U.S. Surgeon-General's Office medical history of the departments of the Ohio and the Cumberland during the year 1862 c.1863

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U.S. Surgeon-General's Office medical history of the departments of the Ohio and the Cumberland during the year 1862 c.1863

General medical history, also containing case reports for John Stanton, Tobias Duell, Henry Fay, Henry Thorncroft, Baylor H. Thinell and Marvin Garrison, all of whom died by disease in October 1862 at general hospital no. 6 in Nashville, or general hospital no. 14.

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United States. Army. Department of the Ohio (1861-1865)

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United States. Army. Dept. of the Cumberland.

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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...