John Henry Rauch

He practiced medicine in Burlington, IA from 1850, when he graduated from medical school, to 1857, then, though still living in Iowa, taught medicine at the Rush Medical College in Chicago for 2 years. He was a professor at the Chicago College of Pharmacy to the start of the war.

He was present as a civilian and treated wounded troops at First Bull Run, VA in July 1861 and was appointed Surgeon, US Volunteers on 3 August 1861. He was Brigade Surgeon with Generals Hunter, McDowell, and Auger, finally Medical Director of Banks' Corps at Cedar Mountain, VA in August 1862.

He was detailed to the Army of the Potomac in September 1862 and treated wounded soldiers and administered paroles on the Maryland Campaign, most probably at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, MD after the Battle of Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He returned to General Banks and served on the Gulf Coast campaigns but was relieved of field duty and was assigned at Detroit, MI in 1864. He was honored by brevet to Lieutenant Colonel of Volunteers to date from 13 March 1865 for his war service. He was mustered out on 11 July 1865.

He returned to Chicago and helped found the Board of Health there, afterward best known for his pioneering career in public health and sanitation.

His service basics from Heitman.1 His presence at Locust Spring from a parole document in the compiled service record of Lt T.F. Mulloy, 8th South Carolina. Personal details from Kelly & Burrage's American Medical Biographies (1920) and his obituary in the Lebanon Daily News of 24 March 1894. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He never married.

09/04/1828; Lebanon, PA

03/24/1894; Lebanon, PA; burial in Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, PA