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...which Alexander Agassiz, Phillips Brooks, and Robert Treat Paine graduated. After graduating he studied law in the office of W. C. Noyes, New York, and began practice in that city. For a time he was on the Tribune staff. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the 12th regiment, New York State national guard, and went to the front at the first call. In September, 1862, he was made brigadier general for bravery. He was wounded at Antietam, and again at Gettysburg, where he was taken prisoner. He participated in the final Potomac campaign with Gen. Grant...
...indoor handicap athletic meeting is going to be held on Saturday evening, January 22, in the Armory, East Newton street, Boston, under the auspices of the Ninth Regiment Athletic Association. The following events will take place: 75 yards dash, handicap; 440 yards run, handicap; 1 mile run, handicap; running high jump, handicap; 880 yards run, scratch, open only to those who have never won a prize for running; team race, tug of war. The entries close Monday, January...
...Racquest and Tennis Club of New York, held an invitation fencing meeting in which the following teams took part: The Twelfth Regiment, the Racquet Club, New York Athletic Club, the Fencers Club and the Harvard Fencing Club. There were no prizes, but a novel method of judging was tried namely, that of having for judges all those in the front row of the spectators and those not at the time fencing...
According to the votes of this large jury the Harvard team beat that of the Twelfth Regiment; the New York Athletic Club beat the Racquet Club, and in the finals the Fencers' Club defeated the Harvard team by the narrow margin of one vote out of a jury of about fifteen. The Harvard team was composed of J. P. Parker '96, J. E. Hoffman '96, and A. G. Thacher '97. Hoffman showed the greatest improvement over last year's form. Among the New York fencers were Messrs. Post, Bothner and Townsend, who finished in the order named in the amateur...
...struggle had been fierce; the carnage equalled only at Shiloh. 10,000 were lost on each side, and from one Confederate regiment of 425 men, 306 were killed. In effect, Stone River was a drawn battle...