Repairing the "March of Mars": The Civil War Diaries of John Samuel Apperson, Hospital Steward in the Stonewall Brigade, 1861-1865Mercer University Press, 2001 - 654 σελίδες There are many collections of letters and Civil War memoirs available today, but very few offer in-depth information about the medical treatment of wounded soldiers. In Repairing the "March of Mars": The Civil War Diaries of John Samuel Apperson, Hospital Steward in the Stonewall Brigade, 1861-1865, editor John Herbert Roper provides an important supplement to this understudied aspect of the Civil War. John Samuel Apperson was born in 1837 to a family of small freeholders who owned no slaves. Thus, when the war broke out in 1861, Apperson's choice to fight for the Confederacy reflected his loyalty to Virginia rather than his desire to protect and defend the slave system. Apperson enlisted in Company D of the First Virginia Brigade, and was initially assigned to the marching regiment. However, when it was discovered that in the two years prior to the war he had studied and apprenticed to a physician, Apperson was transferred to the field hospital unit. His experiences there form the substance of the diary here published for the first time. Apperson's diary is a sensitive and painstaking observation of the details of medical treatment during and after battle. For all periods of the war, his detailed personal records supplement and correct official army hospital records, and for certain periods, his diary provides the only medical information available. For example, Apperson was present at the amputation of Stonewall Jackson's arm, and his diary shows that Jackson died of postoperative pneumonia, and not of a botched surgery. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the American Civil War and in the history of medicine. |
Αναζήτηση στο βιβλίο
Αποτελέσματα 1 - 5 από τα 86.
... Hill , 1984 ) . John Samuel Apperson was quite interested in religion , especially evangelical and pietistic churches , and I have benefited from Charles F. Pitts , Chaplains in Gray : The Confederate Chaplains ' Story ( Nashville , TN ...
... Hill , " but with the would - be " king " standing above the gully and " keeping subjects " down in in the dredge of the depression instead of keeping them at the base of a hill ] . He had come a long way and he had done many things in ...
... hill country , and he began to write in his 1859 diary about making a career in the mountains . This 1859 diary , really a trip journal , is eighteen pages long and describes the trip from the Wilderness to Seven Mile Ford . Dated from ...
... hill - town its name . Dr. Black was a Calvinist and an Augustinian of the oldest and highest southern sort : He presumed very little good of most people , he was profoundly skeptical of things made by man , he brooked little democracy ...
... Hill , 1985 ) , s.v .; hereinafter McGrew's . 5 The town is Chilhowie , in Smyth county near Seven Mile Ford ; the exact neighborhood is unknown . be when you see your children leaving the standard of 22 REPAIRING THE " MARCH OF MARS "
Περιεχόμενα
17 | |
87 | |
8 October 186215 April 1865 The Sad Blighting March of Mars From Sharpsburg to Appomattox Court House | 247 |
Epilogue | 619 |
Index | 627 |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Repairing the "March of Mars": The Civil War Diaries of John Samuel Apperson ... John Samuel Apperson Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 2001 |