the National Museum of Civil War Medicine puts it on its website: “Thanks to Dr. Hunter McGuire’s idea…the safety of medical personnel drastically improved. With the safety and quick release of doctors, assistants, and nurses ensured, care of the wounded progressed. It could be argued (that) Dr. McGuire revolutionized American battlefield medicine by humanizing the battlefield and giving injured men a better chance to receive the care they needed to survive.” After the War, McGuire contributed to the original (first) of the Geneva Conventions, which is why the Boston Medical Journal said in his obituary that he had "humanized war." Post-Civil War McGuire married Mary Stuart of Staunton. Her father, Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, was a U.S. Congressman and Secretary of the Interior before the Civil War. Mary was a cousin of General Jeb Stuart. She and Hunter had nine children. McGuire wrote the introduction of the 1901 book The Old Plantation: How We Lived in Great House and Cabin before the War, written by James Battle Avirett. He remained a pro-slavery advocate his entire life. In the introduction cited above he lamented the freeing and enfranchisement of former slaves, and lauded the supremacy of the Caucasian race. His name has been consequently slated for removal from the medical school he founded. He lived at 5th and Grace St. in downtown Richmond, had a summer residence in Bon Air, Virginia, and a house in Henrico County. After the war, McGuire served as president of the American Medical Association. A statue of McGuire sits behind the Virginia State Capitol. Writings References Further reading (most recent first) External links Handley Regional Library, Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, Hunter Holmes McGuire Collection 1835 births 1900 deaths Deaths from pneumonia in the United States Confederate States Army surgeons People from Winchester, Virginia People of Virginia in the American Civil War Virginia Commonwealth University people Physicians from Virginia Tulane University faculty People from Bon Air, Virginia Winchester Medical College Witnesses to John Brown's execution Presidents of the American Medical Association