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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC02649.06 |
From Archive Folder | Collection of Dr. Thomas A. McParlin |
Title | Thomas A McParlin to Robert E. Clary requesting supplies for hospitals |
Date | 14 July 1862 |
Author | McParlin, Thomas A. (1825-1897) |
Recipient | Clary, Robert E. |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Content Description | Writes to Colonel Clary, Chief of Quartermasters of Army of Virginia, to request tents, stoves, axes, and tubs for hospitals. Mentions a deficiency of ambulances. Notes that the "necessity of keeping the sick of our Army, as near the army lines as may be proper, will necessitate ampler means of accomodation to be held in readiness ..." Indicates that he will have additional requisition requests when reports arrive from the 1st and 2nd Army Corps. |
Subjects | Hospital Civil War Military History Union Forces Union General Health and Medical Military Supplies Transportation Military Camp |
People | McParlin, T. A. (Thomas Andrew) (1825-1897) Clary, Robert Emmet (1805-1890) |
Place written | Washington, D.C. |
Theme | The American Civil War; Health & Medicine |
Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
Additional Information | Folder Information: Includes personal and professional letters and documents to and from Dr. Thomas A. McParlin, medical director of the Army of Virginia and the army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Among the individuals represented in this archive are Secretary of War Simon Cameron, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, generals George Meade, George D. Ruggles, John Pope, Rufus Ingalls, noted reformer Dorothea Dix, and numerous Civil War medical officers. Documents include wartime and post-war items. Of particular interest is a lengthy (40 page) manuscript report, prepared by McParlin for General William A. Hammond, chronicling his efforts as during the campaign of the Army of Virginia during the summer of 1862. Thomas Andrew McParlin (1825-1897) of Maryland was a surgeon in the U. S. Army from the time of the Mexican War to after the Civil War. By the end of the latter conflict, McParlin had become Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac and was present during the siege at Petersburg. McParlin was appointed Assistant Surgeon, 03 March 1849; appointed Major, Surgeon, 21 May 1861, breveted Lieutenant Colonel, for faithful and meritorious service in the field, 01 August 1864; breveted Brigadier General for meritorious and distinctive service at New Orleans where cholera and yellow fever prevailed, 26 November 1866; breveted Colonel, for faithful service during the war, 13 March 1865; appointed Lieutenant Colonel, Assistant Medical Purchaser, 13 April 1881; appointed Colonel, Surgeon, 16 September 1885. McParlin retired on 10 July 1889; he died eight years later (28 January 1897). |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
Civil War: Recipient Relationship | Comrade |
Civil War: Theater of War | Main Eastern Theater |