George Jackson Fisher

He began the practice of medicine in 1849 and was physician and surgeon at the state prison at Sing Sing, NY (1853-54). In 1860 he was a prosperous 34 year old physician (with 2 live-in servants) in the village of Sing Sing, Westchester County, NY. On 4 September 1860 he was appointed Brigade Hospital Surgeon and Major on the military staff of the Governor of New York, Horatio Seymour - for the 7th Brigade, 2nd Division. His commission to date from 1 September 1853.

He was with the army in Maryland and was assigned by Dr. Letterman to treat wounded Confederate prisoners at a field hospital near the battlefield during and after the battle of Antietam on 17 September 1862.

Both before and after the war he'd been an active historian of his profession, was was several times President of the Medical Society of the State of New York, and was a prolific contributor to and editor of medical journals. By 1870, then employing 5 servants, and to at least 1880 he was again in practice in Sing Sing.

His service from the Adjutant General.1 Details from his own Amputations.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and a brief sketch in Charles Wells Moulton's Biographical Cyclopedia of Medical History (1905) and Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography (1900). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Elizabeth Bodle (1829-) in 1852 and they had 4 children.

11/27/1825; North Castle, NY

02/03/1893; Ossining, NY; burial in Dale Cemetery, Ossining, NY