Learning From the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science

A Reexamination of Civil War Medecine Currently scholarship has surged regarding the Civil War era’s health, medicine and the doctors who treated soldiers. In 2013, three studies arrived which changed the current understanding. Scott McGaugh’s Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, the...

Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care

Saving Lives On Battlefields: Jonathan Letterman’s Innovations During the Civil War The American Civil War was fought before the medical community understood germs, which had been seen under a microscope but had yet to be named. During its first battles the wounded were left where they fe...

Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War

The Issue of Public Health in a Time of War At the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting during August, 1986, Maris A. Vinovskis posed a question: “Have social historians lost the Civil War? He stated that indeed the “social historians of the nineteenth century appear to hav...

Reflections Of A Civil War Medical Cadet, Burt Green Wilder

February 5 About one o\u27clock Dr. Marsh came to say that in ward 5 Dr. Hartsuff was to amputate the leg of a man who had be shot in the knee; the joint is shattered and discharges profusely.; he is so weak that he will die unless relieved of the drain. All the surgeons and cadets wer...

On a Great Battlefield: The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 19332012

The Origins and Changing Meaning of Battlefield Preservation Efforts On what is likely the most consecrated 6,000 acres of the United States landscape, is the Gettysburg National Military Park. Timothy B. Smith in The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation: The Decade of the 1890\u27s and ...

Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

The Press and the President Lincoln and The Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion is a detailed story of the process of journalism and the cult of personality of editors and owners. For a politician who declared that public sentiment is everything, Lincoln recognized that, ...

Nature\u27s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia

Medical Care at the Intersection Between Men and Their Environment Stephen Berry’s 2012 top ten list of “predictions for how broader professional trends will reshape Civil War historiography in the coming decades offers #7: The Blue and Gray Will Go Green. Berry predicts that by 2022 ign...