| R.B. Bontecou Peter Strien [Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1870-1888)] 1865 Photograph, mounted 19 x 14 cm (image, oval) 31 x 25 cm (mount) NIH: U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) Order No.: B030343 LL/66077 Peter Strien, Private, Co. D 200th Pa. Vols., aged 21, was admitted to Harewood U.S.A. Gen'l Hospital, April 2, 1865, with gunshot wound ... Wounded March 25th, 1865, in battle of Fort Steadman, Va. ...
"Some photographs [in the series] were made by officers at the Army Medical Museum, but most were made by Lieutenant Colonel and Surgeon Reed Brockway Bontecou ... while in charge of Harewood General Hospital, a three-thousand-bed facility in Washington, where he was posted from October 1863 to May 1866" (NLM)
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