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Civil War Field Surgeon Medical Journal Archive

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Civil War Field Surgeon Medical Journal Archive
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This Archive relates solely to the work of Dr. Cromwell Orrick Johnson who died at Bloody Run December 21 1864. This archive includes journals, patient records, notations while studying prior to the civil war, and encompasses his entire medical career up until the point of his death. A superb early record of Civil War Surgery. 43 total binder pages, some pages contain booklets of his writings. Instead of enlisting in the war immediately, the young Cromwell Johnson finished his studies. He began his post-secondary career at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA, and after graduating, he served as principal for the Louisiana Institute in Missouri for two years. Johnson began studying medicine at the Medical University in New York. He took spurious notes in school and kept a daily journal from the last years of his teens until his graduation in 1863. Graduating in the spring of 1863, Johnson used his medical training on the battlefield. He enlisted as an assistant surgeon of the 5th Pennsylvania Reserves, also known as the 34th Pennsylvania, on March 9, 1863, and attempted to heal wounded men at the Battle of Gettysburg. Hand disease forced him to resign on September 29, 1863, but he returned to service with the Minnesota Cavalry in Brackett's Battalion on March 19, 1864 to fight against American Indian uprisings. He died before reaching the age of 30 at Bloody Run on December 21, 1864.