MEMORIAL OF R. H. LOUGHRIDGE 49 



at La Grange, Tennessee, where the Eev. John H. Gray was president and 

 Rev. John N". Waddell was Professor of Ancient Languages, both of whom 

 were close friends of his father. Robert had been at the La Grange 

 college little more than a year when the war broke out, and he, along with 

 William C. Gray and George Waddell, his intimate friends, enlisted in 

 the Thirteenth Regiment of the Tennessee Infantry in March, 1862. At 

 the battle of Shiloh, the first in which he was engaged, he was severely 

 wounded in the face and left as dying or dead on the battlefield. Doctor 

 Gray, on learning that his son and George Waddell were safe, but that 

 young Loughridge was missing, went to search for him and found him 

 living, but so seriously wounded that he was unable to talk. He was 

 taken to Doctor Gray's home at La Grange and was there tenderly cared 

 for until he was able to go to the home of an uncle in Mississippi. When 

 somewhat recovered from this wound, the scars of which he retained to 

 the end of his life, he joined the army again and remained in it till the 

 end, though not in active service at the front. At the close of the war 

 he went to Texas, to the home of his father, who had been compelled by 

 the fortunes of war to give up his work among the Indians. 



He had one year at school in La Grange, Texas, and afterwards taught 

 for a year in a near-by country school. In 1867, during the epidemic of 

 that year, he had a severe attack of 3^ellow fever and his life was despaired 

 of. 



In 1868 he entered the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, of which 

 at that time his former preceptor at La Grange College, Dr. John IST. Wad- 

 dell, was chancellor, and here began his lifelong friendship with Dr, 

 Eugene W. Hilgard. 



In 1871 he was graduated from the University of Mississippi with the 

 degree of B. S. After graduation he remained at the university as Ad- 

 junct Professor of Chemistry until 1874, taking up in 1873 a line of study 

 looking to the degree of Ph. D., which was conferred on him by the Uni- 

 versity of Mississippi in 1876. During the period 1871-1874 he served 

 also as Assistant State Geologist of Mississippi under Doctor Hilgard. 



From 1874 to 1878 he was assistant on the Georgia Geological Survey, 

 with Dr. George Little as State Geologist. From the Georgia Survey he 

 was called to California by Doctor Hilgard to assist in the preparation 

 of the reports of the Tenth Census on cotton culture. In this work he 

 was engaged until its completion. From 1882 to 1885 he was assistant on 

 the Geological Survey of Kentucky in the preparation of a report on the 

 "Jackson Purchase" region and of a number of counties. Much of the 

 writing of these reports was done at Columbia, South Carolina, where he 

 was Professor of Agricultural Chemistry in the university of that State 



