Person/Organization: Hunter, Samuel B.
Item 66035
Samuel B. Hunter, 7th Maine, to Alonzo Garcelon, 1862
Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Date: 1862 Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Surgeon General Alonzo Garcelon
Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston was a physician, politician, businessman, and civic leader when he became Maine's surgeon general during the Civil War, responsible for ensuring regiments had surgeons, for setting up a regimental hospital in Portland, and generally concerned with the well-being of Maine soldiers.
