John Moore (physician)

Dr. John Moore (1826-1907) was an United States Army physician who rose to become Surgeon General of the Army.

Dr. Moore was born in Indiana. He graduated from Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati in 1844, and scored first place in the internship examination at the Commerical Hospital and Lunatic Asylum of Ohio, the hospital whose attending physicains were members of the MCO Faculty. He served during 1845-1846, and then filled in when another intern had to leave the following mid-year. He entered the Army as assistant surgeon in 1853. He served in Florida and on the Utah Expedition (1857). When the Civil War broke out he was attached to the Cincinnati Marine Hospital, which became the Military Hospital of Cincinnati, that was opened in May, 1861. He was promoted surgeon in [[1862]. In Cincinnati, he was assigned to previously unstable hospital situations. Then he was assigned to the Army of the Potomac. In 1863 he became Medical Director of the Army of the Tennessee and accompanied General Sherman on his famous "March to the Sea" and through the Carolinas. In 1865 he received the brevet of colonel and in 1883 he was made Assistant Medical Purveyor with the rank of colonel. In 1886, as a Brigadier General, he was appointed Surgeon General, a position he held until 1890. He was retired for age in 1900.

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