United States

Correspondence and research notes compiled by Dr. Castle in his efforts to create a complete record of persons who served in the U.S. Army Medical Department's Medical Cadet Corps during the Civil War.

One item, covers the period June 1, 1887 to Dec. 1, 1890.

Articles and speeches by Surgeon General of the Army Merritte Weber Ireland.

Sketches requested of U.S. naval medical officers by the Surgeon General of the Army in 1933.

Reports and documentation produced by the U.S. Army Surgeon General's office describing outbreaks of cholera and yellow fever in various Army posts during the year 1867.

Speeches, articles, and statements of Surgeons General and other health administrators, U.S. Public Health Service.

Consists of the results of a survey of each annual report of the Surgeon General of the Army.

Letters while Jefferson Randolph Kean was Surgeon-General. Much of the correspondence relates to the bill to increase the efficiency of the Medical Dept. of the Army, forwarded by the War Dept. to Congress on Feb. 19, 1904. Correspondents extensive.

Includes U.S. Army studies on rations (1898-1920); the Army War College course: The preparation and publication of an official medico-military history of a war of magnitude (1929); Surgeon-General's Office activities (1918); Annual report of the U.S. Army General Hospital, San Francisco (1906); construction of barracks in England (1868); and military garments and helmets in the tropics.

Autobiographical and biographical information on the lives of 162 U.S. Army Medical Officers who served c.1870-1940.