 | 1905 - 180 pages
...obtained a position as teacher in the Boston Latin School; in the mean time he began the study of law. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in Company F, of the 44th Mass. Vols., with which he served for nine months, most of the time in North Carolina.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1905 - 712 pages
...FRANCIS MARION, an American statesman and soldier; born in Rushville, Illinois, December 30, 1820. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in a volunteer regiment and won rapid promotion for bravery in action. He was twice wounded. In 1865 he... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1905 - 716 pages
...FRANCIS MARION, an American statesman and soldier; born in Rushville, Illinois, December 30, 1820. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in a volunteer regiment and won rapid promotion for bravery in action. He was twice wounded. In 186^ he... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1905 - 736 pages
...Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 9, 1837. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1859. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in the Union army and rose to the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers. He resumed his law practice... | |
 | Ellery Bicknell Crane - Worcester County (Mass.) - 1907 - 810 pages
...1845. Having concluded his attendance at the public schools he turned his attention to farming, but at the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted as a private in Company E, Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Infantry. He served his country with credit and after receiving an... | |
 | New Mexico - 1907 - 698 pages
...in Pennsylvania in 1838 and was taken to Illinois by his parents at the age of fifteen. Soon after the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted as a private in the One Hundred and Third Illinois Volunteer Infantry and served three years, participating in the... | |
 | William Cicero Allen - Haywood County (N.C.) - 1908 - 214 pages
...and educated at Strawberry Plains, where he spent a large portion of his boyhood days. In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil war, he enlisted as a private in Company F, First Tennessee cavalry and served under General Zollicoffer in Tennessee and Kentucky. During the... | |
 | Joseph Bradfield Thoburn, Isaac Mason Holcomb - Oklahoma - 1908 - 314 pages
...twenty-one years old Payne moved to Kansas Territory, settling on a homestead claim in Doniphan county. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in the 4th Kansas Regiment, and his record of three years' service was one of fidelity to every duty.... | |
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At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in the First New Hampshire Volunteers and was later appointed lieutenant of Co. 
