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Charles Enfield, M.D.

Dr. Charles Enfield, who has practiced medicine in Greene county for thirty-seven years, is a veteran of the Civil war. He was enrolled in a New York regiment at the first call for volunteers, serving with the Army of the Potomac. His record shows his participation in the battles of Fair Oaks, Bethel, Glendale, Malvern Hill, etc., the First New York Volunteers being under the gallant General Phil Kearney, who was killed at Chantilly. That he was a Union soldier from 1861 to 1865, confronting the Confederacy and helping to destroy it, is his one boast in life.

Practicing medicine in the early history of Greene county had certain strenuous features. It was not unlike campaigning. Like a certain notorious Roman of the days of the Republic, the country doctor had to be “patient of cold, of hunger and of waiting.” On the whole medical work has its compensations, not the least of which is the breadth of the scientific field, so that if a man succeeds in coming out alive after nearly forty years of active practice, such an outcome may be considered a success.

Transcribed from "Past and Present of Greene County, Iowa Together With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Prominent and Leading Citizens and Illustrious Dead,"
by E. B. Stillman assisted by an Advisory Board consisting of Paul E. Stillman, Gillum S. Toliver,
Benjamin F. Osborn, Mahlon Head, P. A. Smith and Lee B. Kinsey, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1907.

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