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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... 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 ...
... Born in Locust Grove on 21 August 1837 , he was eldest son of Alfred and Malinda Apperson , a freeholding family that was farming in the Wilderness on the border between Orange and Spotsylvania counties . John Samuel Apperson as a ...
... born 11 March 1544 in Sorrento , Italy , and died 25 April 1595 in Rome . He wrote cantos in heroic verse celebrating the Crusades . Griffin edited an English language version and provided a biographical sketch of Tasso in his edition ...
... born into the church and had an established a [ sic ] religion so that all are in the church as soon as they are ushered in the world ; but the ministry of the Germanic States is tainted with and interfered with [ . ] Some of their ...
... ( born 1843 ) , an early volunteer with Smyth County patrols , then member of Brigade who survived war and apparently relocated in Prince Edward County . See Wilson , Smyth County , 236 , and Virginia 1870 Census Index , vol . 4 , ed ...
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 |