Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton, Major and Surgeon U.S.V., 1861-1865 |
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Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton: Civil War Surgeon, 1861-1865 John Hill Brinton Limited preview - 1996 |
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Page 180 - Surgeon-General, in 1862, was to issue a circular stating that "as it is proposed to establish in Washington an Army Medical Museum, medical officers are directed diligently to collect and to forward to the office of the Surgeon-General, all specimens of morbid anatomy, surgical or medical, which may be regarded as valuable ; together with projectiles and foreign bodies removed, and such other matters as may prove of interest in the study of military medicine or surgery...
Page 239 - The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
Page 147 - Instead of relieving you, I wish you (as soon as your new army is in the field) to assume the immediate command and lead it on to new victories.
Page 172 - SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act brigade surgeons shall be known and designated as surgeons of volunteers, and shall be attached to the general medical staff under the direction of the Surgeon General ; and hereafter such appointments for the medical service of the army shall be appointed surgeons of volunteers.
Page 44 - In short this female nurse business was a great trial to all the men concerned, and to me at Mound City soon became intolerable.
Page 121 - Damn you, gentlemen, I see skulkers. I'll have none here. Come on, you volunteers, come on. This is your chance. You volunteered to be killed for love of your country and now you can be.
Page 37 - His hair matched his beard, and at a first glance he seemed to be a very ordinary sort of a man, indeed, one below the average in most respects. But as I sat and watched him then, and many an hour afterward, I found that his face grew upon me. His eyes were gentle with a kind expression, and thoughtful.
Page 37 - ... down and continued his work with Rawlins. I had a good opportunity to observe him and did so very closely. He was then a very different looking man from the General Grant, or the President, of after days. As I first saw him, he was a very short, small, rather spare man with full beard and mustache. His beard was a little long, very much longer than he afterwards wore it, unkempt and irregular, and of a sandy, tawny shade. His hair matched his beard, and at a first glance he seemed to be a very...
Page 23 - The Confederate army was more disorganized by victory than that of the United States by defeat.
Page 116 - Doctor, I believe I command this army, and I think I'll go first." We marched in battle order, ready for action. The actual luggage of the staff was represented by a few collars, a comb and brush and such toilet articles, contained in a small satchel belonging to me. General Grant had only a toothbrush in his waistcoat pocket, and I supplied him with a clean white collar. Of whisky or liquor, of which so much has been said, there was not one drop, except that in my pocket, an 8-ounce flask, which...