Well satisfied with my position : the Civil War journal of Spencer Bonsall / / edited by Michael A. Flannery and Katherine H. Oomens
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| Autore: |
Bonsall Spencer <1816-1888.>
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| Titolo: |
Well satisfied with my position : the Civil War journal of Spencer Bonsall / / edited by Michael A. Flannery and Katherine H. Oomens
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| Pubblicazione: | Carbondale : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , [2007] |
| ©2007 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (157 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.7/76092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Hospitals - United States - Employees |
| Soldiers - Health and hygiene - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Hospitals |
| Pennsylvania History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives | |
| United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives | |
| Pennsylvania History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories | |
| United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
FlanneryMichael A. <1953->
OomensKatherine H. <1972->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Cover |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Well 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 t |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Well satisfied with my position |
| ISBN: | 0-8093-8769-7 |
| 1-4356-6347-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454081403321 |
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