LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President . Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") TO SURGEON GENERAL [JOSEPH K. BARNES], Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., 19 December 1864. One page, 8vo, integral blank, very slightly smudged in several places (evidently written in great haste). THE PRESIDENT TO THE SURGEON GENERAL, CONCERNING A NEW HAMPSHIRE CORPORAL WOUNDED AT SPOTSYLVANIA COURTHOUSE A relatively uncommon letter to the Surgeon General, probably in response to correspondence drawing the President's attention to the case of a wounded Union soldier. "Surgeon General Please have an examination made of Corporal Charles H. Thompson, of Co. B. 11th N[ew] H[ampshire] vol[unteer]s in the 9th Corps, with reference to discharge for physical disability...." The Spring campaigns of the Army of the Potomac opened in May 1864. After failing to defeat Lee in the Wilderness, Grant ordered his army to move south and east. From May 9 to 18th his forces and Lee's fought a series of bloody battles in the vicinity of the courthouse at Spotsylvania. In the first 30 days of this campaign, Union casualties totalled over 50,000 men killed and wounded, among the latter, Corporal Thompson. According to records located by Roy P. Basler, Thompson was wounded on May 16th. The Surgeon General's investigation resulted in Thompson's being granted a disability discharge on 19 January 1865. Published in Collected Works , ed. Basler, 7:170. Joseph K. Barnes (1817-1883) of Philadelphia, had served as an Army surgeon in the Mexican War and the Seminole War and in September 1863, at the urging of Secretary of War Stanton, he was appointed acting surgeon-general and, in August 1864, Surgeon-General. In that capacity, he attended Lincoln on his death-bed, and later, President Garfield. He also oversaw the compilation of the massive Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion . Provenance: 1. Sigurd S. Storm, Chicago (according to Basler in 1953, ibid ). 2. The present owner, by descent.
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President . Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") TO SURGEON GENERAL [JOSEPH K. BARNES], Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., 19 December 1864. One page, 8vo, integral blank, very slightly smudged in several places (evidently written in great haste). THE PRESIDENT TO THE SURGEON GENERAL, CONCERNING A NEW HAMPSHIRE CORPORAL WOUNDED AT SPOTSYLVANIA COURTHOUSE A relatively uncommon letter to the Surgeon General, probably in response to correspondence drawing the President's attention to the case of a wounded Union soldier. "Surgeon General Please have an examination made of Corporal Charles H. Thompson, of Co. B. 11th N[ew] H[ampshire] vol[unteer]s in the 9th Corps, with reference to discharge for physical disability...." The Spring campaigns of the Army of the Potomac opened in May 1864. After failing to defeat Lee in the Wilderness, Grant ordered his army to move south and east. From May 9 to 18th his forces and Lee's fought a series of bloody battles in the vicinity of the courthouse at Spotsylvania. In the first 30 days of this campaign, Union casualties totalled over 50,000 men killed and wounded, among the latter, Corporal Thompson. According to records located by Roy P. Basler, Thompson was wounded on May 16th. The Surgeon General's investigation resulted in Thompson's being granted a disability discharge on 19 January 1865. Published in Collected Works , ed. Basler, 7:170. Joseph K. Barnes (1817-1883) of Philadelphia, had served as an Army surgeon in the Mexican War and the Seminole War and in September 1863, at the urging of Secretary of War Stanton, he was appointed acting surgeon-general and, in August 1864, Surgeon-General. In that capacity, he attended Lincoln on his death-bed, and later, President Garfield. He also oversaw the compilation of the massive Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion . Provenance: 1. Sigurd S. Storm, Chicago (according to Basler in 1953, ibid ). 2. The present owner, by descent.
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