WEBSTER, Warren, surgeon, born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, 7 March, 1885. He was educated in New Hampshire and at medical schools in Boston and Paris, and graduated at the medical department of Harvard in 1860. Dr. Webster was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States army, 23 June, 1860, and after brief service on the frontier was ordered to Washington, where in 1861 he was placed in charge of Douglas general hospital, at the same time engaging in the organization and superintending the construction of other permanent military hospitals at Washington. He was on duty on the field at the second battle of Bull Run, and was made a medical inspector in the Army of the Potomac in 1862. Dr. Webster was present in the battle of Fredericksburg and active in the care of the wounded after Chancellorsville (1863), where he organized numerous field hospitals, passing to and fro for the purpose within the opposing lines under flag of truce. He was in charge of McDougall general hospital, Fort Schuyler, New York, in 1863-'4, and then of De Camp general hospital, where in 1866, during the cholera epidemic, he greatly distinguished himself. He was promoted surgeon with rank of major, 28 July, 1866, was medical director of the 5th military district in 1868-'70, when he organized a quarantine system for the Texas coast, and afterward served at various military stations in California and the east. Dr. Webster was brevetted captain "for gallant and meritorious services" at Chancellorsville, major "for faithful and meritorious services" during the war, and lieutenant-colonel "for meritorious and distinguished services at Hart's and David's islands, New York harbor, where cholera prevailed." He is the author of "The Army Medical Staff" (Boston, 1865); "Regulations for the Government of De Camp General Hospital" (New York, 1865); "Quarantine Regulations, 5th Military District" (Austin, Texas, 1869) ; and "Sympathetic Diseases of the Eve," translated (New York, 1881).