November 15 & 16, 2022 Extraordinary Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/15/2022
Lot consists of 5 items relating to Thomas Latimer. (A) 1877 commission as Surgeon on the staff of the 7th Maryland National Guard with the rank of Major. CONDITION: Excellent. (B) March 1861 certificate that he had been a resident student at the Baltimore Infirmary for 1 year. CONDITION: Very good. (C) Large blank diploma from the Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in the State of Maryland. CONDITION: Good. Small hole upper left. (D) 1873 diploma from the medical and surgical faculty of Maryland. Parchment. CONDITION: Poor, foxing and staining. Name illegible. (E) 1861 parchment diploma as MD, University of Maryland. CONDITION: Very good. Latimer joined the Confederate Army as a private in May 1861 and served in the 1st Maryland until detailed to the Mt. Jackson General Hospital in October and commissioned Assistant Surgeon in November and returned to the Maryland regiment. Appointed medical purveyor in the field for the Army of Northern Virginia in February 1862, he served in that capacity until late 1864 when he was appointed surgeon in charge at Robinson General Hospital in Richmond. After the war he went briefly to the West Indies, but returned to the practice of medicine in Richmond and then Baltimore.