George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

Born in 1832, George T. Stevens was an American surgeon and physician who served as assistant surgeon to the 77th New York Infantry during the Civil War. He later wrote Three Years in the Sixth Corps, a firsthand account that helped preserve the daily experience of Union Army service.

After the war, he returned to medical practice and went on to teach at Albany Medical College. He became especially known for his work in ophthalmology, writing on the eye, nervous disorders, and related medical questions.

Stevens is also remembered as a botanist as well as a doctor, which gives his body of work an unusually wide range. That mix of practical wartime experience, medical scholarship, and scientific curiosity makes his writing especially interesting for modern readers.