New York Hospital and Civil War: Valentine Mott
on April 26, 2013
Valentine Mott was a renowned surgeon at New York Hospital from 1817 to 1837. After 1837 he was a consulting surgeon. He was born in 1785 in Glen Cove, Long Island. His father, Henry, was also a physician. He...
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New York Hospital and Civil War: U.S. Sanitary Commission Members
on April 5, 2013
New York hospital had four doctors who served with the U. S. Sanitary Commission, a civilian organization that was concerned with the health of the soldiers. The volunteers worked as medical inspectors...
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New York Hospital and Civil War: U.S. Sanitary Commission
on March 22, 2013
Four doctors from New York Hospital were members of the U.S. Sanitary Commission: William Van Buren, Cornelius Agnew, James McLane, and A. Brayton Ball. Valentine Mott was a consultant for the war department...
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New York Hospital and Civil War: Civil War Casualties and Civil War Medicine
on March 1, 2013
Approximately 750,000 Americans whether Union or Confederate died in the Civil War. About 250,000 died of battle wounds. About 500,000 died of infectious diseases such as dysentery/intestinal diseases, malaria...
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New York Hospital and the Civil War
on February 1, 2013
At the dawn of the Civil War, New York Hospital was located at its first site on Broadway between Duane and Worth Streets. From April 1861-February 1862, New York Hospital had an agreement with the New York...
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