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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the W. Stump Forwood Papers #260, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of the Records of antebellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series J.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from The American Autograph Shop, Marion Station, Pa., in 1936. Typed transcriptions of letters received from William Mitchell of Enterprise, Ala., in February 1999 (Accession # 98306).

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• Camp Morton (Ind.)
• Clarke County Medical Society (Ala.)
• Darlington (Md.)--Economic conditions.
• Darlington (Md.)--Social life and customs.
• Forwood, Henry Hays, b. 1842.
• Forwood, Samuel, fl. 1800-1890.
• Forwood, W. Stump (William Stump), 1830-1892.
• Gosport (Ala.)--Social life and customs.
• Harford County Historical Society (Md.)
• Harford County Medical Society (Md.)
• Medical instruments and apparatus--History.
• Medicine--Practice--United States--History--19th century.
• Medicine--Societies, etc.--History--19th century.
• Physicians--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Physicians--Maryland--History--19th century.
• Slavery--Justification.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• Women--Health and hygiene--History--19th century.

William Stump Forwood, son of Samuel Forwood, was a physician and local historian of Darlington, Md. He was born 27 January 1830 in Darlington and remained there most of his life. At his father's urging, he moved to Gosport, Ala., in 1848, returning to Maryland in 1851. He again lived in Gosport during the period 1870-1873. He married Pamela Wilson, probably in June 1857. She died in childbirth on 19 March 1860. On 6 May 1863, Forwood married Addie Bond. Forwood and his second wife had two children, Lizzie and Katie.

Forwood served as president of the Clarke County, Alabama, Medical Society; the Pennsylvania and Maryland Union Medical Association; and the Harford Historical Society, of which he was a charter member. He was also president and founder of the Medical Society of Harford County.

Forwood wrote extensively on the "ethnological" justification for slavery. He also published articles in medical journals on a variety of topics. He was the author of An Historical and Descriptive Narrative of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, first published in 1870.

Forwood remained active in his medical practice until his death, apparently in 1891.

Correspondence, speeches and writings, magazine and newspaper clippings, financial papers, and pictures of William Stump Forwood. Included are letters, 1864-1865, from Forwood's brother Henry Hays Forwood (born 8 November 1842), who was a prisoner in Camp Morton, Ind., during the Civil War, and Forwood's father Samuel (fl. 1800-1890), in Gosport, Clarke County, Ala. materials. Among the clippings are advertisements for medical devices, most notably several for uterine supporters. Among the photographs are two pictures of a device for treating a fractured clavicle.

Addition of February 1999

• Pictures (SF-P-260/1, P-260/2-5)