Surgeons
Adams, Cephas Gardner, Surgeon assigned to special service by Surgeon General of Vermont. He was a doctor in East Charleston in 1855.
Allen, Charles Linnaeus, Surgeon of Vols, '62, Medical Purveyor, Department of the South, '64, resigned 8/5/64
Allen, Cyrus Hamilton, comn Asst. Surgeon, 8th VVI, 10/1/62 (10/1/62)
pr Surgeon, 5th VVI, 10/1/64 10/1/64 (10/24/64), m/o 6/29/65 (more offsite)
Allen, Samuel J., comn Surgeon, 4th VVI, 8/15/61 (8/15/61), Bgd Surgeon, 1862, wdd, Opequan Creek, 9/13/64, m/o 9/30/64, Surgeon, USV, 1864, Surgeon, II Division, VI A.C., 1864, Medical Inspector VI A.C., 1864-65 (more; even more)
Atwood, Augustus Adelbert, comn As,st. Surgeon 2nd VVI, 9/22/62 (10/7/62), resigned 6/25/63
Atwood, Henry C., comn Asst. Surgeon, 5th VVI, 5/6/63 (5/7/63), resigned 6/25/63
Babbitt, Robert Augustus, enl 9/25/61, m/i 10/5/61, PVT, Co. D, 8th CT INF, pr Hospital Steward 1862, comn 1/1/63, Asst. Surgeon, 1st NC INF (Union), 1864, d/dis 10/17/1864 (yellow fever), (off-site link)
Ballou, Newton H., comn Surgeon, 2nd VVI, 6/11/61 (6/11/61), resigned 12/18/62
Baxter, Jedediah Hyde, 12th MA INF, Surgeon, Brigade SurgeonUSV, Asst Medical Purveyor, Chief Medical Purveyor, and Surgeon-General (more)
Baxter, Myron Leslie, Surgeon during War; Medical Statistician of PM-Gen office at Washington DC, 1873-83
Benson, Harmon, Assistant Surgeon 10th WI INF
Bixby, Amos L., Assistant Surgeon 1st NH HARTY
Bixby, Armentus B., comn Asst. Surgeon, 4th VVI, 10/6/62 (10/6/62), m/o 9/30/64 (more)
Blanchard, Enoch, comn Asst. Surgeon, 7th VVI, 1/25/62 (2/4/62), pr Surgeon, 9/15/62 (2/28/63), m/o 9/20/65
Bosworth, Amos L., Assistant Surgeon 34th IL INF, d/svc at Shiloh, Tenn., 4/23/62
Bourne, Charles W., enl 8/12/62, m/i 9/1/62, Pvt, Co. C, 11th VVI, pr Hospital Steward, 12/22/62, comn Asst. Surgeon, 11/15/64 (11/19/64), m/o 6/24/65
Bradford, Philander D., comn Surgeon, 5th VVI, 12/3/62 (12/3/62), resigned 3/1/63 (more offsite)
Brooks, Nathaniel Grout, comn Asst. Surgeon, 16th VVI, 10/23/62 (10/24/62), m/o 8/10/63; also Acting Asst. Surgeon, USA
Brush, Edwin Ruthven, drafted - enl 7/17/63, m/i 7/17/63, PVT, Co. H, 2nd VVI, comn Asst. Surgeon, 10/15/63 (10/27/63), m/o 7/15/65 (pension: Asst. Surgeon, 1st VT INF, not listed in RR)
Bullard, Gates B., comn Asst. Surgeon, 15th VVI, 10/2/62 (10/8/62), pr Surgeon, 5/4/63 (5/30/63), m/o 8/5/63
Burdick, Arthur Franklin, comn Asst. Surgeon, 5th VVI, 9/23/62 (9/29/62), resigned 5/26/63
Carpenter, Walter Benjamin, comn Asst. Surgeon, 2nd VVI, 6/11/61 (6/11/61)
pr Surgeon, 9th VVI, 6/21/62 (6/21/62), resigned, 11/4/64
Carpenter, William Thomas, Agent U.S. Sanitary Commission on the field 62-63; Asst. Surgeon, USA, 64-65
Catlin, Thomas C., Surgeon, USV, 4/4/62, resigned 4/7/63
Chandler, Charles Marcellus, comn Asst. Surgeon, 6th VVI, 10/10/61 (10/14/61), pr Surgeon, 10/29/61 (11/18/61), resigned 10/7/63 (more offsite)
