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He joined the Fifteenth Massachusetts,
Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Dew
ems, on August l. 1861, as sergeant-maJor,
and became assistant adjutant-generaI of
the brigade under General Darius n.
Couch on September IA, 1861, with the
rank OF captain. On August II, 1862, he
was made diutant-general Of General
Couch's division with the rank of major
and he was promoted colonel on the staff
of the Second Army Corps December %
1862. Thereafter he continued with that
corps as Acknowledgement, serving success
sively on the stats of General Gouverneur
K. Warren and General Winfield s. Han
cock, and was severely wounded at Chan
ceIlorsville May 1, 1868, and captured at
Reams Station August %, 1864. He was
confined in Libby Prison, in consequence
of which his health was impaired so that
he resigned on January II, 1865 The
brevet of brigadier- general of volunteers
was conferred on him on March 13, 1866.
He taught Latin and Greek at Willston
Seminary during 186567, and was then
assistant editor of the Springfield Repub-
lican. In 1869 he became chief of the
Bureau of Statistics in the Treasury De-
partment at Washington, and in 1870-72
he held the Office of superintendent of the
ninth census. During 1871-72 he was also
Com mmissioner of Indian Affairs.
He was called to the professorship of
political economy and history in the Shelf
field Scientific School OF Yale in 1873, and
held that chair till 1881, when he was
elected to the presidency of the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology. Mean
while, from May till November, 1876. he
was chief of the bureau of awards at the
Worlds Fair in Philadelphia, and during
1879 81 he was superintendent OF the tenth
census while on leave of absence from
Yale. He held the lecturership on tenure
of land at Harvard in 1888. While Iesid-
ing in New Haven he was a member of
the city and State boards of education,
and on his removal TO Boston, Mass, he
was called on to serve similarly in that
State. The degree of A. NJ. was conferred
on him by Amherst in 1868 and by Yale
in 1873; that of Ph. D. by Amherst in 1876,
and that of LID. by Amherst in Yale in
1881, by Harvard in 1888, by Colum bia in
1887 and by st. Andrew in 1888.
lie was United States Commissioner to
the International Monetary Conference
in Paris in 1878, and was elected IN 1873
to the National Academy OF Sciences. He
was president of the American Statistical
Society and OF the American Economical
of the Royal Statistical Society of Lon
don. His writings include annual reports
as superintendent of the ninth census
(three volumes, Washin gtou, 1S70-72) as
Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1872), as
superintendent OF the tenth sus (three
volumes, 1879-81), and as president of the
Massacn usetts Institute Of chnology
Give volumes, Boston, 18S3-8s), and he has
compiled Commerce and Navigation of
United States" (two volumes, Washing
ton, 1S68-69), Ninth Census (four vol
umes 1872-73), Statistical Atlas of the
Uaited States" (1S74), Judges Report on
Awards" (eight volumes. Philadelphia.
1879, and "Tenth Census" (twenty four
volumes. Washington, 1888, ct seq.).
President Walker was the author of
'The Indian Question" Boston. 1874
The Wages Question" (1S76). Money"
1s7S), Money, Trade and Industry
(1879), Land and Its Rent" Q9S3), "Po-
ltical Economy New York, 1881, and
rH story of the Second Army Corps"
(18S6l,