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 Gen. EDWARD AUGUSTUS WILD 
 
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 BRADFORD KINGMAN. 
 
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 [Reprinted from the N. E. Historical and Genealogical Register for October, 1895.] 
 
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GENERAL EDWARD AUGUSTUS WILD. 
 
 Gen. Edwaeu Augustus Wild, the son of Dr. Charles and 
 Mary Joanna (Rhodes) Wild, was the second son and third child 
 of his parents; born in Brooklinc, Norfolk County, Mass., Novem- 
 ber 25, 1825. At the time of his birth his father had entered upon 
 a successful career in medical practice, having graduated from the 
 Harvard Medical College in Boston. In 1818 he took up his resi- 
 dence in Brookline, at that day a small but thrifty farming commu- 
 nity. At first he became an inmate of the family of a jNIrs. Croft, 
 on Washington street, w^ho, upon finding the young doctor was suc- 
 cessful in his profession, gave him about two acres of land on the 
 south side of the same street on which she resided, and nearly oppo- 
 site her residence, on which he immediately erected a dwelling- 
 house, it being the elegant ground and mansion adjoining on the 
 east, the well-known " George Baty Blake estate." Here he con- 
 tinued in practice for about forty years, when the same passed into 
 the hands of Dea. William Lincoln, and later to Stephen D. Ben- 
 nett, Esq., and now owned by the heirs of Arthur H. Blake. 
 
 It w^as on this beautiful spot, lavished by nature with beauty, and 
 cultivated by man, that the subject of our sketch, whose name is at 
 the head of this article, first saw the light of day. His early youth 
 was passed under the influence of a christian home and careful train- 
 ing, and, not unlike many others in his day, brought up to habits 
 of industry, attending such schools as the town aftbrded, and the 
 classical school on Boylston street. He fitted for college under the 
 private instruction of Dr. Samuel Rogers of Roxbury ; entered Har- 
 vard College in 1840, graduated in 1844, having among his class- 
 mates the following persons : John Call Dalton, Professor of Phy- 
 siology and Fellow of the American Academy ; Benjamin Apthorp 
 Gould, LL.D., Professor of Astronomy ; Francis Parkman, LL.D., 
 Historian; Hon, Leverett Saltonstall, the late Collector of the port 
 of Boston; Prof. Daniel D. Slade, LL.B., now Professor of 
 Zoology at Harvard College, and his friend Tappan Eustis Francis, 
 M.D., of Brookline. 
 
 He received the degree of A.B. in due course, and A.M. in 1847 ; 
 studied medicine with his father and in the office of Benjamin Eddy 
 
Cotting, M.D., of Roxbmy, also at the Harvard Medical College 
 in Boston. He also took a course of medical study at Jefferson 
 College, Philadelphia, Pa., where he received the degree of M.D. 
 
 He began the practice of his profession in Brookline in 1847, and 
 became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society May 23, 
 1850. Aiming at the highest honors in his profession, he crossed 
 the Atlantic in 1848 to visit the schools of Europe, attending lec- 
 tures and the practice of hospitals in Paris. AVhile there he started 
 on a pedestrianizing tour through Italy and Switzerland. Italy at 
 that time was torn with a threefold war ; Rome was contending 
 against Naples ; then came the invasion and occupation of Rome 
 (which had then been temporarily a Republic), while the north of 
 Italy was in active turmoil and strife against the Austrians. At the 
 Romano-Neapolitan frontier Dr. Wild was arrested and closely 
 searched by the troops on both sides of the line, each taking him 
 for a spy for the opposite side. 
 
 At Terracina he was taken before Garibaldi, then in command, 
 who very quickly discerned his true character and liberated him. 
 At Forli in the Romagna he was arrested as an Austrian spy, 
 mobbed and roughly maltreated, and had a fortunate escape with 
 his life. On Lake Garda he was arrested at midnight as a robber, 
 and up the River Po seized as a deserter from the Austrian army, 
 and had many other exciting experiences, some neither safe nor 
 agreeable. The experience he met with during this excursion gave 
 him the first ideas of the horrors of war and the destructive effects 
 of battles and bombardments. 
 
