Peter Pineo

From Novia Scotia, he had studied medicine there for 3 years, spent a year at Harvard Medical School, then attended Bowdoin in Maine where he graduated in 1847. He practiced medicine in Portland, ME, then Boston (to 1850), Barnstable (to 1853), and Groton, MA (to 1859). He was then a professor at the Castleton (VT) Medical College. He was commissioned Surgeon of the 9th Massachusetts Infantry on 11 June 1861. He was appointed Brigade Surgeon, US Volunteers on 3 August that year.

He was Medical Director of the First Division, First Army Corps at South Mountain and Antietam.

In November he took command of Douglas General Hospital in Washington, DC. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and Medical Inspector on 9 February 1863, and assigned to the Department of the Gulf, where he served to War's end. He was Confederate President Jefferson Davis's 'consulting surgeon' at Fortress Monroe.

He led the US Marine Hospital Service at Hyannis, MA from 1866 to 1880 when he retired from practice for health reasons and then lived in Boston.

Basic service dates from Heitman1, with biographical details from History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Simeon L. Deyo, editor, New York: H. W. Blake & Co (1890).

3/26/1825; Cornwallis, Novia Scotia, CANADA

1891; Boston, MA