MILITARY HISTORY OF JOHN CALL DALTON, M. D.
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LATE SURGEON U. S. VOLS.,
As shown by the records on file in the Office of the Surgeon General U. S. Army, War Department, Washington, D. C.
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Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Appointed Brigade Surgeon of Volunteers from New York.Note 2 · Reports from New York as awaiting orders.Note 3 · Assigned to General McClellan's command, Headquarters Army of Potomac, S. O. 257, A. G. O. September 23, 1861.Note 4 · Reports awaiting further orders. [Had asked to be assigned to General Viele's command.]Note 5 · Reported at Headquarters, General Viele's Brigade, Sherman's Division, Annapolis, Md., by orders from A. G. O. to November, 1861.Note 6 · Is reported at Hilton Head, S. C., with General Viele's command.Note 7 · Is reported sick at Washington, D. C.Note 8 · On duty at Daufuskie, S. C., and in South Carolina with Viele's command.Note 9 · Transferred from Brigade Surgeon to Surgeon U. S. Vols.Note 10 · Acting Medical Director at Hilton Head, S. C.Note 11 · To report to Medical Director in New York. S. O. 228, War Department, September 8, 1862.Note 12 · Reports from Boston, Mass., as being on sick leave of absence.Note 13 · Still sick at Boston, Mass.Note 14 · Reports to Medical Director at New York city, and is assigned to duty as Medical Director of Transportation to August, 1863.Note 15 · Ordered to report to the Department of the South by direction of the Medical Director Department of the East, New York, August 26, 1863.Note 16 · Reports from Morris Island, S. C., that he has reported to Medical Director of the Department of the South.Note 17 · Medical Director C. McDougall, Department of the East, requests that Surgeon Dalton be returned to that Department as soon as the public intNote 18 · Dr. Dalton reports from Morris Island, S. C., as Chief Medical Officer.Note 19 · Reports that he has been relieved from duty in the Department of the South and ordered to report to Medical Director Department of the East Note 20 · Reports at New York city.Note 21 · Forwards copy of order relieving him from duty in the Department of the South and ordering him to report at New York city. [S. O. 558, datedNote 22 · Reports that he is stationed at New York city and assigned to duty as Medical Attendant on Volunteer Officers, and Medical Director of TransNote 23 · Same as above.Note 24 · Same.Note 25 · Reports on duty at New York as Examining Surgeon of Recruits, and Medical Director of Transportation.Note 26 · Same as above.Note 27 · Resignation accepted by the President; to take effect March 5, 1864.