U.S. Army Medical Corps
Biographies
Charles Henry Alden
Brigadier General
1836 - 1906
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Colonel Alden was a joiner of societies, medical, scientific, scholastic, and patriotic ...
John Monro Banister
Colonel
1854 - 1929
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From his entrance into the service he had interested himself in the practice of surgery and later had taken advantage of leaves of absence to acquire a knowledge of ophthalmology in the clinics of New York and Philadelphia ...
John Shaw Billings
Colonel
1838 - 1913
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Beyond question, the name of John Shaw Billings belongs with the most outstanding among the many gifted men who have held membership in the Army Medical Corps ...
Henry Patrick Birmingham
Brigadier General
1854 - 1932
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General Birmingham was a fine type of that older service in which the medical officers were soldiers as well as surgeons ...
Alfred Eugene Bradley
Brigadier General
1864 - 1922
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General Bradley’s first interest throughout his army career was the practice of medicine. He was a talented clinician and a skillful operator ...
Roger Brooke
Brigadier General
1878 - 1940
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General Brooke interested himself in internal medicine and became well recognized as one of the foremost in that field that the Corps has produced ...
George Ensign Bushnell
Colonel
1853 - 1924
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Colonel Bushnell was one of the earliest advocates of the theory that primary infection with tuberculosis occurred normally in infancy or childhood, that later manifestations of the disease came from reinfections from within and that exogenous infection of the adult was practically non-existent ...
Carl Rodgers Darnall
Brigadier General
1867 - 1941
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The record he made of his own life is extremely short, covering only a single page, but it is characteristic of him. He was a man of deeds and not of words ...
Calvin Dewitt
Brigadier General
1840 - 1908
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Calvin DeWitt (May 26, 1840-September 2, 1908), Brigadier General, Medical Corps, U. S. Army, was born at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ...
Alfred Conrad Girard
Brigadier General
1841 - 1914
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The annual reports of The Surgeon General carry numerous case records which testify to Colonel Girard`s understanding of surgical pathology and to his skill as an operator ...
James D. Glennan
Brigadier General
1862 - 1927
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General Glennan had much to do with the orderly expansion of the Army Medical Center and the beautiful landscaping of the grounds is especially to his credit ...
Charles R. Greenleaf
Brigadier General
1838 - 1911
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General Greenleaf`s military career began and terminated with the strenuous activities and pressing responsibilities of war ...
Paul Stacy Halloran
Colonel
1874 - 1931
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Colonel Halloran lived out his span of life as a bachelor, though none was more fitted for a family life ...
Valery Havard
Colonel
1846 - 1927
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Colonel Havard was one of the most scholarly of the many educated men who have graced the corps, with a literary style that will warrant study and emulation ...
Alexander Henry Hoff
Colonel
1822 - 1876
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He was the director of the fleet of floating hospitals on the Mississippi river and the originator of the modern hospital ship ...
John Dowling Irwin
Brigadier General
1830 - 1917
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Despite the title of “the fighting doctor” frequently bestowed upon General Irwin he was always interested primarily in his professional work ...
Louis Anatole La Garde
Colonel
1849 - 1920
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Colonel La Garde’s first interest was the practice of medicine, with a special bent toward surgery and diseases of the eye ...
James Mann
Surgeon
1759 - 1832
James Mann (July 23, 1759—November 7, 1832) Surgeon, U. S. Army, was born in Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. No record of his parents or ancestry has come do to us. ...
Walter D. McCaw
Brigadier General
1863 - 1939
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General McCaw was the fifth of a continuous line of Virginia physicians ...
Thomas Gardiner Mower
Major
1790 - 1853
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Mower through the last thirty years of his life exercised an influence over the medical department practically coequal with the chiefs of the corps ...
Henry James Nichols
Lieutenant Colonel
1877 - 1927
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Colonel Nichols spent the twenty years of his army career in practically unbroken service in laboratories and sanitary work ...
Richard Sherwood Satterlee
Brigadier General
1796 - 1880
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He is credited with high professional skill and judgment and he had well recognized gifts in administration ...
Charles Smart
Brigadier General
1841 - 1905
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Charles Smart (September 18, 1841-April 23, 1905), Brigadier General, Medical Corps, U. S. Army, was born in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland ...
Alexander N. Stark
Colonel
1869 - 1926
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While Colonel Stark`s later service marked him as an administrator, he was one of the conspicuous clinicians and surgeons of the Corps of his time ...
Charles Stuart Tripler
Brigadier General
1806 - 1866
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Charles Stuart Tripler (January 19, 1806-October 20, 1866), Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. Army, a distinguished member of the medical corps, was born on the "Bowery" in New York City ...
