U.S. Army Medical Miscellany Collection 1866-1929

Presidio of San Francisco (Calif.)

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The Presidio of San Francisco, located on a bluff overlooking San Francisco Bay, was established by Spanish forces in June 1776. On March 7, 1847, Capt. Francis J. Lippitt's company of the 1st New York Volunteers occupied the site, which became a permanent post the following April. An Executive order of November 6, 1850, declared a military reservation for the Presidio consisting of 1,522 acres. The Post was abandoned for a brief period during early 1851 but otherwise has been continuously garri...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

United States. Surgeon-General's Office

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Born in Charleston, Massachusetts, David L. Huntington, 1834-1899, studied medicine at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the army as an Assistant Surgeon in 1862. Huntington was Acting Medical Director Army of the Tennessee during Sherman's march to the sea in 1864. A career medical officer, Lt. Colonel Huntington at times served as acting Surgeon General. He also was director of the U.S. Army Medical Museum for many years before his retirement in 1898. From the desc...

Army War College (U.S.)

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