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Item 66028
Title: Alonzo Garcelon to Israel Washburn on regimental surgeons, 1861
Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
Date: 1861-04-24
Location: Lewiston
Media: Ink on paper
Item 65096
Title: Request for prisoner exchange, Litchfield, 1864
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1864-10-12
Location: Litchfield; Hilton Head; Charleston
Media: Ink on paper
Item 9379
Title: Frank Whittier, Brunswick, ca. 1917
Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society
Date: circa 1917
Location: Brunswick
Media: Photograph, Print
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Surgeon General Alonzo Garcelon
Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston was a physician, politician, businessman, and civic leader when he became Maine's surgeon general during the Civil War, responsible for ensuring regiments had surgeons, for setting up a regimental hospital in Portland, and generally concerned with the well-being of Maine soldiers.