...He visited Germany three times, partly in order to recuperate and partly for literary research. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in a company of Cambridge volunteers, but was rejected on account of advanced age, which, however, did...

...reading all the books he could borrow, also working during his spare time on the neighboring farms. On the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted as a private in the 49th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, in which he was promoted to corporal and later commissioned...

...dry goods merchant and for many years was numbered among the city's substantial business men. After the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted as a private in the Confederate army and participated in the battle of Atlanta and other notable engagements. He reached...

...Society (London). FORSYTH, GEOROE ALEXANDER (1837-1915). An American soldier, born at Muncy, Pa. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in the Chicago Dragoons. He fought throughout the war successively in the Army of West Virginia, that...

...the beginning, his unusual acquirements as a surgeon and physician attracting immediate attention. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in the 18th Mississippi Regiment, but was at once made surgeon of the regiment, and served in the field...

...of his native County, and Allegheny Academy. He graduated from the Albany Law School, Albany, NY At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in Company D, 101st regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. His bravery on the battlefield won the praise of officers...

...teaching. He then moved to Des Moines; studied law; was admitted to the IA bar in 1860; and practiced until the outbreak of the Civil War. He enlisted as a private in the 2nd IA Infantry. He moved up to first lieutenant and served with distinction in the battles of...

...Michigan, and there secured employment in the commercial house of Oliver Newberry, an uncle. Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in the Eighty-first New York Infantry, and few men during that period had so remarkable a record for rapid...

...world's most eminent physiologist. He renewed these studies in 1866-67. Returning to New Orleans at the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted as a private in the New Orleans Light Horse, and served until Feb. 17, 1862, when he was appointed Acting Surgeon General...

...life a farmer. In 1854 he moved to Madison, Wis., and in 1858 went to Beaver Dam in the same state. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted as a private in the 1st Wisconsin cavalry, notwithstand ing the fact that lie was fifty-four years of age. He was soon...