03459nam 2200697 450 991045408140332120200520144314.00-8093-8769-71-4356-6347-0(CKB)1000000000537409(EBL)1365231(SSID)ssj0000270250(PQKBManifestationID)11238162(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000270250(PQKBWorkID)10262173(PQKB)10235357(MiAaPQ)EBC1365231(OCoLC)246671996(MdBmJHUP)muse31520(Au-PeEL)EBL1365231(CaPaEBR)ebr10754335(CaONFJC)MIL514118(OCoLC)857365426(EXLCZ)99100000000053740920070130h20072007 ub| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWell satisfied with my position the Civil War journal of Spencer Bonsall /edited by Michael A. Flannery and Katherine H. OomensCarbondale :Southern Illinois University Press,[2007]©20071 online resource (157 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-299-82867-1 0-8093-2770-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135) and index.Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Spencer Bonsall's Life and Times to 1863; Peninsula Campaign: May 6 through June 22, 1862; Editors' Note on the Interlude of June to December 1862; Fredericksburg: December 5 to December 16, 1862; Windmill Point and Falmouth: January 6 to March 26, 1863; Editors' Postscript on March 1863 through War's End; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Author Bios; Back CoverWell Satisfied with My Position offers a first-person account of army life during the Civil War' s Peninsula Campaign and Battle of Fredericksburg. Spencer Bonsall, who joined the 81st Pennsylvania Infantry as a hospital steward, kept a journal from March 1862 until March 1863, when he abruptly ceased writing. Editors Michael A. Flannery and Katherine H. Oomens place his experiences in the context of the field of Civil War medicine and continue his story in an epilogue. Trained as a druggist when he was in his early twenties, Bonsall traveled tHospitalsUnited StatesEmployeesDiariesSoldiersHealth and hygieneUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865HospitalsPennsylvaniaHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Personal narrativesUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Personal narrativesPennsylvaniaHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Regimental historiesUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Regimental historiesElectronic books.HospitalsEmployeesSoldiersHealth and hygieneHistory973.7/76092Bonsall Spencer1816-1888.926226Flannery Michael A.1953-926227Oomens Katherine H.1972-926228MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454081403321Well satisfied with my position2079757UNINA