Moore, Samuel Preston

E. Robert Wiese, Life and Times of Samuel Preston Moore, Surgeon-General of the Confederate States of America, Southern Medical Journal 23 (1930) 916-922. 

See, for example, Cunningham, Doctors in Gray, pp. 251-252, 260-266 George N. Malpass, Medicine in the Confederate Army, American Journal of Pharmacy 115 (1943) 173-177 E. Robert Wiese, Life and Times of Samuel Preston Moore, Surgeon-General of the Confederate States of America, Southern Medical Journal 23 (1930) 916-922 and Courtney Robert Hall, The Influence of the Medical Department Upon Confederate Operations, The Journal of the American Military History Foundation 1 (1937) 46-54. 

Chief surgeon for Pickett s division of the Army of Northern Virginia, despite praise for Moore s accomplishments in building from scratch a pavilion hospital system and boards of examination for physicians, noted that Moore could be inflexible and excessively stern. See Charles W. Chancellor, A Memoir of the Late Samuel Preston Moore, M.D., Surgeon General of the Confederate States Army, Southern Practitioner 25 (1903) 634-643. 

See Samuel Preston Moore s address to the Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia, October 19-20, 1875, reprinted as Address of the President of the Association, Southern Practitioner 31 (1909) 496. 

Letter acknowledging receipt from Samuel Preston Moore to George S. Blackie, May 7, 1863, Richmond, Virginia, NA, RG 109, chapt. 6, volume 750. 

Letter from Samuel Preston Moore to John C. Breckenridge, February 9, 1865, Richmond, Virginia, WarReh, series 4, volume 3, p. 1074. 

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