Tag Archives: Civil War medicine

Book Review: Invisible Wounds

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Meg Groeling

Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers By Dillon J. Carroll Louisiana State University Press, 2021, $45 hardcover Reviewed by Meg Groeling In the last ten or so years there have been a nice handful of books written about … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Matchless Organization

Posted on February 27, 2022 by Steve Davis

Matchless Organization: The Confederate Army Medical Department By Guy R. Hasegawa Southern Illinois University Press     2021     $26.50 paperback Reviewed by Stephen Davis In Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service (1958), H. H. Cunningham quotes a Southern physician as saying, … Continue reading →

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General Hancock’s Tourniquet at Gettysburg

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Sarah Kay Bierle

General Stannard stood over him as we laid him upon the ground, and opened his clothing where he indicated by a movement of his hand that he was hurt, a ragged hole, an inch or more in diameter, from which … Continue reading →

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Chloroform: Uses and Effects, Part 2

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Sarah Kay Bierle

Click here to read Part 1 The medical volumes are helpful for understanding the theories of how chloroform was supposed to be used, but what about the actual experience of soldiers put under its influence for an operation? And why … Continue reading →

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Chloroform: Uses and Effects, Part 1

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Sarah Kay Bierle

Did chloroform cause patients to hallucinate? The simple question stemmed from some late-night fiction writing of mine in which a character endures a somewhat prophetic nightmare while supposedly on an operating table under the influence of chloroform. While the fictional … Continue reading →

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ECW BookChat: Matchless Organization by Guy Hasegawa

Posted on August 16, 2021 by Chris Mackowski

I had the fortune to spend some time (over the past couple of years, actually) with the new book by Guy Hasegawa, Matchless Organization: The Confederate Army Medical Department. Guy’s book is the latest in the Engaging the Civil War … Continue reading →

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“It is a beautiful morning & it finds me well healthy hale hearty & strong:” A Gettysburg Casualty Writes Home on August 14, 1863

Posted on August 14, 2021 by Jon Tracey

158 years ago today, Daniel Shapley lay in bed at the Market Street Hospital in Newark, New Jersey and wrote a letter home. A member of the 157th New York Infantry since his enlistment in August 1862, he had been … Continue reading →

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Now Available: Matchless Organization: The Confederate Army Medical Department

Posted on July 23, 2021 by Emerging Civil War

We’re excited to announce the release of the next book in the Engaging the Civil War Series, published by Southern Illinois University Press: Matchless Organization: The Confederate Army Medical Department by Guy Hasegawa. Matchless Organization is “the essential reference about … Continue reading →

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ECW Weekender: African Americans and Civil War Medicine (Virtual Exhibit)

Posted on February 5, 2021 by Sarah Kay Bierle

  While looking around for some Civil War medical records this week, I found this online exhibit focusing on African Americans and 1860’s medicine. Presented by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the virtual resources include pages focusing on Black … Continue reading →

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ECW on C-SPAN 3: Paige Gibbons Backus

Posted on October 16, 2020 by Emerging Civil War

ECW returns to C-SPAN 3’s “American History TV” this weekend. The Paige Gibbons Backus’s talk from our 2020 virtual symposium, “A Fight for Life or Death: The Carnage Found in the Medical Field During the Civil War,” debuts on Saturday … Continue reading →

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