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Abstract of the Board of Surgeons, Camp Chase Hospital
Description: This volume contains case descriptions of Union Army officers admitted to the Camp Chase Hospital during its operation in 1862. Each entry includes the officer's name, rank, company, regiment, age, civilian occupation, place of residence, date of entry into service, date of onset of health problems, description of health problem, whether or not the officer can return to service, and if so, when. Officers represented in these pages include Peter Sullivan, Thomas H. Ford, Franklin Cosgrove, J.B. Burrowes, John J. Throckmorten, William A. Sutherland, Benjamin P. Runkle, Alvah S. Skillman, Stewart Barnes and Daniel Lepley. Camp Chase, located in Columbus, Ohio, was a recruitment and training center for the Union Army and as a prison camp for captured Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA137_GRVF16_F1_01_01
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Camp Chase (Ohio); Hospitals -- Ohio; Military officers; Medical care;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)