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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... served in regiments outside the county , and with fascinating word - pictures of the churches and courthouses of the antebellum and wartime eras . The names of towns in Virginia have changed over the decades , and in some cases towns ...
... served all comers , not to exclude troopers from other posts , nor even civilians , slaves , freedmen , and enemy soldiers ; but he was attached to the First Virginia Brigade , a mountain unit of highlanders generally known as the ...
... served a period of apprenticeship and then went on to medical school and became practitioners , and the diary makes it clear that such was Dr. Faris's plan for his young assistant . The inquisitive and energetic youth was soon reading ...
... serving out the full term . Goodridge Wilson , Smyth County History and Traditions ( Kingsport , TN : Kingsport Press ... served as an important meeting place for political gatherings , both formal and informal . " Hotel Marion , " Smyth ...
... served as the family's doctor . Quisenberry's family was listed with the first national census for Orange County ; members of the family held between four and ten slaves , and thus ranked as slaveowning farmers rather than planters ...
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 |