Excerpt from Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton: Major and Surgeon U. S. V., 1861-1865
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia; the oldest medical society in America, had, during the War of the Rebellion and up to 1866, an average of 186 fellows. Of these, fifty held commissions in the regular or volunteer service, and seven in the navy.
Among those early commissioned, in 1861, was John Hill Brinton, the author of the present memoirs. His story does not relate how much of growing surgical practice and successful teaching he gave up to serve a great cause. Neither he nor others as faithful and as distinguished, expected or received the honors which fell to officers of the line. No statue celebrates, no commemorative tablet records their services. These men, who were not less busy in the camps than in battle, suffered by wounds, disease, and prisons as, and in like proportion with, other officers, although technically regarded as non-combatants.
In the front rank of this remarkable list of surgeons, whose only records are their permanent contributions to the art of the surgery of war, was the man who tells here his story of the war, as seen from the position of one who was the close friend of General Grant through out that great soldiers life. The trials, risks, and triumphs of a remarkable army career as a surgeon are here related in a simple, direct way, and cast interesting side lights on many of the generals, and even on the campaigns the writer saw.
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