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Author : Benjamin Allen Fordyce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Echoes from the Letters of a Civil War Surgeon written by Benjamin Allen Fordyce and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lydia Hecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964344112
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Echoes from the Letters of a Civil War Surgeon written by Lydia Hecht and published by . This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Garold Cole
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570033278
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Civil War Eyewitnesses written by Garold Cole and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliographical guide to recently published Civil War diaries, journals, letters, and memoirs.
Author : John Gardner Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Letters from a Surgeon of the Civil War written by John Gardner Perry and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel M. Holt
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873385381
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book A Surgeon's Civil War written by Daniel M. Holt and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1991-05-31 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel M. Holt, a successful country doctor in the upstate village of Newport, New York, accepted the position of assistant surgeon in the 121st New York Volunteer Army in August 1862. At age 42 when he was commissioned, he was the oldest member of the staff. But his experience served him well, as his regiment participated in nearly all the major campaigns in the eastern theater of the war--Crampton's Gap before Antietam, Fredericksburg, Salem Church, the Mine Run campaign, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, the 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaign, and Appomattox. In A Surgeon's Civil War, the educated and articulate Holt describes camp life, army politics, and the medical difficulties that he and his colleagues experienced. His reminiscences and letters provide an insider's look at medicine as practiced on the battlefield and offer occasional glimpses of the efficacy of Surgeon General William A. Hammond's reforms as they affected Holt's regiment. He also comments on other subjects, including slavery and national events. Holt served until October 17, 1864 when ill health forced him to resign.
Author : John Gardner Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Letters from a Surgeon of the Civil War written by John Gardner Perry and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Child
Publisher : Polar Bear
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Letters from a Civil War Surgeon written by William Child and published by Polar Bear. This book was released on 2001 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Child's is a writer of wit, humor, candor, understanding, emotion and fact. His letters to his wife take us into the Civil War, into his time, as we relive most of the major battles, the struggles, and are given special insights into the politics. As a witness to the assassination of Lincoln he writes an eyewitness account that leaves you speechless.
Author : William Watson
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557530929
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Letters of a Civil War Surgeon written by William Watson and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From September 1862 until May 1865, Major William Watson served as surgeon with the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, which fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and elsewhere. Over the course of three years at war, he wrote 91 letters to his family, in which he describes his own war against death and disease. This well-educated and sensitive young man has left us a variety of impressions of camp life, marches, and battles; of a soldier's matter-of-fact willingness to accept -- though not without grumbling -- the rigors of his lot, of concern with the job at hand and with immediate needs like food and shelter; and of a veteran's indifference to the flag-waving of professional patriots. In spite of his often acute criticisms of the Union's military leadership, Watson never faltered in his belief in the Union cause and the ultimate outcome of the war nor in his dedication to Lincoln's major goals.
Author : Martha Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780740445453
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Letters from a Surgeon of the Civil War written by Martha Perry and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen A. Dupree
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603444424
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Red River Valley written by Stephen A. Dupree and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appointed by President Lincoln to command the Gulf Department in November 1862, Nathaniel Prentice Banks was given three assignments, one of which was to occupy some point in Texas. He was told that when he united his army with Grant's, he would assume command of both. Banks, then, had the opportunity to become the leading general in the West--perhaps the most important general in the war. But he squandered what successes he had, never rendezvoused with Grant's army, and ultimately orchestrated some of the greatest military blunders of the war. "Banks's faults as a general," writes author Stephen A. Dupree, "were legion." The originality of Planting the Union Flag in Texas lies not just in the author's description of the battles and campaigns Banks led, nor in his recognition of the character traits that underlay Banks's decisions. Rather, it lies in how Dupree synthesizes his studies of Banks's various actions during his tour of duty in and near Texas to help the reader understand them as a unified campaign. He skillfully weaves together Banks's various attempts to gain Union control of Texas with his other activities and shines the light of Banks's character on the resulting events to help explain both their potential and their shortcomings. In the end, readers will have a holistic understanding of Banks's "appalling" failure to win Texas and may even be led to ask how the post-Civil War era might have been different had he been successful. This fine study will appeal to Civil War buffs and fans of military and Texas history.
Author : Francis M. Wafer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773577289
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book A Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac written by Francis M. Wafer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheryl Wells provides an edited and fully annotated collection of Wafer's diary entries during the war, his letters home, and the memoirs he wrote after returning to Canada. Wafer's writings are a fascinating and deeply personal account of the actions, duties, feelings, and perceptions of a noncombatant who experienced the thick of battle and its grave consequences.
Author : Jonah Franklin Dyer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803266377
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (663 download)
Download or read book The Journal of a Civil War Surgeon written by Jonah Franklin Dyer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Franklin Dyer?s journal offers a rare perspective on three years of the Civil War as seen through the eyes of a surgeon at the front. The journal, taken from letters written to his wife, Maria, describes in lengthy and colorful detail the daily life of a doctor who began as a regimental surgeon in the Nineteenth Massachusetts Volunteers and was promoted to acting medical director of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. ø This firsthand account traces Dyer?s attempts to manage his Gloucester household even as the Second Corps fought on the Peninsula, at Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and from the Wilderness to Petersburg. Over time his letters to his wife become fraught with the tension of a man losing his early martial ardor as he witnesses the ghastly procession of suffering and death. ø Both a talented surgeon and a careful administrator, Dyer nevertheless declined opportunities to work at hospitals in the rear in order to stay near his old regiment and the fighting. He confronted the aftermath of battle?thousands of wounded and dying men?with a small staff and simple instruments. He and his fellow surgeons saved lives as best they could?often at the cost of amputated limbs?then dropped to the ground from exhaustion and slept in blood-drenched uniforms until the cries of the wounded woke them and induced them back to work. Dyer also provides a glimpse of the most devastating opponent the armies faced: disease. He and his medical colleagues fought cholera, typhus, dysentery, measles, and, despite official denials in Washington , a scurvy outbreak that weakened Federal units during the Peninsula campaign.
