U.S. Surgeon-General's Office medical report of the Second Corps at the Battle of Gettysburg 1863

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U.S. Surgeon-General's Office medical report of the Second Corps at the Battle of Gettysburg 1863

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Seventeen-page report from Justin Dwinell, surgeon in charge of the Second Corps hospital at Gettysburg, and A. W. Laugherty medical director of the Second Corps.

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History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

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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...