Harvard Medical Library
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Harvard Medical Library
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Rare books and journals from the collections of the Harvard Medical Library
Collection Items
"The soldiers' manual : a hand book of useful and reliable information, showing who are entitled to pensions, increase, bounty, pay, etc. ... "
!["The soldiers' manual : a hand book of useful and reliable information, showing who are entitled to pensions, increase, bounty, pay, etc. ... "](https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/files/thumbnails/89ef2d85bcae1bae86dbafdc749e2078.jpg ""The soldiers' manual : a hand book of useful and reliable information, showing who are entitled to pensions, increase, bounty, pay, etc. ... "")
The manual's introduction states:
There is no particular class of wounds, injuries, or diseases, for which pensions are granted. It depends not so much upon the wound, injury, or disease itself, as upon the disabled condition arising therefrom. A…
There is no particular class of wounds, injuries, or diseases, for which pensions are granted. It depends not so much upon the wound, injury, or disease itself, as upon the disabled condition arising therefrom. A…
Zabdiel Boylston Adams (1829-1902)
A graduate of Harvard Medical School in 1853, Zabdiel Boylston Adams enlisted in 1861, joining the 7th Massachusetts Volunteers as an assistant surgeon. He was later a captain with the 56th Massachusetts Volunteers. Adams was wounded at Orange…
!["Ambulance, built at the Gov. Repair Shops, Washington, D.C., under the direction of Brevet Major General, D. H. Rucker, Quartermaster, U.S. Army."](https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/files/thumbnails/f0dbee86b61844a33f9d75d954071088.jpg ""Ambulance, built at the Gov. Repair Shops, Washington, D.C., under the direction of Brevet Major General, D. H. Rucker, Quartermaster, U.S. Army."")
!["Mount Pleasant Hospitals, Washington, D.C."](https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/files/thumbnails/1752ed6468812fe62bf2d7966155c487.jpg ""Mount Pleasant Hospitals, Washington, D.C."")
"Camp near Falmouth, Va."
!["Camp near Falmouth, Va."](https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/files/thumbnails/d4ee8a8e2bb9e34bca96ee2ce26fc5e8.jpg ""Camp near Falmouth, Va."")
This drawing, from 1863, is part of a letter to Sargent's young son, George; he wrote, I shall try and get leave to come home one of these days. I hope you will be glad to see me when I come. If you are not glad, I shall be very sorry, I can tell…
"Charles B. Johnson, age 21, Hospital Steward, 130th Illinois Infantry Volunteers."
!["Charles B. Johnson, age 21, Hospital Steward, 130th Illinois Infantry Volunteers."](https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/files/thumbnails/4adb05a218a194817b7f09771b8525bd.jpg ""Charles B. Johnson, age 21, Hospital Steward, 130th Illinois Infantry Volunteers."")
Charles B. Johnson, who served with the 130th and 77th Illinois regiments and became a physician after the war.
Late in life, he published a memoir of his experiences with particular attention to medical care and diseases of soldiers during the…
Late in life, he published a memoir of his experiences with particular attention to medical care and diseases of soldiers during the…
!["Photograph no. 6. Head and six inches of shaft of right humerus successfully excised for gunshot fracture."](https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/files/thumbnails/517a43b35b23959415ab88b943a71901.jpg ""Photograph no. 6. Head and six inches of shaft of right humerus successfully excised for gunshot fracture."")
!["Photographic series, no. 58. Case of Corporal Bemis, thrice severely wounded in three battles."](https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/files/thumbnails/3e183e55fccbbf2c8593dfb55f1a4c19.jpg ""Photographic series, no. 58. Case of Corporal Bemis, thrice severely wounded in three battles."")