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Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care during the American Civil War
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Book title: Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care during the American Civil War.
Contributors: Frank R. Freemon - Author.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Place of publication: Madison, NJ.
Publication year: 1998.
Page number: 17.
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Table of contents
- Gangrene and Glory - Medical Care During the American Civil War 3
- Contents 5
- Prologue 7
- Acknowledgements 9
- List of Tables 11
- Introduction 13
- Abbreviations 15
- Title Page 17
- 1: American Medicine in the 1850s 19
- 2: Creating Confederate Medicine 28
- 3: Lincoln Finds a Surgeon General 35
- 4: Maggots and Minié Balls 41
- 5: The Introduction of Women Nurses 51
- 6: Union Hospital Ships Along the Western Rivers 61
- 7: The Beginnings of the Letterman System 67
- 8: Confederate Medicine Organizing 77
- 9: Northern Medicine Organized 84
- 10: Medicine at Sea 92
- 11: Stonewall Jackson Struck by Friendly Fire 101
- 12: “mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” 107
- 13: Northern Versus Southern Medicine at Vicksburg 116
- 14: Confederate Medicine Deteriorating 124
- 15: Union Enclaves Along the Confederate Coast 134
- 16: The Trial of William Hammond 142
- 17: Confederate Medical Support During the Atlanta Campaign 147
- 18: Preparing for the Final Union Campaigns 160
- 19: Union Medical Support for the Decisive Campaigns of 1864 166
- 20: The Last Full Measure of Devotion 181
- 21: Aftermath 190
- 22: The American Civil War as a Biological Phenomenon 205
- 23: Comparing Northern to Southern Medical Care 214
- 24: Did Medical Care Make a Difference? 221
- Epilogue 229
- Glossary 230
- Notes 235
- Index of Names 247
- Subject Index 251
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