Without concealment, without compromise : the courageous lives of Black Civil War surgeons / Jill L. Newmark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newmark, Jill L., author.

Series:

Engaging the Civil War

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.

United States.

United States. Army.

African American surgeons--Biography.

African American surgeons.

African American physicians--Biography.

African American physicians.

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

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

Medicine, Military.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.

African American physicians--United States--History--19th century.

African American surgeons--United States--History--19th century.

Surgeons--United States--History--19th century.

Surgeons.

Physicians--United States--History--19th century.

Physicians.

African Americans.

Medical care.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 283 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Courageous lives of Black Civil War surgeons

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"This collective biography illuminates how the lives and successes of fourteen African American physicians who became surgeons during the American Civil War challenged the prescribed notions of race in America and played a crucial role in the evolving definition of freedom and patriotism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Breaking the Color Barrier : The Medical Education and Military Service of African American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century

Catalyst for Change : Alexander Thomas Augusta (1825-1890)

For Race and Country : William Peter Powell, Jr. (1834-1916)

Witness to History : Anderson Ruffin Abbott (1837-1913)

Serving in the Regiment : John Van Surly DeGrasse (1825-1868)

Adventure and Ambition : John H. Rapier, Jr. (1835-1866)

From Ivy League to U.S. Navy : Richard Henry Greene (1833-1877)

Preacher and Physician : Willis Richardson Revels (1817-1879)

Physician, Politician, Postmaster : Benjamin Antonius Boseman (1840-1881)

A Family Affair : Charles Burleigh Purvis (1842-1929)

The Black Ivy League : Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed (1833-1900) and William Baldwin Ellis (1833-1867)

The Iowa Connection : Alpheus W. Tucker (1844-1880), Joseph Dennis Harris (1834-1884), and Charles H. Taylor (1844-1875).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-268) and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Newmark, Jill L., Without concealment, without compromise

ISBN:

9780809339044

0809339048

OCLC:

1322810863