Download or read book Confederate hospitals of the western department written by Ted Raymond Worley and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confederate Hospitals on the Move written by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work tells the story of Samuel Hollingsworth Stout, an innovative Confederate doctor and medical director of the Army of Tennessee, and his successful administration and establishment of more than sixty mobile military hospitals scattered throughout the western theatre.
Download or read book Two Confederate Hospitals and Their Patients written by Jack D. Welsh and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "complete patient listings of more than 18,000 patients."--dust jacket.
Download or read book Chimborazo written by Carol C. Green and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chimborazo Hospital, just outside Richmond, Virginia, served as the Confederacy's largest hospital for four years. During this time, it treated nearly eighty thousand patients, boasting a mortality rate of just over 11 percent. This book, the first full-length study of a facility that was vital to the Southern war effort, tells the story of those who lived and worked at Chimborazo. Organized by Dr. James Brown McCaw, Chimborazo was an innovative hospital with well-trained physicians, efficient stewards, and a unique supply system. Physicians had access to the latest medical knowledge and specialists in Richmond. The hospital soon became a model for other facilities. The hospital's clinical reputation grew as it established connections with the Medical College of Virginia and hosted several drug and treatment trials requested by the Confederate Medical Department. In fascinating detail, Chimborazo recounts the issues, trials, and triumphs of a Civil War hospital. Based on an extensive study of hospital and Confederate Medical Department records found at the National Archives, along with other primary sources, the study includes information on the patients, hospital stewards, matrons, and slaves who served as support staff. Since Chimborazo was designated as an independent army post, the book discusses other features of its organization, staff, and supply system as well. This careful examination describes the challenges facing the hospital and reveals the humanity of those who lived and worked there.
Download or read book The Medical Department in the Civil War written by Silas Weir Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Matchless Organization written by Guy R. Hasegawa and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Matchless Organization' describes the operations of the Confederate Army's Medical Department as managed by its successive surgeons general, especially Samuel Preston Moore"--
Download or read book The Army Medical Department 1775 1818 written by Mary C. Gillett and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendices include laws and legislation concerning the Army Medical Department. Maps include those of territories and frontiers and Continental Army hospital locations. Illustrations are chiefly portraits.
Download or read book Where Have All the Hospitals Gone written by Lori Tillia-Meeker and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone comes to Gettysburg to see the battlefield, tour the town, hear about the tactics, walk among the monuments, but what about the 21,000 wounded soldiers who remained here at Gettysburg? They did not just vanish. Every public building, both colleges, private homes, and even farms were turned into hospitals. I am reminded of the line from the Musical 1776, "Is anybody there? Does anybody care?" These sites need to be preserved and remembered just like the battlefield, because whether you want to believe it or not, these sites are part of the history of the Battle Gettysburg and are just as important as the preservation of the battlefield itself. The book is broken down into several sections—the town, farms, and homes north of town; farms and homes south of town; farms and homes east of town; farms and homes west of town; the major Federal Corps Field Hospitals, the Village of Fairfield, the Village of Hunterstown, the Village of Cashtown, Camp Letterman, and finally Field Dressing Stations. Each section is listed alphabetically by street or road and then listed numerically along the street. I hope you enjoy this guide book to the hospitals I found in Gettysburg and the surrounding communities and the area of the battlefield.
Download or read book Inside the Confederate Hospital written by Nancy Schurr and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preliminary Inventory of the War Department Collection of Confederate Records written by National Archives (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gangrene and Glory written by Frank R. Freemon and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If this book fulfills its mission, the reader will see the same gore and smell the same putrefaction as did the doctors in blue and gray.
Download or read book Women at the Front written by Jane E. Schultz and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between homefront and battlefront. Schultz uses government records, private manuscripts, and published sources by and about women hospital workers, some of whom are familiar--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, and Sojourner Truth--but most of whom are not well-known. Examining the lives and legacies of these women, Schultz considers who they were, how they became involved in wartime hospital work, how they adjusted to it, and how they challenged it. She demonstrates that class, race, and gender roles linked female workers with soldiers, both black and white, but became sites of conflict between the women and doctors and even among themselves. Schultz also explores the women's postwar lives--their professional and domestic choices, their pursuit of pensions, and their memorials to the war in published narratives. Surprisingly few parlayed their war experience into postwar medical work, and their extremely varied postwar experiences, Schultz argues, defy any simple narrative of pre-professionalism, triumphalism, or conciliation.
