Frederick Winsor (surgeon)

Frederick Winsor (1829 to 1889) was an American physician and Civil War surgeon from Massachusetts. Born in Boston, he graduated from Harvard College in 1851 and from Harvard Medical School in 1855, and began his practice in Salem the same year. In 1861 the governor appointed him head of the State Hospital on Rainsford Island, and in 1862 he enlisted as a surgeon in the 49th Massachusetts regiment, serving through the Louisiana Campaign. At Port Hudson in May 1863 he worked through the night to remove a bullet from the wrist of Colonel William Francis Bartlett and saved the officer's hand, an episode he later described for the Atlantic Monthly. After the war he practised in Winchester, Massachusetts, and wrote reports for the State Board of Health, including studies of school house hygiene in 1874 and of water supply, drainage and sewerage in 1876. He died in Hamilton, Bermuda.