History of the One hundred and sixty-first regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry . mes Wilson, first lieutenant and assistant surgeon,was born at Wabash, Indiana, in 1865, November 15. Hewas educated in Greencastle, Indiana, at DePauw Univer-sity, after which he entered the University of Michigan, atAnn Arbor, from which institution he graduated in repaired at once to New York city and entered Belle-view Medical College, graduation from medical course in1890. His professional studies being finished he engagedin practice of medicine in the city of his birth. Upon thesecond call for troop
History of the One hundred and sixty-first regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry . mes Wilson, first lieutenant and assistant surgeon,was born at Wabash, Indiana, in 1865, November 15. Hewas educated in Greencastle, Indiana, at DePauw Univer-sity, after which he entered the University of Michigan, atAnn Arbor, from which institution he graduated in repaired at once to New York city and entered Belle-view Medical College, graduation from medical course in1890. His professional studies being finished he engagedin practice of medicine in the city of his birth. Upon thesecond call for troops, he offered himself to the governorfor service in the One Hundred and Sixty-first IndianaVolunteer Infantry, and was mustered in as assistant sur-geon with the rank of first lieutenant in June. On August26, he was detached from regiment and placed in charge ofone of the wards of the Third Division hospital, at Jackson-ville, from which position he was reluctantly released onOctober 24, to rejoin his regiment, which was then start-ing for Savannah, Georgia. 410 HISTORY OF THE. First Lieutenant James Wilson. HISTORY OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. This department of the One Hundred and Sixty-firstIndiana as organized in the beginning consisted of Surgeon-Major Wickliff Smith, of Delphi, Assistant Surgeon Lieu-tenants Millard F. Gerrish, of Seymour, and James Wilson,of Wabash, all eminent physicians of the state who wereselected by the governorron account of their high profes- ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIRST INDIANA. 4II sional standing, and Hospital Stewards William H. Rath-ert, druggist and medical student of Indianapolis; Espey, druggist and medical student of Rising Sun, In-diana, and John I. Lewis, recent graduate physician ofBedford. A regiment could hardly have had a betterequipment of men in the medical department. When theregiment was first mustered in at the state fair grounds itwas thought unnecessary to organize a field hospital forthe large healthy men then in camp an
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