Английская Википедия:Charles Sutherland (Surgeon General)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox military person Charles Sutherland (May 10, 1831 – May 10, 1895) was an American doctor and officer in the United States Army. He was most notable for his service as Surgeon General of the United States Army.
Early life
Charles Sutherland was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 10, 1831, the son of Mary (Read) Sutherland and Joel Barlow Sutherland.Шаблон:Sfn Charles Sutherland was educated at private schools in Philadelphia, and attended Jefferson Medical College.Шаблон:Sfn He received his M.D. degree in 1849, and became a physician.Шаблон:Sfn
Start of career
In 1852, Sutherland joined the United States Army as a contracted assistant surgeon.Шаблон:Sfn Sutherland passed his 1853 examination for appointment in the Army, and received his commission as a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps.Шаблон:Sfn
Sutherland served initially at Fort Monroe, Virginia and Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.Шаблон:Sfn After assisting to combat a cholera outbreak at Jefferson Barracks, Sutherland traveled west with the surveying party that decided upon the location for Fort Riley, Kansas and began construction of the post.Шаблон:Sfn
Following the Fort Riley expedition, Sutherland was assigned to duty in New Mexico, and served at posts including Fort Webster, Fort Fillmore, Fort Craig, Fort Stanton, and Fort Marcy.Шаблон:Sfn Sutherland served in New Mexico during the period when use of the Santa Fe Trail enabled white Americans to begin settling the Southwestern United States, and he took part in military actions against the Apache and Comanche tribes of Native Americans who resisted.Шаблон:Sfn
Sutherland was promoted to captain in 1857.Шаблон:Sfn Immediately prior to the American Civil War, Sutherland served at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, followed by postings to Fort Davis and Fort Duncan in Texas.Шаблон:Sfn
Civil War
At the start of the American Civil War, soldiers loyal to the Confederate States of America took over U.S. Army posts in Texas, and Sutherland narrowly escaped capture.Шаблон:Sfn He made his way to New York with other U.S. Army soldiers who had been stationed in Texas, and then received orders to take part in the expedition to garrison Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island near Pensacola, Florida.Шаблон:Sfn Possession of this post was important to the war effort because it demonstrated that the Union maintained a presence in the southern states while also contributing to the Union's effort to blockade the southern ports.Шаблон:Sfn Confederates unsuccessfully attempted to take the fort in 1861's Battle of Santa Rosa Island, an engagement in which Sutherland was a participant.Шаблон:Sfn
In April 1862, Sutherland was promoted to major and assigned to Fort Warren, Massachusetts, where Union soldiers guarded Confederate prisoners of war.Шаблон:Sfn Later that year Sutherland traveled west, and was assigned as chief medical purveyor for Union Army units in and around Corinth, Mississippi. He subsequently established medical supply depots in Columbus, Kentucky and Memphis, Tennessee, followed by setting up army field hospitals in Mississippi and Tennessee, as well as a floating hospital on the Mississippi River which was used by the Army of the Tennessee during the Vicksburg Campaign.Шаблон:Sfn During the Siege of Vicksburg, Sutherland served on the staff of Army of the Tennessee commander Ulysses S. Grant as assistant medical director and inspector of camps and transports.Шаблон:Sfn He took part in the Battle of Jackson and the Battle of Champion Hill, and was commended by Grant for effective medical support and efforts to improve camp hygiene, which caused the number of illnesses and deaths from malaria, smallpox and other diseases to be lower than had been the case in previous campaigns.Шаблон:Sfn
After the fall of Vicksburg, Sutherland was assigned as medical director for the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, with responsibility for medical support to units in the field, five rear area general hospitals.Шаблон:Sfn In the spring of 1864, Sutherland was appointed chief medical purveyor for the Army of the Potomac and the Army hospitals in and around Washington, DC.Шаблон:Sfn His assignment was later expanded to included hospitals in and around Annapolis, Maryland, and he remained in this position until the end of the war.Шаблон:Sfn
Following the Confederate surrender, Sutherland was praised by the Secretary of War for his successful acquisition, storage, and dissemination of more than $4 million in medical supplies and equipment (over $60 million in 2018).Шаблон:Sfn In 1865, he received brevet promotions to lieutenant colonel and colonel in recognition of the superior service he rendered throughout the war.Шаблон:Sfn
Post-Civil War
After the war, Sutherland was appointed as chief purveyor of the medical supply depot in Washington, and he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1866.Шаблон:Sfn He later served as chief purveyor of the New York City medical supply depot, and he remained in this position until 1876.Шаблон:Sfn
In June 1876, Sutherland was promoted to colonel and assigned as medical director of the Division of the Pacific.Шаблон:Sfn He held this position until 1884, when he was assigned as medical director for the Division of the Atlantic.Шаблон:Sfn
Surgeon General
Sutherland was promoted to brigadier general in December 1890 and appointed as Surgeon General of the United States Army, succeeding Jedediah Hyde Baxter.Шаблон:Sfn During his tenure, the Medical Department began the procedure of providing doctors instruments at the medical facilities where they worked, rather than issuing them personal equipment for which they were individually accountable.Шаблон:Sfn He also oversaw the organization of enlisted Medical Corps soldiers into detachments, and created the first Medical Corps school for enlisted soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas.Шаблон:Sfn
In 1893, Sutherland retired and was succeeded by George Miller Sternberg.Шаблон:Sfn
Retirement and death
In retirement, Sutherland was a resident of Washington, DC.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He died there on May 10, 1895,Шаблон:Sfn and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Section 1, Graves 152 A-B.Шаблон:Sfn
Family
Sutherland's first wife was Kate Brewer (1837–1866).Шаблон:Sfn In 1869, he married Elizabeth Wirt Brewer (1847–1918), the sister of his first wife.Шаблон:Sfn Charles and Elizabeth Sutherland were the parents of seven children.Шаблон:Sfn In Sutherland's 1895 obituaries, their ages were reported as ranging from nine to 24, and their names were given as Lucy, Edith, Catherine, Douglas, Roy, Malcolm, and Agnes.Шаблон:Sfn
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