Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the Civil War
This lavishly illustrated history of the Civil War looks at the battlefield doctors who treated thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers, and at the makeshift medicine they were forced to employ. A medical doctor and credentialed historian, Frank R. Freemon combines poignant, sometimes horrifying anecdotes of amputation, infection, and death with a clearheaded discussion of the state of medical knowledge, the effect of the military bureaucracy on medical supplies, and the members of the medical community who risked their lives, their health, and even their careers to care for the wounded. Freemon examines the impact on major campaigns -- Manassas, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Atlanta -- of ignorance, understaffing, inexperience, overcrowded hospitals, lack of ambulances, and inadequate supplies of quinine and other essentials. Gangrene and Glory presents the medical side of the war from a variety of perspectives: the Union, the Confederacy, the army, the navy, doctors, nurses, soldiers and their families. $24.95
Women at the Front Hospital Workers in Civil War America
Women at the Front Hospital Workers in Civil War America As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during Americas 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. $38.96
A Civil War Doctor
More Americans died in the Civil War than in all U.S. wars from the American Revolution to the Vietnam War. Many more would have perished if not for the skill of doctors on both sides who saved thousands from death from wounds, illness, or disease. $29.95
The Old Doctor's Rigmarole: Memoirs of a Civil War Surgeon
The Old Doctor's Rigmarole: Memoirs of a Civil War Surgeon $14.95
