Facets

2010

#7752

Practicing medicine in a black regiment: The Civil War diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts, edited by Richard M. Reid.

Wilder was a Harvard-trained white physician assigned to one of the first African American regiments in the American Civil War.

2010

#9002

This birth place of souls: The Civil War nursing diary of Harriet Eaton edited with an introduction by Jane E. Schultz.

2012

#10290

Lincoln and medicine.

2013

#10801

Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.

2014

#7754

African American medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the capital during the Civil War Era.

Concerns the role of African American nurses, doctors and surgeons during the American Civil War.

2014

#10125

Learning from the wounded: The Civil War and the rise of American medical science.

How medical knowledge and experience gained during the U.S. Civil War advanced the development of American medicine after the war ended.

2015

#9000

Civil War nurse narratives 1863-1870.

Examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, including Louisa May Alcott, Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hos…