Chapin, Cornelius Augustus, comn Asst. Surgeon, 6th VVI, 7/8/63 (7/8/63), d/dis 6/26/65
Chapman, Chandler D., 6th WI INF, "Iron Brigade" Surgeon, USV, 10/9/61, resigned, 3/24/62 (more)
Chesmore, Alwyn Harding, comn Asst. Surgeon, 5th VVI, 9/25/62 (9/25/62), pr Surgeon, 3/1/63 (3/17/63), m/o 9/15/64 (more offsite)
Child, Willard Augustus, comn Asst. Surgeon, 1st VVI, 4/26/61 (4/26/61), m/o 8/15/61;
comn Asst. Surgeon, 4th VVI, 8/15/61 (8/15/61), pr Surgeon, 10th Vt, Inf, 8/6/62 (8/6/62), m/o 6/22/65 (more offsite)
Childs, Henry J., Vermont Asst. Surgeon in Med-Surg history; not in Revised Roster
Clark, Prentiss B., Assistant Surgeon, 2nd IA INF; Surgeon, 8th IA INF
Clarke, Almon, comn Asst. Surgeon, 10th VVI, 8/11/62 (8/11/62), pr Surgeon, 1st VVC, 3/6/65 (4/5/65), m/o 8/9/65 (more; writings)
Colburn, Daniel L. C., comn Asst. Surgeon, 5th VVI, 8/18/63 (8/18/63), m/o 6/29/65
Conant, Abel B., 7th KY INF, comn Asst. Surgeon, 8/7/61 (9/22/61), pr SURG 5/10/64, resigned 9/24/64
Conn, Granville Priest, comn Asst. Surgeon, 12th VVI, 9/19/62 (10/4/62), m/o 7/14/63 (more offsite)
Cousins, Moses, Surgeon, 36th IA INF
Cowles, Edward, Assistant Surgeon Apptd, 6/13/63, Chief Medical Officer,of the Department of the Rio Grande, 66 to 69 resigned, 3/1/72
Currier, Samuel Hammond, enl 12/10/61, m/i 2/18/62, hsptl Stewd, 8th VVI, comn Asst. Surgeon, 6/25/62 (6/25/62), resigned 11/30/62
Curtis, Edward M., enl 5/2/61, m/i 5/9/61, PVT, Co. H, 1st VVI, m/o 8/15/61; Davidson, Andrew, Assistant Surgeon 47th OH INF, Staff (Medal of Honor!) Dixon, Lucius Jerome, Surgeon, 1st MN INF 5/1/61-9/1/62, Brigade Surgeon, 10/8/61-6/8/66 Drew, Frederick Perkins, Surgeon, USA, d/svc 3/20/64, Fort Riley, KS Edson, Ptolemy O'Meara, comn Asst. Surgeon, 1st Vt. CAV 11/5/61 (11/18/61), pr Surgeon, 17th VVI, 3/16/64 (3/22/64), m/o 2/27/65 Fairman, Erastus P., enl 2/29/64, m/i 3/2/64, Pvt, Co. C, 17th VVI Farr, Henry M., Surgeon, 25th IA INF Foster, Elihu S., comn Asst. Surgeon, 7th VVI, 10/1/62 (10/3/62), resigned 2/20/65 Frost, Carlton Pennington, comn Surgeon, 15th VVI, 10/2/62 (10/8/62), resigned 5/3/63; Gale, Eli Holbrook, Assistant Surgeon 186th PA INF, comn 5/17/64, m/o 8/15/65 Gale, George F., comn Surgeon, 8th VVI, 12/10/61 (12/10/61), resigned 6/24/62 Gale, George S., comn Surgeon, 1st VVC, 9/24/61 (11/1/61), m/o 11/18/64 Gillett, Heman H., comn Asst. Surgeon, 8th VVI, 12/10/61 (12/10/61), pr Surgeon, 6/25/62 (6/25/62), m/o 6/28/65 Goldsmith, Middleton, Surgeon, USV Goodwin, David M., comn Asst. Surgeon, 3rd VVI, 6/20/61 (6/20/61), pr SURG 4/29/63 (5/7/63), m/o 7/27/64;
