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Stand the fierce things he must have said in those days of trial, which 

 were, he said, still remembered against him, and made life in the South, 

 among his old associates, unpleasant to him. He was a confidential 

 friend of Andrew Johnson, and, after the occupation of Nashvilla by 

 the Federals, soon found employment for his professional talents in 

 the military hospitals of the city. He was also appointed by Johnson 

 surgeon of his own regiment — the Fourth Tennessee Infantry — but 

 his deafness caused his resignation very shortly. During the years 

 1863 and 1864 he had charge of an extensive hospital at Nashville — 

 that of the miUtary railroad system — which he closed in January, 

 1865. 



The termination of the Rebellion found him with the largest part 

 of a fair fortune swept away, and he moved to the southern part of 

 Arkansas to practice his profession, doing active and laborious country 

 practice there until the year 1868, when he removed to Davenport. 



He identified himself with the Academy of Sciences and its work 

 very soon after his arrival, joining it in the first year of its existence, 

 and taking a very active part in all its work from that time until his 

 removal to Des Moines, in 1880, as its proceedings attest. He served 

 as its President in 1878, as its Librarian for three years, as a member 

 of its Library and Publishing Committee for six years, and of its Com- 

 mittee on Museum for three years. He represented it at the meeting 

 in Detroit, in 1875, of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, of which he was a permanent member, and he has left in 

 its published proceedings the following papers : 



/;/ Vol. I.: "Do Rifle-balls Burn when Striking the Animal Body?" 

 "A Study of Skulls and Long Bones from Mounds near Albany, Illi- 

 nois;" "Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Davenport, Iowa." 



In Vol. II.: "On the Inscribed Tablets found by Rev. J. Gass;" 

 "Post-mortem Examination of a Boa-constrictor;" "Formation of 

 Ground Ice on the Rapids of the Mississippi." 



In Vol. III. : Annual Address, as President, in January, 1879. 



He was more thoroughly conversant with its library than any other 

 member of the institution, having given it, for years, his constant and 

 valuable care, and having personally contributed very largely to it; 

 among other valuable donations, a gift of his being a series of the re- 

 ports of the French Academy in the original. He was a constant vis- 

 itor at its rooms, always interested in its welfare, and always one of its 

 wisest counsellors ; thoroughly informed, and never hasty in his con- 

 clusions. 



