ACROSTIC HONORING CURTIS, MEDICAL DIRECTOR AND SURGEON IN EAST TENNESSEE, 19 LAUDATORY LINES, THE FIRST LETTERS OF EACH LINE FORMING AN ACROSTIC: "SURGEONJOSIAHCURTIS". THREE ADDITIONAL PAGES FROM BROWNLOW'S KNOXVILLE WHIG PRAISING DR. CURTIS.
Knoxville, Tennessee: 1865. Octavo sheet, folded to four pages, each page 5" x 8-1/2." Inscribed at the bottom of the first page, "Yours truly | Josiah Durtis | Late Surgeon & Med. Dir." Circular rubberstamp of J. Curtis | May 22 | 1866. Very Good.
The first lines of the acrostic:
S earch the wide realm where War in terror reigns
U nceasing in her stern demand for blood,
R ejoicing thus to see our fertile plains
G ory with Death where Life so lately trod. . .
On the last page, Curtis responds to the extravagant tributes, acknowledging that his responsibilities have been "fraught with much labor, care and anxiety." Curtis "received the degree of MD in 1843 from Jefferson Medical College and in 1844 settled in the practice of medicine in Lowell Mass. In 1849 he removed to Boston. In 1859 he prepared the statistics of Massachusetts. He received the degree of AM from Yale College in 1860. He entered the US volunteer service Sept 4 1861 as brigade surgeon and at the close of the war was honorably mustered out Oct 31 1865. He subsequently resided at Knoxville Tenn and Washington DC." [find a grave on line.]
OCLC 53353379 [1- Boston Athenaeum] as of October 2026. Item #42511
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