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Gentle Annie : the true story of a Civil War nurse / Mary Francis Shura.

Civil War prisons : a study in war psychology / William Best Hesseltine ; foreword by William Blair.

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Report of a committee appointed by the Sanitary Commission to prepare a paper on the value of vaccination in armies.

<p>A major contribution to our understanding of America's bloodiest conflict: surgeon and medical historian Rutkow argues that it is impossible to grasp the realities of the Civil War without an awareness of the state of medicine at the time. The use of ether and chloroform remained crude, and they were often unavailable--so many surgical procedures were performed without anesthesia, on the battleground or in a field hospital. This meant that "clinical concerns were often of less consequence than the swiftness of the surgeon's knife." Also, the existence of pathogenic microorganisms was still unknown, as was disinfection. From the soldiers who endured the ravages of combat to the government officials who directed the war machine, from the good Samaritans who organized aid commissions to the nurses who cared for the wounded, this book presents a story of suffering, politics, character, and, ultimately, healing.--From publisher description.</p>

Bleeding Blue and Gray : Civil War surgery and the evolution of American medicine / Ira M. Rutkow.

Ciba symposia.

Nursing in the Civil War / Isobel Stevenson.

xx, 235 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm

Swamp doctor : the diary of a Union surgeon in the Virginia and North Carolina marshes / edited by Thomas P. Lowry.

128, 34 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 23 cm

In the Senate of the United States : May 5, 1864 ; ordered to be printed, ... joint resolution directing the Committee on the Conduct of the War to examine into the recent attack on Fort Pillow.

xii, 241 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

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Gentle Annie : the true story of a Civil War nurse / Mary Francis Shura.

Civil War prisons : a study in war psychology / William Best Hesseltine ; foreword by William Blair.

Report of a committee appointed by the Sanitary Commission to prepare a paper on the value of vaccination in armies.

Bleeding Blue and Gray : Civil War surgery and the evolution of American medicine / Ira M. Rutkow.

Nursing in the Civil War / Isobel Stevenson.

Swamp doctor : the diary of a Union surgeon in the Virginia and North Carolina marshes / edited by Thomas P. Lowry.

In the Senate of the United States : May 5, 1864 ; ordered to be printed, ... joint resolution directing the Committee on the Conduct of the War to examine into the recent attack on Fort Pillow.

Wounded river : the Civil War letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D / edited by Peter Josyph.

Doctors in gray : the Confederate medical service / [Horace Herndon Cunningham].

Soundings from the Atlantic / By Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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Gentle Annie : the true story of a Civil War nurse / Mary Francis Shura.

Civil War prisons : a study in war psychology / William Best Hesseltine ; foreword by William Blair.

Report of a committee appointed by the Sanitary Commission to prepare a paper on the value of vaccination in armies.

Bleeding Blue and Gray : Civil War surgery and the evolution of American medicine / Ira M. Rutkow.

Nursing in the Civil War / Isobel Stevenson.

Swamp doctor : the diary of a Union surgeon in the Virginia and North Carolina marshes / edited by Thomas P. Lowry.

In the Senate of the United States : May 5, 1864 ; ordered to be printed, ... joint resolution directing the Committee on the Conduct of the War to examine into the recent attack on Fort Pillow.

Wounded river : the Civil War letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D / edited by Peter Josyph.

Doctors in gray : the Confederate medical service / [Horace Herndon Cunningham].

Soundings from the Atlantic / By Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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