A Jersey Surgeon's Civil War: Life and Death on the Ironclad Monitor

Upon graduation from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, Edgar Holden entered the Union Navy as a medical officer during the Civil War. He witnessed the Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack (Virginia) and was present at other engagements. Later he became a prominent Newark physician. His summer residence was at 55 Southern Blvd. in Chatham Township. Speaker Sandra Moss is a retired internist and has a master's degree in the history of medicine from Rutgers University. Sandra will lecture on Edgar Holden and on her refections about 19th century medicine and the medical history of New Jersey.