Author: Frank R. Freemon

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780252070105

Dealing with the civil war, this title takes a close look at the battlefield doctors in whose hands rested the lives of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers. It also examines the impact on major campaigns - Manassas, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Atlanta - of ignorance, understaffing, inexperience, and overcrowded hospitals.