Born in Scotland Sep 18, 1841. On Jul 31, 1867 he went to Fort Lowell as post surgeon and chief medical officer for the Sub-District of Tuc. “…practiced at the Fort Lowell Hospital three different times between 1867 and 1869.” Left Fort Lowell Jun 10, 1869. Died at St. Augustine, Florida on Apr 23, 1905.
Schuler, Harold H. “We served at Fort Lowell.” Arizona Historical Society, 2000.
Schuler, Harold H. “Fort Lowell Hospital.” ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 2000.
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 371.
"A report on Barracks and Hospitals with Descriptions of Military Posts," Circular No. 4, War Dept., Surgeon General's Office, 1870.
See pp. 455-476 for Department of Arizona (= 10 Arizona Territory posts and 3 California posts) reports.
See pp. 462-465 for report on Camp Lowell, Tucson, Arizona Territory. “Report of Assistant Surgeon Charles Smart, United States Army.” See pp. 465-466 for report on Camp Grant, Arizona Territory. “Information furnished by Assistant Surgeon Charles Smart, United States Army.”
See pp. 471-472 for report on Camp Bowie, Arizona Territory. “Information derived from reports of Assistant Surgeon Charles Smart, United States Army, and Acting Assistant Surgeon W.H. Smith, United States Army.”
See pp. 472-474 for report on Camp Crittenden, Arizona Territory. “Information furnished by Assistant Surgeon Charles Smart and Acting Assistant Surgeon B. Semig, United States Army.”
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Captain Charles Smart wrote 1898 revised edition and the 1902 3rd edition (rev. and enl.) of the Handbook of Hospital Corps for the United States Army.
SMART, Charles, Washington, D. C., son of Alexander and Anne (Kelman) Smart, grand son of Robert Smart, was born September 18, 1841, in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. He was educated in Keith, Banffshire, and at the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen, where he graduated as M. B., C. M., August, 1862. Shortly afterwards while studying at the Edinburgh Infirmary, he was attracted by the reports from the seat of war in the United States, and immediately took passage for this country. On the day after his arrival in New York he proceeded to Albany, was commissioned assistant surgeon of the Sixty-third New York Volunteers, Meagher's Irish Brigade, November 5, 1862, and five days afterwards joined his regiment while en route to Fredericksburg, Va. He was present at the attack on this city and at all the subsequent engagements of the Army of the Potomac. He was detached from his regiment after a few months and assigned as medical inspector of the Second Army Corps. He passed the Army Medical Board in October, 1863, and was appointed assistant surgeon, United States army, March 30, 1864. On December 2, of the same year, he was brevetted captain for “meritorious services in the field during the campaign before Richmond, Va.,” being the first assistant surgeon in our army to receive this honor. He was promoted captain, July 28, 1866, and major, June 30, 1882. At the close of the war he served for four years against the Apaches in Arizona, and was afterwards stationed in Washington, D. C., Fort Monroe, Va., Fort Bridger, Wyo., Fort Douglas, U. (on field service in Nez Perces War), and Fort Preble, Me. In 1879 he was assigned to duty with the National Board of Health as an expert in sanitary chemistry, and was afterwards member and secretary of the board. He was then placed on special duty compiling the last volume of the Medical History of the War, and on its completion assumed charge of one of the divisions of the surgeon general's office. In connection with the organization of the Hospital Corps, United States army, he published a Handbook for the Corps, Wm. Wood & Co., New York; and he is the author of many journal articles and papers of a medico-military and sanitary character read at association meetings. Among his papers are “Reports to the National Board of Health;” “An Investigation to Determine the Prevalence of Adulteration of Food Supplies;” “The Water Supplies of New Orleans and Mobile;” “Water Analysis, etc.:” “Reports and Papers on Malaria and Water Supplies,” in the Transactions of the American Public Health Association: “The Hygiene of Camps,” in Buck's Hygiene; and articles on air, water, malaria, miasms, and quarantine, in Wood's Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences: “ Sunstroke in the Army of the Potomac:” “Typhus Fever in the Camps, Hospitals, and Prisons of our Civil War:” “Mountain Fever and Malarious Waters;” “Wholesome Water for Cities and Towns;” “Some points of interest connected with the Wanklyn method of sanitary analysis, particularly on the detection of recent sewage and the determination of the nature of the organic matter:” “The Microorganisms of Water:” “The Thermometer as a Climatological Instrument;” “History of the Medical Department of the United States Army;” “The Meteorological Work of Army Medical Officers;” “First Aid to the Injured from the Army Standpoint;” “The Transportation of Wounded, etc.” In 1872 he published a novel, “Driven from the Path,” Appleton & Co., New York, but the pressure of professional work prevented him from following this line of literature. At present he is in charge of the sanitary and disbursing division of the surgeon general's office and is professor of military hygiene and director of the chemical laboratory of the United States Army Medical School. Dr. Smart is a member of the American Medical Association; the Association of the United States Military Surgeons; American Public Health Association; Loyal Legion of the United States; and Association of the Second Army Corps. Married, in 1869, Miss Dora, daughter of Dr. John Purcell, of New York city. They have four children living: Robert; Mary; Dorothy; and William.
