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Letterman, Jonathan

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Letterman, Jonathan (1824-1872)

US surgeon. An army surgeon, he tended soldiers injured during skirmishes with American Indians (1849-62). Between 1862-64 he served as medical director of the Union's Army of the Potomac; his organization of the medical field service, including mobile hospitals and ambulances, laid the foundations for armies since then. Following the war he set up a private practice in San Francisco, California, and wrote Medical Recollections of the Army of the Potomac (1866). Letterman was born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
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