Surgeon-in-Chief David W. Maull
date: label: date made
content: 1861-1865
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Maull, David W.
label: maker
content: Garrett's
notes: label: Description
content: Surgeon-in-chief David W. Maull, carte-de-visite, by Garrett's, Wilmington, Delaware, c.1860s
label: Description
content: When David W. Maull enlisted at the start of the war, he was a first lieutenant of Company G in the 1st Delaware Volunteers. Maull later became surgeon-in-chief of the 2nd Div. 2nd Corps. Throughout the course of the war, Maull was a prominent doctor, winning the respect of his fellow men as he treated the soldiers’ various ailments.
label: Description
content: Capt. William P. Seville describes David Maull: “His conscientious devotion to his duties, his prompt willingness to sacrifice his own personal ease and comfort to relieve suffering, the earnestness with which he studied every case which came under his care, his extended knowledge of prophylactics and therapeutics, his gentle manner and sympathizing voice together with his genial social qualities, all combined to make him what our men with much pride, pronounced a very model of an army surgeon.”
label: Description
content: Most noted was David Maull’s dedication to a dying Gen. Thomas A. Smyth (cat. #3955W) as he made every attempt to ease the man’s suffering in his final hours. As the war drew to a close, Maull resigned on April 20, 1865. Not one for a big commotion, he quietly settled back into his life in Wilmington, Delaware.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Delaware, Wilmington
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Battle of Antietam, 1862
label: related event
content: Civil War
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Seville Collection
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of M.W Seville
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.003955C
label: catalog number
content: 3955C
label: accession number
content: 117896
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
label: Object Name
content: carte-de-visite
label: Object Type
content: Carte-Visite
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 2 3/8 in; 10.16 cm x 5.9944 cm