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Item 23889
Title: Letter about measles, influenza, Brunswick, 1815
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1815-10-31
Location: Brunswick
Media: Ink on paper
Item 66035
Title: Samuel B. Hunter, 7th Maine, to Alonzo Garcelon, 1862
Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
Date: 1862-02-18
Media: Ink on paper
Item 34560
Title: Dr. Joseph H. Lombard, Brunswick, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society
Date: circa 1880
Location: Bath; Brunswick
Media: Photograph
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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.