Record of cases, both surgical and medical, operations, post mortem examinations, etc. :

Clark, Charles M., b. 1834.

Manuscript : Oct., 1861 - Dec. 16, 1865.

Description : Archival Material 1 v. (320 p.) : ill. ; 27 cm.

Photographs : mounted tintypes and albumens.

Repository : University of Chicago Library.

Subject : War wounds ; Civil War, 1861-1865 -- medical care.

Notes :

• Part of the Crerar Manuscript Collection of the University of Chicago Library.
• Library URL : www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/
• Call number : CrMs85
• Clark was chief operating surgeon in the Twenty-fourth Army Corps, Union Army.
• Clark wrote a history of the Yates Phalanx, published in 1889.¹
• Data sheet available in the Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library.
• Manuscript comprised of medical records, documenting operations, postmortem operations, and cases of soldiers' wounds and treatments. Extensively illustrated with sketches, tintypes, and photographs, mounted or pasted in. Includes a portrait of Clark.

At this place, Surgeon Charles M. Clark, who had previously been detached from the Regiment as Operating Surgeon, was placed in charge of the Tenth Army Corps' Flying Hospital - a position which he filled with acknowledged skill and ability. After the merging of the Tenth and Eighteenth Corps into the Twenty-fourth Army Corps, Surgeon Clark was appointed Chief Operating Surgeon of the Corps, which position he retained until the surrender of the rebel army. Subsequently, he was placed in charge of the Military Hospital at Richmond, where he remained until its final abandonment in September 1865, being then ordered to Norfolk, Virginia, as chief medical officer of the district, and in charge of the Post Hospital. ²

¹ Clark, Charles M., The history of the Thirty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Veteran Infantry (Yates Phalanx) in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 . Chicago, Ill. ; Published under the auspices of the veteran association of the regiment. 1889.

² Illinois Adjutant General's Office, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois ; Springfield, IL : Phillips Brothers, State Printers, 1900-1902 ; 9 vols. HG 353.9.