President Abraham Lincoln Appoints a Wounded Soldier Who Made Medical History to a Lieutenancy in the Veteran Reserve Corps
Lt. Adam Miller had pioneering, successful facial plastic surgery because of a wound to the face
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This appointment is listed in War Department, General Orders no. 256
According to the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and other sources, Lt. Adam Miller of the 2nd Mass. Vols., aged twenty-three years, was badly wounded August 9, 1862, at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, by an elongated musket ball which...
This appointment is listed in War Department, General Orders no. 256
According to the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and other sources, Lt. Adam Miller of the 2nd Mass. Vols., aged twenty-three years, was badly wounded August 9, 1862, at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, by an elongated musket ball which entered below the right eye socket, and traversing the nasal cavity, emerged through the left eye socket, destroying the globe of the left eye, and lacerating the left lower eyelid. He was made a prisoner and taken to a hospital at Charlottesville, Va., where his wound ultimately formed a scar with great deformity. After being exchanged, he entered the New York Eye Infirmary, and on April 10, 1863, a plastic surgical operation was performed by Dr. Henry B. Sands, for the restoration of the eyelid. The operation was eminently successful, and on April 22, 1863, the parts were sufficiently healed to permit the insertion of an artificial eye. He thus survived a catastrophic facial wound and underwent pioneering plastic surgery.
Due to his injuries, which made him unfit for active field duty but still capable of light service, he was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps in August 1863, with his commission dating back to June 27, 1863. The Veteran Reserve Corps was a military organization of the Union Army created for partially disabled or otherwise infirm soldiers who could still perform simple duties, such as guarding prisoners or patrolling cities. This appointment is listed in War Department, General Orders no. 256.
Document signed, with engravings of an eagle, flags and weapons, Washington August 1, 1864, naming Adam Miller a lieutenant in the Veteran Reserve Corps, effective June 27, 1863.
An extraordinary Lincoln appointment of a soldier who made medical history in the Civil War.
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