LIEUTENANT COLONEL & SURGEON REED B. BONTECOU
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Reed B. Bontecou was commissioned as surgeon of the 2nd New York Infantry, April 1861; was promoted to brigade surgeon, Sept. 1861; he was present at the first land battle of the Civil War, at Big Bethel, Va.; was a witness to the first battle of ironclad war ships, the battle between Monitor & the Merrimac at Hampton Roads, Va.; was present at the capture of Yorktown, Va.; was in charge of Hygeia U. S. Army Hospital, Fortress Monroe, Va.; attended General Ormsby M. Mitchel on his deathbed in Beaufort, S.C.; was chief medical officers of all hospitals at Beaufort; was with Medical Director Charles H. Crane in the iron clad attack on Fort Sumter, was in charge of the hospital steamer "Cosmopolitan" lying off Charleston during the siege of that city; was chief surgeon, in charge of Harewood U. S. Military Hospital, Washington, D.C., Oct. 1863 to May 1866. He was also an intimate friend of President Abraham Lincoln, Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, and many other notable personages of the period. After the war he returned to Troy, N.Y., and continued his prominent medical practice. Clipped signature, in ink, R.B. Bontecou, affixed to the title page of his personal album, which has the imprint of L. Prang & Co., Boston, and is dated April 5th, 1864. Page measures 8 1/4 x 9. There is also a notation in ink, "Most of the pictures in this
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