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402 CARR FAMILY RECORDS— ^'IXIH GEMERATIOX.
regiment was mustered out, lie was appointed assistant surgeon
of the 2nd regiment R. I. vol., and ^vas subsequently
promoted to the office of surgeon, serving in that capacity- and
as brigade operating surgeon in the 4th and 6th army corps,
participating in the battles at Yorktown, Mechanicsville,Gaines
Mill, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Melvin Hill, Antietam, Freder-
icksburgh, Wilderness, Gett^-sburgh, Mine Run, Rappahannock,
Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Hanover Junction, and other
engagements. At the close of the war, he resumed the
practice of his profession in Providence. He was admitted to
the R. I. state medical society and to the Providence medical
association in 1860, and was president of the latter from March
7, 1870, to March 4, 1872. He was appointed physician of the
R. 1. state prison, July 14. 1868, and continued to fill that position
until the removal of that institution from Providence in
1878. He has been U. S. examining surgeon of pensions tw^en-
tj^-fi.ve 3^ears, having been appointed in 1868. He was surgeon
of the R. I. hospital twent}^ years, receiving his appointment at
the opening of thatjinstitution in 1838, and resigning in 1888.
He was six j^ears a member and president of the board of examiners
of l-^J. I. state medical society'-. He is consulting surgeon
of the R. I. hospital, Butler hospital for the insane, and
St. Elizabeth's Home. He has been closely identified with the
state militia and national guards, having been brigade sur-
geon for several j^ears. On the re-organization of the state
militia he was made medical director, and served in tliatcapacit}^
for thirteen years. He was the first surgeon of the Grand
Army of the Republic in the state, and was for several years
medical director. He married Imogene Mathews, daughter of
Bradford N. and Harriet (Rogers) Mathews, April 17, 1871, in
Providence, wliere they reside. They only had,
6:383 1. George Wheaton Carr, b. Nov. VI 1879, d. March 16,'81.
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