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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... hope , and in his words he had " every good prospect " when he fetched up in Smyth County beyond the Blue Ridge and in the distant southwestern highlands of the vast commonwealth . Taking up with patron physician William Faris , John ...
... hope of his recovery . We arrived home about half past 12 o'clock — very tired and sleepy . I am or have been impressed with the idea to - day that the life of a Doctor is one of responsibility and trouble . The pay of a physician is ...
... hope he may pass through his college life successfully . I remained at the post office all night with Mr. E. A.S.8 for the first time since I had been in West Va 9 . I like Mr. S very well . Monday January 21st , 1861 Came home this ...
... hope we may have some fair weather : for we have , in our estimation , had one of the worse sort of winters for rain & mud & snow have been plentiful . Nature seems to have determined to give us our share of weather inconveniences at ...
... hope Uncle Charles will be as good as his word . He wrote me sometime last year that he wanted me to have some boots made for him . I contracted the making of them with a shoe - maker in Marion ( Turner ) who has promised to have them ...
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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 |