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	Camp Letterman General Hospital
		Dr. Jonathan Letterman, Medical Director for the Army of the Potomac, was not totally unaware of the difficulties in proper treatment of so many wounded and the difficulties his staff of doctors and regimental surgeons faced.
		Letterman had learned from his experiences in many difficult campaigns that proper medical care required swift action and the immediate disposal of staff, supplies and equipment within the battle area.
		Letterman also depended on the services of charitable organizations such as the US Christian Commission and the US Sanitary Commission to provide medical supplies and personnel to assist with temporary field hospitals and transport of the injured and maimed.
	www.nps.gov /gett/getttour/sidebar/letterman.htm (1803 words)

	Jonathan Letterman
		In 1862, Letterman’s friend, Surgeon General Hammond, named him medical director for the Potomac division, a post he held under the command of Major-General McClellan.
		As a part of Letterman’s reorganization, he also standardized medical supply wagons for each regiment and bulk supply wagons for the brigades.
		Letterman’s memoirs as medical director during the war were published in 1866 as Medical recollections of the Army of the Potomac.
	www.uab.edu /reynolds/CivilWarMedFigs/Letterman.htm (485 words)

	Letterman Army Medical Center
		Major Jonathan Letterman, after whom the hospital at the Presidio was renamed in 1911, was the medical director of the Army of the Potomac.
		Letterman decided in the fall of 1940 that in order to meet the needs of an expanding military force, it would no longer receive admissions from the Veterans Administration and it reduced the number of CCC enrollees accepted for treatment (twenty percent of the patients had been coming from the CCC).
		Letterman General Hospital, the oldest named general hospital in the United States Army, was born of necessity because of the military occupation of the Philippine Islands.
	www.militarymuseum.org /LettermanAMC.html (13614 words)

	Medics A Brief History
		Letterman also developed the 3 tiered evacuation system which is still used today.
		In the battle of Antietam, which was a 12 hour engagement and the bloodiest one day battle in the entire Civil War, the ambulance system was was able to remove all the wounded from the field in 24 hours.
		Jonathan Letterman is known today as the Father of Modern Battlefield Medicine.
	www.1stcavmedic.com /medic_history.htm (795 words)

	eHistory.com - Medicine: Letterman's Gettysburg Report
		Jonathan Letterman is known today as the Father of Modern Battlefield Medicine.
		Letterman resigned from the Army of the Potomac in January and left the Army on December 22, 1864.
		Letterman became depressed and was made an invalid by some sort of intestinal ailment.
	ehistory.osu.edu /uscw/features/medicine/cwsurgeon/gburgreport.cfm (2530 words)

	NEPA News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Letterman, born in Washington, Pa., was director of medicine for the Army of the Potomac.
		Letterman prepared for the battle by setting up field-dressing stations next to the battlefield, field hospitals in nearby barns or houses, and large hospitals in surrounding towns.
		Letterman's triage system for sorting patients is still used today, and his multitiered treatment concept is the model for modern emergency care.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14751409&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6 (698 words)

	Ken Auletta :: Articles - Late-Night Gamble
		Letterman's unhappiness and the possibility that he might be lured away from NBC led to a prolonged courtship, carried on by a number of suitors.
		Letterman admits that he hated "the uncertainty of it all," and says, "For me, emotionally, it was very unsettling." He remained angry at NBC, yet he feared that he needed it, for in late-night TV only NBC could now deliver almostthe whole country at a given hour.
		Letterman was vague about the format of the new show, saying that he wasn't yet convinced that he had to alter his current format radically for a show that would be broadcast an hour earlier.
	www.kenauletta.com /latenightgamble.html (6205 words)

	MILITARY MEDICINE DURING THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Letterman made it explicit that the use of ambulances was restricted to patient evacuation and to carrying medical supplies.
		Letterman organized his surgeons, assigned them to treatment facilities by ability from initial dressing stations and collecting points to teams of the most experienced surgeons in the tent hospitals.
		Letterman's evacuation system was used army-wide before the end of the war and was credited with saving the lives of many thousands of soldiers during the war.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/milmedhist/chapter2.htm (9397 words)

	JEFFLINE Forum - February/March 2005: A Moving Tale: Jefferson's Contribution to the History of Patient Transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Jonathan Letterman (1824-1872) (third figure from the right) in 1862 with General McClellan and President Lincoln.
		An 1849 graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Dr. Jonathan Letterman, was appointed Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac and addressed the epidemic problem with sweeping changes.
		Major Letterman's first test was at bloody Antietam in September 1862, where his corps successfully conveyed all of the casualties within 24 hours.
	jeffline.tju.edu /Education/forum/05/02/articles/history.html (821 words)

	Surg Jonathan Letterman
		Dr. Jonathan Letterman is known today as the Father of Modern Battlefield Medicine.
		He was depressed by the death of his wife in 1867, and was often ill himself, dying in 1872.
		See something about Fort Union, where Dr Letterman was an Assistant Surgeon in 1856, and more about Civil War Medicine, in general, in a nice piece by Jenny Goellnitz.
	aotw.org /officers.php?officer_id=919 (306 words)

