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Arthur, Christopher

soldier, physician, public official, was born Sept. 16, 1833, in Highland county, Ohio. In 1862 he raised a company for the seventy-fifth Indiana volunteers, of which he was chosen captain. A few days later he was appointed surgeon of the regiment, which was assigned to the fourteenth army corps. With this command he served through the entire Atlanta campaign. At the battle of Chickamauga he was taken prisoner, and sent first to Atlanta, and finally to Libby prison. He has identified himself with the public schools of Camden, where he lived for some years, and is now president and a stockholder of the Citizens' bank. He has a very large and interesting collection of archæological specimens. war.