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https://i0.wp.com/idavox.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Augusta.jpg?fit=700%2C700&ssl=1700700The first African American surgeon in the Civil War, the first African American faculty appointed to any medical college in the United States, one of the physicians at Abraham Lincoln's deathbed and the first black officer-rank soldier to be buried in the Arlington National Cemetery (but buried away from the White soldiers). The man's life was an accomplished one.