In the U.S. he pursued a variety of occupations, including bookseller, druggist, teacher and, hospital steward in the United States Army.

Duty at the fort was reported to be a dull assignment as the men took the roles of guards and hospital stewards, not artillerymen.

He rose to the rank of captain and served as hospital steward and then surgeon.

He married about 1861 and during the Civil War, served as a hospital steward.

It's all the hospital stewards in here.

At times they fired upon armed men in bodies, but they much preferred for their victims the unarmed attendants, the doctors, the chaplains, the hospital stewards.

The cross and wreath are adapted from devices authorized for hospital stewards and other medical enlisted men when the Hospital Corps was established in 1887.

Arthur Soden served as a hospital steward with the 22nd Massachusetts.

Formerly William Lansing Taylor, James changed his name upon his enlistment in 1862 as a hospital steward in the 7th Kansas Cavalry.

Following the Civil War, he earned a position at the new state penitentiary in Kansas as a hospital steward.