Thursday, December 22, 2016

In Hospital and in Camp - The Civil War through the eyes of its Doctors and Nurses, Harold Elk Straubing.

In Hospital and in Camp - The Civil War through the eyes of its Doctors and Nurses, Harold Elk Straubing
A selection of ten accounts of the medical services during the American Civil War, produced by a mix of doctors and nurses, mainly from the Union side. Includes diaries, letters and narrative accounts, and ends with some of Walt Whitmann's poems. Varies in tone from gruesome medical detail to Victorian sentimentality.
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