Augustus B. Breed
Augustus Baxter Breed was born September 12, 1840, at Rindge, New Hampshire.
He was the son of Deacon Joseph Baxter and Mary (Wilson) Breed. He commenced his
preparatory studies at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire, and entered
our class at the beginning of Freshman year. He left us in the Spring of 1861, and went
to Rock Island, Illinois, where he taught for a short time. He then entered the army in
the capacity of clerk for the Surgeon of the Mississippi Marine Brigade, which position
he held at the time of his death. Early in 1863, he was attacked with diarrhoea, which
became chronic, and continued until the middle of May, 1863, when he was taken with
typhoid fever. It proved a very severe type of the disease, and after two weeks' sickness,
he died on May 31, 1863, and was buried at Haines Bluff, Mississippi.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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