| 词条 | Charles Sutherland (Surgeon General) |
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|name=Charles Sutherland |image=Charles Sutherland (US Army Surgeon General).jpg |image_size= |caption=From 1892's Officers of the Army and Navy (Regular) Who Served in the Civil War |birth_date= {{birth date|1831|10|10}} |death_date= {{death date and age|1895|10|10|1831|10|10}} |birth_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |death_place=Washington, D.C., USA |placeofburial=Arlington National Cemetery |placeofburial_label= Place of burial |allegiance=United States of America |branch= United States Army |serviceyears=1852–1893 |rank=Brigadier General |commands=Surgeon General of the Army |battles=American Civil War |spouse= Kate Brewer (1837-1866) Elizabeth Wirt Brewer (1847-1918) |relations=Joel Barlow Sutherland (father) }} Charles Sutherland (May 10, 1831 – May 10, 1895) was an American doctor and officer in the United States Army. He was most notable for his service as Surgeon General of the United States Army. Early lifeCharles Sutherland was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 10, 1831, the son of Mary (Read) Sutherland and Joel Barlow Sutherland.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=79}} Charles Sutherland was educated at private schools in Philadelphia, and attended Jefferson Medical College.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=79}} He received his M.D. degree in 1849, and became a physician.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=79}} Start of careerIn 1852, Sutherland joined the United States Army as a contracted assistant surgeon.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=79}} Sutherland passed his 1853 examination for appointment in the Army, and received his commission as a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|pages=79-80}} Sutherland served initially at Fort Monroe, Virginia and Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|pages=79-80}} After assisting to combat a cholera outbreak at Jefferson Barracks, Sutherland traveled west with the surveying party that decided upon the location for Fort Riley, Kansas and began construction of the post.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=80}} Following the Fort Riley expedition, Sutherland was assigned to duty in New Mexico, and served at posts including Fort Webster, Fort Fillmore, Fort Craig, Fort Stanton, and Fort Marcy.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=80}} Sutherland served in New Mexico during the period when use of the Santa Fe Trail enabled white Americans to begin settling the Southwestern United States, and he took part in military actions against the Apache and Comanche tribes of Native Americans who resisted.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=80}} Sutherland was promoted to captain in 1857.{{sfn|Officers of the Army and Navy (Regular) Who Served in the Civil War|page=411}} Immediately prior to the American Civil War, Sutherland served at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, followed by postings to Fort Davis and Fort Duncan in Texas.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=80}} Civil WarAt the start of the American Civil War, soldiers loyal to the Confederate States of America took over U.S. Army posts in Texas, and Sutherland narrowly escaped capture.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=80}} He made his way to New York with other U.S. Army soldiers who had been stationed in Texas, and then received orders to take part in the expedition to garrison Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island near Pensacola, Florida.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=80}} Possession of this post was important to the war effort because it demonstrated that the Union maintained a presence in the southern states while also contributing to the Union's effort to blockade the southern ports.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=80}} Confederates unsuccessfully attempted to take the fort in 1861's Battle of Santa Rosa Island, an engagement in which Sutherland was a participant.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=80}} In April 1862, Sutherland was promoted to major and assigned to Fort Warren, Massachusetts, where Union soldiers guarded Confederate prisoners of war.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=80}} Later that year Sutherland traveled west, and was assigned as chief medical purveyor for Union Army units in and around Corinth, Mississippi. He subsequently established medical supply depots in Columbus, Kentucky and Memphis, Tennessee, followed by setting up army field hospitals in Mississippi and Tennessee, as well as a floating hospital on the Mississippi River which was used by the Army of the Tennessee during the Vicksburg Campaign.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|pages=80-81}} During the Siege of Vicksburg, Sutherland served on the staff of Army of the Tennessee commander Ulysses S. Grant as assistant medical director and inspector of camps and transports.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|pages=80-81}} He took part in the Battle of Jackson and the Battle of Champion Hill, and was commended by Grant for effective medical support and efforts to improve camp hygiene, which caused the number of illnesses and deaths from malaria, smallpox and other diseases to be lower than had been the case in previous campaigns.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=81}} After the fall of Vicksburg, Sutherland was assigned as medical director for the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, with responsibility for medical support to units in the field, five rear area general hospitals.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=81}} In the spring of 1864, Sutherland was appointed chief medical purveyor for the Army of the Potomac and the Army hospitals in and around Washington, DC.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=81}} His assignment was later expanded to included hospitals in and around Annapolis, Maryland, and he remained in this position until the end of the war.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=81}} Following the Confederate surrender, Sutherland was praised by the Secretary of War for his successful acquisition, storage, and dissemination of more than $4 million in medical supplies and equipment (over $60 million in 2018).{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=81}} In 1865, he received brevet promotions to lieutenant colonel and colonel in recognition of the superior service he rendered throughout the war.{{sfn|Officers of the Army and Navy (Regular) Who Served in the Civil War|page=411}} Post-Civil WarAfter the war, Sutherland was appointed as chief purveyor of the medical supply depot in Washington, and he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1866.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=82}} He later served as chief purveyor of the New York City medical supply depot, and he remained in this position until 1876.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=82}} In June 1876, Sutherland was promoted to colonel and assigned as medical director of the Division of the Pacific.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=82}} He held this position until 1884, when he was assigned as medical director for the Division of the Atlantic.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=82}} Surgeon GeneralSutherland was promoted to brigadier general in December 1890 and appointed as Surgeon General of the United States Army, succeeding Jedediah Hyde Baxter.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=82}} During his tenure, the Medical Department began the procedure of providing doctors instruments at the medical facilities where they worked, rather than issuing them personal equipment for which they were individually accountable.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=82}} He also oversaw the organization of enlisted Medical Corps soldiers into detachments, and created the first Medical Corps school for enlisted soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas.{{sfn|"Biography, Charles Sutherland"}} In 1893, Sutherland retired and was succeeded by George Miller Sternberg.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=82}} Retirement and deathIn retirement, Sutherland was a resident of Washington, DC.{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=82}}{{sfn|"Gen. Sutherland's Death"|page=2}} He died there on May 10, 1895,{{sfn|The Surgeon Generals of the Army of the United States of America|page=82}} and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Section 1, Graves 152 A-B.{{sfn|"Gen. Sutherland's Death"|page=2}} FamilySutherland's first wife was Kate Brewer (1837-1866).{{sfn|"Biography, Charles Sutherland"}} In 1869, he married Elizabeth Wirt Brewer (1847-1918), the sister of his first wife.{{sfn|"Funeral of Mrs. Sutherland"|page=9}} Charles and Elizabeth Sutherland were the parents of seven children.{{sfn|"Gen. Sutherland Left No Will"|page=5}} In Sutherland's 1895 obituaries, their ages were reported as ranging from nine to 24, and their names were given as Lucy, Edith, Catherine, Douglas, Roy, Malcolm, and Agnes.{{sfn|"Gen. Sutherland Left No Will"|page=5}} ReferencesNewspapers
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