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David Livingstone
Portrait of Scottish missionary. physician, and explorer David Livingstone, albumen silver print by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, c. 1857; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Robert Livingstone, the eldest son of the explorer David Livingstone, did not join his father in Africa as originally planned in 1863. Instead, he traveled to the United States, where he enlisted to fight for the North during the American Civil War. He died while serving in the conflict on December 5, 1864.1