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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... Sunday , January 27th 1861 This morning passed as usual . I feel rather lazy , so lazy indeed that I got asleep sitting on my chair . I have been reading Tasso's " Jerusalem delivered " . Find in it many good things some of which I have ...
... ever saw [ sic ] it . I got two letters from my sister M. to - day — all are well . I arrived at home about half past seven o'clock — retired early . SUNDAY , FEBRUARY 3RD , '61 This morning I was 34 REPAIRING THE " MARCH OF MARS "
... may have been close to popular sentiment in much of the nation , but they were moot when issued since the Confederacy had already been formed in Montgomery . SUNDAY FEB . 17th 61 Bad weather seems to be 15 JANUARY - 2 JULY 1861 45.
... SUNDAY FEB . 17th 61 Bad weather seems to be on the increase . This morning was partially cloudy and by ten o'clock it was snowing rapidly — it did not snow incessantly though— Toward evening it snowed more — I don't know how it will be ...
... Sunday evening ) Sunday , Feb . 24th , '61 This morning I was not in any great hurry to rise — ate breakfast and prepared to go to church at S. Spring [ Sulphur Spring ] to preaching . Dr. F. and myself rode out— the roads were ...
Περιεχόμενα
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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 |