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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: January 25, 2019
Caption: Surgeon John M. Gaines, CSA
Additional Description: Surgeon John M. Gaines, CSA, (1837-1915) served in the 8th Virginia Infantry when he was captured while tending to the wounded after the Battle of South Mountain. He was later exchanged, only to be captured again at Williamsport in the retreat form Gettysburg. He was temporarily assigned by his captors to tend his wounded and ill fellow Confederate prisoners at Hagerstown Female Seminary Hospital. Exchanged a second time, he served the rest of the war as a medical officer in the 18th Virginia Infantry. After the war he settled in Boonsboro and in retirement lived on North Potomac Street in Hagerstown. Close-up of photo on marker
Submitted: January 28, 2019, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p462419
File Size: 1.123 Megabytes

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