David K. Richard Koplin. Above: a tribute of Dr. McDonogh by Anthony Smith. Left: recipients of the National Medical Fellowship scholarships. To be sure, New York City was distant from the front lines, but neither distance nor the flush of war profiteering could blunt the human consequences of such a deeply divisive conflict. Funeral processions were commonplace and it was not unusual to see returned soldiers and deserters, physically and mentally maimed on the brutal battlefields, standing stock still on the sidewalks as mourners filed past.