. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . n. He participated in Van Dorns dis-astrous attack upon Corinth in October, 1862, andin the operations under Gen. John C. Pembertonin northern Mississippi during the winter of1862-3. He was then ordered to the Trans-Mis-sissippi department, took part in the unsuccessfulattack upon Helena, 21 July, 1863, and was as-signed to the command of the district of was driven from Little Rock by Gen. FredericSteele, but successfully resisted Steeles advancetoward Red river in March, 1864, and forced himto retreat. He made a raid into Missouri i
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . n. He participated in Van Dorns dis-astrous attack upon Corinth in October, 1862, andin the operations under Gen. John C. Pembertonin northern Mississippi during the winter of1862-3. He was then ordered to the Trans-Mis-sissippi department, took part in the unsuccessfulattack upon Helena, 21 July, 1863, and was as-signed to the command of the district of was driven from Little Rock by Gen. FredericSteele, but successfully resisted Steeles advancetoward Red river in March, 1864, and forced himto retreat. He made a raid into Missouri in Sep-tember, 1864. had many engagements with theNational forces, and reached Missouri river, butwas driven out of the state and into southwest-ern Arkansas. After the surrender of the Con-federate armies he went to Mexico, but he re-turned to Missouri in 1866. PRICE, Theophiliis Townseml, physician, Cape May county, N. .!., 21 May. 1828. He re-ceived an academical education, taught school fora time, then studied medicine, was graduated in. 1853 at Pennsylvania medical college, and set-tled in practice at Tuckerton, N. J. In 1863 heserved as a volunteer surgeon in the army. Since1870 he has been acting assistant surgeon in theU. S. marine hospital service, the first and only ap-pointment of the kind in New Jersey, the govern-ment medical service on the entire New Jerseycoast being under his charge. He is one of the pro-jectors of the Tuckerton railroad, and since 1N7!has been the secretary. He lias served in the NewJersey legislature, is one of the trustees of theNew Jersey reform school for boys, and of theSouth Jersey institute, and a member of the Statemedical and historical societies. He has contributedto medical journals, and both in prose and poetryto various periodicals. Many of his war songs havebecome widely known. He is the author of theentire historical and descriptive part of the His-torical and Biographical Atlas of the New JerseyCoast (Philadelphia, 1877). PR
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