Goss, Story Norman, comn Asst. Surgeon, 9th VVI, 9/26/62 (10/7/62), resigned 10/15/63 (more) Gray, Charles Russell, Surgeon (MAJ), USA Greeley, George P., Assistant Surgeon, later Surgeon, 4th NH INF Hall, Elmore John, enl 8/21/62, m/i 9/29/62, Pvt Co. L, 1st VVC, comn Asst. Surgeon, 1/1/63 (2/2/63), resigned 9/15/64 Hall, Horace P., comn Asst. Surgeon, 9th VVI, 6/30/62 (6/30/62), resigned 3/13/63 Hamilton, Frank Hastings, Surgeon, 31st NY INF, comn 5/25/61, SURG USV, 8/3/61, LTC Medical Inspector, 2/9/63, resigned, 8/29/63 Hanks, Horace T., Assistant Surgeon 30th NY INF Harrington, Joseph L., comn Asst. Surgeon, 11th VVI, 3/4/65 (3/17/65), m/o 8/25/65 Haynes, Samuel C., Assistant Surgeon 6th IA CAV, 37th IA INF Hyde, Melvin John, comn Asst. Surgeon, 2nd VVI, 9/12/63 (9/12/63), pr SURG 8/1/64 (8/23/64), m/o 7/15/65 Janes, Henry, comn Surgeon, 3rd VVI, 6/24/61 (6/24/61), pr Surgeon, USV, 3/26/63, brevet LTC, USV, 3/13/65 for faithful and meritorious service during the war, m/o 1/4/66 (more) Kelley, Francis W., comn Surgeon, 7th VVI, 1/25/62 (2/4/62), resigned 9/8/62 Kent, Prentiss J., Assistant Surgeon 174th NY INF Ketchum, Benjamin F., comn Surgeon, 12th VVI, 9/19/62 (10/4/62), m/o 7/14/63 Kidder, Charles Wheeler Burr, comn Surgeon, 11th VVI, 8/18/62 (9/3/62), resigned 9/10/63 Knowlson, John, comn Surgeon, 9/3/62, cred. Troy, NY, 169th NY INF, m/o 7/19/65, Raleigh, NC (more)
Knox, James Monroe, Surgeon, USA Langdon, Henry H., comn Asst. Surgeon, 7th VVI, 10/3/62 (10/6/62), resigned 3/27/63 Langdon, Seth W., recruit for 5th VVI, unassigned 8/15/64 McGregor, John H., Assistant Surgeon 12th MA INF, 32nd MA INF, 4th MA CAV Mead, Martin Luther, Surgeon, 4th MI INF Meigs, John J., comn Asst. Surgeon, 11th VVI, 8/11/62 (8/11/62) Mulholland, H., Surgeon, unit unidentified Newell, Henry Clay, drafted - com Asst. Surgeon, 3rd VVI, 10/2/63 (10/2/63), resigned 5/20/65 Nichols, George, comn Surgeon, 13th VVI, 9/24/62 (10/7/62), m/o 7/21/63 Nims, Edward B., comn Asst. Surgeon, 1st VVC, 5/9/64 (6/11/65), m/o 8/9/65 Noyes, George H., Surgeon, 2nd IA CAV Noyes, Luman A., comn Asst. Surgeon, 2nd VVI, 4/14/63 (4/14/63), resigned 5/27/63 Park, Castanus B. Jr., comn Surgeon, 16th VVI, 10/18/62 (10/23/62), m/o 8/10/63; Phelps, Edward Elisha, Surgeon. Member, State Board of Medical Examiners, then 1st Vermont Brigade Surgeon USV, later in charge of Brattleboro hospital. (more ) Phillips, Edwin, enl 9/15/61, m/i 10/15/61, Pvt, Co. G, 6th VVI Plant, Azro M., comn Asst. Surgeon, 14th VVI, 1/29/63 (2/2/63), m/o 7/30/63 Porter, Edward O., comn Asst. Surgeon, 11th VVI, 8/19/62 (9/3/62), resigned 1/16/65 Rice, John H., Assistant Surgeon 29th IA INF Ross, Lucretius Dewey, comn Asst. Surgeon, 14th VVI, 10/8/62 (10/12/63), m/o 7/30/63; additional service as Contract (Civilian) SURG (more offsite) Ross, Oliver E., comn Asst. Surgeon, 12th VVI, 1/29/63 (2/2/63), m/o 7/14/63; Russell, William P., comn Surgeon, 5th VVI, 8/15/61 (8/5/61), wdd, Savage's Station, 6/29/62, pow, Savage's