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Samuel Henry Eells.
Hospital Steward 12th Michigan Vols. (Infantry), February 7, 1862; Assistant Surgeon February I, 1863; died at Detroit, Mich., January 31, 1864, of disease contracted in the service.
Samuel Henry Eells was the son of Rev. James Henry and Maria Antoinette (Fletcher) Eells, and was born in Ober n Arbor, during the winter of 186-62; but before his course of study was completed, the war changed all his plans.
On February 7, 1862, he enlisted as Hospital Steward in the Twelfth Michigan Volunteers (Infantry), then in camp at Niles, Michigan.
He took part in the battle of Shiloh, where he was made prisoner,—an experience w e, Arkansas, September 5, 1863, to Dr. F. H. Brown of Boston, who was then collecting information as to the Harvard military record:—
I enlisted as Hospital Steward in February, 1862, and in February, 1863, was promoted to Assistant Surgeon.
Being with the Army of the Tennessee all the time, I have had but little opportunity