Dr. Philip Turner

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The Philip Turner Papers Collection spans from 1751 to 1858 and contains correspondence, military hospital returns, printed material, and ledgers documenting Philip Turner's career as a surgeon in private practice in Norwich, Connecticut and New York, New York, in the Continental Army, and in the United States Army.

Turner served in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, during which he was stationed at Fort Columbus, New York. Included are an extensive collection of military hospital returns from the Eastern Department of the Continental Army describing the state of the Army's sick and wounded and spanning the years 1777 to 1780. Also included is correspondence with George Washington, Tench Coxe, and William Eustis about the procurement of medical supplies and the organization of the Army's medical department during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.

Dr. Turner, for three years previous to his marriage, had been an assistant surgeon to a provincial regiment, in the service of the crown, in the French war, and became a very skillful surgeon. They settled at JSTorwich, where he went into the practice of his profession with distinguished success. At the commencement of the revolution, he was with the American troops at Boston. He was with the army at I^ew York in 1776, where his services were of immense value to the wounded in the battles of Flatbush, Harlem Heights, and White Plains. In 1777 he was appointed surgeon-general of the army of the United States for the eastern department; the duties of which situation he continued to discharge with ability till about the close of the war. He then returned to his private practice at Norwich, which he continued there for nearly twenty years. About 1800 they removed to the city of New York. He was soon after appointed post surgeon to the troops in the several fortifications in and about New York. It was there that, in the spring of 1809, the writer hereof, while visiting a brother who was an officer in the army on Bcdlow's Island, became acquainted with the then venerable Dr. Turner (whose wife was a first cousin of the writer's mother). He d. in 1815 at New York, and was buried with military honors.

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