Edward Perry Vollum

First commissioned Assistant Surgeon, US Army on 31 May 1853, he served in the West before the War, including in Texas, the Oregon Territory, and California. He was an amateur photographer producing pictures from about 1856. He was promoted to Surgeon (Major) on 12 May 1862, and Lieutenant Colonel and Medical Inspector on 11 June 1862.

He was Medical Inspector of the Army of the Potomac.

General Orders (No. 18), HQ, Mil Div of West Mississippi at New Orleans, 14 July 1864: Lieutenant Colonel Edward P. Vollum, Medical inspector, U. S. Army, is hereby charged with the general supervision and direction of matters pertaining to the medical department in the Military Division of West Mississippi, and at the posts on the eastern bank of the Mississippi...

He continued in US Army service and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and Surgeon 30 January 1883, Colonel 23 April 1889, and Chief Medical Purveyor on 28 August 1890. He retired 11 September 1890 (his 63rd birthday).

Service dates from Heitman1. Details from Peter E. Palmquist, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West, Stanford: Stanford University Press (2000) and notes accompanying a collection of his papers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. His photograph from the National Library of Medicine, Images from the History of Medicine collection2.

9/11/1827; New York, NY

05/31/1902