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Jul 01, 2007; Neville, Dave ... 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; Dammann, Gordon E ... 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; Anonymous ... 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; Karnes, Steven ... 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; Karle, Ted ... 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; Dunkelman, Mark H ... 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; McAfee, Michael J ... 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; Anonymous ... 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 ...