ANIMAL OECONOMY - LECTURE NOTES
Baltimore: 1827. Octavo, unpaginated. Fair; bound in contemporary marbled paper with 1/2 leather, extensive fading and tears to covers, spine label half torn away indicating "Animal Oeconomy" as title; front hinge very compromised and nearly completely loose, but binding else tight; text block age toned; pages clean; written in ink on verso of ffep "Chas. Macgill Baltimore Hospital 1827;" bookplate on inside front pastedown "Dr. Chas Macgill, In Deo Confid;" MF consignment.
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Price: $2,000
NOTES
Charles (Chas.) MacGill was from Hagerstown and served as a Confederate surgeon for two years during the Civil War. He was held as a political prisoner in Fort Warren, Boston for two years starting in 1861. In July of 1863 he opened a hospital for sick and wounded Confederate soldiers that arrived in the Gettysburg Campaign. He left with the Confederate army and served in the Confederate Medical Corps through the end of the War. His son Charles G.W. (1833-1907) was commissioned surgeon of the 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment (Stonewall Brigade).