Title continues: "For the Instruction of Hospital Stewards, Ward-Masters, and Attendants, in Their Several Duties. Prepared in strict accordance with existing regulations and the customs of service in the armies of the United States of America, and rendered authoritative by order of the Surgeon-General." Lt.-Col. J. J. Woodward (1833-1884) was a Philadelphia surgeon who enlisted with the Army of the Potomac in June 1861. In May 1862 he was assigned to the office of the surgeon general in Washington where he planned hospital construction. His other claims to fame include performing autopsies on both Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth and attending to President Garfield after he was shot. On p. 39, credit is given to the famous Dorothea Dix (1802-87), Superintendent of Army Nurses during the US Civil War. Dix is best remembered as an advocate for the indigent mentally ill. Her sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress created the first generation of American mental asylums.
