During the Civil War, the majority of the 583 Union generals studied here were afflicted by disease, injured by accidents, or suffered wounds. This book includes a glossary of medical terms as well as a sequence of medical events during the Civil War listing wounds, accidents, and deaths.
74 DANIEL MARSH FROST DANIEL MARSH FROST · Born August 9 , 1823 , in Schenectady County , New York . He graduated from USMA in 1844. Served in the Mexican War . In 1852 , while pursuing marauding Indians in Texas , he was seriously ...
Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War
Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War
“H. H. Cunningham’s Doctors in Gray, first published more than thirty years ago, remains the definitive work on the medical history of the Confederate army.
Lesley J. Gordon and John C. Inscoe (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005), 335–48. 92. Moore's office, containing all of his correspondence and paperwork, burned in the Richmond evacuation fire of 1865.
... Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the CivilWar (1994), whileLowry and Jack D. Welsh presented the casesof Union doctors accused ofnegligence and other detrimental conductin Tarnished Scalpels: The CourtMartials of Fifty Union Surgeons (2000).
The Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War
Although there are many books containing photographs of the Civil War, this is the first to cover medical treatment facilities in this era.
H. H. Cunningham’s Doctors in Gray remains the definitive work on the medical history of the Confederate army.
An excellent survey of the problem of medical incompetence is available in Thomas P. Lowry and Jack D. Welch , Tarnished Scalpels : The Court - Martials of Fifty Union Surgeons ( Mechanicsburg , PA : Stackpole Books , 2000 ) .