Source: Watson, Irving Allison. Physicians and Surgeons of America: (Illustrated). A Collection of Biographical Sketches of the Regular Medical Profession. Republican Press Association, 1896, pages 751-752 [includes photo].
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J Am Med Assoc. 1903;XL(13):858: Promotions Prior to Retirement. The Army papers announce that preliminary to retirement Colonels Charles Smart, Peter J. A. Cleary, Henry Lippincott and Calvin De Witt, assistant surgeons-general, are to be promoted to the rank of brigadier-general.
J Am Med Assoc, May 1905; XLIV: 1464 - 1465: Charles Smart, CM., M.D., University of Aberdeen. Scotland, 1862, ranking assistant surgeon general of the United States Army, died in St. Augustine, Fla., April 23, after a long illness from cerebral hemorrhage, aged 64. Colonel Smart was a native of Scotland, came to New York immediately on his graduation, and at once entered the military service as assistant surgeon of the Sixty-third New York Infantry in the Civil War, was mustered out of the volunteer service April 15, 1864, became lieutenant and assistant surgeon in the same year; was made captain and assistant surgeon in 1866; was promoted to major and surgeon in 1882; to lieutenant colonel and deputy surgeon general in 1897, and received his final promotion to colonel and assistant surgeon general in 1901. After the war he served at many different points in the United Stated until he came to Washington in 1879 for duty with the National Board of Health, on which duty he continued until 1S83. He was sent to Memphis, Tenn., and other fever-stricken cities in the South to investigate the water supplies, and conducted many other important investigations for the board. From 1883 to 1902 he was on duty in the office of the Surgeon General oi the Army. During this period of service he compiled and edited the third medical volume of the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, and subsequently was disbursing officer of the Medical Department in Washington, and in charge of the Sanitary Division of the office. He was a member of the faculty of the Army Medical School from its organization in 1893 until his departure for the Philippines, and was its president subsequent to July 2, 1902. He served as a member of various boards, including examining boards for admission of candidates to the Medical Corps, board for preparation of hospital corps drill, and for Manual for the Medical Department, and board on emergency rations. He compiled and published a "Handbook for the Hospital Corps," which is still in use as a textbook on the subject. He represented the Medical Department of the Army at the meetings of the American Public Health Association in 1892, 1894, 1896 and 1897. and for many years was chairman of its committee on pollution of water supplies. In connection with the Act of March, 1887, organizing the hospital corps, he arranged for the system of examination for the appointment of hospital stewards and acting hospital stewards. In 1890 he was president of a board convened at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, which provided a system of drill regulations and first-aid lessons for the hospital corps. In 1889 he organized the present identification system for deserters by means of outline figure cards. During the Spanish-American War he did important work inspecting the large camps and camp sites, notably those at Alger. Meade and Montauk. Besides his Handbook for the Hospital Corps of the U. S. Army and State Military Forces and many valuable papers in American Health Reports. General Smart was a frequent contributor to medical literature, especially to the Encyclopedic Medical Works. In the Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences he wrote the articles on Air, Malaria, Miasm, Water, Quarantines, and Army Field Hospital Organization. General Smart had but recently returned from the Philippines, where he had been serving as chief surgeon of the Division since Nov. 30. 1902, a stroke of apoplexy having necessitated his being returned to this country, and subsequently placed on the retired list, with rank of brigadier general. General Smart was a member of the American Medical Association and of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, and was for many years Washington correspondent of, and an editorial contributor to, The Journal. He combined with brilliant scientific attainments a great capacity for hard work, together with an unfailing loyalty to duty. His death is a great loss to his corps, and to the medical profession in general.