Download or read book Confederate Hospitals and Medical Services written by George Winton Sisson (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Medical Department in the Civil War Classic Reprint written by Silas Weir Mitchell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Medical Department in the Civil War When on April 12, 1861, we heard that the flag had been fired on at Fort Sumter, a universal sense of insult roused the North. The churches North and South fell apart and the pulpit knew no more the charity which covers a multitude of sins. Even the old patriotic society of the Cincinnati lost its unity. Officers of the army and navy made their choice with which section they would stand, and it may be strange to you to learn the little-known fact that of W est Point Southern graduates nearly 50 per cent. Remained loyal to the flag as men of the North read loyalty, at what cost of family affection lost and of broken friendships you can easily imagine. It was very long after the war before these wounds were healed and innumerable family differences passed away. Alas. In some cases sectional hatreds were carried unsettled to another world than ours. Not without reason have I made this digression. The ancient guild of physicians alone remained an unbroken organization - the offspring of Science and Charity, faithful to a creed centuries old when Christ was born. In hospitals and on the field of battle, where the surgeon ruled, there was the truce of God; and Letterman, the able surgeon-in-chief of the Army of the Potomac, merely put conduct into words when he said, The wounded man ceases to be an enemy. I despair of making you realize through statistics the vastness of our task. Large figures only bewilder theimagination and do not fully assist it to realize how perfect was our achievement through those years of disaster and final triumph, Which blazoned duty's stainless shield And set a star in honor's sky. How were we prepared to meet the demands of war? The old medical department of the army con sisted of thirty surgeons and eighty-three assistants. Of these, twenty-four resigned to take part in the rebellion and three were dismissed for disloyalty; thirteen were natives of the South, but stood true to the flag. Soon after the beginning of the war it was found necessary, owing to age, to permit the surgeon general to retire. Owing largely to pressure made by the Sanitary Commission and the profession, his place was filled by raising from the rank of assistant sur geon Dr. William A. Hammond. He fell at once into a tremendous business spreading over great spaces of country, increasing in perplexity, and making fresh demands every week, and at last so large that there was expended for ice alone in one year more than the whole amount of money which in peace sufficed for the entire medical service of the army. The organization also demanded complete revision, and, in fact, as the new surgeon-general said, there was not an aspect of his work which was not foggy with embarrassments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond written by Robert W. Waitt and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deaths of Confederate Soldiers in Confederate Hospitals written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Acted from Principle written by William Marcellus McPheeters and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the Civil War, Dr. William McPheeters was a distinguished physician in St. Louis, conducting unprecedented public-health research, forging new medical standards, and organizing the state's first professional associations. But Missouri was a volatile border state. Under martial law, Union authorities kept close watch on known Confederate sympathizers. McPheeters was followed, arrested, threatened, and finally, in 1862, given an ultimatum: sign an oath of allegiance to the Union or go to federal prison. McPheeters "acted from principle" instead, fleeing by night to Confederate territory. He served as a surgeon under Gen. Sterling Price and his Missouri forces west of the Mississippi River, treating soldiers' diseases, malnutrition, and terrible battle wounds. From almost the moment of his departure, the doctor kept a diary. It was a pocket-size notebook which he made by folding sheets of pale blue writing paper in half and in which he wrote in miniature with his steel pen. It is the first known daily account by a Confederate medical officer in the Trans-Mississippi Department. It also tells his wife's story, which included harassment by Federal military officials, imprisonment in St. Louis, and banishment from Missouri with the couple's two small children. The journal appears here in its complete and original form, exactly as the doctor first wrote it, with the addition of the editors' full annotation and vivid introductions to each section.
