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U.S. Army Medical Corps

Biographies

  • Charles Henry Alden

    Brigadier General

    1836 - 1906

    Brigadier General

    Colonel Alden was a joiner of societies, medical, scientific, scholastic, and patriotic ...

  • John Monro Banister

    Colonel

    1854 - 1929

    Colonel

    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

    Colonel

    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

    Brigadier General

    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

    Brigadier General

    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

    Brigadier General

    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

    Colonel

    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

    Brigadier General

    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

    Brigadier General

    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

    Brigadier General

    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

    Brigadier General

    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

    Brigadier General

    General Greenleaf`s military career began and terminated with the strenuous activities and pressing responsibilities of war ...

  • Paul Stacy Halloran

    Colonel

    1874 - 1931

    Colonel

    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

    Colonel

    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

    Colonel

    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

    Brigadier General

    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

    Colonel

    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

    Brigadier General

    General McCaw was the fifth of a continuous line of Virginia physicians ...

  • Thomas Gardiner Mower

    Major

    1790 - 1853

    Major

    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

    Lieutenant Colonel

    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

    Brigadier General

    He is credited with high professional skill and judgment and he had well recognized gifts in administration ...

  • Charles Smart

    Brigadier General

    1841 - 1905

    Brigadier General

    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

    Colonel

    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

    Brigadier General

    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 ...