There he met a French Count who recruited him to his Company B, 1st Regiment, New York Volunteers, as his protégé.
A detachment of the regiment served under Charles Grey in the defence of Plymouth when their transport ship was blown across the Atlantic after encountering foul weather while sailing down the North American coastline.
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After passing a New York state examination he was commissioned in December, 1862, assistant surgeon of the Sixty-sixth Regiment New York Volunteers, and ordered to join his regiment at Falmouth, Virginia.