A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . BenjaminLevitt. After three years of diligent study, includinga course of lectures at the medical college in Ann Arbor,Michigan, he entered the University of Louisville, andwas graduated in March, 1855. He then commencedpractice in Milford, Decatur County; remained therethree years, and removed thence to Anderson. Soonwar began its work of woe in the South, and DoctorChittenden was summoned to attend the suffering vic-tims. In May, 1S61, he
A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . BenjaminLevitt. After three years of diligent study, includinga course of lectures at the medical college in Ann Arbor,Michigan, he entered the University of Louisville, andwas graduated in March, 1855. He then commencedpractice in Milford, Decatur County; remained therethree years, and removed thence to Anderson. Soonwar began its work of woe in the South, and DoctorChittenden was summoned to attend the suffering vic-tims. In May, 1S61, he was appointed assistant sur-geon of the i6th Indiana Volunteers, and the followingyear was promoted to the surgeoncy of the regiment,which position he held until the spring of 1864, when,because of ill-health, he resigned and returned this period he acted for one year as divisionsurgeon of General A. J. Smiths division, and also asmedical director of the Thirteenth Army Corps, underGeneral John A. McClernand. In 1858 Doctor Chitten-den was chosen to represent Madison and Henry Coun-ties in the Legislature, and served one regular and one.
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