Lydia S English, an ardent secessionist founded and operated Miss English\'s Female Seminary, aka Waverley Seminary in Georgetown,DC for over 30 years, until 1861 when Federal authorities confiscated the school and converted it into a Union Army hospital. The poet Walt Whitman served as a nurse there and It is believed that Doctor Mary Walker, the first woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor also served here. After the War the school re-opened as Waverley Hospital. An Original Civil War letter from Chief Surgeon James Rowe Smith to the Commanding officer of the 3rd New York Artillery .May 17, 1862 with notice that Private Henry Seymour of Company C, of the 3rd Artillery has been discharged from the Service on account of chronic rheumatism. 1p 8 x 10\" ink. Folds, minor edge wear, Overall VG Comes w service info- Dr James Rowe Smith was notable Texas US Army frontier surgeon before the War and was promoted to US Surgeon General by Abraham Lincoln in 1865 (Ref Texas State Historical Society).
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