April 12, 2024
A CONFEDERATE SURGEON'S LETTERS TO HIS WIFE - CIVIL WAR 1954 - NEAR MINT
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A CONFEDERATE SURGEON'S LETTERS TO HIS WIFE � BY SPENCER GLASGOW WELCH Surgeon, Thirteenth South Carolina Volunteers, McGowan's Brigade � MINT CONDITION � Excellent, First-Hand Reference for Confederate Medical Issues Clean, Sharp, Solidly-Bound. � Conatins Numerous Illustrations and Photos � ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1911, THIS IS THE CONTINENTAL BOOK COMPANY, REPRING FROM 1954 � A surgeon under the command of Stonewall Jackson, Dr. Welch recalls conducting surgery under candlelight without chloroform on the battlefield. � This extraordinary collection of letters by a Confederate surgeon that participated in almost every major action of the Army of Northern Virginia, provides excellent, insightful, and very personal reflections on military medicine, the war, its leaders and personal war experiences. Extremely revealing with regard to army health and field medicine on the Southern side…. � Written during the Civil War, these extraordinary letters were originally printed in book form in 1911, by the surgeon's daughter, who was the President of the Daughters of the Confederacy for the State of South Carolina. She went to great lengths to ensure the original material was left intact in order to preserve these letter for their historical value, as they give the most vivid pictures of a soldier's life in the Southern Army.
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