R.B. Bontecou
1865
Peter Strien
[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.: B030343
 
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)
 
LL/66077