. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy. - surgeons, assisted also incaring for the Union and Confederate wounded afterthe attack on Fort Butler, 1863 ; Naval Academy,1863-4, including summer cruise of the ^Macedonian ;steamer Santiago de Cuba, 1864-5 5 present duringboth bombardments on Fort Fisher, in December,1864, and January, 1865 5 Naval Hospital, NewYork, and steamer Rhode Island, 1865 ; Navy Yard,New York, 1866. Commissioned as Surgeon, June 19,1866; Naval Station, Mound City, Illinois, 1866-8;steam sloop Narragansett, West Indies, 1869; sloopPortsmouth, S
. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy. - surgeons, assisted also incaring for the Union and Confederate wounded afterthe attack on Fort Butler, 1863 ; Naval Academy,1863-4, including summer cruise of the ^Macedonian ;steamer Santiago de Cuba, 1864-5 5 present duringboth bombardments on Fort Fisher, in December,1864, and January, 1865 5 Naval Hospital, NewYork, and steamer Rhode Island, 1865 ; Navy Yard,New York, 1866. Commissioned as Surgeon, June 19,1866; Naval Station, Mound City, Illinois, 1866-8;steam sloop Narragansett, West Indies, 1869; sloopPortsmouth, South Atlantic Squadron, 1870-1 ; re-ceiving-ship and Navy Yard at Boston, 1871-3 ; iron-clad Dictator, North Atlantic Fleet, 1874-5 ; Navy. MEDICAL INSPECTOR AARON S. STATES NAVY. t THE NEW YOPTC f Nb-LIC l: 3^1 Yard and Hospital, Pensacola, Florida, 1875-9; Tor-pedo Station, Newport, R. I., 1879-80; U. S. S. Pow-hatan, North Atlantic Station, 1880-1 ; U. S. , and as Fleet Snrgeon of the Asiatic Sta-tion, 1881-4. Commissioned as Medical InspectorMarch 4, 1884; U. S. Navy Yard and Hospital,Portsmouth, N. H., 1884-8; U. S. S. Richmond,1888. Retired, January, 1889, from causes incidentto exposure on Asiatic Station, 1881-4. 312 Major ana Brevet W. R. SMEDBERG. United States Army. Was born at 22 Beach Street, in New York Cit}^,on the 19th of March, 1839. Son of Charles Gus-tavns Smedberg and Isabella Renwick, his wife;grandson of William Renwick and Jane Jaffray, hiswife. He entered the Columbia College, New York,in 1853, graduating in June, 1857. Enlisted in Com-pany F of the New York Seventh Regiment Jul}^,1858, remaining with it until i860, when he was hon-orably discharged on account
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