 On the first day of January, 1850, Dr. Wild returned to Brook- 
 line and resumed the practice of his profession as a homoeopathic 
 physician, where, with his enlarged experience and superior qualifi- 
 cations, he soon displayed proofs of the maturity of his talents. 
 Here he continued till June 12, 1855, at which time he united in 
 marriage Avith Frances Ellen, daughter of John Whiting and Marian 
 (Dix) Sullivan of Boston, and upon learning of a declaration of 
 war in the Crimea he immediately takes his bridal tour, sailing 
 direct for Constantinople. Immediately upon his arrival at that 
 port he tendered his services to the Turkish Government, and re- 
 ceived a commission as (Hekimbashi) Surgeon of Artillery, with 
 the rank and pay of lieutenant-colonel, and assumed the name of 
 " Kholoussy Bey." In the course of his professional duties he vis- 
 ited the ports of Samsoun, Sinoub (Sinope), Trebizond, Batoum, 
 Redout Kaleh (Kemhal), Kaleh. 
 
 He was attached to the army corps of Omar Pasha, Commander- 
 in-Chief of the Turkish forces in tlie field, and passed the winter 
 near Sokhoum in the foot hills of the Caucasus, occupying the hos- 
 pital buildings captured from the Russians. After peace was 
 arranged he continued in charge of extensive hospitals for several 
 months at Trebizond, where were gathered the numerous sick and 
 
disabled, the residuum of the war. On leaving the service, in addi- 
 tion to the war medal (Sefer ^.ishani) he received from the Sultan 
 Abdul ]Medjid the decoration of the Medjidieh, with its accompanying 
 Berat (diploma), together with an autograph letter from Omar 
 Pasha, recommending him for that high honor. 
 
 After a long tarry at Constantinople, Dr. Wild, accompanied by 
 his Avife, visited Trebizond and the banks of the Bosphorus, and 
 the gulf of Nicomedia (Isnikmid), the islands in the INIarmora 
 (Prinkipo), and the Troad. Keturning homeward he visited 
 Greece and the Isles of the Archipelago, stopping at Malta (where 
 he was initiated into Free JNIasonry, taking three degrees in " St. 
 John's Lodge"), Sicily, and a long time in Italy,, in 1857. 
 
 Immediately upon his arrival home he resumed the practice of 
 his profession, in which he was successful, and was fast growing in 
 popularity, giving to the public the benefits of an extended experi- 
 ence in military hospitals, as w^ell as the more complete study of 
 medicine in the hospitals at Paris. 
 
 For ten years prior to the breaking out of the war of rebellion. 
 Dr. Wild had a natural fondness for military drill and had been an 
 active member of the Independent Corps of Cadets in Boston, and 
 had never missed a single drill. When the demand came from the 
 government for men to assist in protecting our country from the 
 assaults on the liberties of the people, the doctor Avas not only fully 
 prepared, but he commenced to prepare others for actual service in 
 the field. 
 
 Dr. Wild was a highly intelligent gentleman, and had a full 
 appreciation of what must ensue at an early date. A full company 
 was raised, of men mostly from Brookline and Jamaica Plain, 
 through the efforts and instrumentality of Dr. Wild, who was com- 
 missioned as captain of the same by Governor John A. Andrew, 
 May 22, 1861. In this service the captain was assisted by the 
 untiring zeal and patriotism of two of Brookline's noble young men 
 who were fired with military ardor, and these three men did the 
 country valiant service. AVe need only mention the names of the 
 two who assisted in recruiting men for the army — Col. William L. 
 Candler, who received a first lieutenant's commission May 25, 
 1861 ; and Col. Charles L. Chandler, a second lieutenant's com- 
 mission on the same day. The last named became a captain in the 
 Thirty-fourth Regiment August 6, 1862, lieutenant-colonel of For- 
 tieth Regiment January 24, 1864, and of the Fifty-seventh Regi- 
 ment April 20, 1864. Lieut. Col. Chandler, Avhile in battle near 
 Hanover Court House, fell mortally w^ounded May 24, 1864, and 
 was kindly cared for by Col. Harris of the Twelfth Mississippi 
 Regiment, and was buried near the scene of action. The Grand 
 Army Post of Brookline perpetuates the name of Col. Charles L. 
 Chandler by naming the same in his honor, Avhile the other gi-and 
 soldier, Col. Candler, merited the Avarmest praise and the regards of 
 
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 his countrymen for his various and arduous services to his country. 
 He became a cok)nel and member of the staff of the famous General 
 Joscpli Hooker, with whom he was on the most intimate terms of 
 friendship. 
 
