Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains three certifications of disability from medical examinations of George W. Viar, a private in Company E, 24th Virginia Infantry during the American Civil War. Written on two sides of the same paper are two reports from regimental surgeon J. M. Estill, at the Camp of Instruction, Dublin, Virginia. In the first of these, written September 24, 1862, Estill writes that Viar suffers from hypertrophy of the liver and ascites and recommends that Viar be detailed in the...