All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

Henry Biddle: Educating the Freedman


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From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #077, part 2

Captain Henry Biddle was wounded in the Battle of Glendale and died a few weeks later after having befriended his treating physician. His wife donated money in his name to found Biddle College in North Carolina, which has since changed its name to Johnson C. Smith University. His son Spencer Fullerton Baird Biddle was a Navy man who became a cattle rancher and introduced the highland cow to America and was a co-founder of the American Hospital in Paris. 

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