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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 28360
Title: George W. Pierce obituary, Portland, 1835
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1835-11-16
Location: Portland
Media: Ink on paper
Item 68624
Title: Letter about Pvt. Cole serious illness, near Washington, D.C., 1862
Contributed by: Sebago Historical Society
Date: 1862-12-15
Location: Sebago; Washington
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.