R.B. Bontecou
1865
Ludwig Kohn
[Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1870-1888)]

Photograph, mounted
19 x 14 cm (image, oval) 31 x 25 cm (mount)
 
NIH: U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Order No.: B030324
 
Ludwig Kohn, private, Co. I, 214th Pa. Vols., aged 26, admitted to Harewood U.S.A. Gen'l Hospital, August 15, 1865, suffering from gunshot wound of chest … Wounded July 1, 1863, at the battle of Gettysburg, Pa. …
 
"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)
 
LL/66076