I'm looking for the youngest "Surgeon" during the war for someone doing some genealogy research.
So far I have Edward I. Lathrop, M.D. as the 2nd Assistant Surgeon of the 10th Illinois Cavalry just 2 months past his 20th birthday.
The family history claims him as the youngest during the war and we are trying to see if we verify this claim.
Lathrop, at the age of 16, commenced reading medicine in the office of Dr. W. W. Winn, at Dixon, Ill, where he gained great proficiency, but was refused a diploma on account of his minority. He then, in 1862, went to the office of N. S. Davis, in Chicago, and attended two courses of lectures, but there was also refused a diploma on account of his age. With the war going on, he joined the 12th Illinois Cavalry on the 8th of October 1864. He received an honorable discharge from this regiment the following month, in order to accept a commission as "Assistant Surgeon of the 10th Ill. Cav. (regimental records show him as 2nd Assistant Surgeon). After the war he entered upon the practice of his profession for a short time at Joliet, Ill., thence went to Chicago to attend a course of study at the Rush Medical College, from which he received his diploma, with honors, in 1866. Three years later he moved to Iowa.
So far I have Edward I. Lathrop, M.D. as the 2nd Assistant Surgeon of the 10th Illinois Cavalry just 2 months past his 20th birthday.
The family history claims him as the youngest during the war and we are trying to see if we verify this claim.
Lathrop, at the age of 16, commenced reading medicine in the office of Dr. W. W. Winn, at Dixon, Ill, where he gained great proficiency, but was refused a diploma on account of his minority. He then, in 1862, went to the office of N. S. Davis, in Chicago, and attended two courses of lectures, but there was also refused a diploma on account of his age. With the war going on, he joined the 12th Illinois Cavalry on the 8th of October 1864. He received an honorable discharge from this regiment the following month, in order to accept a commission as "Assistant Surgeon of the 10th Ill. Cav. (regimental records show him as 2nd Assistant Surgeon). After the war he entered upon the practice of his profession for a short time at Joliet, Ill., thence went to Chicago to attend a course of study at the Rush Medical College, from which he received his diploma, with honors, in 1866. Three years later he moved to Iowa.
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