Ninian Pinkney papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 900
Subjects: Correspondence; United States. Army. Medical Corps; Practice; Mexican War, 1846-1848; United States; Medicine; History
Description: Correspondence, speeches, articles, notes, medical papers, photographs, and other papers relating primarily  to Pinkney's surgical cases in Peru, his observations on the Mexican War and U.S. Civil War, his plan to reorganize the U.S. Army Medical Corps, and his interest in politics.  Correspondents include George Bancroft, Henry Clay, Samuel Hambleton, Matthew C. Perry, Gideon Welles, and Pinkney's wife, Mary H. Pinkney.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1949-1957.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Naval surgeon.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.