HIS 204 - Civil War: John Thiel: Find Books

"The present work, a product of six years of research using primary sources of the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s, focuses on the pharmacopoeias, medical dictionaries, textbooks, scientific journals, and lectures available to doctors and medical students of the time -- what physicians caring for soldiers in the war knew, and when they knew it.

During the American Civil War, it was women who formed the vanguard of demanding better sanitary conditions at field hospitals and in the city hospitals.

Known as "Aunt Becky" during her service as a nurse in the Civil War, Sarah A. Palmer's experience in that war was bitter and searing.

Not all of the suffering in the American Civil War was experienced by front-line soldiers.

Widow Annie Turner Wittenmyer spent the years of the American Civil War in the thick of exploding shells, shattered bodies, exhausted souls, and the great figures of the war.

Esther Hill Hawks went south in the 1860s to minister to black Union troops and newly freed slaves both as a teacher and a doctor. She kept a diary and described the South she saw.