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September, 1862, he was appointed First Lieut. of Co. G. 
of the 24th regiment of Maine Volunteers, and the next 
January was made Captain of his company. He served 
with the 19th army corps on the lower Mississippi, and 
was present at the siege of Port Hudson. A portion of 
his army service was on the staff of General Nickerson, 
3rd brigade, 2nd division, with the rank of Captain. His 
career in the army was brought to a close by an attack of 
typhoid malaria, which necessitated his return home. 
Soon after his return from the war, he entered the Har- 
vard University Medical School, from which he received 
the degree of M. D. in 1866. The degrees of B. A. and 
A. M. were also conferred upon him by Bowdoin at different 
times in his early career. ‘ 
Notwithstanding the degrey of M. D. had been bestowed 
upon him, he never practiced medicine. After his 
graduation from Harvard, E. Lewis and his brother 
Thomas lived with their wives in the same home in Boston 
for a year or so. In 1867, with his brothers Joseph N. 
and Thomas, he purchased and resided on what afterwards 
became well known as ‘* Waushakum Farm.” Here with 
his brothers, he gave his attention to agricultural affairs. 
The farm became a field for practical research work, while 
his library offered another field of research, which he was 
not slow to make use of. 
Waushakum Farm soon became celebrated as the home 
of Ayrshire cattle, and as the place of development of 
Waushakum Flint corn. 
These two brothers became greatly interested in Ayrshire 
cattle, a large herd was maintained for some years, and 
extensive milk records kept. The writer doubts if there 
are in America milk records of twenty-five years ago, that 
are so extensive and cover so many milking periods, and 
different animals, as the Sturtevant Brothers kept. They 
made a careful study of the Ayrshire breed of cattle 
and finally in 1875 published a monograph of 252 pages 
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