Hi again, While searching for a KIDDER in the "KIDDER book," I came across this doctor - who had an "experience" in the Civil War. See below. Betty (near Lowell, MA) 452 DR. FRANKLIN KIDDER (Moses, Isaac, William, Enoch, James), born at Ashby, Mass., 26 June 1826; died in Florida in Nov. 1872. He married in Florida in 1866, ELIZABETH LEE, a widow. No children. Dr. Franklin Kidder accompanied his parents on their removal to Townsend, Mass., and in 1841 to Lowell, Mass. He attended the Academy at Ashby, and later studied medicine, graduating from the Ashby Medical School in 1856. He removed to Tennessee, where he carried on his practice, and at the outbreak of the Civil War was compelled to remain in the South where he was forced to serve in Confederate Hospitals, throughout the years of fighting. During the whole of this enforced service he maintained his firm loyalty to the United States. He returned North in 1865, but the severity of the climate obliged him to return to the South where he settled in Florida, and where he purchased an orange plantation and resumed the practice of his profession. Dr. Kidder was a naturalist and collector.