The Chirurgical Works... First American, from the last London edition. In two volumes. Vol. I [-II].

Bookseller Notes

A well-used copy, but one with an interesting association. This was probably a text book used by O'Neal while a student at Pennsylvania College (now, Gettysburg College), where he began his studies in 1844, and there are a few marginal marks and underlinings indicative of this. O'Neal practised medicine in Gettysburg for 40 years, and was a pillar of the community. His chief claim to fame was in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg: 'Having tended to so many wounded, O'Neal began shortly after the battle's end to record names and burial places of soldiers who had died. He worked together with Samuel Weaver, a Gettysburg resident who had assisted another Gettysburg College graduate, David Wills, Class of 1851, in removing Union soldiers to the National Cemetery. For more than ten years O'Neal and Weaver maintained a list of the names and burial places of at least 1,200 Confederate soldiers' (Gettysburg Alumni Magazine, Spring 2010).