Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-14
GEORGE EDMUND BRlCKETT
Maine Commandery, Loyal Legion
Pays Glowing Tribute.

The following tribute to the memory
of companion George Edmund Brick
EFT, late surgeon 5th and 21st Maine
infantry, was adopted at a stated
meeting of Maine Commander, Militia
ry order OF the Loyal Legion of the
United States:
DR.. George Edmund Brickett. who
was elected Il member of the Maine
Commandcry Of the Loyal Legion May
2. 1888. and whose insignia number
was 1851. died at his home on State
street in Augusta. Maine. January 2S
1910, at the advanced age of So years,
two months ard eight days.
COMPANION Brckett was born in
White River Junction, Vermont. No
vember 30, 1924. and was the son of
Edmund and Harriet NHeaton) Brick
EFT. His preliminary education was
acquired in the common schools and
at Lancaster (Ncw Hampshire) Acad-
envy and Limerick (Maine) Acad-
envy. He commenced the study OF
medicine in Limerick. Maine. i'm 1872.
under DIR. William Swasey. and grad
uated from Dartmouth Medical Col
legc in 1916. He commenced practice
in New Gloucester. Maine, where he
remained about two years. then re-
moved to China, Maine. where he was
in the active practice Of Ills profession
until the outbreak of the War of the
Rebellion in the spring OF 1851
On June 90 of that year Dr. Brckctt
was appointed assistant surgeon of
Col. oliver o. Howard's Sd Maine Reg
iment of Volunteers; but his service
with this regiment was brief for, on
August Is, Of the same year. he was
sent to the 9Th Maine Infantry as sur
geon under a contract with the Sur
geon General of the United States Ar
my, to take the place of Surgeon Ben
jamin f. Buxton Of that regiment. who
was taken prisoner. at the battle of
Bull Run on July 81. He remained
with the 5th Maine until the return of
DR.. Buxton, about July 4. 1862.
In the mean time he had resigned
his commission as assistant surgeon in
the Third Maine, and at the organiza
ton of the 21st Maine Infantry he was
appointed surgeon of the regiment, be-
ing mustered in on September 10. 1862
and served until the muster out of the
regiment. August %. 1886. His field
service included Bull Run. the PENN
sular campaign. and the siege and
surrender of Port Hudson.
In October 1858. DR.. Brickett was
made surgeon in charge of Cony Unit
ed States General Hospital at Angus
Ia, Maine, under contract with the
Surgeon General. where he remained
until the close of the war. From 1864.
to the time the United States troops
We're withdrawn in 1893, he was the
attending surgeon at the Kennebec
Arsenal
At the close OF the war he settled
permanently in Augusta. where he has
since been in practice of his profess
sion, but for the last ten years. on ac
count of an infirnity. it has been con-
ned to an office practice From 1874
TO 1888 he was on the United States
Board of Examining Surgeons for
pensions He was the family phvsi-
clan of the late Hon. James G. blaine
In 1S6s-69 he represented the CITY in
the Maine House of Representatives.
Dr. Brickett was a member of the
Maine Medical Association. of which
ne was president in 1888; also of tbe
kennebec County Medical Society
serving as its president in 1870, He