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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... diarist have all encouraged this last turtle to move at my own pace . Certainly , the whole project involves more than one turtle , for there are turtles all the way down , and each is sacred to me . The diarist himself , John Samuel ...
... diarist was not always precise in his spelling of places he traveled through , but all of this is straightened out nicely by two publications : Ray O. Hummel , Jr. , A List of Places Included in 19th Century Virginia Directories ...
... diarist calls it " a hiddeous [ sic ] sight . " More , given the thuggish and bullying qualities of the mob action , it was hardly the kind of fair fight celebrated by Tarquato Tasso or Sir Walter Scott . In truth , Apperson was upset ...
... diarist would always call it The Brigade , as if there were no other , even and especially when he was officially in service to a hospital unit serving an entire corps of the Army of Northern Virginia . The First Virginia demonstrated ...
... diarist is typical of the Confederates in celebrating the victory at Manassas while missing the fact that vital strategic ground was already being lost in West Virginia , in the border states , and in the Confederate west . I pity the ...
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 |