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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC00653.24.01 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1861 |
| Title | John P. Furniss to Judge Haden concerning medical practice and dissection |
| Date | 5 January 1861 |
| Author | Furniss, John P. (fl. 1861) |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Business and financial document |
| Content Description | Asks for financial remittance due to his having taken "private classes to improve [himself] in particular branches of Medicine." Relates that two convicts hung the day before, and a friend of his took a part of one of the bodies for Furniss to dissect. Signed "Your friend & ward." Furniss was a Confederate doctor. |
| Subjects | Soldier's Letter Civil War Military History Confederate Soldier's Letter Confederate States of America Health and Medical Death Penalty Death Prisoner Education Finance |
| Place written | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Health & Medicine; Education |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Theater of War | Main Eastern Theater |
| Civil War: Unit | 42nd regiment, North Carolina, infantry |
| Related documents | John P. Furniss to Judge Haden concerning finances and conditions in New Orleans |