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BACKGROUND AND BEGINNINGS

hospitals at Alexandria, Falls Church, and Culpeper Court House, Va., and at Memphis, Tenn.

"My whole heart was in the Museum," he wrote afterward, "and I felt that if the medical officers in the field, and those in charge of hospitals, could only be fairly interested, its growth would be rapid and the future good of such a grand national cabinet would be immense. By it the results of the surgery of this war would be preserved for all time, and the education of future generations of military surgeons would be greatly assisted."

During his period of service as Curator, Dr. Brinton visited the field hospitals after the great battles in the East—Antietam or Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg,