Records / ... ed. by W. Thornton Parker.

  • Association of Acting Assistant Surgeons of the United States Army
Date:
1891
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    appointed acting assistant surgeonU. S. A., in September, 1871. He has served at Portland, Ore.; Forts Vancou- ver and Walla Walla, Washington ; and Fort Hall, Indian Ter. His services terminated in the spring of 1880. His present residence and address is Walla Walla, Washington. Hugh F. McNaky. Hugh F. Mc]SIary,M.D., was born Jan. 15, 1837, at Princeton, Ky. He graduated at Cumberland College, Princeton, Ky., and at Harvard Medical College in 1863. He served as nurse in Military Hospital in Louisville from about December, 1861 to September, 1862. On June 9, 1863, he was appointed acting assistant surgeon U. S. A., and continued in the service until August 31, 1865. He did service in several diflferent hospitals in Louisville, part of the time having charge of hospital No. 9. He was ordered to Camp Nelson Field Hospital where he had very hard work in a large tent hospital, then ordered back to Louisville, and when the large Jefferson General Hospital at Jeffersonville was opened he was ordered and remained there until its close in August, 1865. Mean- time from the Jefferson General Hospital he was ordered with the surgeon in charge, Middleton Goldsmith, to go up the Red river to the relief of the Banks' expedition. He was appointed in May, 1867, assistant physician to the Western Lunatic Asylum of Kentucky, held the position two years, then returned to his native place and has been actively engaged in the practice since July, 1869, to the present date. His address is Princeton, Ky.
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