Hospital transports
Subtitle: a memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded from the peninsula of Virginia in the summer of 1862
By: edited and with an introduction by Laura L. Behling.
Contributors: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.; Behling, Laura L., 1967-
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: United States Sanitary Commission.; Hospital ships -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Hospital ships -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.; Transports -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Transports -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.; Medical personnel -- United States -- Correspondence.; Peninsular Campaign, 1862.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
Genres: Correspondence.; Personal narratives.
Description: "The care of the sick, wounded, and dying during the American Civil War was a complex endeavor that brought ordinary men and women into contact with the terror of the battlefield. Hospital Transports is a compilation of letters and other papers written by physicians and nurses serving aboard the Union hospital steamboat Daniel Webster in the summer of 1862. The text details sleeping arrangements, cooking and feeding schedules, medical practices, and the incorporation of liberated slaves from the Lee plantation into the daily work of the ship. Clearly described are the emotional, visceral reactions of the corps of medical personnel who, as their ship makes its way along the Potomac picking up casualties, question the philosophies at the root of war, and the metaphysical questions concerning the definitions of life and death."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-36) and index.
Originally published: Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1863.
Letters and papers compiled by Frederick Law Olmsted at the request of the United States Sanitary Commission.