The Surgeon's Battle

How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War

Lindsay Rae Smith Privette (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2025
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-9026-1 (ISBN)

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Between May and May 22, 8 3, Union soldiers marched nearly 2 miles through the hot, humid countryside to assault and capture the fortified city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Upon its arrival, the army laid siege to the city for a grueling forty-seven days. Disease and combat casualties threatened to undermine the army's fighting strength, leaving medical officers to grapple with the battlefield conditions necessary to sustain soldiers' bodies. Medical innovations were vital to the Union victory. When Vicksburg fell on July 4, triumph would have been fleeting if not for the US Army Medical Department and its personnel.

By centering soldiers' health and medical care in the Union army's fight to take Vicksburg, Lindsay Rae Smith Privette offers a fresh perspective on the environmental threats, logistical challenges, and interpersonal conflicts that shaped the campaign and siege. In doing so, Privette shines new light on the development of the army's medical systems as officers learned to adapt to their circumstances and prove themselves responsible stewards of soldiers' bodies.

Lindsay Rae Smith Privette is associate professor of history at Anderson University.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	Civil War America
Zusatzinfo	9 illustrations - 9 halftones, 1 map, 4 tables, notes, bibl., index - 4 Tables, unspecified - 9 Halftones, unspecified - 1 Maps - Index - Bibliography
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	25 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4696-9026-8 / 1469690268
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-9026-1 / 9781469690261
Zustand	Neuware