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Showing posts with label Dr. Hall Jackson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dr. Hall Jackson. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

“How large the shell was”

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This anecdote comes from a 17 Sept 1775 letter by Dr. Hall Jackson , tending to New Hampshire troops during the siege of Boston : A shell ...
Friday, February 09, 2024

“His left arm was blown off and never found”

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Last month I left ship’s captain Sylvanus Lowell lying near death at the smallpox hospital in Marblehead harbor in early December 1773....
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

“Breathe their Last within the walls of his Detestable General Hospital”

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As I quoted yesterday , in September 1775 commanders of the northern wing of the Continental Army besieging Boston were upset with how Sur...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

“Jackson was obliged to take the knife”

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Yesterday I left Pvt. William Simpson of Pennsylvania grievously wounded in the leg by a British cannon ball in late August 1775, and two...
Monday, January 22, 2024

“They were hurried Volens Nolens to a general Hospital at Cambridge”

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On 27 July 1775, the Continental Congress created a hospital department for its army outside Boston. It also appointed Dr. Benjamin Chur...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

“I am hurried thro’ the whole Army”

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Yesterday I wrote about Dr. Hall Jackson ’s career as colonial New Hampshire ’s premier amputator (if he did say so himself). Today I’m ...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

“Doctor HALL JACKSON has had the Care of this Lad”

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Yesterday we left sea captain Sylvanus Lowell near death after he was caught at the wrong end of a cannon on Cat Island in Marblehead ’s ...
Friday, January 19, 2024

“We have not yet heard of his being dead…”

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In late 1773 and early 1774, Marblehead and surrounding towns were concerned and then convulsed with the new private smallpox hospital on ...
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