The Battle-Scarred

Group of officers who have undergone amputation for gunshot injuries

Thrice severly wounded, Corporal Edson D. Bemis

Excision of the elbow-joint for gunshot injury, J. T. Herzog

Excision of the head of the femur for gunshot injury, C. F. Read

Recovery after amputation of the right thigh, Charles T. Greene

Excision of head and six inches of humerus excised, John F. Reardon

Head and six inches of shaft of right humerus excised from John F. Reardon

These photographs were published in "Photographs of surgical cases and specimens / prepared by direction of the Surgeon General by George A. Otis." Many of the anatomical specimens depicted were collected on behalf of the Army Medical Museum (now the National Museum of Health and Medicine) by Dr. John Hill Brinton. The compilation and photography of subjects was supervised by Dr. George Alexander Otis, who succeeded Brinton as curator of the museum in 1864. William Bell, famous for his later images of the American West, served as Chief Photographer for the museum from 1865 to 1868, and photographed many of the portrait sitters and specimens himself.