Frank Hastings Hamilton Papers 1863-1887

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Frank Hastings Hamilton Papers 1863-1887

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010118

Physician, surgeon, educator and author. Mainly scrapbooks of correspondence, telegrams, military documents, photographs and clippings relating to Hamilton’s medical career in the Union Army during the Civil War and his role in the treatment of James A. Garfield before his death by assassination in 1881.

200 items; 1 container; .4 linear feet

eng,

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6357005

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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