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Wounded river : the Civil War letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D. / edited by Peter Josyph.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lauderdale, John Vance.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--United States--Correspondence.
- Physicians.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- Lauderdale, John Vance--Correspondence.
- Lauderdale, John Vance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Wounded River takes the reader back more than 130 years to reveal a marvelous, first-hand account of nineteenth-century warfare. In the process, the work cuts the legends and mythology that have come to frame and define accounts of America's bloodiest war. Of equal significance, Peter Josyph's editorial work on this superb collection of letters from the Western Americana Division of Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library enhances and clarifies Lauderdale's experinces as a surgeon aboard the U.S. Army hospital ship D. A. January. The reader looks on while L
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The seat of war
- pt. 2. Bellevue
- pt. 3. The devil and Mr. Lincoln.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-219-9
- 0-87013-930-4
- OCLC:
- 607863026
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