Two Surgeons for USCT

[John Hartwell]

This is just a note to reference a couple of sources I recently came across to writings by surgeons connected specifically with USCT regiments.

The first is a website from Florida History Online, containing War-Time Letters From Seth Rogers, M.D. Surgeon of the First South Carolina Afterwards the Thirty-third U.S.C.T. 1862-1863. Not a great deal of specifically medical information here, but still a worthwhile source.

New Hampshire Dr. M.C. Lathrop was Surgeon of the 98th USCT (originally 4th Engineers, Corps d'Afrique). His rather paternalistic memoir was published in the Transactions of the New Hampshire Medical Society for 1898 (pp.38-45).

Both make interesting reading.

 

[matthew mckeon]

I've read Rogers letters, which are worth a look. He knew Charlotte Fortin, who came to the Sea Islands to teach school. She very much admired him, and its interesting to read both their letters about the same experiences.