Surgeon in blue : Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War doctor who pioneered battlefield care / Scott McGaugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGaugh, Scott.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Letterman, Jonathan, 1824-1872.

Letterman, Jonathan.

United States. Army of the Potomac.

United States. Army.

Surgeons--United States--Biography.

Surgeons.

United States.

United States. Army--Surgeons--Biography.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care.

History.

Medical care.

Medicine, Military--United States--History--19th century.

Medicine, Military.

United States. Army of the Potomac--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Arcade Publishing, [2013]

Summary:

Recounts the life of the Civil War surgeon and how he made battlefield survival possible by creating the first organized ambulance corps and a more effective field hospital system.

Contents:

"We are almost worked to death"

Not a learned profession: "Open-hearted frankness"

Outpost medicine: "We had no bandages"

The Hammond alliance: "Their wounds, as yet, undressed"

Taking medical command: "I found it in a deplorable condition"

Antietam: "I pray God may stop such infernal work"

Fredericksburg: "A huge serpent of blue and steel"

Chancellorsville: "What will the country say?"

Gettysburg: "I turned away and cried"

Validation: "Little more remained to be done"

Wildcatter: "A good kind husband"

Compassionate coroner: "I have done my duty faithfully"

An enduring legacy: "War is a terrible thing at best"

"Today I am used up."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-325) and index.

ISBN:

1611458390

9781611458398

OCLC:

816030264

Publisher Number:

99954935496