Recently added articles from Military Images:
The Last Shot
Jul 01, 2007; ... Lieutenant Thomas W. Chandler, 65th New York Volunteer Infantry. This image clearly demonstrates the scar left by a bullet which wounded him at Fort Fisher, Virginia (also known as Jones's Farm), March 25, 1865. The notation (which has partially been trimmed to fit into an album) reads: "Minie ...
The Reverend Doctor Gordon Winslow
Jul 01, 2007; ... He Braved The Battlefield And The Hospital To Care For Wounded And Sick Soldiers. Dear Reader, we depart from our usual format to examine an individual rather than a military organization in this chapter of our continuing saga. Dr. Gordon Winslow was a Doctor of Divinity rather than a ...
SPECIMEN SOLDIERS
Jul 01, 2007; ... Medical Specimens Of Three 154th New York Infantry Soldiers Tell A Grim Story. The U.S. Army Medical Museum was established in Washington, D.C., in 1862, during the tenure of Surgeon General William A. Hammond. The institution was conceived as a research facility. Writes medical ...
How Our Great-Grand Father Met: The Famous Physician-Photographer Named Reed Bontecou
Jul 01, 2007; ... An Injured Soldier Becomes The Subject Of An Innovative Photographer. When we were kids, my mother told us that our great-grand father had fought in the Civil War. She said that thereafter, in his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania he was known as Peter Karle, "the soldier." She showed us an ...
UNION HOSPITAL STEWARDS
Jul 01, 2007; ... Union Hospital Stewards were the lowest ranking member within the Medical Department. During the Civil War, hospital stewards were noncommissioned officers who received the pay and allowances of a sergeant major. The hospital steward of a regiment, while in the Medical department, was part of ...