. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . al Hospital, and on thereceiving-ship at New York, being made surgeon in 1874 he sailed in the Swatara, upon the Transitof Venus Expedition, acting as photographer and natu-ralist, and bringing to the Smithsonian many specimensnew to science. He remained attached to the Swatarauntil 1877, when he was ordered to special duty in NewYork. After this he was on duty in the Minnesotatraining-ship, and, after his tour there, was again onspecial duty in New York, acting at the same time asprofessor in the post-graduate sch
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . al Hospital, and on thereceiving-ship at New York, being made surgeon in 1874 he sailed in the Swatara, upon the Transitof Venus Expedition, acting as photographer and natu-ralist, and bringing to the Smithsonian many specimensnew to science. He remained attached to the Swatarauntil 1877, when he was ordered to special duty in NewYork. After this he was on duty in the Minnesotatraining-ship, and, after his tour there, was again onspecial duty in New York, acting at the same time asprofessor in the post-graduate school. In 1SS3 he wentto China in the Omaha, having several epidemics toencounter. On his return home he served in New York,being promoted to medical inspector in 1S91. Here hesuperintended the building and fitting of the new medicaland surgical office at the navy-yard, where every facilityis offered for professional work, as well as for chemicalexaminations of supplies and materials. At present is waiting orders. 230 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (regular). CAPTAIN H. H. KETCHUM. Captain H. II. Ketchum (Twenty-second Infantry)was a sun of Henry and Mary A. Ketchum, who wereborn in Vermont in 1806. He received an academiceducation. Enlisted in [86l in the Sixteenth New YorkVolunteers, at the age ol seventeen. He participated inthe Peninsula campaign of the Army of the Potomac,and was slightly wounded at Gaines Mill. He contin-ued in the field with that army through the Marylandcampaign, and was discharged after the battle of Antie-tam,broken down in health, owing to his youth. Whenhe regained his health again he enlisted in the First NewYork Engineers, and was mustered out of service June1, 1865. He was appointed second lieutenant in the Thir-teenth Infantry on the 23d of February, iS66, and servedat Fort Buford dining the summer of [866, fightingIndians almost daily during that time. He then servedat Port Dakota until July, 1867. He was promotedfust lieutenant
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