1862-1869
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访问限制
Use of the originals is restricted. This collection is available as color digital facsimiles (see links below). Black and white microfilm is also available for use in the library.
摘要
This collection consists primarily of letters 作者:Dr. 查尔斯·E. Briggs while serving as assistant surgeon with the 24日质量. 团, 1862-1863, and surgeon with the 54th Mass. 团, 1863-1865.
传记草图
查尔斯·Edward Briggs was born on 6 4月. 1833年给罗伯特和卡罗琳 (莫顿)波士顿的布里格斯. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1856. Between 1856 and 1862, he served as surgeon on the ship 耶利米·汤普森 去伦敦和禁闭室 报童 to the Azores, practiced 医学 in Boston, and taught Latin and Greek. 8月12日. 1862, he enlisted in the Civil War and was commissioned assistant surgeon in the 24日质量. 步兵团. 他曾在新伯尔尼服役.C. and in the field in North and South Carolina. In 8月. 1863, he suffered a severe attack of dysentery and was hospitalized at 博福特,年代.C. After his recovery, he worked as post surgeon at Fort 3月ion, 佛罗里达州., then was commissioned surgeon of the 54th Mass. 24号步兵团 11月. 1863, beginning his service with that regiment at Morris Island, S.C. in 1864年5月. He served with the 54th until the end of the war and was mustered out 8月20日. 1865.
战争结束后，查尔斯. 布里格斯搬到了圣. 路易斯,莫. 练习 医学. He married Rebekah Whittaker (1844-1912) on 24 June 1869, and they had the following children: Caroline Morton Briggs, who married John Codman; Walter Motherwell Briggs, who married May Elizabeth Phillips; Paul Robert Briggs; and Charles Harold Briggs. Dr. Briggs also taught 医学, wrote on medical subjects, and was active in professional associations, including the International Medical Congress at Philadelphia in 1876. 他死于1894年.
og体育官网描述
This collection consists primarily of letters 作者:Dr. 查尔斯·E. Briggs while serving as assistant surgeon with the 24日质量. 团, 1862-1863, and surgeon with the 54th Mass. 团,1863 - 1865. 信件 to his family in Boston and West Roxbury, Mass. describe his work in a hospital 在新伯尔尼，N.C., 1862-1863; work on the schooner 高地 off the coast of South Carolina, 1863; his promotion from assistant surgeon to surgeon, 8月. 1863; and the movement of the 24th Regiment from North Carolina to St. 佛罗里达州奥古斯汀. 其他主题包括 his decision to transfer from the 24th to the 54th 团, 1863-1864; medical care and post-mortem examinations following the Battle of Morris Island, S.C., 1864; conversations with Confederate prisoners; and poverty in South Carolina, 1864-1865. The collection also contains a letter written by Briggs to his mother Caroline (Morton) Briggs while a teacher at Mr. 丘吉尔的军事 新新学院，n.n.Y.1月. 1862; and letters written to his family while 在圣路易斯市当医生. 路易斯,莫., 1866-1869. 除了他的母亲， correspondents include his siblings Robert Briggs, Caroline "Carrie" Morton Briggs, Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Briggs) Worthington, and Emma (Briggs) Allen.
获取信息
Gift of Walter De Blois Briggs, 1961.
访问限制
Use of the originals is restricted. This collection is available as color digital facsimiles (see links below). Black and white microfilm is also available for use in the library.
其他格式
Letters from this collection have been published in:
布里格斯，沃尔特·德·布卢瓦. 查尔斯·爱德华·布里格斯: Civil War Surgeon in a Colored Regiment. 加州伯克利分校.: [s.n.], 1960.
The collection is also available on microfilm, P-807, 1卷.
Organization of the Collection
The collection is organized chronologically.
Detailed Description of the Collection
NOTE: The items in this folder have not been scanned.
喜欢引用
查尔斯·E. 布里格斯的信, Massachusetts Historical Society.
访问条款
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