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Item 7516
Title: Maine General Hospital Surgical Amphitheatre
Contributed by: Maine Medical Center Archives
Date: circa 1895
Location: Portland
Media: Photograph
Item 69871
Title: Surgeon request to join regiment, Augusta, 1861
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1861-12-17
Location: Augusta; Lowell
Media: Ink on paper
Item 66032
Title: Letter concerning hospital beds, Boston, 1861
Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
Date: 1861-09-25
Location: Portland
Media: Ink on paper
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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.
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Lt. Charles A. Garcelon, 16th Maine
The son of Maine's surgeon general and nephew of a captain in the 16th Maine, Charles A. Garcelon of Lewiston served in Co. I of the 16th Maine. His letters home in the first 17 months of his service express his reflections on war and his place in it.
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George F. Shepley: Lawyer, Soldier, Administrator
George F. Shepley of Portland had achieved renown as a lawyer and as U.S. Attorney for Maine when, at age 42 he formed the 12th Maine Infantry and went off to war. Shepley became military governor of Louisiana early in 1862 and remained in the military for the duration of the war.