 The company above mentioned was entitled Company A, and 
 formed a part of the First Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteers, 
 and was the first company and the first regiment of the three years' 
 troops from the loyal states to go to the seat of war. The head- 
 quarters of this regiment at first Avas in Faneuil Hall, Boston, from 
 May 25 to June 1, 1861, when they removed to " Camp Ellsworth," 
 in Cambridge, and afterwards, June 13, again removed to "Camp 
 Cameron," and on the following day received orders to march. 
 
 The Brookline company were all ready for service, and anxiously 
 waiting for orders. 
 
 On the afternoon of June 15, 1861, the regiment took up its 
 line of march for Boston with the thermometer at 80 degrees, the 
 men dressed in thick soldiers' uniforms. The scene on the com- 
 mon in Boston on that memorable day, is still vivid in the minds of 
 thousands of persons who were present ; the parting of friends, the 
 shaking of hands, and the farcAvell, make it seem as almost of 
 yesterday; now the drum calls, every ear attends. The regiment 
 marches to the Providence Railroad station, where Alderman Pray 
 presents them with a handsome national banner in behalf of the 
 citizens of Boston. At nine o'clock p.m. seventeen finely decorated 
 passenger cars with four baggage cars, drawn by two powerful loco- 
 motives, started on their journey amid the wildest enthusiasm. At 
 Providence, they were saluted and welcomed by a detachment of 
 the Marine Artillery. Arriving at Groton, Conn., they embarked 
 on the steamer "Commonwealth." Here the guns of "Fort Trum- 
 bull" poured forth their welcome. Arriving at Jersey City on 
 Sunday afternoon, they proceeded to the seat of war, passing 
 through Baltimore on the 17th of June, being the first regiment 
 that had passed through that city since the attack on the Sixth Regi- 
 ment the 19th of April previous. At twelve o'clock on the 21st of 
 June, the regiment formed in column and marched up the Avenue 
 and were reviewed by President Lincoln, and went into " Camp 
 Banks" on the Potomac. On the 17th of July, the regiment 
 formed a part of the Army of Virginia and were in advance, to 
 attack the enemy. After being engaged in the battles of Bull Run 
 and Williamsburgh, and several lesser combats, including the siege 
 of Yorktown, Captain Wild was permanently disabled by a bullet, 
 in the right hand which was badly shattered, in the battle of " Seven 
 Pines," on the field of Fair Oaks, Va., June 25, 1862. Returning 
 to Massachusetts, he could not remain idle ; the fire of patriotism 
 was still bvu'ning within him, and in a short time he reported for 
 duty. He was ])laced in command of "Camp Stanton," a camp of 
 recruits at Lynnfield, Mass., and while there was promoted by regu- 
 
lar grades to Colonel of the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment of 
 Volunteers, August 20, 1862. Only two days later, there having 
 been a demand for fresh troops at Washington, he returned to the 
 Capitol, with his arm in a sling from his wounds, at the head of his 
 regiment. His fine appearance on horseback, as he passed through 
 the streets of Boston, is well remembered by the writer. Nothing 
 of particidar interest occurred on the journey from Boston to the 
 seat of war, except the following incident at Philadelphia, which 
 we give from the Colonel's own repoi't to the Governor of Massa- 
 chusetts : 
 
 " In the immediate neighborhood of the Union Vohinteer Kefreshment 
 Saloon, where we were supplied with a meal by the hospitality of the citi- 
 zens, there are a large number of drinking shops, which have been a pest 
 to every regiment passing through. I personally ordered the proprietor of 
 each establishment to sell no liquor to my men, warning him of consequences ; 
 at the same time setting a guard at his door. Soon after, detecting them 
 enticing men in at back doors, to drink and fill canteens, I ordered the 
 stock to be cleaned out at two places, a hotel and a saloon. The order 
 was summarily and thoroughly carried out by my men. No serious per- 
 sonal violence was committed, although we had occasion to overawe a large 
 party of Zouaves and other bullies. The police followed me with two 
 writs of arrest, which I declined to accede to ; but warned them that, if they 
 caused us any delay, I should be obliged to take aldermen and all with me 
 to Washington. All this, not from any wanton disrespect for municipal 
 law, but on the ground that, in time of armed rebellion, the exigencies of 
 the military service must take precedence of all else." 
 
