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Box 1
Contains 21 Results:
Letter from Alexander Hoff to Professor Alden March, Albany, N.Y., from U.S. Hospital Steamer "D. A. January", 1862 December 20
Describes work of hospital ship, especially amputations. Reports results in 100 cases. Also includes 2 1/2 inch photograph of a cradle made by Prof. Hodgens of St. Louis for treatment of wounds of the lower limbs and describes its use. Also includes similar-sized photo of Abraham Lincoln.
Letter from Alexander Hoff to Professor Alden March, Albany, N.Y., from U.S. Hospital Steamer "D. A. January", Youngs Point, La., 1863 March 29
Sent hoping "a little news from the scene of active operations would be of some assistance during your course of Lectures ... "I shall devote this letter to wounds of the cavities, viscera, and Brain ... "
Letter from Alexander Hoff to Professor Alden March, Albany, N.Y., from U.S. Hospital Steamer "Chas. McDougall", Memphis, Tenn., 1863 October 9
Letter from Alexander Hoff to Professor Alden March, from U.S. Hospital Steamer "Chas. McDougall", Louisville, Ky., 1864 January 6
Letter to Alexander Hoff from Cuylar (?), 1876 July 26
My dr. Doctr: I am grieved to hear that you are so very sick. I hope the report which has just reached me is exaggerated. I wish I could do something to relieve or comfort you.
Letter on stationery of Navy Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington, to Surgeon Jos. B. Brown, Presd. Army Medical Board, 1876 June 6
Two documents from Surgeon General's Library, Washington, to Asst. Surgeon A.H. Hoff, U.S.A. Fort Columbus, New York Harbor, signed by John Shaw Billings, Assistant Surgeon. U. S. Army, in charge of Library, 1875
Letter to Asst. Surgeon Alex H. Hoff. U.S. Army, Army Medical Board, N .Y. City, from George A. Otis, Asst. Surgeon, U.S.A., Curator, Army Medical Museum, 1875 May 11
Thanking him for "the pair of obstetrical forceps which you found in Sitka, and presented to Dr. Billings" and reporting where it has been placed in the Museum.
Letter from J.J. Woodward, Asst. Surgeon U.S. Army, Surgeon General's Office, War Department, Washington, D.C., 1876 April 6
On contents of pamphlet on hospital models, praising the description of the hospital steamer January and asking for a similar description of the Barnes. He will have woodcuts made of the January and Barnes, and discusses models of the two ships and how they should be sent to Washington.
Special orders, no. 50 - War Department, 1875
Relieves Dr. Hoff of duties at Fort Columbus and appoints him Recorder of the Army Medical Board in New York City.