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John Forney (M.D.) Zacharias
Name: John Forney (M.D.) Zacharias
Affiliation: Confederate
Unit: Army of TN; Shipp Hospital
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick City, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: n/a
Rank at End of Service: Assistant Surgeon
Notes:
From Zacharias' death announcement in the Sept. 10, 1904 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association:
"During the war he employed maggots in the treatment of hospital gangrene to remove decayed tissue, and claimed that hereby he 'saved many lives….' In 1903 he was elected commander of all the United Confederates Veterans' Camps in MD. Served as Assistant Surgeon at Shipp Hospital"
Source(s):
Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 310; Daniel D. Hartzler, Marylanders in the Confederacy (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1986), 315; Journal of the American Medical Association, XLIII (Sept. 10, 1904): 748.