Author : MARTHA DERBY. PERRY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033506899
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (68 download)
Download or read book LETTERS FROM A SURGEON OF THE CIVIL WAR written by MARTHA DERBY. PERRY and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis P. Masur
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674067533
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Lincoln’s Hundred Days written by Louis P. Masur and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The time has come now," Abraham Lincoln told his cabinet as he presented the preliminary draft of a "Proclamation of Emancipation." Lincoln's effort to end slavery has been controversial from its inception-when it was denounced by some as an unconstitutional usurpation and by others as an inadequate half-measure-up to the present, as historians have discounted its import and impact. At the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, Louis Masur seeks to restore the document's reputation by exploring its evolution. Lincoln's Hundred Days is the first book to tell the full story of the critical period between September 22, 1862, when Lincoln issued his preliminary Proclamation, and January 1, 1863, when he signed the final, significantly altered, decree. In those tumultuous hundred days, as battlefield deaths mounted, debate raged. Masur commands vast primary sources to portray the daily struggles and enormous consequences of the president's efforts as Lincoln led a nation through war and toward emancipation. With his deadline looming, Lincoln hesitated and calculated, frustrating friends and foes alike, as he reckoned with the anxieties and expectations of millions. We hear these concerns, from poets, cabinet members and foreign officials, from enlisted men on the front and free blacks as well as slaves. Masur presents a fresh portrait of Lincoln as a complex figure who worried about, listened to, debated, prayed for, and even joked with his country, and then followed his conviction in directing America toward a terrifying and thrilling unknown.
Author : John Gardner 1840-1926 Perry
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014951472
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Letters From a Surgeon of the Civil War; written by John Gardner 1840-1926 Perry and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684823519
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Lincoln's Men written by William C. Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-07-14 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I sit down to write you (a Soldier's Friend!)...My kind Friend of Friends you have the power to help me a grate deal...I have great Confidence in our Good President hoe has dun a grate deal for us poor Soldiers... So wrote Private Joe Hass to Abraham Lincoln, February 20, 1864. Like an extraordinary number of his fellow Union soldiers, he loved Lincoln as a father. Lincoln inspired feelings unlike those instilled by any previous commander-in-chief in America. In Lincoln's Men, William C. Davis draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries to tell the hidden story of how a new and untested president could become "Father Abraham" throughout both the army and the North as a whole. How did the Army of the Potomac, yearning for the grandeur of McClellan, turn instead to the comfort of Old Abe, and how was this change of loyalty crucial to final victory? How did Lincoln inspire the faith and courage of so many shattered men, wandering the inferno of Shiloh or entrenched in the siege of Vicksburg? Why did soldiers visiting Washington feel free to stroll into the White House and sit down to relax, as if it were their own home? Davis removes layers of mythmaking to recapture the moods and feelings of an army facing one of history's bloodiest conflicts. Tracing the popular fate of decisions to invoke conscription, to fire McClellan, and to free the slaves, Lincoln's Men casts a new light on our most famous president -- the light, that is, of the peculiar mass medium that was the Union Army. A motley band of talkers and letter writers, the soldiers spread news of Lincoln's appearances like wildfire, chortling at his ungainly posture in the saddle, rushing up to shake his hand and talk to him. The volunteers knew they could approach "Old Abe," "Honest Abe," "Uncle Abe," and "Father Abraham," and they cheered him thunderously. "The men could not be restrained from so honoring him," said Private Rice Bull. "He really was the ideal of the Army." The story of the making of Father Abraham is the story of America's second revolution, its rebirth. As one Union soldier and journalist put it, "Washington taught the world to know us, Lincoln taught us to know ourselves. The first won for us our independence, the last wrought out our manhood and self-respect."
Author : William Henry King
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572334618
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (346 download)
Download or read book No Pardons to Ask, Nor Apologies to Make written by William Henry King and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Henry King began war service in 1862 in Louisiana and ended it in 1865 in Camden, Arkansas. During this period he chronicled action in the Trans-Mississippi theater, producing a diary that yields one of the most important accounts from a Confederate enlisted man. No Pardons to Ask, Nor Apologies to Make is a gritty look into the life of a soldier, with no romantic gloss. While most journals record the mundane day-to-dayroutine, King's consistently detailed entries-notable for their literary style, King's venomous wit, and his colorful descriptions-cover a wide array of matters pertaining to the Confederate experience in the West. King's observations about his superiors, the Confederacy, contraband, and the underreported Trans-Mississippi campaign are especially striking. Though his long service demonstrates a certain loyalty to the Confederate cause, he writes sharp criticisms of his superiors, of military discipline, and of contemporaneous social and class conditions. His discontent is rooted within a fiery sense of independence that conflicts with centralized authority, whether it takes the form of military, government, or class control. Few published diaries capture the tension and turmoil that existed in the Southern ranks or the class resentment that festered in some quarters of the Confederacy. No Pardons to Ask, Nor Apologies to Make makes an important contribution to understanding how class functioned in the Confederate command and also provides a much-needed account of action in the Trans-Mississippi theater, where the primary sources are extremely slim.
