The Thirty-Ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865

Chapter 66: SURGEONS

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The narrative follows a volunteer regiment from its organization through training, marches, combat, and duty, documenting engagements in the eastern theater and episodes of capture and imprisonment. Company-level sketches, officers' reports, and veterans' recollections reconstruct daily camp life, battle actions, maneuvers, and periods of garrison and picket duty. The volume intersperses firsthand diaries and letters with a campaign chronology and includes appendices containing rosters, officers' lists, casualty returns, and veterans' association records, offering both readable accounts of soldiering and a reference resource for descendants and historians.

SURGEONS

Calvin G. Page, 33, —; physician, Boston; August 22, 1862; dis. as Major, disa., Nov. 16, '63; an A. B., Harvard, 1852, he took his M. D. there in 1854; d. March 29, 1869.

William Thorndike, 29, M.; surgeon, Beverly; Nov. 17, 1863; an A. B. from Harvard, 1854, he also gained there his M. D., 1857; had seen service as Ass't Surgeon, Thirty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers, whence he came to the Thirty-ninth; his efficiency in the Regiment was thoroughly appreciated by the men, and General Peirson affirms that recovery from the wound received at the Weldon R. R. was the result of the care and attention of his surgeon; the son of the latter, William, Jr., also Harvard, 1892, and M. D., 1896, is a Boston practitioner, whose wife is a daughter of the late General William Tecumseh Sherman; Surgeon Thorndike died in 1887.