Keywords: Army doctors
Item 70234
Surgeon report on illness in New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 66028
Alonzo Garcelon to Israel Washburn on regimental surgeons, 1861
Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Date: 1861-04-24 Location: Lewiston Media: Ink on paper
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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.
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John P. Sheahan, 1st Maine Cavalry, 31st Maine Infantry
John P. Sheahan of Dennysville served in the 1st Maine Cavalry from August 1862 until March 1864 when he was commissioned as a lieutenant in Co. E of the 31st Maine Infantry. His letters reveal much about the life of a soldier, including political views and thoughts about the war.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4
"People called Ella to contact the doctor if he and his assistant were busy with patients. Ella would frequently relay his medical advice to the…"
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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3
"Cummings. The doctor built this island farm in 1856. The previous year Solomon Hanscomb and his two sons discovered a jug filled with fifty-two…"
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My story about tours of duty in Vietnam
by Maynard Bradley
I served in the Army Special Forces as a Green Beret, it still effects me today.
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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR