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He left us during the Summer term of that year, in June, 1862, and on June 24 he enlisted in
Company B, Seventh Squadron, Rhode Island Cavalry, for three months. He was taken
prisoner by the Confederates, near Winchester, Virginia, and conveyed to Richmond,
Virginia, where he was confined in Libby prison for awhile, and was then transferred to
Belle Isle. He was exchanged and returned to Providence, Rhode Island, where he was
mustered out of the Service on October 2, 1862. He began the study of medicine with
Dr. Campbell, of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, and afterward attended lectures at
Bowdoin, and also in New York City. He graduated in June, 1864, from the Medical
Department of the University of Vermont, at Burlington. He was appointed Assistant
Surgeon in the Navy August 11, 1864, and remained in that branch of the Service until
September 19, 1865, when he was appointed Surgeon of the Eighty-eighth Regiment, U.
S. Colored Infantry. He was mustered out of the Service on January 1, 1866. He then
went West and located in Illinois, where he commenced the practice of his profession; he
remained there but a few months, when he went to Springfield, Massachusetts, on
January 1, 1872. Here he continued his practice with great success up to the time of his
death. He was taken with pneumonia in a severe form, and after only four days' sickness,
died April 4, 1883. He was a man of fine natural abilities and literary tastes,
supplemented by a liberal education, which, with his genial personal qualities, secured for
him a large circle of warm friends, among whom his absence will be much felt.
He was a Methodist in his religious convictions.
He was married September 4, 1865, to Miss Helen F. Wadleigh, of Dover, New
Hampshire, who survives him. They had two children: Albert Charles, born January 15,
1867, and Charles Francis, born June 9, 1869.
Albert Charles died January 17, 1869.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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