CIVIL WAR EAGLE HEAD PRESENTATION SWORD TO DR JOHN ALONZO CLARK HANLY DATED 1863
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CIVIL WAR EAGLE HEAD PRESENTATION SWORD TO DR JOHN ALONZO CLARK HANLY DATED 1863

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PRESERVING AMERICAN CIVIL WAR HISTORY, CIVIL WAR EAGLE HEAD PRESENTATION SWORD TO DR JOHN ALONZO CLARK HANLY DATED 1863. ORIGINALLY FROM THE PERSONAL COLLECTION OF AUTHOR, HISTORIAN KEVIN HOFFMAN.THIS IS ONE OF A KIND HIGH PRESENTATION GRADE EAGLE HEAD, I HAVE NOT SEEN ANOTHER SIMILAR EXAMPLE. Mower General Hospital, first known as Chestnut Hill Hospital, was one of the largest U.S. General Hospitals. Planned and built in 1862, it opened in early 1863 and could hold 3600 patients. Covering 27 acres the complex included 47 wards and other buildings radiating out from a central ground. More than 20,000 men passed through it during the war with a remarkably low fatality rate. Patients in Ward 33 obviously thought well of Acting Assistant Surgeon John Alonzo Clark Hanly, for they presented him with this elaborate sword on March 20, 1863. Given the date of the presentation, many of them were likely casualties of the Fredericksburg campaign the preceding December. The sword has a gilt brass

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