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1865. In March, 1879, he was appointed to the Ninth Cavalry, 
where he now serves as Junior Veterinary Surgeon. 
“ Dr.” Huttinger was with the Seventh Cavalry for several 
years prior to his death in 1872, when the regiment was guarding 
a surveying party up the Yellowstone River, in Dakota. He was 
a great favorite with his regiment, being a kind, genial old man, 
but with no interest in the profession beyond a personal one. 
“ Dr.” Stein, now of St. Paul, Min., served, I am told, for a 
number of years in the Seventh Cavalry also, but during what 
period, I do not know. 
Solomon Bock in 1876 received appointment to the Fifth 
Cavalry, then stationed at Fort D. A. Russell, near Cheyenne, 
Wyoming Territory. He had received instruction during one 
session of the American Veterinary College, which he attended 
during the winter of 1875-76. Also some office instruction 
under one of the graduates of the college he attended. I have 
no knowledge of his having made any efforts to elevate the pro¬ 
fession in its standing in the armv. 
Robert Schauner served for a length of time of which I have 
no definite knowledge, in the Fourth Cavalry, at Fort Riley, Kan. 
He too had attended one session at college, the New York College 
of Veterinary Surgeons, during the winter of 1872-73. He was 
discharged from the service in 1880, and his application for re¬ 
appointment as an instructor in veterinary medicine at Jefferson 
Barracks, Mo., made shortly afterward, was denied by the Secre¬ 
tary of War. 
Samuel Burdett has also served in the Ninth Cavalry prior to 
1879, but for how long a time I do not know. 
My knowledge of S. W. Prentice, Veterinary Surgeon to the 
Tenth Cavalry, is also equally limited. 
This, then, is the limited and defective history of veterinary 
medicine in the United States army, as I have been able to glean 
it with the facilities which I have had at hand, up to the 27tli of 
March, 1879, when a new era begins. Those were the dark days 
before the dawn. Let us be thankful that they are past. 
The period from March 27, 1879, to the present, can best be 
included in a consideration of 
