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Albert Plummer

A 19th-century American doctor, Civil War surgeon, and Minnesota legislator, he lived a life that connected medicine, public service, and frontier history. His story offers a glimpse of the many paths one person could follow in a rapidly changing America.

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History of the Forty-Eighth Regiment M. V. M. During the Civil War

History of the Forty-Eighth Regiment M. V. M. During the Civil War

by Albert Plummer

About the author

Albert Plummer was an American physician and public servant who was born on August 9, 1840, in Auburn, New Hampshire, and died on March 20, 1912. He studied at Kimball Union Academy and later earned a medical degree from Bowdoin College.

During the American Civil War, he served as a surgeon with the 10th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. After the war, he moved to Hamilton, Minnesota, where he practiced medicine and became active in public life.

Plummer also served in the Minnesota State Senate, reflecting a career that reached beyond medicine into civic leadership. Remembered as both a doctor and a legislator, he represents a generation whose professional lives were closely tied to the building of new communities in the American Midwest.