CIVIL WAR HOSPITAL SHIP J.K. BARNES UNION PATCH
He also did not survive his days of imprisonment on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River. Summer, 13 th South Carolina Infantry, was captured near Gettysburg on Jat the Samuel Lohr Farm Hospital. He died of consumption while on Pea Patch Island and is one of 135 Union soldiers buried at Finns Point in New Jersey. While safe from the battles he still did not survive the war. Regular Army and served at Fort Delaware in the post hospital. Underwood, born in Georgia, enlisted in the U.S. He said the position was very difficult to obtain and he had gathered recommendations from three surgeons in preparation for his application. Beal, Acting Assistant Surgeon, at Dunbarton Street Hospital in Georgetown, tried to explain to his father in a letter dated July 1, 1863, that he had resigned his surgeon’s position and applied to be a Hospital Steward in the Regular Army. Hayes, Surgeon in Charge, to be the Inspector of Police. Clair, also at Satterlee Hospital, was ordered by I.
Bulkley at Satterlee Hospital in West Philadelphia found himself detailed as the Postmaster. Harlan Goodell, 7 th Massachusetts Light Artillery, was discharged for disability, but stayed on and volunteered as a Hospital Steward/nurse/clerk at Higgins Hospital at Fort Monroe, VA. He was one of many hospital workers injured during the war. Bahl, 16 th Ohio Infantry, was wounded at Fort Gibson, MS. Moore Smith, 59 th and 71 st Pennsylvania Infantry, served at Gettysburg and faced the care of overwhelming casualties. Many of these men have interesting and unique stories to tell. He functioned as the clerk, the COO, and the CFO. If assigned to a hospital he was also the Hospital Administrator. The term Hospital Steward was replaced with Pharmacist in 1902. Pharmacy was not seen as a science until 1868, even though the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy had been educating these men in civilian life since 1821. He compounded prescriptions rather than filled them. He was the druggist or chemist who worked in the dispensary (equivalent of the apothecary shop in civilian life then, or the drug store or pharmacy today). There were only 45 in the entire commonwealth and now they were needed not only to compound and distribute medicines, but with the blockade in place, they were also needed to manufacture medicines.Īny Civil War enthusiast who has read about the Hospital Steward would define this individual as a “workhorse.” While this position does not exist today as a single individual, at the time of the Civil War this man was commonly seen as the druggist/chemist (pharmacist today) and the hospital administrator. Their demand was so high that the Commonwealth of Virginia petitioned that a civilian druggist or chemist could not volunteer or be drafted as he was needed in the community. As the pharmacist of that era, these men were in great demand in both the military and civilian life. The Steward was not only present in the hospital, but also found assisting the Surgeon with the regiment on the march, or in the camp, or on the battlefield, and on board naval ships. Depending on the size of the hospital there might be a second Hospital Steward (more than 150 beds) or a third (more than 400 beds), but they were undermanned and overworked. In addition, there would be an assortment of orderlies, attendants, ward masters, cooks, laundresses, matrons, guards, and lastly the lonely sole Hospital Steward. Assisting them would be detailed male nurses, primarily convalescent or invalid soldiers, female nurses who were usually volunteers, and maybe a couple of Sisters from religious orders. Present would be the usual Surgeon, Assistant Surgeons, and Acting Surgeons (contract surgeons). Army General Hospital during the Civil War, one would find an assortment of Medical Staff and support workers. Originally published in December 2013 in the Surgeon’s Call, Volume 18, No. 2
Meet the Hospital Steward Posted on: December 24th, 2014 His Role & Responsibilities Including His Relationship to Nursing
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