American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents

Velvet-lined wooden case with brass fittings, 14 1/4 x 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. closed dimensions (general wear including scratching and some loss to wood, wear to velvet, varied patination to brass fittings). Interior with "G. Tiemann & Co. / Manufacturers of Surgical Instruments / 63 Chatham St NY" sticker (address and logo on sticker indicate a manufacture date range of 1855-64). Kit features 4 tiers housing more than 50 instruments, including capital steel saw, curved bone gouge, fenestrated arterial bulldog forceps, large sequestrum forceps, L-shaped arterial/muscle forceps, double-ended cranial elevator/raspatory, 4 silver urinary catheters, arterial tenaculum, Catlin style double-edged amputation knife, Liston style single-edge amputation knife, brass trephine, bone rongeur, mallet, and many others, several marked for Tiemann, some reproduction or later replacements/additions. Provenance: Dr. Joseph Martin, by descent, purchased from family members by previous owner (signed appraisal from Sam Small of The Horse Soldier, 2014; modern note apparently written by a member of the Martin family identifying the set to Dr. Joseph Martin). Kit was also exhibited as belonging to Joseph R. Martin at the Rochester Museum & Science Center (Incoming Loan Agreement signed by museum representatives).

[With:] A group of 6 bullets excavated from the Hauser Farm on the Antietam Battlefield in Sharpsburg, MD. Accompanied by signed certificate of authenticity from American Civil War Relics & Military Antiques. -- A group of 10 relics excavated from the Antietam Battlefield by James R. Ickes of Dover, OH, including a pair of small buckles, a large iron buckle, 3 plain metal buttons, a sewing thimble, a forged iron nail, a lens cap from field/glasses or telescope, and a lead musket nipple protector (possibly carved from a bullet). Accompanied by typed inventory signed by Karl J. Ickes, 2014. -- Oval iron pan, 12 5/8 in. dia. at longest span (rusting throughout, with small hole to base). Identified by modern wooden placard as a Civil War hospital wash pan used at a field hospital after the Battle of Antietam. -- Together, 17 artifacts identified to the Antietam Battlefield.

[Also with:] GREEN, Robert M., comp. History of the one Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion - 1862-1863, Regimental Reunions 1885-1906, History of Monument. Philadelphia: Ware Bros. Company, Printers, 1907. -- SCHILDT, John W. Antietam Hospitals. Chewsville, MD: Antietam Publications, 1987. Third Printing. Signed by author. -- And 7 other items, including 3 additional books, a table-top display with petrified wood and corn from the Antietam Battlefield, a photocopied portrait, and more. -- Together, 9 items related to the Battle of Antietam. 

Dr. Joseph R. Martin (1838-1924) served in the 124th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon, being commissioned as such on 15 August 1862, the same year he graduated from Jefferson Medical College. Martin served at Antietam and Chancellorsville before mustering out on 17 May 1863. Martin left the service and practiced medicine in Penningtonville before being appointed a surgeon of the officer's hospital at Alexandria, VA in the Fall of 1864. He remained there through the end of the war. 

Martin married Abbie J. Smith in 1866, and went on to practice medicine in Penningtonville, Christiana, and Stewartstown, PA. He belonged to the Masonic lodge in Cochransville and the Stewartstown Presbyterian Church, and attended multiple survivors' reunions of the 124th Pennsylvania, including the Brandywine Springs Park Reunion in 1905 nd the Lenape Park Reunion in 1906. Martin ultimately passed away at the age of 86, and is buried in Aliquippa, PA.