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Finding Aid to the Private and official papers of U.S. Army and Confederate Army medical officers: Thomas S. Latimer, 1861-1900
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Series I: Correspondence, Inventories, Invoices, Orders, Passes, Receipts, and Reports, 1861-1866 Series II: Lecture Admission Cards - Henry E. Woodbury, 1861-1863 Series III: Subscriptions for Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal, 1863 |
Collection SummaryThe collection combines official documents and correspondence relating to certain Union and Confederate surgeons during the Civil War (1861-65), the immediate post-war period (1866), and the Spanish-American War (1898). Invoices, orders, receipts, reports and correspondence from and about E. Lloyd Howard and Thomas S. Latimer describe activities of Confederate surgeons. Their forms and correspondence include items from Generals Jubal Early, A. P. Hill, Samuel Jones, John Withers, and John Echols; Secretaries of War Judah P. Benjamin, James Seddon and George Randolph and Assistant Secretary Albert T. Bledsoe; Secretary of the Navy Stephen R. Mallory; Surgeon General Samuel Preston Moore; Medical Director of the Army of Northern Virginia Lafayette Guild and surgeons Thomas H. Williams, Hunter McGuire and William H. Geddings. Documentation from and about Edward C. Woodbury and James Lawrence Turner describe activities of Union surgeons. Their forms and correspondence include items from Generals George W. Morell and C. H. Gausche; Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes and surgeons Wylie H. Forsythe, James P. Prince, L. W. Goldsborough, Charles Tennant and John H. Janeway. Also included are a series of subscription requests for the Confederate states medical and surgical journal (1863) sent to Thomas Latimer; admission cards to medical lectures issued to Henry E. Woodbury (1861-1863); random forms from the Union and Confederate medical departments; literature about the Association of Acting Assistant Surgeons (1892-1900) as well as some brief items relating to Molyneaux Turner's work as a surgeon during the Spanish American War. Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsRestrictionsCollection is not restricted. Contact the Reference Staff for information regarding access. For online customer service, please visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/contacts/custserv-email.html. CopyrightNLM does not possess copyright to the collection. Contact the Reference Staff for details regarding rights. For online customer service, please visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/contacts/custserv-email.html. Return to the Table of Contents
Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationPreferred CitationLatimer, Thomas S. Private and official papers of U.S. Army and Confederate Army medical officers: Thomas S. Latimer. 1861-1900. Located in: Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; MS C 99. Return to the Table of Contents Series Descriptions
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Last updated: 23 June 2004
First published: 23 June 2004
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