Percy Moreau Ashburn
Percy Moreau Ashburn
1872-1940
American physician, army medical officer, and historian of the army medical corps. A native of Texas, in 1929 he wrote A History of the Medical Department of the U.S. Army and many treatises on the role of medicine in the battles of the Civil War, the Indian Wars, and others. In May of 1943, a hospital housing veterans in McKinney, Texas, was renamed the Ashburn General Hospital in his honor. When the last patient was discharged in December 1945, the center was remodeled as a U.S. Veteran's Hospital.
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