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DR. HORACE COLEMAN DIED AT HOME IN WASHINGTON.ONCE LIVED IN LOGANHe- Went from Here a* Surgeon Served Through Some of the Hardest Campaign* of Civil War.Dr. Horace Coleman, fprmer rcsi-« ...deuce of t-ogansport, died 5n Washington, D, C-, Saturday. He vxxs :a brother, of the late pt Asa Coleman,' and. an uncle of Harry and Denby Coleman of this city. He removed, from Logansport many years ago. but is well remembered by the older residents of the city.. The funeral services will be held in Washington, D. C., to-morrow. Burial in-Arlington, ceme-. uuy.At the breaking out of the yw of-the rebellion Dr’ Horace.Coleman was practicing medicine in'I/^gnsport, as the partner of Dr. James M. Justice, On the seventh day’of October,-1861,;• • ■ • m • .. \be. was commissioned-surgeon of the forty-sixth Eegimentr Indiana Volunteer infantry, and' at once entered upon the discharge of his duty at. Garnij Logan, the rendezvous of the men forming, the regiment. The- duties of the medical staff of a -newly organizing regiment is not one o-f ease. Men coming 5a are subject to .ail kinds of diseases. It hapiwned among other . things that the newly 'made soldiers were especially ‘subject to the attack of measles, and Dr; Coleman had thirty or forty, cases-on., hand at one time. Then almost every tyje of disease was prevalent, and all was treated by the , surgeon. •;' .. ■. Surgeon. Coleman; remained with the. regiment until July 3T, 1S63,v He won the love, of all the men by :.his hind treatment of those having - to-, answer the side call. The -wounded -men going under his care were always pro-' • fuse in their, praise for' his 'courage.-.and.- kindness. -Many men.have/a-good... * •arm or leg -today Tjecause' he;-refused to „ allow' his assistants.,to= amputate.? During the- Vicksbur^d^paiffti he^division, thirteenth, array corps, at th® , : battle* of Port Gibson, Champion’s Hill, ' Vicksburg and at the -second siege and capture of Jackson, Miss. -• Previously ho had' cared for the wounded at is'ew Madrid, Island Ten, •Tiptons vllle,- Fort Pemberton, St Charles and Fort Pillow.. The cam-4 • • •paigning In Kentucky, up aJiddown.the. Ohio river;. Mississippi, ' White,-.. Arkansas,-the Yazoo. Pass, .the Talla* hatch ee river and .the exposure caused t: many: to sicken* . All these.. renulraP; t J.the;attention of the:medical, staff eon-.... 1. listing: of Horace Coleman, Israel B-r\Washburn, Joshua W...Underbill, YV11-.-: • liam S. liayniondr.Asa,Coleman, Wil-5 liaar Spencer and.. George ML Doane.11 His assistants were ■ very Competent •.A -..Alter leaving the army;Dr. Coleman . ■.! was appointed i nternaJ.' ‘ revenue .ool-.1 lector for-tho- Troy, district,- In.Ohio.; * President Harrison appoin ted pj- Cole-^man on .the medical cxamlug board inthe pension office, where he. soon. rose, to the head of one of the sections, lt;uxd ' ■was employed there when taken by death May 13, 1911..
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Logansport Weekly Reporter
Logansport, Indiana, US
Tue, May 16, 1911
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