The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-30
OBITUARY.
The Rev. Harrison L.ambd,u.

The recent death Of the Rev. Harrison Lambdin
is another reminder II were needed OF the fact
that our war against The Rebellion was in many
specs real OF independence, and, like that OF
Germany in the beginning OF this century, the
training school for the nation and its best The
Rev. Mr.. Lambdin, who died on Monday, at the age
OF thirty, in deaoon orders Of the Episcopal Church.
had fought through nearly the whole OF the recent
war; When the Rebellion began he was teaching
at the Episcopal Academy, just after gradu-
atlng at the University. Little past
tweLty, he gave up his studlous habits his artistic
pursuits, and his intense love Of domestic life, to
take part in the for the Union. Joining Colonel
Chapman Biddles regiment as a subaltern, he ex-
hibited great bravery and military skill In his first
battle-that Of Fredericksburg. His good conduct
in action and on the field soon for him promo
tion and he became an Assistant Adutant- General,
with the rank OF Captain, then OF Major, and finally
by brevet OF Lieutenant-O Colonel. He served in
succession with various brigade and division cem-
manders, and his zeal and ability were thoroughly
tested and appreciated by Rice and
Chamberlain and Crawford and Hoffman, to all OF
whom he gave most efficient assistance. While
serving with General Hoffman he was severely
wounded near Petersburg and although after long
sickness he was finally able to return to the field,
and served to the close OF the war, he never reco-
vered his health Indeed, he was from his earliest
youth so delicate that few of his friends believed
tn at he could withstand the fatigues and exposure
OF campaigning, yet the hard life gave him fresh
strength and new vigoE
His beautiful Christian character, his marked vr-
tues his hearty enjoyment OF all that good and
wholesome in army life, and the perfect immunity
which he enjoyed from all It's evil influences all en-
deared him to his own men and those of his regi-
ment ana In a like degree to the general ana stan
officers with whom he associated in the later and
more distinguished portion OF his career in the army
OF the Potomac. Returned to civil llfe he went to
work at once and showed the same earnestness in
nau nd n mn
draughtsman in Mr.. Joseph Harrison's en-
gineering works, his old love OF art
and literature took him back to his
teaching, and while he was buslly engaged at the
Episcopal Academy, he began aud carried on his
studies for the Episcopal ministry, which he was
admitted last spring. Full OF earnest pety, imbued
with the purest and highest religious zeal, gifted
with great literary skill and restrained from its fire.
quent exercise only by too nice and critical judg-
ment, utterly unselfsh and apparently unconscious
alike OF his own unusual experience and rare
dowments, he gave promise OF becoming a useful
and, in time, distinguished ofcer Of the Church.
His health however was rreparably broken by his in-
cessant hard work. and even a summer spent abroad,
where his love of art and his skill with his pencil
might have given him the necessary change and
rest was broken by the outbreak of the war, which
brought him home. He never recovered sufficiently
to set to at his labors in the Church, but
his life had been spent in its service, and in the
midst OF his daily avocations he had found time for
helping in the establishment OF school for adults,
and for instruction both in secular and religious
matters, with zeal aad skill which endeared him
to his associates. His whole life, short as it was,
was full OF good works. and 1t was terminated too
soon for others who would have benefited by It,
rather than for himself.