Manuscript Civil War Letter

by a Confederate Assistant Surgeon Attempting to Secure Post as Surgeon in Chief by Tazewell Howard

$375 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Camp Harrison, Georgia, Nov. 12 1861. 8vo, ruled sheet. 1.5 pp. A Confederate surgeon’s letter illuminating medical aspects of the Civil War.Tazewell Howard, newly arrived assistant surgeon to George Paul Harrison’s training camp outside Savannah, Georgia, describes his new appointment and attempts to use his connections to secure a higher paying post. He reports a certain dissatisfaction

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