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Surgeon in blue : Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War doctor who pioneered battlefield care / Scott McGaugh.
- Title
- Surgeon in blue : Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War doctor who pioneered battlefield care / Scott McGaugh.
- Author
- McGaugh, Scott
- Publication
- New York : Arcade Publishing, [2013]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | E621 .M36 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxi, 342 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Recounts the life of the Civil War surgeon and how he made battlefield survival possible by creating the first organized ambulance corps and a more effective field hospital system.
- Subject
- Letterman, Jonathan
- Letterman, Jonathan, 1824-1872
- Letterman, Jonathan, 1824-1872
- United States. Army > Surgeons > Biography
- United States. Army of the Potomac > Biography
- United States. Army of the Potomac
- United States. Army
- 1800-1899
- Military Medicine
- Military Medicine > history
- History, 19th Century
- American Civil War
- General Surgery
- Surgeons > United States > Biography
- Medicine, Military > United States > History > 19th century
- American Civil War > United States > Biography
- History, 19th Century > United States > Biography
- Military Medicine > history > United States > Biography
- United States
- United States
- United States > History > Medical care > Civil War, 1861-1865
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-325) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "We are almost worked to death" -- Not a learned profession: "Open-hearted frankness" -- Outpost medicine: "We had no bandages" -- The Hammond alliance: "Their wounds, as yet, undressed" -- Taking medical command: "I found it in a deplorable condition" -- Antietam: "I pray God may stop such infernal work" -- Fredericksburg: "A huge serpent of blue and steel" -- Chancellorsville: "What will the country say?" -- Gettysburg: "I turned away and cried" -- Validation: "Little more remained to be done" -- Wildcatter: "A good kind husband" -- Compassionate coroner: "I have done my duty faithfully" -- An enduring legacy: "War is a terrible thing at best" -- "Today I am used up."
- ISBN
- 9781611458398 (hbk.)
- 1611458390 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2013010329
- OCLC
- 816030264
- SCSB-11622766
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library