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for making post mortem examinations 

 of all that died in the hospital. 



"Feb. 27, 1864— Ordered to take 

 charge and re-organize the ' Rebel Offi- 

 cer ' ward of said hospital. 



"May 11, 1864 — Assigned as Sur- 

 geon in Charge of Veteran Reserve 

 Corps, Nashville, Tenn. 



"May 29, 1864 — Temporarily as- 

 signed to Cumberland Hospital. 



"June 16, 1864— Again took charge 

 of Veteran Reserve Corps. 



"Aug. 18, 1864 — Temporarily as- 

 signed to United States Army Hospital 

 No. 8, Nashville. 



"Sept. 13, 1864 — Ordered to conduct 

 hospital railroad train from Nashville to 

 Louisville. 



"Sept. 28, 1864— Ordered to visit 

 Capt. Meigs' Battery in addition to the 

 duties of the Veteran Reserve Corps. 



"Jan. 5, 1865 — Ordered to dissolve 

 Convalescent Camp of the 16th Army 

 corps — 3,000 in number, 



"Jan. 14, 1865— Post Surgeon of 

 1st Kansas Battery, 4th Indiana Bat- 

 tery, 21st Indiana Battery, 1st Tennes- 

 see Lt. Artillery Battery A., and 2nd U. 

 S. C. Artillery. 



"Feb. 9, 1865— Ordered to re-or- 

 ganize Contraband Camp. 



"March 20, 1865— Ordered to Ex- 

 change Barracks, Nashville, Tenn. 



"April 7, 1865 — Temporarily Post 

 Surgeon of 4th Ohio Inf. Battery ; 3rd 

 Inf. Battery ; 1st Illinois Lt. Artillery ; 

 A. & F. 1st Illinois Lt. Artillery, in con- 

 nection with the duties of Exchange 

 Barracks. 



" Medical Examiner of the 



'Bounty Jumpers' in the Tennessee 

 Penitentiary. 



" April 17, 1865— United States Army 

 services ceased at the Exchange Bar- 

 racks, where the Doctor diagnosed 

 more than 20,000 men. Discharge 

 papers endorsed by the Medical Direc- 

 tor, ' The services were well and faith- 

 fully performed.' " 



Dec. 4, 1865, he was appointed Ex- 

 amining Surgeon of the Pension Bureau. 



In the spring of 1868, he was re-com- 

 missioned as surgeon, and ordered to 

 take .;harge of the hospital at Ft. Ran- 

 dall, D. T., and on reaching his post of 

 duty, in connection with his regular 

 duties, was placed on Gen. Herney's 

 staff to see after the medical wants of 

 the Sioux Indians under Spotted Tail. 

 At this post he received the extraordi- 

 nary orders to make a collection of In- 

 dian skulls for the National Medical 

 Muesum, for the purpose of solving the 

 ethnological question as to the origin of 



the Indian race. Through many dan- 

 gerous and thrilling events, the Doctor 

 collected over a hundred skulls, repre- 

 senting ten different tribes. Several of 

 these skull expeditions were reported in 

 the Daily Star and Rochester Express. 



In 1869 he delivered his lecture on 

 his noted invention of Musical Teleg- 

 raphy, in the Crosby Opera House of this 

 city — a lecture which was repeated in 

 many cities of the United States. From 

 a record in Godey's Ladies' Book, March 

 number, 1864, on the basis of this in- 

 vention he is considered the pioneer of 

 the telephone. 



After his lecture tour, he took charge 

 of the surgical work of a medical house 

 in the city of New York, and there per- 

 formed some of the most heroic surgical 

 operations on record. In 1871 he took 

 charge of the Rochester Infirmary, and 

 conducted that institution for three 

 years. 



He left the army with a ruined health, 

 and finally he deemed it necessary to 

 seek a warm climate. He tried Phila- 

 delphia, and afterwards near Washing- 

 ton, but with no benefit ; so he migrated 

 to Texas. Under a progressive disability, 

 he was physically unfit for the practice 

 of medicine, and for many years was a 

 great sufferer ; but with his restlessness 

 and indomitable energy, he wrote his 

 great medical work, " Medical Consul- 

 tation Book," and after 20 years' work 

 on it, had it published. It was issued 

 only a few months ago. 



When engaged on his book, at first 

 mainly as a matter of recreation, he 

 bought 8 colonies of bees; but knowing 

 next to nothing about bees, they all 

 died in one season, but two colonies. He 

 saw the misfortune in his own ignor- 

 ance, and with characteristic energy 

 and pride not to be balked, he at once 

 made the study of bees a subject of 

 science. He subscribed for the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, and secured the best 

 bee-literature to be had. With the ac- 

 quired knowledge extraordinary good 

 luck set in, and from the 2 colonies, in 

 course of ten years, he developed one of 

 the largest apiaries in Texas. 



Dr. Washington Pope. 



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