Private Samuel Shoop, Company F, 200th Pennsylvania Infantry April-May 1865 Reed Brockway Bontecou American The last great battle of the Civil War was the siege of Petersburg, Virginiaa brutal campaign that led to Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender on April 9, 1865. Samuel Shoop, a twenty-five-year-old private in Company F of the 200th Pennsylvania Volunteers, received a gunshot wound in the thigh at Fort Steadman on the first day of the campaign (March 25) and was evacuated to Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. His leg was amputated by Dr. Reed Brockway Bontecou, surgeon in charge, who also made this clinical photograph. It was intended, in part, to serve as a tool for teaching fellow army surgeons and is an extremely rare example of the early professional use of photography in America.. Private Samuel Shoop, Company F, 200th Pennsylvania Infantry 266771

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Private Samuel Shoop, Company F, 200th Pennsylvania Infantry April-May 1865 Reed Brockway Bontecou American The last great battle of the Civil War was the siege of Petersburg, Virginiaa brutal campaign that led to Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender on April 9, 1865. Samuel Shoop, a twenty-five-year-old private in Company F of the 200th Pennsylvania Volunteers, received a gunshot wound in the thigh at Fort Steadman on the first day of the campaign (March 25) and was evacuated to Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. His leg was amputated by Dr. Reed Brockway Bontecou, surgeon in charge, who also made this clinical photograph. It was intended, in part, to serve as a tool for teaching fellow army surgeons and is an extremely rare example of the early professional use of photography in America.. Private Samuel Shoop, Company F, 200th Pennsylvania Infantry 266771

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