Capt. John McCrady

John McCrady of Charleston studied under Agassiz at Harvard and then taught mathematics at the College of Charleston. At the outbreak of the war, he resigned his professorship and became an officer in the Confederate engineers. After being transferred to Savannah, he devoted his efforts to surrounding the city with an extensive ring of defenses. The rest of his life was spent in academic work: he returned to his former professorship in Charleston, later became an assistant to Agassiz, and then served as professor of biology at the University of the South, Sewannee, Tennessee.

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