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memory of devoted service in a good cause. Her loss was 

 severely felt by all who knew her, and by none more than 

 by her brother, I^innccus, who since their visit to the West, 

 two years before, had been closer united in brotherly and sis- 

 terly affection. It had a very noticeable effect upon his char- 

 acter. From the fun loving boy he grew at once into the 

 mature, hard working man — a close student, interested in 

 matters scientific and medical, with some attention to the 

 natural sciences — paving the way for the serious work of his 

 college life, which commenced with the Fall term of 1863. 



How well he applied himself to his medical studies is 

 attested by the fact that before he had half finished his college 

 course he had passed an examination for a position in the 

 United States Navy, a severer test than even the strict exami- 

 nation of the strictest medical college of that day and this. 

 Upon receiving his first commission in the Navy he asked the 

 privilege of standing an examination for his diploma, which 

 was denied him because he had not yet taken the prescribed 

 course of lectures. But two years later, after two sea trips 

 and a partial course of lectures, he was allowed to come up, 

 and passed. "Tell your son," said Professor Rogers, dean 

 of the faculty, " that he not only passed, but passed remark- 

 ably well." This remark was made just before the starting 

 on his third period of sea service, a voyage to China, a trip of 

 three years. The diploma conferred on him by proxy on 

 March 14th, 1S67, he never saw until after his return in 1870. 



L,inngeus Fussell's first assignment to duty in the U. S. 

 Navy was on the U. vS. Steamer " Sagamore," which left the 

 Philadelphia Navy Yard on March iSth, 1865, for the Gulf 

 Blockading Squadron, with its destination off St. Marks Light 

 House, on a small island off the port of St. Marks. At that 

 time all of the northwestern coast of Florida was in the hands 

 of the Confederates, and St. Marks was one of the principal 

 points upon which they depended to get their supplies from 

 the Gulf. But the work of blockading was nearh' over, as 

 within a month after the arrival of the vessel Lee surrendered, 



