A Guide to the Association of Medical Officers of the Confederate Army and Navy Records, 1873-1875 Acc. 122 A Collection in Special Collections and Archives, Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Acc. 122
Association of Medical Officers of the Confederate Army and Navy Records, 1873-1875, Acc. 122, Special Collections and Archives,
Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Acquisition Information
Donor unknown; found in TML basement collection in 1979.
The Association was organized in Atlanta, Georgia on 20 May 1874 as a result of a call published in 1873 from former Confederate
Surgeon-General Samuel Preston Moore and a number of prominent physicians (former Confederates), including Hunter Holmes McGuire.
The object of the Assoication was "to cultivate friendly feelings among the members of the profession who served in the Medical
Department of the Confederacy; and also to collect any material or information pertaining to the medical service of that army
and navy." Virginia Medical Semi-monthly v.7 no.1, April 1902