In search of medical director and or surgeon for the Army of the Potomac, second army corp, sickles division. Specifically David Bell Birneys' regiment.
I am also in search information on the following surgeons;
Dr. James E. Dexter Surgeon 40th New York
Dr Wiggin.. the only info I have is first division third corp third brigade, which I believe is Birneys division.
Dr. Lyman division medical corp 57 PA vol.
Dr. Harris of the US Sanitary Commission
Mr. Fay of US Sanitary Commission ( may be an MD)
Lieutenant J.R.Moore Ambulance Corp coordinator at Chancellorsville.
Gettysburg
Surgeon in chief ( Dr. Lyman?) and chief medical office of first division third corp third brigade at Gettysburg.
Dr. Mitchell 8th PA Calvary hospital of Calvary corp.
Grateful,
Annie
-Surgeon James Ewings Dexter, received his medical degree in 1861 from New York University, Medical College.
-Surgeon Jonas W. Lyman, 57th Pennsylvania. At Gettysburg he reportedly served in the field hospital of 1st Division, Third Corps.
-Frank B. Fay served with the Sanitary Commission in the Third Corps hospitals at Gettysburg (War Papers of Frank B. Fay).
-Surgeon Samuel Brown Wylie Mitchell, 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry, graduated in 1852 from the University of Pennsylvania, and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Medical Department in 1854.
-Surgeon William Henry Heath (Harvard College, M.D., 1853), 2nd Massachusetts, was present at Gettysburg.
-Assistant Surgeon William Nichols, Jr. (Harvard College, M.D., 1862), 2nd Massachusetts, was also present at Gettysburg.
Some Medical Personnel Casualties in the Gettysburg campaign:
-Surgeon Hugh McD. Martin, 5th Louisiana, thrown from his horse and suffered a dislocation of his shoulder which disabled him for several months.
-Surgeon F. T. Fry, 16th North Carolina, shot in head on July 1 but survived.
-Surgeon G. Alston Groves, 16th Mississippi, died of unknown cause at the Pennsylvania College hospital.
-Assistant Surgeon William Hope “Willie” Peek, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, died of illness at Williamsport, Maryland on July 19.
-Assistant Surgeon Charles W. Hunt, 12th New Hampshire, served in a field hospital 2-3 weeks, fell ill, died of typhoid fever at Point Lookout on August 24, 1863.
-Assistant Surgeon W. S. Moore, 61st Ohio, wounded July 3, died July 6.
In addition, Assistant Surgeon Neil K. Gunn, 16th Massachusetts, died June 3, 1863 at Falmouth, Virginia, of typhus.