Figure 4.—This group of U.S. Army medical officers includes several who were to be prominent in the history of the Army Medical Museum and the Library of The Surgeon General. Standing (left to right): Lt. Col. William G. Spencer, Assistant Surgeon Alfred A. Woodhull, Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, Assistant Surgeon Edward Curtis. Seated (left to right): Assistant Surgeons George A. Otis, Charles H. Crane, John S. Billings, and Joseph J. Woodward. (From an original glass negative dated 1864 in the AFIP files.)
hospitals at Alexandria, Falls Church, and Culpeper Court House, Va., and at Memphis, Tenn.[1]
"My whole heart was in the Museum," he wrote afterward, "and I felt that if the medical officers in the field, and those in charge of hospitals, could only be fairly interested, its growth would be rapid and the future good of such a grand national cabinet would be immense. By it the results of the surgery of this war would be preserved for all time, and the education of future generations of military surgeons would be greatly assisted."
During his period of service as Curator, Dr. Brinton visited the field hospitals after the great battles in the East—Antietam or Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg,
- ↑ Record of John Hill Brinton's Action in the Matter of the Military Medical Museum. On file in historical records of AFIP; letters of 28 July, 7, 9, 12, 18, and 19 August 1862.
