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Lauderdale John Vance |
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Titolo |
Wounded river [[electronic resource] ] : the Civil War letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D. / / edited by Peter Josyph |
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East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, 1993 |
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ISBN |
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1-62895-219-9 |
0-87013-930-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Physicians - United States |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Medical care |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. The seat of war -- pt. 2. Bellevue -- pt. 3. The devil and Mr. Lincoln. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Wounded River takes the reader back more than 130 years to reveal a marvelous, first-hand account of nineteenth-century warfare. In the process, the work cuts the legends and mythology that have come to frame and define accounts of America's bloodiest war. Of equal significance, Peter Josyph's editorial work on this superb collection of letters from the Western Americana Division of Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library enhances and clarifies Lauderdale's experinces as a surgeon aboard the U.S. Army hospital ship D. A. January. The reader looks on while L |
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