Station, 6/29/62, prld 7/17/62, dis/dsb 10/11/62 Rutherford, Joseph Chase, comn Asst. Surgeon, 10th VVI, 8/8/62 (8/8/62), pr Surgeon, 17th VVI, 3/6/65 (3/13/65), m/o 7/14/65 (more offsite; more offsite) Sanborn, Eben K., comn Surgeon, 1st VVI, 4/26/61 (4/26/61), m/o 8/15/61; Sawin, William J., Assistant Surgeon 10th MA INF, enl 9/7/61, tr to Pvt, Co. E, 3rd VVI, pr ASST-SURG 2nd VVI, 6/21/62, wdd, Savage's Station, 6/29/62, pow, Savage's Station, 6/29/62, prld 7/22/62, m/o 6/29/64 Sawyer, Levi P., Assistant Surgeon 13th NH INF Shaw, Henry Charles, comn Asst. Surgeon, 5th VVI, 8/15/61 (8/15/61), d/dis 9/7/1862; also served Asst. Surgeon, 5th NH INF Sherman, Socrates Norton, Surgeon, 34th NY INF Skinner, Calvin, Surgeon, 106th NY INF Smith, Henry F., comn Asst. Surgeon, 3rd VVI, 9/15/62 (9/17/62), m/o 4/21/64 Spafford, George, comn Asst. Surgeon, 16th VVI, 1/29/63 (2/2/63), m/o 8/10/63 Spohn, Henry, comn Asst. Surgeon, 17th VVI, 4/18/64 (4/18/64), resigned 11/2/64; also served as Acting Assistant Surgeon, U
.S. Army (no dates) Sprague, Edwin H., comn Surgeon, 14th VVI, 10/8/62 (10/12/62), disch/incompetency 11/14/62 Stewart, E. H., Surgeon, unidentified unit Stone, J. Jerome, Asst. Surgeon, USV (more offsite) Stone, Lyman H., comn Asst. Surgeon, USA, 47; Surgeon, USA, 5/21/61; dismissed 9/16/62 Streeter, Miflin H., Assistant Surgeon 101st NY INF Strong, Thomas D., Surgeon, 68th NY INF Tenney, Charles H., comn Asst. Surgeon, 7th VVI, 5/16/63 (5/23/63), resigned due to disease 1/20/64 Tolles, Lewis C., Assistant Surgeon 1st CO CAV Townshend, Morris Miller, Asst. Surgeon, U.S. General Hospital, 1862-1865 Tracy, William A., Surgeon, 6th NH INF Trask, Charles M., Assistant Surgeon 5th NH INF Trueworthy, Edwin W., 2LT, Co. H, 22nd ME INF, 9/62-9/62; Medical Cadet, U.S. Army, 6/64-6/65; comn Asst. Surgeon, 7th VVI, 6/17/65 (6/17/65), pr Surgeon, 10/1/65 (10/13/65), m/o 3/14/66 Tuttle, Lyman M., comn Asst. Surgeon, 6th VVI, 11/7/61 (11/18/61), resigned 12/26/62 Van Steenberg, Warner, Assistant Surgeon 1st NY INF Vincent, Walter Scott, comn Asst. Surgeon, 9th VVI, 4/20/63 (4/20/63) pr Surgeon, 11/15/64 (11/25/64), m/o 6/13/65 Welch, Alvin Colby, Assistant Surgeon, tombstone marked, not in Revised Roster Wetherby, Luther Paris, Surgeon, 15th KY INF White, Charles B., Asst. Surgeon, USV, 10/24/63, Surgeon, 3/30/64, brevet LTC, 1/23/66, for faithful service; m/o 1/27/66 Woodward, Adrian Theodore, comn Surgeon, 14th VVI, 2/9/63 (2/9/63), m/o 7/30/63 (more offsite) Woodward, Rollin Carlos M., comn Surgeon, 6th VVI, 10/10/61 (10/14/61), dis/dsb 10/29/61 Young, H. J. , Assistant Surgeon, 1st WI CAV, and 4th WI INF; (more offsite)
enl again 9/21/61, m/i 9/21/61, Hosp. Stew., 4th VVI, comn Asst. Surgeon, 6th VVI, 1/29/63 (2/2/63), comn Surgeon, 4th VVI, 10/24/64 (10/26/64), m/o 7/13/65
