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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 7 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
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Wyeth, John Allan 1845- Surgeon; born in Marshall county, Ala., May 26, 1845; educated at La Grange Military Academy, Ala.; served in the Confederate army as private during the Civil War; studied medicine; graduated at the University of Louisiana in 1869; was assistant demonstrator of anatomy in 1873-74; and prosector to Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, in 1880-97. He organized and founded the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital in 1882, the first post-graduate medical school in the United States; was Professor of Surgery and president of the faculty there; and president of the New York State Medical Association in 1901. He wrote Essays on surgical Anatomy and Surgery; Textbook on Surgery; Life of Gen. N. B. Forrest, etc.