Chapters: A LONG CRUISE AND A BATTLE -- FROM OUR COUNTRY IN ITS BOYHOOD TO OLD LANDS IN DISTRESS -- WAR ON THE PLATA -- OUR WAR WITH MEXICO -- PRESIDENT POLK -- INTIMATE NOTES ON PRESIDENT BUCHANNAN -- THE CIVIL WAR AS A NAVAL SURGEON SAW IT -- OUR NAVAL DEMONSTRATIONS ABROAD -- SURGEON GENERAL.
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Jonathan Messersmith Foltz (April 25, 1810 - April 12, 1877)was born in Lancaster, Pa. He was a military surgeon of the United States Navy, who served in the Mexican-American War and American Civil War, eventually rising to the rank of commodore and serving as Surgeon General of the United States Navy in 1871-72.
