Medical department and hospital papers collection : Union and Confederate Armies, 1846-1866 / [collected by] William Pendleton Palmer.

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Medical department and hospital papers collection : Union and Confederate Armies, 1846-1866 / [collected by] William Pendleton Palmer.

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Correspondence, copies of orders, original reports of the sick and wounded, lists of the dead, invoices and reports of medicines and other hospital supplies and equipment, and other papers relating to the medical departments and hospitals of the Union Armies along the Atlantic coast and in Louisiana, and to Confederate hospitals in Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia. The six Army physicians to whom the papers principally relate are: Robert Battey (1828-1895), Renley S. Butler (b. 1834), William A. Carrington, Benjamin Franklin Harrison (1811-1886), Henry M. Kirke (d. 1876), and John Payne Logan (1820-1891).

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

Butler, Renley S., b. 1834.

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Logan, John Payne, 1820-1891.

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Palmer, William Pendleton, 1861-1927,

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William Pendleton Palmer was President of the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio (1913-1927). From the description of Regimental papers of the Civil War, 1849-1882, bulk 1861-1865 / [collected by] William Pendleton Palmer. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 19898789 William Pendleton Palmer was President of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. From the description of Medical department and hospital papers co...

Harrison, Benjamin Franklin, 1811-1886.

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Carrington, William A.

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Physician and medical officer, C.S.A, stationed in Richmond, Va. From the description of Papers, 1863-1864. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19276548 ...

Battey, Robert, 1828-1895

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Robert Battey, pharmacist, physician, and professor, was born 22 November 1828, near Augusta, Georgia, and died 8 November 1895, in Rome, Georgia. A pharmacist in Rome, Georgia (1848-ca. 1852), Battey graduated in medicine from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia (1857), practiced in Rome, Georgia, traveled and studied in Europe (1859), and developed a procedure known as "Battey's Operation" for the removal of the ovaries. During the Civil War he served as Senior Surgeon with Hampton's Bri...

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...

Kirke, Henry M., d. 1876.

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