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. |
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... Robert Vejnar , and of course Dr. Eugene Dominick Genovese , emeritus professor at Emory University . In efforts to identify military personnel , especially conscripted and volunteer noncommissioned soldiers , I am indebted to H.E. ...
... Poetry : an Appraisal and Selection , ed . , Robert Penn Warren ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1971 ) , text of poem , 79-80 ; notes , 25-30 , 79 . Abolitionists , to his mind large in number and titanic INTRODUCTION 7.
... Robert H. Dungan , an Emory & Henry College student and longtime correspondent and friend of Apperson's . Apperson was almost immediately transferred out of the marching regiment and into the field - hospital unit run by Dr. Harvey ...
... Robert Henry Dungan was then a twenty - five year old sophomore at Emory & Henry College . From Seven Mile Ford , he left school to join the Confederate army , eventually commanding the 48th Virginia Regiment with rank of colonel ...
... Robert H. Dungan who was then a sophomore at Emory & Henry College . Student Register , 16 August 1860 , Emory & Henry College Archives . north to Horace Greeley2 or some other hard headed abolitionist 36 REPAIRING THE " MARCH OF MARS "
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8 October 186215 April 1865 The Sad Blighting March of Mars From Sharpsburg to Appomattox Court House | 247 |
Epilogue | 619 |
Index | 627 |
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Repairing the "March of Mars": The Civil War Diaries of John Samuel Apperson ... John Samuel Apperson Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 2001 |