03428nam 2200685 450 991078212840332120230721032658.00-8093-8769-71-4356-6347-0(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 historiesHospitalsEmployeesSoldiersHealth and hygieneHistory973.7/76092Bonsall Spencer1816-1888.1532015Flannery Michael A.1953-1515654Oomens Katherine H.1972-1532016MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782128403321Well satisfied with my position3777998UNINA