John Shaw Billings, A Memoir, Garrison, 1915, Civil War Medical, Public Health

  
John Shaw Billings: A Memoir. Billings was commissioned first lieutenant, and then took charge of Cliffburne Hospital's development in Georgetown as Union Hospital's operations relocated to Cliffburne. In August of that year, he was transferred to.

A new hospital in West Philadelphia. After serving as the Executive Officer at the hospital for several months, he was directed to the. In March 1863 and was assigned to Sykes' Division of Meade's Corps in the 11th Infantry. At the disastrous battle of Chancellorsville, Billings showed his superior qualities as surgeon and executive officer. He then followed the Army to the north and was present at the bloody battle of Gettysburg.

The most difficult operations were often turned over to this exceptionally skilled young surgeon. In both settings, Billings and his assistants worked night and day, under artillery fire, to take care of the wounded.

During the war he was breveted Major and Lieutenant- Colonel for faithful, gallant, and meritorious service. Billings won in the field a high reputation as a very skillful and original operative surgeon, and a character for courage and resourceful administrative ability on many occasions, but especially when after the disastrous battle of Chancellorsville he conducted the retreat of the wounded, and when later he was actively engaged in perilous service during the battle of Gettysburg. Billings assumed direction of the Army Surgeon General's library from about 1867 to 1895. During this time, Billings expanded the library from 2,300 to 124,000 volumes, making it the largest medical library in the Americas. When Billings inherited the library, its contents were listed primarily by author and secondarily by subject.

Billings redesigned the catalog with author and subject indexes. However, his catalog could not meet the demands of increased publications, so he created a separate indexing system for medical periodicals, which became known as the.

In 1869, he was tasked with turning around the Marine Hospital Service, which was in deplorable condition. Due to his efforts, this branch of governmental activity was completely reorganized, recast with a quasi-military structure, and rechristened the Public Health Service. Key words- book, diary, biography, campaign, army, civil war, Indian war, cavalry, infantry, regiment, brigade, Potomac, division, corps, medal, war, officer, cdv, military, American, soldier, navy, gun, gunboat, blockade, autograph, veteran, photograph, union, confederate, collectable, original, period, item, artillery, memorabilia, Antique, militaria, Virginia, Sherman, Grant, Lee, Jackson, Mollus, Commandery, Loyal Legion, Custer, Gettysburg, Lincoln, Davis, Colt, Spencer, Ames, Stanton, Farragut, Porter, ANV, Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, Texas, Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas.

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• Binding: Hardcover
• Place of Publication: New York
• Signed: No
• Publisher: G. Putnam's Sons
• Subject: Military & War
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Year Printed: 1915
• Language: English
• Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Ex-Library, Illustrated
• Author: Fielding H.

  Garrison, MD

• Personalized: No
• Region: North America
• Topic: Civil War (1861-65)
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States