Life and limb : perspectives on the American civil war / / edited by David Seed, Stephen C. Kenny and Chris Williams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910159442003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Liverpool, [England] : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-78694-529-0; 1-78138-426-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 210 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Liverpool scholarship online
• Disciplina: 303.64
• Soggetti: Civil war - History - 19th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2016.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Civil War Voices and Views / David Seed -- Medical and Surgical Memoirs -- Early Experiences in the Field: 'Surgical Reminiscences of the Civil War' : William Williams Keen -- Case 275: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion -- Accounts of Nursing -- With the US Sanitary Commission: On the Hospital Boat -- Wilson Small: The Other Side of the War / Katherine Prescott Wormeley -- Evacuation from Virginia, 1862: Hospital Transports / Frederick Law Olmsted -- Hospital Routine / Jane Woolsey -- A Death in the Ward: Hospital Sketches / Louisa May Alcott -- Nurse and Spy: Nurse and Spy in the Union Army / Sarah Emma Edmonds -- Front-line Nursing: Reminiscences of My Life in Camp / Susie King Taylor -- 'The Mute Look that Rolls and Moves' : Walt Whitman's War / Robert Leigh Davis -- Specimen Days & Collect / Walt Whitman -- Medical Facilities and Pathology -- Jonathan Letterman on the Medical Corps: Medical Recollections of the Army of the Potomac / Jonathan Letterman -- The Confederate Military Prison Hospital at Andersonville, Georgia: Contributions Relating to the Causes and Prevention of Disease / Austin Flint -- Field Hospitals : A Glimpse : Hardtack and Coffee / John B. Billings -- Field Hospitals : The Need : A Manual of Military Surgery / Samuel David Gross -- Plea for an Ambulance Service: A Brief Plea for an Ambulance System / Henry Ingersoll ; Bowditch -- Hospital Broadside : North Carolina Hospital Broadside, 1863 -- Hospitals in Richmond, Virginia : A Diary from Dixie / Mary Chestnut -- Malingering: 'Surgical Reminiscences of the Civil War' and A Rebel's Recollections / William Williams Keen and George Cary Eggleston -- Roberts Bartholomew on Nostalgia: Contributions Relating to the Causes and Prevention of Disease / Roberts Bartholomew -- Medical Warfare Begins : 'Debut and Prospectus (The Crutch) and 'Wounded' (poem by 'Sanatosia') -- (Dis)embodied Identities : Civil War Soldiers, Surgeons, and the Medical Memories of Combat / Susan-Mary Grant -- Photography -- Painful Looks: Reading Civil War Photographs / Mick Gidley -- Mathew Brady's Photographs: Pictures of the Dead at Antietam (New York Times) -- Amputations and Prosthetic Limbs -- 'The invalid Corps' (song) -- The Case of Napoleon Perkins / Dillon Jackson Carroll -- The First Amputee: 'Record of Services' / James Edward Hanger -- Testimonial Letter / Lieutenant George Warner -- The Salem Leg (brochure) -- Testimony of Wearers (The Salem Leg: Under the Patronage of the United States Government for the Use of the Army and the Navy) -- The Human Wheel: 'The Human Wheel, Its Spokes and Felloes' / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- 'The Case of George Dedlow' / Silas Weir Mitchell -- 'Phantom Limbs' / Silas Weir Mitchell -- In the Field of Battle -- Diary: October 29, 1862: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Sergeant Henry W. Tisdale / Henry Tisdale -- The Battle of Shiloh : Aftermath : 'The Battle of Shiloh' from Annals of the War / Willis De Hass -- The Battle of Ellyson's Mills: A Confederate Surgeon's Letters to his Wife / Spencer Glasgow Welch -- Aftermath of Battle, Cedar Mountain, Virginia: 'Personal Recollections of the War' / David Hunter Strother -- After the Battle of Winchester : A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War / David Hunter Strother -- The Negro as a Soldier / Christian Fleetwood -- Army Life in a Black Regiment / Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Post-War Narratives -- 'What I saw of Shiloh' / Ambrose Bierce -- 'The Coup de Grace' / Ambrose Bierce -- 'A Resumed Identity' / Ambrose Bierce -- 'Recollections of a Private' / Warren Lee Goss -- The Red Badge of Courage / Stephen Crane -- The Aftermath / Stephen C. Kenny -- Contributors -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume assembles selections from writings on the American Civil War in fiction, first-hand accounts and contemporary reportage, all supplemented with photographs. The focus falls on the injuries sustained by participants and on their medical treatment. Writers and poets are included who drew on their experiences as nurses, combatants or observers. The volume focuses thematically on nursing, medical facilities, photography, amputations, battlefield accounts, and the war's aftermath. The excerpts are supplemented by critical studies by specialists in the different aspects of the Civil War. Each excerpt is introduced by brief editorial commentaries, guiding the reader towards further related material and an overall introduction to the volume addresses the blurring between private and public documents as well as the different methods of recording these events.