Author: United States Sanitary Commission. Western DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The U.S. Sanitary Commission in the Valley of the Mississippi, During the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866 ; Final Report of Dr. J.S. Newberry
Author: United States Sanitary Commission. Western DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The U. S. Sanitary Commission in the Valley of the Mississippi
Author: United States Sanitary Commission. Western DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
What the U.S. Sanitary Commission is Doing in the Valley of the Mississippi
Author: John Strong NewberryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Bonds of Union
Author: Bridget FordPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands furthered emancipation through a period of spiraling chaos between 1830 and 1865. Moving beyond familiar arguments about Lincoln's deft politics or regional commercial ties, Bridget Ford recovers the potent religious, racial, and political attachments holding the country together at one of its most likely breaking points, the Ohio River. Living in a bitterly contested region, the Americans examined here--Protestant and Catholic, black and white, northerner and southerner--made zealous efforts to understand the daily lives and struggles of those on the opposite side of vexing human and ideological divides. In their common pursuits of religious devotionalism, universal public education regardless of race, and relief from suffering during wartime, Ford discovers a surprisingly capacious and inclusive sense of political union in the Civil War era. While accounting for the era's many disintegrative forces, Ford reveals the imaginative work that went into bridging stark differences in lived experience, and she posits that work as a precondition for slavery's end and the Union's persistence.
Documents of the U.S. Sanitary Commission
Author: United States Sanitary CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Documents of the U. S. Sanitary Commission
Author: Documents of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. no. 61-95, 1863-66
Author: Documents of the United States Sanitary Commission
Author: United States Sanitary CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
The collection includes in part the original documents and in part reprints of the originals.
Documents of the United-States Sanitary Commission
Author: Marrow of Tragedy
Author: Margaret HumphreysPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421410001
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Soldiers lay wounded or sick as both sides struggled to get them fit to return to battle. Winner, George Rosen Prize, American Association for the History of Medicine The Civil War was the greatest health disaster the United States has ever experienced, killing more than a million Americans and leaving many others invalided or grieving. Poorly prepared to care for wounded and sick soldiers as the war began, Union and Confederate governments scrambled to provide doctoring and nursing, supplies, and shelter for those felled by warfare or disease. During the war soldiers suffered from measles, dysentery, and pneumonia and needed both preventive and curative food and medicine. Family members—especially women—and governments mounted organized support efforts, while army doctors learned to standardize medical thought and practice. Resources in the north helped return soldiers to battle, while Confederate soldiers suffered hunger and other privations and healed more slowly, when they healed at all. In telling the stories of soldiers, families, physicians, nurses, and administrators, historian Margaret Humphreys concludes that medical science was not as limited at the beginning of the war as has been portrayed. Medicine and public health clearly advanced during the war—and continued to do so after military hostilities ceased.