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made Assistant Professor of Infantry Tactics at West Point.
In September, I86I, after repeatedly requesting to be sent
into active service, he was given leave of absence with
authority to take command of the 41st Ohio Infantry. After
being stationed for a few weeks at Gallipolis, he reported to
General Buell at Louisville, and on the 6th of January,
iS62, was appointed to command the igth Brigade, Army
of the Ohio. In the succeeding April he took part in the
battle of Pittsburgh Landing, and -in a charge at the head
of his troops captured two batteries and a large number of
prisonIers. He moved with the army to the siege of Corinth,
and afterward served in northern Alabama until ordered to
take command of the post at Murfreesboro'. His brigade
made a determined stand in the l)attle at this point, and for
this and other soldierly qualities, its commander was made
a Bi-igadier-General. During I863 he was very active in
the military district, and at Chickamauga was in the hottest
part of the battle, his being the last organized command to
leave the field. His brigade was engaged in several successful military operations aftelr this, and his personal courage was conspicuous on many occasions. In August, I864,
he was transferred to the Army of the Tennessee, and
placed in comnmand of the 2d Division of the 15th Army
Corps. He commanded this division in the "march to the
sea," and was detailed by Sherman to storm Fort McAllister,
near Savannah. This hlie accomplished successfully, capturing the garrison, ordnance, and everything connected
with its armament. Ini January, I865, he was sent with his
division to South Carolina, and participated in several engagemeits in that campaign. For bravery displayed in the
capture of Fort McAllister, he was created a Major-General,
and soon after appointed to command the I5th Army Corps.
Since the war he has been in continued service, and in the
army holds the rank of Colonel and Brevet BrigadierGeneral.
results were so remarkable that he warmly embraced the
new system, and became enthusiastic in his devotion to it.
He gave to its study the whole of his energy, and shrank
from no hardship or expense necessary to complete acquaintance with it. At that time the labor of attaining a thorough
k nowledg e of homceopathy was v ery great. There were no
books upon the s ubje ct to be had. Text-books and repertories were not known. A large part of the facts and
practical knowledge existed only in Smanus cript s sent from
Europe, and here exte nsive ly copied a nd circulated; these
lie thoroughly studied. It oas by these means th at the first
a t tempt at a more systematic and fixed treatment of Asiatic
cholera was tran s mitted to the North ampton County Society
of Homoeopathi c Physician s, and piously st udi ed and reverentially copied by its members. Slow and tedious as as as
this process, it proved effective in keeping alive the zeal of
the adhe ren ts of the system, and prob ably made a deeper
impre ssion upon their minds. Knowledge thus acquired
wa s not easily forgotten. Di. Pulte soon jpa ined the ])and
of homceopathists who had formed th e society in Northampto n county Che first one of theim of id i n this country. It
registered among its mernl)ers some of the most enminent
practitioners whom the State has ever knownii, and many
clergymen who gave the influence of their position and culture to the advancement of the cause. The most valuable
accession to the society was Dr. C. Heriiig, who had taken
up his residence in ll 41entown to preside over the academy
which had been formed by the little band of liomoeopatbists.
Dr. Pulte recognized in- Dr. Heriiig a mall of pourer and of
admirable administrative abilities, and submitted gladly to
the mouldinig influence of his genius. Having assisted to
organize the academy, he no, gave his best energies to sustain its reputation, and advance its prosperity. After six
years of increasing activity, and on the dissolution of the
academy, he went to Cincinnati in I840, on his way to meet
his brother ill St. Louis. lie travelled in company with an
intelligent Englishman, Mr. Edward Giles, who, converted
to the theory of homceopathy, needed practical proof if it
could be had. On the steamer he met with the lady who
was destined to be his wife, and to whom he was married
in I840. Remaining in Cincinnati long enough to give Mr.
Giles an opportunity of witnessing cures by hi(tmoopathy,
he opened a private dispensary, where soon the sick children of the poorer classes gathered for relief. It was summer, and the usual complaints of the season were prevalent.
Mr. Giles was witness to the marvellous cures performed,
and yielded to the force of the evidence thus furnished.
The news of his success soon spread over the city, and rich
and poor applied to him for help; and, in ]ess than six
weeks from the time of his arrival, he was in full practice,
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4 -JLTE, JOSEPH HYPPOLYTE, M. D., was borii
in Meschede, Westphalia, October 6th, i Si i. His
father, Hermann Joseph Pulte, M. D., was the
Medical Director of one of the goveriimei-it institu ul tions for the education of midwives, and as these
bad to be organized all over the newly acquired
provinces, be was especially deputed for that service, besides
presiding over those confided to his care. He was a man
of great stren,th of character, and left a noble example,
which his soti labored to imitate. After he had completed
his classical course at the Gymnasiuiii of Soest, and his
medical studies at the University of Marburg, be accepted
an invitation from his oldest brother to accompany him to
America. Eagerly embracing the opportunity-thus opened
to him, lie sailed for the United States in the spring of 1834.
Landing at New Yorlc, be started for St. Louis to meet his
brother who bad preceded him, and passing through Pennsylvania, was induced by a personal friend to remain at Cber