Doctor J. Letterman

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If anyone has any information concerning Civil War surgeon Doctor Jonathan Letterman please let me know.
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Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care by Scott McGaugh

Medical Recollections of the Army of the Potomac By Jonathan Letterman

Life and Limb: Perspectives on the American Civil War by David Seed (Editor), Stephen C. Kenny (Editor), Chris Williams (Editor)

And almost every book on ACW medicine has mention of him...

https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1077&context=history_diss

THE LIFE OF JONATHAN LETTERMAN on JSTOR

James M. Phalen, THE LIFE OF JONATHAN LETTERMAN, Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 58, No. 2 (JUNE, 1947), pp. 156-164

www.jstor.org

Collection: Jonathan Letterman Correspondence and Diary | NLM History of Medicine Finding Aids

findingaids.nlm.nih.gov

Major Jonathan Letterman (USA), Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac ("Father of Battlefield Medicine")

Genealogy profile for Major Jonathan Letterman (USA), Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac ("Father of Battlefield Medicine")

www.geni.com

Camp Letterman at Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. The result was a total of more than 51,000 combined casualties. About 14,000 wounded...

www.battlefields.org

Jonathan Letterman

www.battlefields.org

Jonathan Letterman – The Gettysburg Compiler

gettysburgcompiler.org

https://www.facs.org/media/5gijwmbe/04_letterman.pdf

HTHs,
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