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Baltimore to America as his physician.
He was educated at the schools of Charles-
ton and graduated M. D. from the
Medical College of the State of South
Carolina in 1834, afterwards appointed
assistant surgeon in the United States
Army, 1835, serving at many frontier
posts in Florida, and with high credit in
Texas during the Mexican War, and con-
tinued service after being created major
at various stations in Missouri, Texas and
New York. When South Carohna se-
ceded from the Union, he resigned and
settled in Little Rock, Arkansas, whence
he was called in June, 1861, to the
surgeon-generalcy of the Confederate
Army. Under the stress of overwhelm-
ing difficulties he organized a medical
department for the Confederate armies.
In 1863, at Richmond, he organized the
Association of Army and Navy Sur-
geons of the Confederate States and
became its first president, and was also
active as president in a similar associa-
tion, established after the close of the
war. The useful work was his of finding
methods of providing the Confederate
troops with medicines from the plants
indigenous to the southern states. He
inaugurated and directed the publication
of "The Confederate States Medical
Journal" from 1864 to 1865, and he
adopted the one story hospital wards
which became so popular in both northern
and southern armies. At the close of the
Civil War he remained in Richmond, not
engaging in active medical practice, but
interested in all pubhc affairs, and died
May 31, 1889.
J. E. P.
James Evelyn Pilcher, Journal of the Asso- ciation of Military Surgeons of the United States, vol. xvi, 1905 (port.) The Surgeon-generals of the United States Army, Carlisle, Pa., 1905 (port.)
Morgan, Charles Edward (1833-1867).
Charles Edward Morgan, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, was the son of George Morgan, a banker.
A book-worm in childhood, an enthu- siastic student of mineralogy at eleven, the possessor of a respectable cabinet of
specimens at fifteen, and the author of a
work on "Natural Philosophy" at seven-
teen, he had already achieved much by a
jealous hoarding of time.
He gained his baccalaureate degree from Columbia College in 1854, his diploma from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, three years afterwards.
He had seven years in Europe, con- scientiously spent in the interest of medi- cine and the collateral sciences, and on his return to New York in 1864 was given an appointment to service in the Northern Dispensary as one of the attending physicians to the class of skin diseases. Until within a few days of his death, he was revising for the press a work of his own on " Electro-physiology and Electro- therapeutics, including an account of the Electric Fishes." Here he impressed into good service his knowledge of the limner's art, in tracing upon the block many of the cuts.
To illustrate his quiet confidence, it may be worth remarking that about a year before the completion of his self- imposed task, when urged to publish through fear of anticipation, he rephed, " I have no fear of that; there are many points considered in my book which no one else will think of."
A contributor to the medical journals, but only to a Hmited extent, an excellent linguist, a critic in art with a bias for mathematics and the natural sciences, as well as a competent microscopist, science owed much to him.
He died in the thirty-fourth year of his age, of acute diarrhea and hemorrhage of the bowels, after an illness of only five days.
N. York Med. Record, 1S67, vol. ii.
Morgan, Ethelbert Carroll (1856-1891).
Ethelbert C. Morgan was born in Wash- ington, February 11, 1856, the son of Dr. James E. Morgan, one of the oldest physicians in the District.
Gonzaga College gave him his prelimi- nary education whence he graduated B. A., June, 1874. Even during boyhood