	JMC Faculty Handbook: Chapter 1: Background: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Jonathan Letterman (Class of 1849), a Pennsylvanian, conceived of and implemented America's first effective ambulance corps system for the removal of wounded from the battlefield and their hospitalization during the Civil War.
		Major Letterman, U.S.A., is memorialized in the Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco, one of at least two dozen major hospitals named for Jefferson alumni.
		Jonathan Messersmith Foltz (Class of 1830), also a Pennsylvanian, was not only the first White House physician, but also the first Surgeon General of the U. Navy.
	www.tju.edu /jmc/Faculty_Handbook/1.4.html (1261 words)

	Coroner Jonathan Letterman's Report San Francisco 1868
		Major Jonathan Letterman, after whom the hospital at the Presidio was renamed in 1911, was the medical director of the Army of the Potomac A founding father of military medicine, Letterman organized forward first-aid stations, mobile field hospitals, and ambulance services for the evacuation of wounded soldiers during the Civil War.
		Letterman resigned from the Army on December 22, 1864.
		He went to San Francisco, where he became coroner in 1868.
	americahurrah.com /SanFrancisco/MunicipalReports/Letterman/CoronerReport.htm (84 words)

	Medical museum opens at Antietam - The Washington Times: Metropolitan - April 24, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Letterman was director of medicine for the Army of the Potomac.
		Letterman prepared for the 12-hour engagement by setting up field-dressing stations next to the battlefield, field hospitals in nearby barns or houses, and large hospitals in surrounding towns.
		Horse-drawn wagons driven by the nation's first ambulance corps carried the wounded to the field-dressing stations, where bandages and tourniquets were applied and patients were sorted according to the severity of their injuries.
	www.washtimes.com /metro/20050423-112444-3219r.htm (364 words)

	This Tide of Wounded: Civil War Surgery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Many people have construed the Civil War surgeon to be a heartless indivdual or who was somehow incompetent and that was the reason for the great number of amputations performed.
		If any objection could be urged against the surgery of those fields, it would be the efforts on the part of surgeons to practice "conservative surgery" to too great an extent.
		Jonathan Letterman, medical director of the Army of the Potomac and father of modern battlefield medicine.
	www.civilwarmedicine.aphillcsa.com /surgery.html (1693 words)

	Hospital Woods
		The hospital was situated on the Wolf Farm on the South side of the York Pike about 1 Mile east of town.
		The wounded from all of the surrounding field hospitals were eventually moved to the tents of Camp Letterman.
		Transcending space and time, they are standing perfectly still, awaiting the exposure of the glass plate negative that will permanently capture their ghostly image.
	www.paulmartinart.com /HospitalWoods.html (1462 words)

	Letterman Family Genealogy Forum
		Catherine Letterman, born in NC in 1811 - Marie Johnson 6/25/00
		LETTERMAN, mitch 1999 missouri - mitch letterman 12/30/99
		Lettermans' of Buncombe County NC - Roger Letterman 12/12/99
	genforum.genealogy.com /letterman (538 words)

	Ambulance Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		After his efforts failed to ease needless suffering, Tripler was replaced by Dr, Jonathan Letterman on July 4, 1862.
		Letterman organized ambulance service into corps and division units, staffed by soldiers chosen by Medical Department officers.
		Stretcher-bearers first carried the wounded to primary stations, then loaded them into ambulances to be transported to the field hospitals on a fixed schedule with regular stops en route.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /CasualtiesAndMedicalCare/ambulancecorps.html (313 words)

	Medical Intelligence and Preventive Medicine
		A corps of medical officers was not established solely for the purpose of attending the wounded and sick.
		The leading idea, which should be constantly kept in view, is to strengthen the hands of the Commanding General by keeping his army in the most vigorous health, thus rendering it, in the highest degree, efficient for enduring fatigue and privation and for fighting.
		Clearly, Major Letterman understood that one of the keys to a successful military campaign is the implementation of preventive procedures to reduce DNBI rates.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/7533/hb-2.htm (3523 words)

	History Detectives . Case Files 2004 . Civil War Submarine . Feature \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In fact, Secretary of War Simon Cameron was forced to resign when it was discovered he was trying to profit from War Department contracts for railroad shipping.
		Jonathan Letterman, Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac, was responsible for creating the first organized transport of the wounded.
		Ambulance units usually consisted of a ragtag group of soldiers who were otherwise unfit for fighting.
	www.pbs.org /opb/historydetectives/case/201_feature.html (804 words)

	Hunter H. McGuire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		With a lack of time, knowledge, and basic supplies, the best bet for saving life was usually an amputation, and an amputation as soon as possible at that.
		Thus, Letterman said if any complaint could be lodged against his surgeons after Antietam, it was that they had been too conservative in cutting off limbs.
		J.B. Fontaine, of the cavalry corps of the ANV, was killed in the line of treating a wounded soldier, Dr. E.S. Galliard had to have his arm amputated after being wounded treating Joe Johnston.
	members.aol.com /CWSurgeon0/Opinion.html (759 words)

