From the blog of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, in Frederick, MD.
A neat collection of photographs and transcribed letters written by a Civil War surgeon to his wife.
Category Archives: Health Care
Letters from a Civil War surgeon
Filed under Civil War, Digitized Collections, Finding Aids, Health Care
Civil War – Sources for records of Satterlee Hospital, West Philadelphia
The Daughters of Charity’s Civil War collections include Sisters’ recollections of their service at Satterlee. Much of this material has been published in Charity Afire: Pennsylvania, by Sister Betty Ann McNeil. In addition, transcriptions of our Sisters’ accounts are available for research in the Provincial Archives.
Additional information about Satterlee can be found at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington, DC. Satterlee records are part of Record Group 94 (Records of the Adjutant General’s Office), Series “Field Hospital Records”. These records consist of nearly 30 volumes, most of them fairly large. Some of the volumes are arranged chronologically by date of admittance, while others are arranged by a soldier’s regiment and then by date he was admitted.
Another series containing data pertaining to a soldier’s hospitalization is “Carded Medical Records, Civil War” These records are arranged by state, thereunder by the numerical designation of regiments, (i.e., all of a state’s infantry, artillery, cavalry units under the same numerical designation would be filed together); and then by alphabetically by surname.
NARA staff cannot undertake extensive searches for patrons, but they can make these records available their research room. For more information about planning a research visit to their facility in Washington, DC, please go to the NARA web site.
Other records of Satterlee Hospital can be found at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Historical Library and Wood Institute
Hospital register
Patient ledger and scrapbook
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DC Ministries – Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans
(Photo of ministry at Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans used with permission of the Provincial Archives)
We continue our Black History Month series with Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans. The Daughters of Charity have provided compassionate health care in New Orleans for more than 175 years. After the sale of Hotel Dieu Hospital in 1992, the Daughters transitioned their efforts, establishing a community health ministry known today as Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans (DCSNO). DCSNO offers primary and preventive health services that address the needs of the total
individual – body, mind, and spirit. Its four health centers provide care for chronic illnesses such as asthma, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and
depression. DCSNO is a member of Ascension Health, the nation’s largest Catholic and non-profit health care system. The mission of DCSNO is to
improve the health and well-being of the community and to be a presence of the love of Jesus in the lives of all whom they serve.
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