[Letter and order book, 1st Kentucky Brigade, USA], 1861-1864, [Brigade Surgeon S.W. Gross].

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[Letter and order book, 1st Kentucky Brigade, USA], 1861-1864, [Brigade Surgeon S.W. Gross].

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Copies of letters dated Sept. 29, 1861 to Apr. 7, 1862; Jan. 26, 1864 to June 30, 1864. Includes: list of those killed and wounded at the engagement at Wild Cat Mountain, Ky., Oct. 21, 1861; report (by location of wound) of those killed and wounded at Shiloh, Tenn., Apr. 7, 1862; tables of medical officers in a) General Vogde's Division, b) General Gordon's Division, tables of surgeons of regiments in a) 6th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, b) 4th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, c) 5th Division, Dept. of the Ohio, d) composing the 1st Kentucky Brigade. Several sections of notes headed: 1) General surgical therapeutics; 2) Rules for dressings; 3) Fumigations.

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Gross, Samuel W. (Samuel Weissell), 1837-1889

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Samuel Weissel Gross, Philadelphia surgeon and son of Samuel D. Gross, was born on 4 Feb. 1837. He married Grace Linzee Revere in 1876. Gross died of pneumonia in Philadelphia on 16 Apr. 1889. Gross received an M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1857. He was surgeon to the Howard Hospital, Philadelphia Hospital, and the Hospital of Jefferson Medical College. He was known for his use of antiseptic surgery and radical surgery in cancer cases. Samuel W. Gross became a F...