United States Army - Surgeon

Item MED-10260

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United States Army - Surgeon
Richard H. Coolidge
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Identified in period ink and the DeGregoris Image Collection of American Civil War Medicine & Surgical Antiques.

Richard Henry Coolidge
N.Y., N.Y.
Asst. Surg. Aug. 1841; Major Surg. June 1860, Lt. Col. Medical Inspector, June 1862 to Oct. 1865.; died Jan. 1866.
Richard H. Coolidge, military surgeon, was born in 1816 in New York City. He was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States army from New York state in 1841. In 1860 he was promoted surgeon. He was made medical inspector of the northern department and of the department of Pennsylvania in 1865; and subsequently promoted to brevet lieutenant-colonel for faithful and meritorious services during the civil war. He was medical director of the department of North Carolina at the time of his death. He died Jan. 23, 1866, in Raleigh, N.C.
Source: American Civil War Medicine& Surgical Antiques, The DeGregoris Image Collection