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actively participated in the campaigns of the Western 

 Army and was in many engagements. Among these, 

 the battle of Shiloh, the sieges of Corinth, Vicksburg and 

 Jackson. He was wounded in the charge of Lauman's 

 brigade at Jackson, Miss. 



He was never boastful of his military achievements, 

 but when talking with his comrades of some war time 

 engagement they had participated in, his eyes would 

 brighten and his voice take on a shade more emphasis 

 as he would give some precise detail of what part his 

 regiment had taken in some march or battle, nothing 

 had escaped his keen observation. 



After he was mustered out of the army he attended 

 Lombard University, taught school and studied law. He 

 pursued his legal studies mostly at home, going to the 

 county seat twice a month to recite and review his 

 studies with his preceptor, Hon. Henry S. Green. After 

 two years of legal study, he was admitted to the bar by 

 the supreme court of Illinois in January, 1868. 



He soon after started for Iowa, and reached Sioux 

 City March 6, 1868. The first railroad had just been 

 completed to Sioux City, and it was then looked upon 

 as a place likelj^ to make a thriving city. He was really 

 the first new lawyer to arrive in the town since 1858, 

 coming soon after the revival which followed the advent 

 of the railroad. He entered the office of Hon. Isaac 

 Pendleton, who had been in Sioux City ten years and 

 who was the last arrival of the older set of lawyers. 

 The principal attorneys in 1868 were Wm. L. Joy, John 

 Currier and Isaac Pendleton, although O. C. Tredway 

 and Samuel T. Davis practiced to some extent, but had 

 too much other business of their own to devote much 

 time to practicing law. 



With the opening of the railroad large numbers of 

 settlers came into Northwestern Iowa to take up home- 

 steads on the large tracts of vacant lands. And the 

 United States land office was located in Sioux City, so 

 there was really more practice for a lawyer in contested 

 entries before the land officers than in the courts and 

 conflicts with the numerous railroad land grants and 



