The Wounded River: The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D. - Tapa dura

 
9780870133282: The Wounded River: The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D.
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ISBN 10: 0870133284 ISBN 13: 9780870133282
Editorial: Michigan State University Press, 1993

Sinopsis

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 Lauderdale, a New York civilian contract surgeon, operates on hundreds of Confederate and Union wounded. The young doctor's clear writing style and his great compassion for these unfortunate men whose bodies were ripped apart by bullets, shell fragments, and bayonets permits us to catch a disturbiing glimpse of what modern warfare does to humanity. Finally, we learn of Lauderdale's motives for volunteering, his impressions of the "hospital ship" D. A. January, Confederate morale, the Abolitionist cause, and black slavery. The Wounded River is a must read for anyone interested in the real American Civil War.

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Acerca del autor

John Vance Lauderdale was a New York civilian contract surgeon who served with the Army during the Civil War as Major and Surgeon, at many battlefields, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Peter Josyph is a bestselling author, editor, painter, and photographer.

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Editorial
Michigan State University Press
Año de publicación
1993
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0870133284
ISBN 13 
9780870133282
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
253
Editor
Josyph Peter
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