 Nothing was ever heard from this afterward, although the Colonel 
 was followed to Washington. In three weeks' time he was in front 
 of the enemy, in Major General Burnside's Corps, and engaged in 
 a fierce battle at South Mountain. At half past four in the after- 
 noon, September 14, 1862, he was ordered to clear the extensive 
 forest of sharpshooters, a very rough ground. While engaged in 
 this work, they were unexpectedly attacked upon a position held by 
 their brigade, in the dusk of the evening. It was here that Colonel 
 Wild lost his left arm by the explosion of a shell, badly shattering 
 the same, Avhich was amputated at the shoulder, after three surgical 
 operations. On that day, and three days later, his new regiment 
 distinguished itself by their steady bravery, worthy of veteran 
 troops. General Schouler writes: "Few, if any, surpass the 
 Thirty-fifth Regiment, especially in its officers." 
 
 When Colonel Wild had partially recovered from the loss of his 
 arm, he returned home, December 1, 1862, and while recovering 
 from his Avounds assisted Governor Andrew in organizing colored 
 troops, the pioneer work in that line. On the 24th of April, 1863, 
 he was appointed by President Lincoln a Brigadier General of 
 Volunteers, and soon after proceeded to North Carolina, Avhere he 
 raised a brigade of colored troops from among the fugitive slaves 
 
in that department, having his headquarters at Newberne : and it is 
 needless to say he was entirely successful in organizing his " Corps 
 D'Afrique," known as " Wild's African Brigade." While there he 
 gave much time and labor to the care and permanent provision of 
 the colored families by colonizing. On the 30th of July the General 
 took a large number of raw colored troops to South Carolina, where 
 they did valuable and valiant service in the siege of Charleston. 
 Three months later, leaving his troops at Charleston, he returned to 
 his recruiting work at Newberne, N. C, also in Virginia, Jan. 18, 
 1864. General Wild was placed in command of the district of 
 Norfolk and Portsmouth, which, besides his military labors, involved 
 large civil duties in the government of those two cities as Governor, 
 filled as they were with a hostile population. 
 
 Upon the opening of the campaign, in the spring of 1864, he 
 early in May joined the Army of the James, in command of his 
 colored troops, where he continued, participating in the siege against 
 Petersburgh and Richmond until their fall. 
 
 During the last three months he was in command of a division 
 containing three brigades of infantry, besides cavalry and artillery, 
 heavy and light — this being a portion of the Twenty-fifth Army 
 Corps, composed wdiolly of colored troops. 
 
 On the 3d of April, 1865, he entered Richmond at the head of 
 his troops, as " Jeff" Davis went out ; many of the slaves originally 
 recruited by the General being the first to enter those sacred pre- 
 cincts. At the close of the warlike operations, he served in the 
 Freedman's Bureau in Georgia, and was finally mustered out of 
 the United States Service, January 15, 1866. 
 
 The General finding himself too much crippled to return to the 
 practice of his former profession, he turned his attention to mining, 
 his experience and travels embracing the fields of Nevada, Cali- 
 fornia, Utah, Colorado, and Lake Superior (Canada side). 
 
 It is due to General Wild to say that when he first enlisted into 
 the "Army, he enjoyed the highest esteem and confidence of all who 
 were acquainted with him in his Massachusetts home. Particularly 
 did he enjoy the confidence of Governor Andrew, who was a warm 
 personal friend, during the Rebellion. When he entered the service, 
 his experiences in the Turkish army were of great value to him. 
 The General was of an impulsive nature, full of patriotism and 
 intense enthusiasm, and gave his entire powers to the service. His 
 record confirms all the statements made, and one who knew him 
 intimately says of him, that "His bravery was only paralleled 
 by his almost womanly modesty." No better evidence of the truth 
 of the above statements, and of his bravery, than at "Wilson's 
 Wharf" on the James river, Virginia. While in the command of an 
 important outpost at the above locality, he was surrounded by a 
 greatly superior force of cavalry under the command of Major 
 General Fitz Hugh Lee, and was summoned to surrender, in the 
 following lan<2;uao"e r 
 
" By command of Major-General Fitz Hugh Lee, I am sent to demand a 
 surrender of the Federal troops at Wilson's wharf. He (General Lee) 
 thinks he has troojis enough to carry tlie position. Should they surrender 
 they will he turned over to the authorities at Richmond and treated as 
 prisoners of war. Should they refuse, General Lee will not be responsible 
 for the consequences. 
 
