Class of 1861

Birth: March, 1841; Moorefield, West Virginia

Death: October 29, 1864 (age 23); Beverly, West Virginia

Military Service: CSA, 1861-64

Unit: 62nd Mounted Infantry Regiment Virginia

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1861 non-graduate)

Henry R. Gamble was from Moorefield in West Virginia and a member of prominent slave-owning family in the town. He entered Dickinson College in the fall of 1857 as part of the class of 1861. He was a member of the Union Philosophical Society, but withdrew from the College before graduation to enlist in the service of the Confederate States at the outbreak of the Civil War on September 9, 1862 at the age of 21. He served in the Company B, 62nd Mounted Infantry Regiment Virginia. Gamble died at Beverly, West Virginia in 1864.

Charles H. Gere was born near Gainesville in Wyoming County, New York on February 18, 1838. He was the son of Horatio Nelson and Julia Delay Grant Gere. Charles Gere was educated at public schools and at the Oxford Academy, in Oxford, New York. Although his family had already left the East to settle on the western plains, he entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1859. He was elected to the Union Philosophical Society and the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity while there and graduated with his class in 1861.

Gere taught school for a time in Pennsylvania and in Baltimore, Maryland. He enlisted on June 22, 1863 in Company B of the six-months Tenth Maryland Volunteer Infantry, which served largely in guarding communications around Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. When this unit mustered out in January 1864, he enlisted in the hundred-day emergency Eleventh Maryland Infantry and saw action at the Battle of Monocracy. When the Eleventh was converted to a one-year unit, Gere served to the end of the war, guarding railways, and was mustered out on June 15, 1865.

Elbridge H. Gerry was born in York County, Pennsylvania in the borough of Shrewsbury on October 18, 1836 to James and Salome Hoffman Gerry. His father was prominent Methodist and Democrat in the area and three years after his son was born served two term in the United States Congress. Elbridge attended the local public school and the Shrewsbury Academy and then, in 1858, entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1861. While at the College he was elected to the Belles Lettres Society and became a member of Sigma Chi. He was graduated with his class and took up school teaching. After three years, he followed his father's path to the University of Maryland Medical School and graduated in 1867.

He joined the family practice in Shrewsbury under his father until the older Doctor Gerry's retirement in 1870 and then with his brother James, who also attended Dickinson, until 1888. From then he ran the practice alone and built a lucrative and large network of patients in the county. He was also very active in civic affairs and local politics. He was like his father a Democrat and was a regular delegate to county and state party conventions and served in the borough council. He also was a director of the Shrewsbury Savings Institution. He continued family tradition in the Methodist Church, too, and was lay delegate and sunday school superintendent.

Francis (Frank) Sutton Livingston was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 3, 1838. His father was William Townsend Livingston, an American merchant who arrived in the port city in that decade and settled into business as a shipper, wool factor, and merchant on Calle Victoria. Francis Livingston's mother was Elizabeth Louisa Lord Evans, the widow of English merchant John Evans. Livingston entered Dickinson College with the class of 1861. While at the College, he was a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity and was elected to the Belles Lettres Society. Livingston did not complete his program and left to study law in Albany, New York, his father's home city.

Lewis L. McArthur was born in Portsmouth, Virginia on March 18, 1843. He was the third son of famous naval hydrographer and surveyor Lieutenant Commander William Pope McArthur, USN, and his wife Mary Stone Young McArthur. While commanding the first Pacific Coast Survey, during which he explored the Columbia River, his father died at sea of dysentery in December 1850. The younger McArthur then grew up in Portsmouth and Baltimore, Maryland before he entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1861. While at the College he became a member of the Belles Lettres Society, but left before graduating. He subsequently studied the law.

By May 1864, McArthur was in Umatilla, Oregon where he was elected recorder in the first city government after its incorporation. He also began a newspaper there, but then moved on to Baker City where he founded that town's first journal, the Bedrock Democrat, in 1870. McArthur had already been elected as county judge of Baker County in 1868 and in 1870 was elected to state-wide office as a Democrat to the Circuit Bench of the Eastern Oregon District . He also served a term on the State Supreme Court. McArthur was then a district judge and in 1886 was appointed United States Attorney for Oregon in the Cleveland Administration, for which he moved to Portland. He also lectured on equity in the University of Oregon where he served on the board of regents.

Birth: January 5, 1840; Franklin, Newton County, Georgia

Death:  May 2, 1928 (age 88); Canyon City, Oregon

Military Service: CSA, 1861-65

Unit: 142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; 208th Pennsylvania Infantry

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1860 non-graduate); Wofford College

George F. Round was born on January 5, 1840 in Newton County, Georgia. He was the eldest son of Methodist minister George Hopkins Round and his wife, Mary Louisa McCants Round. Round grew up in Cokesburg, South Carolina. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a member of the class of 1861. His brother, William Capers Round, joined him in the class of 1863. While at the College, George Round was elected to the Belles Lettres Society and became a member of Phi Kappa Psi. He did not finish his degree, however, for he withdrew from Dickinson and returned home when the war began.

Round enlisted in Company K (Spartan Rifles) of the Fifth South Carolina Volunteer Infantry in Spartanburg, South Carolina. How much fighting he saw personally is unclear, but the Fifth South Carolina was in action in some of the fiercest fighting of the war. They were in A.P. Hill's Division, then in Longstreet's, and at Gettysburg served as a part of Pickett's Division. The Fifth South Carolina ended the war at Appomattox Court House as a part of Bratton's Division.

Round's brother William did not survive the conflict.