pr Assistant Surgeon 9th VVI, 4/9/64 m/o 6/13/65
Surgeon of Board of Enrollment, 2nd Congressional District, until 6/15/65 (more offsite)
comn Asst. Surgeon, 17th VVI, 11/21/64 (12/6/64), m/o 7/14/65
pr Surgeon, 3rd VVI, 10/1/64 (10/24/64), m/o 7/8/65
Asst. Surgeon, 19th PA CAV
comn Surgeon, 11th VVI, 10/3/63 (10/3/63), m/o 6/24/65
pr Asst. Surgeon, 4th VVI, 8/4/62, pr Surgeon, 6th VVI, 10/28/63 (10/28/63), m/o 6/26/65 (more)
Acting Asst. Surgeon and Contract Surgeon, USA
comn Asst. Surgeon, 8th VVI, 9/17/63 (9/17/63), m/o 6/28/65
comn Surgeon, 31st MA INF, 2/20/62, d/dis? 4/3/62, Ship Island, MD
Legend: A.C. - Army Corps; AG - Adjutant General; AAG - Assistant Adjutant General; AAAG - Acting Assistant Adjutant General; AACS - Acting Assistant Commissary of Subsistence; AAQM - Acting Assistant Quartermaster; ACT - Acting; ADC - Aide-de-Camp; AIG - Assistant Inspector General; A&IG - Adjutant & Inspector General; AoP - Army of the Potomac; A.P.M. - Additional Paymaster; AQM - Assistant Quartermaster; Artfcr - Artificer; BGLR - Bugler; Bndmstr - Bandmaster; BGen - Brigadier General; Blksmth - Blacksmith; Bvt - brevet; enl - enlisted; CS - Commissary of Subsistence; com - commissioned; cred. - credited to; CS - Commissary of Subsistence; CSA - Confederate States Army; d/dis - died of disease; d/prison - died in prison*; d/svc - died in service (cause unknown); d/wds - died of wounds; dis/dsb - discharged for disability; dis/dischon - dishonorable discharge; DRMR - Drummer; dsrtd - deserted; ENG - Engineer (rank); ENGNRS - Engineers (unit); FFR - Fifer; GCM - general court martial; gsw - gunshot wound; Hosp. - Hospital; IG - Inspector General, kia - killed in action; MGen - Major General; m/i - mustered in; m/o - mustered out; Muscn - Musician; mwia - mortally wounded in action; n.d. - no date; nfr - no further record; P.M. - Paymaster; pow - taken prisoner; pr - promoted; prld - paroled; Rcrt - Recruit; red - reduced (demoted); resgd - resigned; RQM - Regimental Quartermaster; SOWD - Special Order, War Department; Stew. - Steward; tr to/from - transferred to/from; USA - US Army; USCA - US Colored Artillery; USCI - US Colored Infantry; USSS - US Sharpshooters; USV - US Volunteers; VVLB - Vermont Volunteer Light Battery; VHAC - Vermont Heavy Artillery Company; VRC - Veterans Reserve Corps; VVC - Vermont Volunteer Cavalry; VVI - Vermont Volunteer Infantry; Wgnr - Wagoner; wdd - wounded
* NOTE: d/prison includes those who died on parole as a result of imprisonment
Source of roster information: basic information on enlistments, promotions, casualties, etc. comes from the 1892 "Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers," and additional information from a variety of sources, including cemetery, pension, census and other records as well as published biographies of individuals.