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

Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.

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

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Entry Number#7752
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/9924
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLpracticing-medicine-in-a-black-regiment

Geographic Context

Publication place: Amherst, MA