... independence, then in July was made part of the Continental Congress and thus became a signer of the Declaration of Independence (Malone, 228).   About a year later in 1777, the Continental Congress voted Benjamin Rush to be Surgeon General of the middle department of the Continental Army. While a   surgeon in the army, Benjamin Rush was in constant attendance of the wounded at the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, and during the ... sickness at Valley Forge. Through all this, he still found time to write long public letters speaking out against the Articles of Con...

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