. History of the Seventy-sixth regiment New York volunteers; what it endured and accomplished; containing descriptions of its twenty-five battles; its marches; its camp and bivouac scenes; with biographical sketches of fifty-three officers and a complete record of the enlisted men . een mustered out of service. He is now engaged practicing law, in Cooperstown, Otsego county, N. Y. SURGEON JUDSON C. NELSON ;#* Was bom in the town of Danby,Tompkins county, New York, Junethird, 1834. He was the son of aBaptist clergyman, in moderate cir-cumstances, with a large family, andit was only through his
. History of the Seventy-sixth regiment New York volunteers; what it endured and accomplished; containing descriptions of its twenty-five battles; its marches; its camp and bivouac scenes; with biographical sketches of fifty-three officers and a complete record of the enlisted men . een mustered out of service. He is now engaged practicing law, in Cooperstown, Otsego county, N. Y. SURGEON JUDSON C. NELSON ;#* Was bom in the town of Danby,Tompkins county, New York, Junethird, 1834. He was the son of aBaptist clergyman, in moderate cir-cumstances, with a large family, andit was only through his own per-sonal efforts, and natural energeticcharacter, that he acquired a tolera-ble early education, being obligedto work on a farm during the sum-mer seasons, and going to school orteaching in winter. In the spring of 1845, he com-menced a course of literary andmedical reading, under the tutelageof that eminent physician and surgeon, Professor Thomas Spencer, of Geneva,which he continued for a term of three years, and graduated at the GenevaMedical College, in January, 1848. In March, 1848, he commenced the practiceof medicine and surgery in Truxton, Cortland county, N. Y., where he hasbeen successful as a practitioner, and highly honored by the community inwhich he I *A full account of his escape and recapture is published in Prison Life in the South, by Lieu-tenant A. O. Abbott. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York. SUKGEON JUDSON C. NELSON. 361 Politically, Dr. Nelson has always Identified himself with Che Democratic party,and was the candidate of his party for Member of Congress, in the Twenty-thirdCongressional District, in 1860, when he received a very handsome complimentaryvote in his own locality. On the breaking out of the rebellion, he took decidedground in favor of the war for the Union, and as early as April, 1861, commencedenlisting men for the volunteer army, and when it was decided by the originalmovers to organize the Seventy-sixth Regiment, he pro
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