Alonzo Garcelon appointment as Hospital Surgeon, 1861
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An order from the Adjutant General in Augusta on April 25, 1861, appointed Dr. Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston as Hospital Surgeon of the additional volunteer Militia of Maine.
His appointment made Garcelon responsible for establishing a Regimental Hospital in Portland, and for supplying regiments with necessary medical supplies and equipment.
Garcelon (1813-1906) was a graduate of Bowdoin College and the Medical College of Ohio. He and his brother-in-law William H. Waldron founded the Lewiston Journal.
Garcelon also served in the Maine House and Maine Senate and was crucial in the Maine State Seminary, which became Bates College, being located in Lewiston. He served one term as governor, in 1879.
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- Title: Alonzo Garcelon appointment as Hospital Surgeon, 1861
- Creator: Adjutant General, State of Maine
- Creation Date: 1861-04-25
- Town: Lewiston
- County: Androscoggin
- State: ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: MC106
- Object Type: Text
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Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
Bates College, 70 Campus Avenue, Lewiston, ME 04240-6018
(207) 786-6354
http://abacus.bates.edu/muskie-archives/
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LC Subject Headings
Medicine Military
Surgery United States Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--Civil War, 1861-1865
Soldiers--Maine
Maine--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States. Army--Recruiting and enlistment, etc.
Military hospitals
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