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FISK, Samuel, soldier, born in Shelburne, Massachusetts, 23 July 1828; died in Fredericksburg, Virginia, 22 May 1864. He was graduated at Amherst in 1848, was in Andover theological seminary from 1850 till 1852, was tutor at Amherst from 1852 till 1855, then traveled a year in Europe and the east, and was pastor of the Congregational Church at Madison, Connecticut, in 1857. He entered the National army as a private in the 14th Connecticut regiment in 1862, became captain, was for some time a prisoner in Richmond, distinguished himself in several battles, and fell at the head of his company on the second day of the battle of the Wilderness. 6 May dying in the hospital. His letters from Europe and the east, first published in the Springfield "Republican" under the pen name of " Dunn Browne," appeared in a volume in 1857. His "Experiences in the Army," under the same assumed name, were published in 1866.
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