Civil War Medicine: Care and Comfort of the Wounded

by Robert E. Denney

Book Overview

...an excellent panorama of what military and civilian medical and sanitary efforts meant to soldiers on both sides of the Civil War. His chronological presentation shows how lessons were learned--or... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806908793
• ISBN13: 9780806908793
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Where is the surgery itself?

Almost a daily diary of battles, the outcomes, locations. As far as the wounded however all you read is "we moved them from point A to point B". Nothing mentioned about surgeries performed, or new ideas or surgical procedures or innovations.

Full of firsthand accounts.

This book is especially great if you have an ancestor that was wounded in battle. Since the book is full of firsthand accounts in chronological order, you can get a feel of what your ancestor went through. In my own case, I discovered that my GG-Grandfather probably laid on the field for a day and a half before he received any treatment. Then he had to probably endure a very rugged ambulance ride some 15 mile to a hospital that was badly overcrowded.