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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... ladies . Apperson did not seem to know that this stylized depiction of the Crusades had little to do with the sordid reality in which Jerusalem was not saved but destroyed ; nor did he seem to know that those crass and grubby processes ...
... ladies involved , who denied him leave for fun or for study , and who lectured him not to believe in slavery , secession , the CSA , War , or any other thing builded in sands by sinful man . Even medicine was not to be believed in , but ...
... lady who has sore throat . I started about 11 o'clock — found it to be a case of diptheria ( pseudo membraneous angina ) . I prescribed for her and went to see the case of fractured thigh . Found him in a " bad fix " — bowels caustic ...
... Ladies condescended to show their lovely faces . I think that a pretty , modest woman can do a great deal of good in ... Lady . Hence it may be my lot to live an old batcheler [ sic ] . I left Lyon's Gap about 1 o'clock and arrived home ...
... lady . I did not think her very sick , a cold probably . I prescribed for her . I intended yesterday to finish chemistry to - day but failed — owing to other business on hand . I went to the post office this evening — nothing new . When ...
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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 |