APPENDIX A
A Chronologic Synopsis of Events
- 1862
25 April: William Alexander Hammond appointed Surgeon General, U.S. Army.
1 May: Brigade Surgeon John Hill Brinton and Assistant Surgeon Joseph Janvier Woodward ordered to report to Surgeon General for special duty.
21 May: Surgeon General Hammond issued Circular No. 2, establishing the Army Medical Museum.
9 June: Hammond issued Circular No. 5 which provided for publication of "The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion."
1 August: First home of the Museum in the Riggs Bank Building. Hammond ordered Brinton to collect and arrange in the "Military Medical Museum" all specimens of morbid anatomy, both medical and surgical.
- 1863
1 January: Second home of the Museum — Pennsylvania Avenue. First catalog of the Army Medical Museum issued by the Curator.
25 August: Third home of the Museum— Corcoran School House, 1325 H Street, NW.
24 September: Brinton's plan for an Army Medical School rejected by Secretary of War Stanton.
- 1864
18 August: Surgeon General Hammond dismissed from the Service by Secretary of War Stanton.
3 October: Dr. George Alexander Otis named Curator, to succeed Brinton.71 3-028 v — G4 27
