Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service

Cunningham, H.H.

ISBN 10: 0807118567 / ISBN 13: 9780807118566

Published by Peter Smith, Gloucester, MA, 1970

About this Item

339pages/illus. This book is the first to tell in a compr ehensive way the story of the Confederate medical service in America's bloodiest conflict. book is clean & excellent. Has Richmond Battlefield Park datestamp inside front cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service
• Publisher: Peter Smith, Gloucester, MA
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807118567
• ISBN 13: 9780807118566
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: Reprint Edition
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Civil War

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Synopsis

H. H. Cunningham’s Doctors in Gray remains the definitive work on the medical history of the Confederate army. Drawing on a prodigious array of sources, Cunningham paints as complete a picture as possible of the daunting task facing those charged with caring for the war’s wounded and sick.

Of the estimated 600,000 Confederate troops, Cunningham claims that 200,000 died either from battle wounds or from illness―the majority, surprisingly, from illness. Despite these grim statistics, Confederate medical personnel frequently performed heroically under the most primitive of circumstances and made imaginative use of limited resources. Cunningham provides detailed information on the administration of the Confederate Medical Department, the establishment and organization of Confederate hospitals, the experiences of medical officers in the field, the manufacture and procurement of supplies, the causes and treatment of diseases, and the beginning of modern surgical practices.

About the Author

H. H. CUNNINGHAM taught history at Elon College, in Elon, North Carolina, and at the University of Georgia.