 Very respectfully your obt. servt., 
 
 R. J. Mason, Major and A. A. G. 
 To Brig.-General Wild, commanding Federal troops." 
 
 The reply of General Wild was returned, in the following laconic 
 manner : 
 
 "We will try it. — Edw. A. Wild, Brig.-Gen. Vols" 
 
 And try it they did, and the Union Army was victorious, saving 
 an important position to the " Army of the James." The firmness 
 and equanimity of the mind of the General was one of his leading 
 characteristics. Fear did not enter his mind to prevent him from 
 carrying out his purposes ; indeed it has been often said of him that 
 he did not know the definition of the term. His mind was ever on 
 the duty to be performed, and stopped not to weigh the risk attend- 
 ing the same. He had the greatest disregard of self, and was of a 
 vivacious turn, enlivening all company into which he entered, which 
 rendered his society peculiarly welcome to both sexes. Kindness 
 beamed in his countenance, and benevolence warmed his heart. He 
 was ever kind, courteous and affable, and in his profession the high- 
 est motive of his mind was to relieve the suffering of humanity by 
 his skill, and every duty was performed with delicacy, as well as 
 with tendeAess. His friendship was firm and confiding. In his 
 tastes simple, and averse to all hollow pretensions and ceremonial 
 observances. He was a good scholar and distinguished as a mathe- 
 matician, and a favorite in his class. He was especially fond of 
 music, and helped to furnish the music on the big bass viol in the 
 church choir, as well as taking a deep interest in band music. 
 
 After the General had lost his arm at the battle of South Moun- 
 tain, twenty of his college class presented him with an elegant dress 
 sword of the regulation pattern, elegantly chased and gilded, with 
 gold cord and tassels, in a shark skin sheath; and, in furtherance 
 of a lasting and more durable testimonial of the regard for their 
 late classmate, his class have caused to be placed in Memorial Hall 
 at Harvard a beautiful medallion in bronze, commemorative of the 
 battles in which he had been engaged : — " In memory of Edward 
 A. Wild, Brigadier General U. S. V. A Faithfuf and Gallant 
 Soldier in the War which Preserved the Union and Destroyed Sla- 
 very. B. Xov. 2b, 1825. D. Aug. 28, 1891. Bearing wounds 
 received at Williamsburgh, Fair Oaks and South Mountain, His 
 Classmates H. U. 1844 erect this Tablet.— ^^ Facere, Et Pati 
 For liter:' 
 
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 Those who remember General Wikl as a citizen reofarded him as 
 one of strict integrity, a manly and good man. Says one who knew 
 him well, and was his neighbor, companion and friend : 
 
 " He was a marked and original character, true to his convictions on all 
 occasions, the personification of devotion to principle, a man of faith ; he 
 would have died a martyr for an}' cause he believed in and espoused. He 
 was a leader of men, and called about him kindred spirits in his devotion 
 to freedom and his country." 
 
 Not only was the General a good and brave soldier, but the ex- 
 ample to his men was of the best. Prominent among his many 
 good qualities was that of enforcing principles of abstinence from 
 the use of intoxicating liquor. In this he set an example by his own 
 entire disuse of liquor of any kind. During his whole service in 
 the United States Army he never touched any intoxicants, even to 
 a glass of cider or beer. 
 
 Those to whom his words of comfort and cheer in the hours of 
 sickness have done so much, remember him with the kindest affec- 
 tion, while those under whose care they were as soldiers in the 
 army all unite to speak of him in the warmest terms as a brave and 
 ffood officer. 
 
 ]Much might be said of his liumorous, attractive, and many social 
 qualities, of his fondness for having a good time with all whicli that 
 term ap[)lies. Having no bad habits, he Avas much sought after 
 when there Avas any fun for the boys and young men. He Avas 
 always present at the lively times, and never Avas happier than 
 AAdien he could " run Avith the machine " to a fire ; and when there 
 was a conflagration in the village, and he Avas not there, it Avas 
 because he Avas not at home ; or, if there Avas a Avedding, he felt it 
 his duty to help in cheering the ncAvly-married couple by a serenade. 
 
