. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . 5. He at once re-entered journalism, and was one of the editorial force ofthe Philadelphia Press, the newspaper for which he hadbeen an army correspondent. In 1867 he went South, and took part in the recon-struction of Alabama. In March, 1869, he removed toNew York, and. after some desultory writing for theTribune, became a reporter for the Brooklyn Union, andafterward for the Brooklyn Eagle, resigning his place onthe latter newspaper to become a stenographer in thereorganized City Court of Brooklyn, a position which he-
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . 5. He at once re-entered journalism, and was one of the editorial force ofthe Philadelphia Press, the newspaper for which he hadbeen an army correspondent. In 1867 he went South, and took part in the recon-struction of Alabama. In March, 1869, he removed toNew York, and. after some desultory writing for theTribune, became a reporter for the Brooklyn Union, andafterward for the Brooklyn Eagle, resigning his place onthe latter newspaper to become a stenographer in thereorganized City Court of Brooklyn, a position which he-has held for twenty years. He was admitted an attorneyand counsellor in 1872, but by reason of his official positionin the court is not engaged in the practice of the married, December 6, 1866, Miss Sallie A. Cotton, ofPhiladelphia, and is the father of three daughters. He-was mustered into the Grand Army of the Republic inJune, 1870, and admitted a Companion of the MilitarjOrder of the Loyal Legion in February, 1884. n6 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY {volunteer). CAPTAIN WILLIAM A. GILL. Captain William A. Gile (Eighteenth New HampshireVolunteer Infantry and One Hundred and SeventeenthUnited States Colored Troops) was born in Northfield,New Hampshire, fune 5, 1843, and when he entered theservice the lines of the town of Franklin included thatportion of the town of Northfield in which he was horn,the birthplace being on the cast shore of the MerrimacRiver, opposite to and near the early home of DanielWebster. He was the smi of Alfred A. Gile, a native of\eu Hampshire, whose ancestors for three generationshad li\ ed at and near this homestead, near the head of theMerrimac. His mother was a native of Pennsylvania, andwas of German descent, the will of his grandfather on thematernal branch being written in the German language. File subject of this sketch was educated in the commonschools of his native town, and in the Academy at Frank-lin and the Seminary at Tilton. H
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