Circular from the Surgeon General's Office Appealing to Ladies to Grow Poppies for Opium
3/1863
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This circular asks Confederate women to provide an “essential service” by growing garden poppies that could then be processed into opiates such as morphine. Sometimes all a Civil War physician could offer was morphine as a painkiller.
This primary source comes from the War Department Collection of Confederate Records.
National Archives Identifier:
4667696Full Citation: Circular from the Surgeon General's Office Appealing to Ladies to Grow Poppies for Opium; 3/1863; War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/documents/document/circular-from-the-surgeon-generals-office-appealing-to-ladies-to-grow-poppies-for-opium, May 11, 2024]