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Editor's Desk
Jul 01, 2007; ... Welcome to Military Images's Civil War Medical Issue. An enthusiastic response from collectors made it possible to include a wide variety of medical related images, as well as several very interesting articles. I would particularly like to thank Dr. Gordon Dammann, founder of The National Museum ...
Medical Images of the Civil War Period
Jul 01, 2007; ... A Leading Collector Reminisces About Collecting Civil War Medical Images. I must admit that when I started my Civil War collection, images were not big on my list of items to acquire. I wanted big items- medical operating kits, uniforms, accoutrements and even a surgeon's tent. I would ...
Featured Images
Jul 01, 2007; ... Front Cover CAPTAIN WILLIAM MACON SWANN of the 6th Georgia Infantry enlisted as assistant surgeon on March 1 , 1862. He was promoted to Brigade Surgeon in 1863 and Surgeon on August 30, 1864. The 6th Georgia was a hard fought unit of the Army of Northern Virginia, serving at Yorktown, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Editor's Desk
May 01, 2007; ... By the time you are reading this, you will have received a second copy of the March/April 2007 issue. The reason for this- printing irregularities that resulted in some copies being less than perfect and not up to the standard of your humble editor and our printer The Sheridan Press. The problem ...
Mail Call
May 01, 2007; ... [MI Senior Editor Mike McAfee's missive about the daguerreotype on the front cover of the January/February 2007 issue.] Dragoon or Not? I have been meaning to write about this and kept forgetting: the guy on the cover is not likely to be a dragoon. To keep it simple: the fact ...
The Officer Corps Of Custer's Seventh Cavalry 1866-1876
May 01, 2007; ... The Officer Corps Of Custer's Seventh Cavalry 1866-1876. by James B. Klokner, 128 pages, 111 illustrations, maps. Schiffer Military History, 4880 Lower Valley Road, Atglen, PA 19310. Hardcover $59.95 Much has been written about the officers of the 7th United States Cavalry in campaign ...
THE CAPTURE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS
May 01, 2007; ... The Dramatic Pursuit And Capture Of The Confederate President. In 1865 the Civil War had become a foregone conclusion. The North was winning and it would be only a matter of time before them South would capitulate. President Abraham Lincoln traveled south from the Capitol and met with ...
A Selection of Stories & Facts Concerning The 4th Michigan Cavalry & The Capture of Jefferson Davis
May 01, 2007; ... Accounts Of Jefferson Davis's Attire Colonel Pritchard's diary sold at auction in 1964. In it he mentions Jeff Davis' transgender disguise: "Moved up and captured the whole camp without firing a shot, which proved to be Jeff Davis. (Who attempted to make his escape in disquise of an old ...
CONANT FAMILY IN THE CIVIL WAR
May 01, 2007; ... From Missouri, The Conant Brothers Were Early Volunteers in "Mr. Lincoln's Army." Hastened by the April 12 attack on Fort Sumter by South Carolina forces, factions at each end of the political spectrum in St. Louis feverishly continued the organization and arming of their respective ...
TEXANS IN SEARCH OF A FIGHT
May 01, 2007; ... Two Photographs Provide A Wealth Of Information About The 4th Texas Infantry. Two recently rediscovered photographs of Confederate soldiers illustrate in considerable detail the uniforms and equipment of the 4th Texas Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia. Part of "Hood's Texas ...
RHODE ISLAND UNIFORMS IN THE CIVIL WAR
May 01, 2007; ... "Dirty, ragged, and with a full assortment of grayback" Tiny Rhode Island Contributed Troops To The Union Attired In A Variety Of Uniforms. Throughout the Civil War, soldiers pre7 pared themselves for whatever conditions were before them. This was true of both Federal and ...
The Ninety-Seventh Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry
May 01, 2007; ... ("Conkling Rifles") "YOU STAND ALONE ...!" A Determined Stand At Gettysburg Cost This Regiment Dearly. In the early afternoon of July 1, 1863, the 97th Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, led by Colonel Charles Wheelock, formed a line of battle north of the Pennsylvania ...
The Confederate Soldier
May 01, 2007; ... Right: Although not in uniform, this may be the only surviving image of A.J. Johnson of the 18th Alabama Infantry who was killed in action as the Civil War drew to a close. Johnson enlisted in the 18th Alabama on August 19, 1861 and was transferred to Battalion Sharpshooters on June 15, 1862 ....
Stragglers: Images From The Collections Of Our Readers
May 01, 2007; ... Above: An unidentified first lieutenant from the "61st" regiment. The detail shows an embroidered hunting horn insignia attached to his cap with the number "61" in its center. The insignia for infantry, this officer's portrait was taken by Bogardus of New York City, making it likely that he is a ...
The Last Shot
May 01, 2007; ... "Pards At Cards" CDV Copy of a Tintype (CDV by Hawk ...