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Harvard Memorial Biographies.

JAMES NEVILLE HEDGES.
Volunteer A. D. C., Staff of Colonel Cradlebaugh (II4th Ohio Vols.),
commanding brigade, 1862; died at Circleville, Ohio, of disease contracted in the service, February, 1863.
JAMES NEVILLE HEDGES was born at Circleville,
Ohio, October II, 1843, and was the son of Mr. H. N.
Hedges of that town. He entered Harvard College as a
Freshman in i860, and during the two years of his stay
made himself exceedingly popular among his classmates. A
universal adaptability seemed the most marked trait of his
character, and this he showed not merely in his personal
relations with his classmates, but also in his literary tastes,
which were very varied. He had a great love of general
literature and of the modern languages; was a ready writer,
and at the end of his Sophomore year was chosen to the
somewhat doubtful honor of editing the Harvard Magazine,
then approaching its last days. He left College, however,
soon after this; and after forming and abandoning a project
of entering the navy, he returned to Ohio to seek a commission in the army. This failing, he obtained a position as
volunteer aid on the staff of Colonel John Cradlebaugh,
whose regiment, the One Hundred and Fourteenth Ohio
Volunteers, left the State on the 26th of November, 1862.
Having taken part in the battle of Arkansas Post, and in
one other engagement, he was obliged by severe illness to
go home and recruit. After reaching Circleville, he seemed
at first likely to regain his health, but soon suffered a relapse. He died in February, 1863.