Private Samuel Shoop, Company F, 200th Pennsylvania Infantry
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The last great battle of the Civil War was the siege of Petersburg, Virginia\u2014a brutal campaign that led to Confederate General Robert E. Lee\u2019s surrender on April 9, 1865. Samuel Shoop, a twenty-five-year-old private in Company F of the 200th Pennsylvania Volunteers, received a gunshot wound in the thigh at Fort Steadman on the first day of the campaign (March 25) and was evacuated to Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. His leg was amputated by Dr. Reed Brockway Bontecou, surgeon in charge, who also made this clinical photograph. It was intended, in part, to serve as a tool for teaching fellow army surgeons and is an extremely rare example of the early professional use of photography in America.Free picture Private Samuel Shoop, Company F, 200th Pennsylvania Infantry integrated with the OffiDocs web apps
