This is a compilation of the medical histories of 425 Confederate generals. It does not analyze the effects of an individual's medical problems on a battle or the war, but provides information about factors that may have contributed to the wound, injury, or illness, and the outcome.
Daniel Marsh Frost Papers . “ Memoirs of Gen. D. M. Frost , ” 2 vols . Typescript . National Archives . Washington , D.C. Record Group 15. Records of the Veterans Administration . Record Group 94. Casualty Lists of Commissioned Officers ...
... prosecutor , 144-45 Dempsey , John W. , seaman , Holt , W. J. surgeon , 150 Denn , James M. , veteran , 229 Homer ... Rutherford B. , president , 225 McClellan , George , physician , 73 Hays , Archer , surgeon , 94 McClellan ...
“H. H. Cunningham’s Doctors in Gray, first published more than thirty years ago, remains the definitive work on the medical history of the Confederate army.
The American Civil War is the most read about era in our history, and among its most compelling aspects is the story of Civil War medicine - the staggering challenge of treating wounds and disease on both sides of the conflict.
H. H. Cunningham’s Doctors in Gray remains the definitive work on the medical history of the Confederate army.
Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War
According to one of his colleagues in the Confederate SGO: “'Charley Smith' was surgeon and chief assistant. There was no such officer as 'Assistant Surgeon-General,' but he was always so considered and designated.
Although there are many books containing photographs of the Civil War, this is the first to cover medical treatment facilities in this era.
An excellent survey of the problem of medical incompetence is available in Thomas P. Lowry and Jack D. Welch , Tarnished Scalpels : The Court - Martials of Fifty Union Surgeons ( Mechanicsburg , PA : Stackpole Books , 2000 ) .
Lesley J. Gordon and John C. Inscoe (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005), 335–48. 92. Moore's office, containing all of his correspondence and paperwork, burned in the Richmond evacuation fire of 1865.