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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... command " fall in " is given and we will assuredly march in the direction of Martinsburg . Martinsburg is filled with Northern troops I understand . If this is so , we will probably have a hard battle to take it . I can not say really ...
... command , having confidence in his knowledge of military matters and believe it our duty to obey all his commands— but it does seem to my finite mind that we are leaving to the merciless invader that for which we should have protected ...
... command that for four days he has offered battle to greatly superior forces and it has been declined . To attack the enemy in their position would make a sacrifice too heavy for the object to be obtained . Our men are patriots and ...
... command to J.E. Johnston . " Perhaps no other southern general was involved in so many pivotal military events .... " John D. Kallman , Historical Times , s.v. cars.25 I stopped at the house of a Mr. Gibson 112 REPAIRING THE " MARCH OF ...
... command was unnoticed . It was presumed at the time , and proved so afterward , that the enemy wished to distract our attention in that direction while a more important [ target ] was attacked . Johnson's [ sic ; J.E. Johnston's ] ...
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 |