Added information includes advance base hospitals, collection and transportation of the wounded, burial for the dead, and uses of the ambulance corps. On the Move G.R. Schroeder-Lein Confederate doctor, Samuel Hillingsworth Stout, and his successful administration of more than sixty mobile military hospitals scattered throughout the western theater for the Army of Tennessee. A must for anyone interested in Civil War medicine particularly reenactors. The Civil War through the eyes of its Doctors and Nurses. This book locates and details over 160 field hospital sites used during and after Gettysburg.
Eyewitness accounts by soldiers, surgeons, nurses and civilians help describe the horror.
Appendices include U.S. and C.S. medical staffs. A Captive of War . Solon Hyde, Hospital Steward, 17th Ohio Hyde decided to remain with the wounded at Chickamauga and was captured. For the next year and a half he was in Libby, Pemberton, Danville, and finally Andersonville. Bio info on each General.