).. 458 
 
 John 458 
 
 John Greenleaf 458 
 
 Obadiah 458 
 
 Dr. Samuel Crook 458 
 
 Wiggin 352 
 
 Dr. Augustus Wiswall 256 
 
 Elizabeth Bond (Wiswall) .257 
 
 Henry Lamson 256 
 
 Wight, Dr. Nahum..234, 362, 395 
 
 Wilbraham, Mass 296 
 
 Wilbur, Alvah 381 
 
 Dr. George Fisk 381 
 
 Mary Farrar (Porter) 381 
 
 Wilder 363 
 
 Mary 425 
 
 Wilderness 143, 209. 379 
 
 451, 471, 479 
 
 Wilkins, Dr 118 
 
 Rev. Daniel 133 
 
 Rev. Elijah R 134 
 
 Elizabeth (McMurphy) 133 
 
 Harriet 375 
 
 Hattie S 502 
 
 Mary E 170 
 
 Dr. William W 122. 132 
 
 133. 134 
 
 Williams, Gen 20 
 
 Dr 170, 357 
 
 Williamsburg. ..19, 120. 143, 452 
 
 Williamsport 2, 451 
 
 Willis, Alexander 387 
 
 Willoughby. Dr. Henry W 305 
 
 Lucy ( Saunderson ) 305 
 
 Washington 305 
 
 Wilmington 32, 40, 343 
 
558 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Wilmington, N. C 30, 32, 34 
 
 39, 337, 380 
 
 Wilmot 120, 286, 389, 390, 4G5 
 
 Wilson, Amanda M. (Sawyer) 98 
 
 Col 180 
 
 Elizabeth Gregg (Warner). 45 
 
 Eveline 109 
 
 Job 99 
 
 Leonard 45 
 
 Mary A 58 
 
 Dr. Moses S 85, 98, 99 
 
 Miss Orlin A 301 
 
 Thomas W 98 
 
 Wilson's Cavalry 171 
 
 Farm 103 
 
 Wilton, Conn 337 
 
 N. H 109 
 
 Winch, Dr. Aloert 18, 440 
 
 Winchendon 455, 456 
 
 V/inchester, Camp 223 
 
 Mass 79, 80, 279, 280 
 
 281, 298, 321, 442 
 
 N. H 80, 109, 225, 497 
 
 Va 224, 319, 356, 451 
 
 Windham, Me 57 
 
 Windsor 439 
 
 Conn 296 
 
 Vt 56, 118, 236, 432 
 
 Wingate, David 502 
 
 Lydia Thompson (Went- 
 
 worth) 502 
 
 Dr. Uranus O. B 502 
 
 Winn, Dr. Alexander M 306 
 
 Bri H 307 
 
 Winslow 321 
 
 Winthrop, Theodore 199 
 
 Woburn, Mass.. 163, 430, 476, 478 
 
 Wolcott 296 
 
 Wolfeborongh 48. 183, 286 
 
 299, 300 
 
 Woman in the Case, A 246 
 
 Wood, Arabelle (McGaw) 217 
 
 Gen. R. C 250 
 
 Wood & Co., William 254 
 
 Woodbury 390 
 
 Dr 504, 505 
 
 Addle 460 
 
 Carrie 460 
 
 Charlotte Eliza 460 
 
 David Dana 460 
 
 Dolly Head (Jones) 504 
 
 Eliza Bailey (Gordon) 459 
 
 George 460 
 
 Dr. George E 459 
 
 Isabel 460 
 
 Woodbury, Hon. Levi 44 
 
 Dr. Louis A 503 
 
 Luke 504 
 
 Dr. Mark R 107, 128 
 
 Peter Perkins 459, 460 
 
 Washington 503 
 
 Woodbury, Dr., Published 
 
 Works of 504 
 
 Woodman, Harriet C 401 
 
 Woodruff, Dr 500 
 
 Woods 357 
 
 Woodstock, Vt 13, 35, 46, 75 
 
 77, 80, 91, 92. 93, 131 
 133, 153, 201, 217, 220 
 221, 286, 302, 303, 304 
 314, 349, 387, 397, 432 
 438. 439, 440, 457, 478 
 
 South, Vt 445 
 
 Woodward, Dr. George W....464 
 
 Worcester 190 
 
 Dr. E. C 438, 479 
 
 Mass 296, 472, 483 
 
 Workmen, Ancient Order of 
 
 United 113 
 
 Worthley, Dr 71 
 
 Charles 19 
 
 Dr. Oscar 13, 18 
 
 Fred 19 
 
 Sallie (Oilman) 18 
 
 Samuel 18 
 
 Wright, Bliss & Fabyan 383 
 
 Wright & Co., J. S. and E...383 
 
 & Whitman 383 
 
 Dr. John H 383 
 
 John S 383 
 
 Mary (Wellman) 383 
 
 Wyatt, Capt 225 
 
 Daniel 505 
 
 Dr. Henry D 505 
 
 Phoebe (Palmer) 505 
 
 Wyman, Maj 225 
 
 Dr. Morrill 208 
 
 Yankee Doodle 2 
 
 Yazoo River 209 
 
 Yeddo 269 
 
 Yellow Fever 329 
 
 Yokohama 329, 330, 364, 366 
 
 Yorktown 19, 259 
 
 Young, Andrew H 83 
 
 Young Men's Christian Assn. .318 
 
 453, 469 
 
 Young's Point 336 
 
 Zoological Society of Boston.. 245 
 Zoological Society of London. 244