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Civil War Medicine: Sound Medical Advice…Or Not
Antebellum medicine has an established reputation as being backwards and entrenched in archaic medical practices that often caused more harm than good. This is certainly true when considering “heroic medicine” and its use of blood-letting, leeches, and dangerous poisons like … Continue reading
Cadet Thomas G. Jefferson: Saving a Life on New Market Battlefield
Seventeen-year-old Thomas Garland Jefferson died of a wound suffered at the battle of New Market. Shot in the lungs on May 15, 1864, the Virginia Military Institute cadet lingered for hours, dying a couple of days later. Jefferson’s story has … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Medical
Tagged Battle of New Market, James David Darden, medical care, Thomas Garland Jefferson, tourniquet, VMI cadets
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Chloroform: Uses and Effects, Part 2
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
Posted in Medical
Tagged Chloroform, Civil War medicine, field hospitals, medical care, medicine
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Chloroform: Uses and Effects, Part 1
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
Posted in Medical
Tagged Chloroform, Chloroformers, Civil War medicine, medical care, medicine
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“On the Heights”: The Field Hospital at Brompton in May 1864
The wagons rolling into Fredericksburg never seemed to stop. Mary Caldwell, an inhabitant of the town, wrote in her diary, “The road near the fair grounds seems to be literally covered.”[1] They were filled with broken and bloodied bodies, the … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Civilian, Common Soldier, Medical
Tagged 31st Maine, Brompton, Edward B. Dalton, Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Henry Lancaster, James Gardner, James Noyes, Mary G. Caldwell, Marye's Heights, Mathew Brady, medical care, Spotsylvania Court House, wilderness, William Howell Reed
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Bucklin’s Hospital & Camp: (Part 19, Conclusion)
In Hospital and Camp, A Woman’s Record of Thrilling Incidents Among the Wounded in the Late War by Sophronia E. Bucklin It’s Week 19 and the concluding post of our read-along with extra historical notes and images. If you want to … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Medical, Primary Sources
Tagged Bucklin's Record, civil war nurse, medical care, Sophronia E. Bucklin
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Bucklin’s Hospital & Camp: “I Give Him Into Your Special Charge” (Part 7)
In Hospital and Camp, A Woman’s Record of Thrilling Incidents Among the Wounded in the Late War by Sophronia E. Bucklin It’s Week 7 of our read-along with extra historical notes and images. If you want to catch up on the … Continue reading
“Completely Paralyzed”: Colonel Nelson Miles Wounded At Chancellorsville
When morning came and the Battle of Chancellorsville continued on May 4, 1863, Colonel Nelson A. Miles of the 61st New York Infantry Regiment lay on a stretcher, five miles from the burned Chancellorsville Crossroads. So far, he had narrowly … Continue reading
Posted in Medical
Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, Field Hospital, medical care, Nelson Miles
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“A Power for Good” – The St. Louis Ladies’ Union Aid Society
In the midst of the chaotic fall of 1861 in Missouri, one woman in St. Louis took time to write to her sister back home in Brooklyn, New York. “I feel it my duty to present the claims of the … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Medical, Trans-Mississippi
Tagged medical care, St. Louis, St. Louis Ladies' Union Aid Society, women
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Bucklin’s In Hospital & Camp: “My Desired Sphere” (Part 2)
In Hospital and Camp, A Woman’s Record of Thrilling Incidents Among the Wounded in the Late War by Sophronia E. Bucklin Continuing with the primary source read-along! You can find the free e-book and we’re on chapters three and four this … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Medical, Primary Sources
Tagged Bucklin's Record, Hospital, medical care, read-along, Sophronia E. Bucklin, Washington D.C.
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