 General Wild, after leaving the mining operations in Avhich he 
 had been engaged, Avas invited to join a party of exploration, and 
 left New York on the first day of July, 1891, for the South Ameri- 
 can States, having in \ iew the development of that country, and 
 incidentally to build a railroad from Magdellena River to the city of 
 Medillin. In this enterprise the tropical climate and the excessive 
 heat were too much for one used to our northern clime, and espe- 
 cially at his time of life. His residence south AA^as short, being less 
 than a month, and on the 28th of August, 1891, he passed over the 
 river, amid warm and loving friends, although aAvay from his home, 
 AA'ho did all that could have been to cheer and help him in his last 
 hours. Personal and official services Avere freely tendered at his 
 decease by the American Vice Consul, the GoA^ernor and other 
 officers of State, Avell knoAving that they Avere doing honor to a 
 good man and a gallant officer. He Avas buried Avith military and 
 masonic honors, under a military escort, and the funeral rites were 
 performed amid a large concourse of friends, including the Governor 
 
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 GRAVE OF GENERAL EDWARD A. WILD 
 at Medellin, Columbia, South America. 
 
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 and officers of the State, who paid the honor due to his station. 
 Kind friends laid wreaths and garlands on his coffin, and thus the 
 last tribute of respect and regard for a distinguished man was paid, 
 and we can only regret that our old friend, citizen, physician, cap- 
 tain, colonel, and general, could not have ended his last hours near 
 the early associations of his life. He now rests in quiet seclusion 
 at Medellin, Columbia, South America. 
 
 "He who gives liis life for his country gives his own but for a liiglier 
 life." 
 
 FAMILY RECORD. 
 
 Dr. Charles Wild, the father of Gen. Wild, was born in Roston, January 
 15, 1795, the son of Abraham and Susanna (Pituian) Wild, of g^ood Eng.- 
 lish stock, fitted for college in the Latin School of his native town, where 
 he received a "Franklin medal" in 1805, entered Harvard College in 
 1811, graduating in the memorable class of 1814, of whom William' II. 
 Prescott, the historian. President Walker of Harvard College, Hon. Pliny 
 Merrick, late Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts? and 
 other equally prominent men, were members. Received the degree of A.M. . 
 and M.D. in 1817. Graduated at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, 
 April 10, 1818, and removed to Brookline where he resided for over forty 
 years, a highly esteemed citizen as well as phys^ician. He married, December 
 29, 1819, Mary Joanna Rhodes of North Providence, R. I. 
 Children : 
 
 i. Charles William, born June 10, 1822, married Mary Aramihta Scales- 
 
 of San Francisco, Cal. 
 ii. SusAXXA Seraphina, born December 17, 1823, married Geori>e .Vu— 
 
 gustus Wood of Pliiladelphia, Pa., March ;22,' 1848. 
 iii. Edward Augustus, born November 25, 1825v married Fi'ances Ellen,. 
 
 daughter of John Whiting and Marian (Dix) Sullivan of Boston). 
 
 Mass, June 12, 1855. 
 iv. Laura Matilda, born January 23, 1828, married Rev.. Joseph HI . 
 
 rhipps of Franiiughara, Mass., January 1, 1849,' and Avas a resident;!. 
 
 of Kingston, Mass, 
 V. Mary Heath, born May 6, 1820, married Edward Jiirvis Gushingcof*" 
 
 North Providence, r'. I., May 22, 1850. 
 vi. Catherine Wheaton, born July 26, 1832; died November 12 ■ 1882J. 
 vii. Emily Caroline, born July 14, 1834, died September 18; 1835j 
 viii. Walter Henry, born June 19, 1836, married Hel6ni M. Conkling of 
 
 Springfield, Mass., 1866. He enlisted in the First Rhode Island!; 
 
 Battery, April 21, 1861. After various promotions as- Lieutenanti: 
 
 and Captain in the Second North Carolina Colored' Volluiteers,. 
 
 afterwards the Thirty-sixth United States Colored Volunteers, he 
 
 was appointed aide-de-camp on General Edward A. Wild'ci Staff, 
 
 May 14, 1863, continuing on his stall', and was detailed A. Ai..Oen., 
 
 December 25, 1863. 
 ix. Lydia Greene, boru May 27, 1840, died August 6, 1840. 
 
 The father died at North Providence, R. I., February 3, 1864. 
 
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