. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . heads Bend, near Fort Pillow, May 10, 1862, and severalminor affairs. At the engagement at Craigheads Bendhe was seriously wounded by a rifle-ball. He was inva-lided in consequence of this wound in 1863, and thepeculiar nature and effects of the balls passage were thesubject of great interest to medical men. During 1864 he was stationed at the Recruiting Ren-dezvous at Philadelphia, and afterwards on special dutyat Pittsburg. He was commissioned as captain in 1866,during his command of the steam-sloop Canandaigua,on the Eu
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . heads Bend, near Fort Pillow, May 10, 1862, and severalminor affairs. At the engagement at Craigheads Bendhe was seriously wounded by a rifle-ball. He was inva-lided in consequence of this wound in 1863, and thepeculiar nature and effects of the balls passage were thesubject of great interest to medical men. During 1864 he was stationed at the Recruiting Ren-dezvous at Philadelphia, and afterwards on special dutyat Pittsburg. He was commissioned as captain in 1866,during his command of the steam-sloop Canandaigua,on the European Station. Returned to the United Statesin 1867. Commanded the Naval Rendezvous at Boston,1869-71. Commissioned commodore 1870, and com-manded Northern Squadron of the Pacific Fleet, 1871-72, and, for a time, the Pacific Fleet. He was retired asa commodore in 1872, and commissioned as rear-admiralon the retired list in 1874. 400 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (regular). LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GEORGE M STERNBERG, Lieutenant-Colonel George M. Sternberg (Medical Department) was born in New York on January 8, 183S,and was appointed assistant surgeon, U. S. Army, May28, 1861. He served with General Sykess regular di-vision of the Army of the Potomac, and participated inthe battles of first Bull Run, July 21, 1861, GainesMill, June 27, 1862, and Malvern Mill, July I, 1862,and was brevetted captain and major for faithful andmeritorious services during the war. Dr. Sternberg was on hospital duty at PortsmouthGrove, Rhode Island, until November, 1S62, when hewas assigned to duty with the troops in the Departmentof the Gulf, and participated in General Bankss expedi-tion, and subsequently on duty in the office of themedical director until January, , when he wastransferred to the office of the medical director at Co-lumbus, Ohio, and in charge of the U. S. GeneralHospital at Cleveland, Ohio, to Jul}-, 1805. He wasthen ordered to Jefferson Barracks for d
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