Conservative surgery, with a list of the medical and surgical force of New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-2 : to which is added a brief notice of the hospitals at Fortress Monroe and White House, Virginia / by Sylvester D. Willard.

  • Willard, Sylvester David, 1825-1865.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Conservative surgery, with a list of the medical and surgical force of New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-2 : to which is added a brief notice of the hospitals at Fortress Monroe and White House, Virginia / by Sylvester D. Willard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Naval Medical Board, which convened in the early summer of 1861, and was dissolved by an order of the Secretary of the Navy, on the 2*lth of January, 1862, its duties being completed, ac- cepted the following candidates: NAMES. Age. Where graduated. Albany Medical College. College of Physicians and Surgeons. Buffalo University. College of Physicians and Surgeons. University of New York. University of New York. College of Physicians and Surgeons. College of Physicians and Surgeons. University of New York. Geneva Medical College. Harvard University. University of New York. University of Michigan. University of New York. College of Physicians and Surgeons. Buffalo University. McGill College, Montreal. Note.—Sixteen of fifty-nine were from the State of New York. * Charles E. Covell was born in Hartford, Washington Co., New York, in 1837. He was a student of Dr. J. Swinburne, in Albany, and was graduated in medicine at the University of New York in 1860. He became resident physician to the Children's Hospital, and subse- quently became an interne at Bellevue Hospital, where, by his intelligence and fidelity, he gained warm friends. On the breaking out of the present war, he determined to enter the naval service, and was accordingly examined June 14th, 1861, before the Naval Board. He at once received orders, and sailed on the City of New York on the 7th July for Pen- sacola. On the 22d July he was transferred by the United States flag ship Mississippi to the U. S. Frigate Colorado, where he entered his duties as the assistant of Dr. Horer, the Surgeon of the fleet. He was in a few days seized with dysentery, of which he died on the 7th day of August, 1861. A few hours before he died, he penned a beautiful and affection- ate letter to his mother, telling her of the fate he was in a few hours to meet, and of God's grace, which was sustaining him as the fatal hour approached. Thus was suddenly termi- nated a life full of professional zeal and promise. It was given to the cause of Liberty. Thus were crushed a mother's hopes in her only son. Such is the price of Liberty. S. D. W.