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and supported Gen. Hazen with all his influence in carrying the 

 appropriation bill through Congress. Greely had seen some 

 service and was a man of acknowledged bravery. He entered 

 the volunteer service as a private in 1861, at the age of seventeen, 

 joining a Massachusetts regiment, and served continuously until 

 appointed, in March, 1867, a lieutenant in the 5th cavalry U. S. 



LIEUT. ADOLPHUS W. GREELY. 



regular army. He attained in the volunteer service the grade of 

 captain and brevet-major for bravery exhibited at the storming of 

 Fredericksburg, December, 1862, in which he was wounded 

 three times, but still kept the field. After his appointment in 

 the regular army he was attached to the signal service corps, 

 where he served in the several capacities of inspector, constructor 

 and superintendent of telegraph lines and as the official predict- 



