Record #:

16066

Author(s):

Jordan, Mrs.

Abstract:

One of the first acts of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America was to organize an Army Medical Department. Samuel Preston Moore was named surgeon general and he was charged with setting up nine medical laboratories, two in North Carolina. The impoverished South depended on three avenues for supply of medical necessities: captured Federal goods, blockade-running, and manufacture within the nine laboratories.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 11 Issue 4, May 1972, p8-9, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical and sanitary aspects