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taken prisoner. He escaped from Fairfax Court House shortly 

 afterward, and at once rejoined his regiment. He was under 

 heavy fire while caring for the wounded at the battles of Gaines 

 Mill and Malvern Hill, and afterward suffered a severe attack of 

 typhoid fever. He was executive officer of the United States 

 general hospital at Portsmouth Grove, R. I.; was with General 

 Banks' expedition to the Gulf of Mexico, and, at the close of the 

 war, was serving as officer in charge of the United States general 

 hospital at Cleveland, Ohio. 



Dr. Sternberg was in the field in various Indian campaigns from 

 1868 to 1870. Among his many details was one at Fort Columbus, 

 in New York harbor, during the yellow fever epidemic in 1871, 

 and in Florida during similar epidemics in 1873 and 1875. He 

 participated in the expedition against the Nez Perce Indians in 

 1877, and was a member of the Havana yellow fever commission 

 in 1879. He was a delegate from the United States to the inter- 

 national sanitary conference held in Rome, Italy, in 1885, and in 

 1887 was detailed to make investigations in Brazil, Mexico, and 

 in Cuba relating to the etiology and prevention of yellow fever. 



On May 28, 1893, Colonel Sternberg was made Surgeon 

 General on account of his scientific work and his gallantry and 

 bravery on various battlefields. Within a month after his ap- 

 pointment he recommended the establishment of the Army 

 Medical School. This institution marks an epoch in American 

 medicine, and it would seem but just and fitting that it should be 

 made a lasting monument to the great soldier physician. He also 

 recommended the establishment of the sanatorium at Fort Bay- 

 ard in New Mexico for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, 

 with Dr. George E. Bushnell in charge. This institution has 

 accomplished great good not merely by restoring many men to 

 active duty again, but also by the humane care extended to the 

 hopeless cases and the protection afforded to the families of the 

 afflicted and thus to the community at large. Since the time of 

 its establishment in 1899 to March 31, 1920, it has cared for 

 12,984 patients. 



As Surgeon General of the Army, Sternberg's work in the estab- 

 lishment and improvement of army hospitals and laboratories is 

 acknowledged to be of the greatest importance. During the 



