Dr. Reed Brockway Bontecou was an American surgeon educated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Castleton Medical College (VT). When the Civil War broke out in 1861, he tended patients wounded during the battle of Big Bethel (Virginia), during the Monitor and Merrimac skirmish, and later during the siege at Yorktown in 1862. Bontecou’s extensive photographic documentation of soldiers' wounds during the Civil War informed medical treatment and were widely used to determine the degree of injury which determined of post-war pension payments.
1864-1942 * Section G