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		Letter from Letterman to Hooker on Layout of "Unhealthy" Huts by Soldiers on 9 March 1863
		Letterman's Report on Army of the Potomac's Health on 4 April 1863
		Letterman's Letter to Hooker on Camp of 12 May 1863 on
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/civil/lettermanmemoirs (238 words)

	Civil War hospital museum was birthplace of modern care ideas on Sympatico / MSN Powered by MediResource
		The blueprint for the reorganization was Letterman's report on the Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, fought Sept. 17, 1862, on rocky farm fields about 100 kilometres west of Baltimore.
		Considering the magnitude of the battle, "it is a matter of congratulation to speak of the expeditious and careful manner in which the wounded were removed from the field."
		Letterman's triage system for sorting patients is still used today, and his multi-tiered treatment concept is the model for modern emergency care.
	mediresource.sympatico.ca /health_news_detail.asp?channel_id=0&news_id=7155&rss=72 (800 words)

	EMS @ Firehouse.com - Gary Ludwig - How NFPA 1710 and 1720 Affect Fire Service EMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		At the beginning of the Civil War, the average time a wounded soldier lay on a battlefield was three days after the battle.
		Just in time for the battle of Antietam, the bloodiest battle of the war, the Army of the Potomac, under its medical director Jonathan Letterman, developed the Letterman Ambulance Plan.
		Under the Letterman Ambulance Plan, the ambulances of an army division moved together, under a mounted line sergeant, with two stretcher-bearers and one driver per ambulance, to collect the wounded from the battlefield.
	www.firehouse.com /ems/ludwig/2001/july01.html (755 words)

	William Thomson (www.whonamedit.com)
		With his assistant, Jonathan Letterman (1824-1872), he introduced several improvements in military medical care, in particular medical field service and the organisation of field hospitals.
		This effort received due credit through Letterman in his "Medical Recollections of the Army of the Potomac".
		In 1863 Thomson became head of the Douglas Hospital in Washington, and in 1864 became inspector of the medical department of the city.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/2203.html (505 words)

	Lucas finishes Presidio blueprint
		In three years, the buildings will be filled with 2,500 people working for movie mogul George Lucas, who won the right to develop the prized parcel of land in the national park two years ago.
		Construction of the $300 million complex, known as the Letterman Digital Arts Center, is expected to begin in two months, said Gordon Radley, president of Lucasfilm Ltd., as he unveiled the company's revised -- and final -- architectural plans on Thursday.
		The center, which will be in the eastern side of the former military post, is named after Maj. Jonathan Letterman, who pioneered mobile field hospitals and ambulance services for wounded soldiers during the Civil War.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/10/11/BA180924.DTL (870 words)

	History -- The Evolution of the Ambulance
		Charles S. Tripler who served as Surgeon General of the Army of the Potomac Medical Department tried to improve the situation but when he was unsuccessful Dr. Jonathan Letterman was appointed to his position on July 4, 1862.
		Letterman graduated from medical school in 1849 and entered the military the same year.
		Until 1861 he served on the western and southwestern frontiers and was present during the wars with the Indians.
	www.firefightersrealstories.com /ambulance.html (2610 words)

	Jonathan K. Letterman, Major, United States Army
		On November 13, 1911 the Army Hospital at the Presidio was named Letterman General Hospital in honor of the man who had revolutionized the care of battle casualties.
		His wife, Mary Digges Lee Letterman (October 17, 1833-November 1,1867) is buried next to him under a stone which reads:
		WIFE OF JONATHAN LETTERMAN - MAJOR SURG U S ARMY
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /lettermn.htm (427 words)

	NMCWM What's New
		On March 1, 1863, Jonathan Letterman, Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac, penned his report of the Battle of Antietam and all of the actions of the Army of the Potomac from July through November 1862.
		Antietam was the incubator for this change and it gave Letterman the information and experience needed to make it happen.
		The Pry House was used as the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac during the battle, and current research also tells us that it was from this house that Dr. Letterman directed the medical department.
	www.civilwarmed.org /whats_new.cfm (1699 words)

	Bell Anthology - Leatherman Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		His grandson, Jonathan Letterman 1824-1872, is listed in the DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.
		Before the Revolution, four members of the Leatherman family staked out 400-acre tracts on Pigeon Creek in Washington County.
		On Nov 13-1911 the military hospital at San Francisco was designated the Letterman General Hospital.
	www.savory.org /chartiers/raybell/1991-leatherman.html (370 words)

	Powered Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Starr is scheduled to make upcoming appearances on CBS' Late Show With David Letterman, ABC's Good Morning America and Comedy Central's The Daily Show.
		Ringo Starr will play his only live dates of the year June 19 at New York's Irving Plaza and June 25 at Chicago's Genesee Theater.
		The former Beatles drummer will be performing in support of his new album, "Choose Love," due June 7 via Koch.
	www.icemagazine.com /forums/msgs.cfm?msg=143441&forum=1 (353 words)

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