The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-11
DIR. RESELL DEAD.
AN ETENTFUL AND PATRIOTIC
 CAREER CLOSED.

CAREER CLOSED.
 Passed Away Suddenly After Short Ill., ness-GaIIantIy Served His Country
 fin the Civil War and His City in Va
 rfous Official Capacities.
 Many will long cherish the memory of Dr. Evelyn L. Bissell, who died at 6 o'clock Saturday evening at his resi- dence, 3OS Crown street. He was an honored citizen, who had served New Haven ably in various official capaei- ties and who periodically served his country in the civil war. He was frank, genial, kindly, generous-hearted and big-hearted man, and in his death many will mourn. He was loyal, brave and true, faithful in his friendships and public-spirited. In politics he LOOK deep interest. Ever a democrat, he was in the war time a war democrat and in later times he was identified with the anti-free silver democrats. His life was an eventful one, marked by stir ring incidents and adventures. and haz- ard. ..-
 F General Bissells death was sudden, as he had been indoors only two days suf- fering from an acute attack of indiges- tfon. He was taken i'll Friday and was attended by Dr. Charles B. Park. He was apparently recovering from his ill., ness, and when Dr. Park visited him on Saturday General Bissell's, condition showed an improvement. In the even ing General Bissell got out of bed and was walking about in his room, when was suddenly attacked with vertigo He fell prone on the floor and expired shortly afterward. His death, it was decided, resulted from heart failure. He was in his seventieth year. ...
 SON OF A FAMOUS FATHER.
 .. General Bissell was one of the best known surgeons in the state. a past president of the New Haven board ot health and a man with notable ca reer. He. was the son of Major Lyman BisgeIl, the New Haven chief of police whose named is linked with the famous town and gown riot of 1854 It was Major Bissell, it was supposed who spiked the gun that was directed at old South Middle by the mob. '@s
 Tn early life General Bissell developed taste for military studies and attend ed the Russell military school on Woos- ter place. He gave up a cherished plan of going to West Point and took up the study of medicine instead, graduating from the Yale Medical school in 1860. Tn that year he served as surgeon on a Liverpool packet ship, but the breaking out of the civil war rekindled the mill tary spirit in the physicians heart and on May 8, 1862, he was mustered into the United States service as assistant surgeon of the Fifth regiment, Connec- ticut Volunteers. s ,.E. -.- ;. E. :. CAPTURED BY THE "REBs."
 He anticipated in the active service of the campaign in the Valley of the Shenandoah, and was taken prisoner at winchester Nal 25, 1862. While confined in that city he was entrusted with the duty of caring for the Confederate wounded. General Bissell was one of the seven surgeons to sign the first car tel by which medical officers were rec ognized as non-combatants.
 Tn July, 1862, he was released upon parole and, reporting to General Banks, was ordered back to his regiment. He went under protest, believing that if he should by any of the fortunes of war fall into rebel hands he would be shot. At Cedar Mountains, while at- tending the wounded soldiers on the battlefield, General Bissel was again captured and sent to Richmond, where he was placed in solitary confinement Later he was transferred to Libby prison. He was finally released and he rejoined his regiment at Fredericks- burg, participating in several of the great battles of the war, among them Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. In the latter he distinguished himself for his bravery in caring for the wounded and he was given honorable recofnition in the report of the adjutant- general.
 RESCUED 200 WOUNDED SOLDIERS
 General Bissell was in tine Army, of the Cumberland and had charge of the field hospital. He was also in the vari- ous engagements at Wauhatchie, Resa- ca, Pumpkin Vine Creek, Dallas, Cass- ville and Kenesaw Mountain. At the last named point he attracted the at- tention of General Hooker by his brave conduct in removing two hundred wounded soldiers in the face of dead 1y fire from a masked rebel battery. From that time he was specially de- tailed to remain on the medical staff of General Hooker, and he was also on the surgeons staff of General Thomas, with whom he continued for eight months Remaining at Nashville from the onward movement of General Sher-