Brierly, Conant Bowdoin

“Brierly” not “Biresly” or “Briesly”
Provided an eyewitness account of the aftermath of the April 30, 1871 Camp Grant Massacre.
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 331.
Farish, Thomas Edwin. History of Arizona, Filmer Bros. Electrotype Co., 1918, volume 8, page 160: "Dr. Biresly [sic], post surgeon, with twelve men, was then dispatched to the place with a wagon to bring in any wounded that might be found. In his report Dr. Biresly said: "On my arrival I found that I should have but little use for wagon or medicine. The work had been too thoroughly done. The camp had been fired, and
the dead bodies of some twenty-one women and children were lying scattered over the ground. ..."

Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the year 1871. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872.
See pp. 71-72 for the September 16, 1871 testimony of Dr. Conant B. Brierly, United States Army, regarding the April 30, 1871 Camp Grant massacre.
Available at: http://books.google.com/books?id=Ds4ibKaY0i8C
See also http://books.google.com/books?id=4WASAAAAYAAJ, pp. 62-63.
See also http://books.google.com/books?id=enFBAAAAYAAJ, pp. 487-488.

San Francisco Western Lancet, a Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Volume 7, 1878, page [71]: California state Women's Hospital, corner Howard and Twelfth Sts., San Francisco. Organized 1868. Incorporated 1873. ... Assistant Surgeon, Conant B. Brierly, M.D.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=sEIgAQAAIAAJ

For 1880 Nevada census information re Brierly, see:
http://nvshpo.org/index.php?option=com_census&view=demographics&id=23691... and http://nvshpo.org/index.php?option=com_census&view=demographic&id=236911...
Born about 1846 (34 years old in 1880); married with three children; living in Silver City, Nevada.

Occidental medical times, Volume 11, 1897, page 54: Medical News. Licentiates of the Board of Examiners. At a meeting of the Board of Examiners, held November 9, 1896, the following were granted certificates to practise medicine in this State: ... Conant B. Brierly (lieu certficate), Hawthorne, Nev.; Toland Med. Coll., Cal., Oct. 2 [18]66. Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=Pr2BX8-trqoC
[Re Toland Medical College, see "A History of UCSF: 1868-1898: The Origins of the University of California and Affiliated Colleges: San Francisco's First Medical Institutions" Source: http://history.library.ucsf.edu/1868_hospitals.html]

Sohn Anton P. West J Med 1994; 160:472-474. 19th-century academic examinations for physicians in the United States Army Medical Department. Page 473: "In 1874 Conant Bowdoin Brierly, stationed at Fort Halleck, Nevada, took the examination and failed. Brierly, who graduated from Toland Medical College, failed so completely that the Army, in an unusual action, terminated his contract..." Figure 1. Samples of the preliminary and oral examination of Dr C. B. Brierly, United States Army Surgeon, are shown."
Source: http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/picrender.cgi?accid=PMC1022502&blobtype=pdf