The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . is maternal grandparents were Walter Reid andAnn Morrison, descendants of the clan MacgregorWalter Callender was educated in Stirling, and wasgraduated from the mathematical school
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . is maternal grandparents were Walter Reid andAnn Morrison, descendants of the clan MacgregorWalter Callender was educated in Stirling, and wasgraduated from the mathematical school of thattown, under Duncan McDougall, and from the clas-sical academy under Mr. Dunlop. He then servedan apprenticeship in the dry-goods business, andsubsequently obtained a situation with J. and W-Campbell & Co., Glasgow, where he remained aboutthree years. In the year 1855 he emigrated toCanada and found employment in the dry-goodsstore of P. Drennan, at Kingston. The followingyear he removed to Boston, Mass., and became aclerk in the dry-goods firm of Hogg, Brown &Taylor, where he remained until April, 1861, whenhe enlisted in the 4th battalion of rifies, in battalion was the nucleus of the 13th regiment,Massachusetts volunteers, in which he enlisted June39,1863, for three years service, and left Fort Inde-pendence, Boston Harbor, for the front in August of 210 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA. that year. He was with the regiment in its vaii-ous skirmishes and battles until the second battleof Bull Run, where he was taken prisoner. Afterbeing exchanged in December, 1862, he was de-tailed by Special Orders No. 47, War Department,Washington, D. C, Jan. 2y, 1863, for duty withCapt. S. L. Brown, assistant quar-termaster of volunteers. On , 1864, he was appointed by thewar department captain in the 1stregiment Q. N. volunteers, color-ed, and took part in the defenceof Washington when threatenedby Gen. Early. After the closeof the war Capt. Callender re-mained in the he
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