. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . eTwentieth Regiment Pennsylvania Militia during theAntietam emergency. A hurried visit to Europe follw edfor the purpose of settling an estate, and returning to theUnited States he was in time to serve with the TwentiethRegiment in the Gettysburg campaign. On the 30th ofJuly, 1863, two days after his return from the latter ser-vice, he was conscripted, having been enrolled during hisabsence in Europe, and was assigned, by request, to theOne Hundred and Eighteenth Pennsylvania,better knownas the Corn Exchange Regiment, wi
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . eTwentieth Regiment Pennsylvania Militia during theAntietam emergency. A hurried visit to Europe follw edfor the purpose of settling an estate, and returning to theUnited States he was in time to serve with the TwentiethRegiment in the Gettysburg campaign. On the 30th ofJuly, 1863, two days after his return from the latter ser-vice, he was conscripted, having been enrolled during hisabsence in Europe, and was assigned, by request, to theOne Hundred and Eighteenth Pennsylvania,better knownas the Corn Exchange Regiment, with which he serveduntil the latter part of April, 1864, when he was appointeda second lieutenant in the Twenty-fifth Regiment UnitedStates Colored Troops, then part of the garrison at FortBarrancas. After some months of duty with the regiment he wasmade ordnance officer at the Fort Pickens depot, and wassubsequently appointed on the staff of Major-GeneralCanby, commanding the Military Division of the WestMississippi, and took part in the operations which ended. in the capture of Mobile. For a time he was engaged intaking evidence before the Special Investigating Commis-sion, of which Major-General William F. Smith was presi-dent. By this time active hostilities had ceased, and onthe JOth of June, 1865, he forwarded his resignation, whichwas accepted. Subsequently he received the brevet rankof captain, to date from June 20, 1865. 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 ad
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