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1863.
Augustus Barker.
Second Lieutenant 5th New York Cavalry, October 3, 186; first Lieutenant May 3, 1862; Captain, October 24, 1862; died near Kelly's Ford, Va., September 18, 1863, of wounds received from guerillas, September 17.
Augustus Barker was born in Albany, New York, April 24, 1842.
He was the son of William Hazard and Jeannette (James) Barker.
His grandfather on the paternal side was Jacob Barker of New Orleans, Louisiana.
His mother, who died soon after his birth, was the daughter of the late William James of Albany.
He attended a variety of schools,—at Albany, Sing-Sing, and Geneva, in New York; at New Haven, Connecticut; and finally at Exeter, New Hampshire, where he was a pupil of the Academy.
In July, 1859, he entered the Freshman Class of Harvard University.
In College he was genial, frank, and popular.
His college life, however, closed with the second term of the Sophomore year, and he soon after entered the volunteer cavalry service of New Y