Private Dennis Sullivan, Company E, Second Virginia Cavalry
Not all of Dr. Bontecou’s patients were Union soldiers, nor did they all survive their wounds or his best surgical treatments to relieve them from pain. Twenty-one-year-old Confederate Private Sullivan died at Harewood Hospital on April 27, 1865. Bontecou tells his story in the patient history mounted on the reverse of this enlarged print used by the doctor for teaching his assistants.
Artwork Details
- Title: Private Dennis Sullivan, Company E, Second Virginia Cavalry
- Artist: Reed Brockway Bontecou (American, 1824–1907)
- Date: April 1865
- Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
- Dimensions: Image: 13.1 × 18.9 cm (5 3/16 × 7 7/16 in.), oval
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of Stanley B. Burns, M.D. and The Burns Archive, 1992
- Object Number: 1992.5139
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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