Gangrene and glory : medical care during the American Civil War
Dealing with the civil war, this title takes a close look at the battlefield doctors in whose hands rested the lives of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers. It also examines the impact on major campaigns - Manassas, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Atlanta - of ignorance, understaffing, inexperience, and overcrowded hospitals
History
254 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
9780252070105, 0252070100
46683771
1. American medicine in the 1850s
2. Creating Confederate medicine
3. Lincoln finds a Surgeon General
4. Maggots and minié balls
5. The introduction of women nurses
6. Union hospital ships along the western rivers
7. The beginnings of the Letterman system
8. Confederate medicine organizing
9. Northern medicine organized
10. Medicine at sea
11. Stonewall Jackson struck by friendly fire
12. "Mine eyes have seen the glory"
13. Northern versus southern medicine at Vicksburg
14. Confederate medicine deteriorating
15. Union enclaves along the Confederate coast
16. The trial of William Hammond
17. Confederate medical support during the Atlanta campaign
18. Preparing for the final Union campaigns
19. Union medical support for the decisive campaigns of 1864
20. The last full measure of devotion
21. Aftermath
22. The American Civil War as a biological phenomenon
23. Comparing northern to southern medical care
24. Did medical care make a difference?
Originally published: Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London : Associated University Presses, ©1998