66 MEN I HAVE FISHED WITH. 



low ! he died on December 6, nearly four months after re- 

 ceiving his wound, aged twenty-six and a half years. 



The post-mortem showed that the bone was injured 

 above the amputation, and in army parlance he is still 

 "awaiting muster." As a schoolboy he was very bright 

 and studious, and although several years my junior he 

 helped me out in my studies and "exams." many times. 

 After leaving school he entered the service of Weed, Par- 

 sons & Co., publishers, and was a member of the Tenth 

 Regiment, New York Militia, before the war. Early in 

 the war he offered his services as a private, but was re- 

 jected because of a defect in one eye from an accident in 

 childhood ; but he was bound to go in some capacity, and 

 after the Second Artillery left Albany there was a vacant 

 first lieutenantcy, and he got the appointment and joined 

 the command at Staten Island, before it left the State, and 

 was afterward made captain. No less a poet than Alfred 

 B. Street wrote quite a long poem on "George Seward 

 Dawson, Major Second New York Artillery, died from 

 wounds received before Petersburg, June 16, 1864." Af- 

 ter his death the Governor of the State forwarded to the 

 bereaved father a brevet commission for his son (in mem- 

 oriam) of lieutenant-colonel, "for gallant and meritorious 

 conduct before Petersburg, Va." His regimental com- 

 rades bore witness to his soldierly qualities in a set of reso- 

 lutions sent to his father, and Post No. 63, Department of 

 New York, Grand Army of the Republic, of Albany, is 

 named "George S. Dawson," after the young soldier 

 whose life of promised usefulness was, like so many others, 

 brought to a sudden end, but cannot be considered 

 wasted. 



