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Surgeon in Blue : Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care by Scott McGaugh (2013, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSkyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-101611458390
ISBN-139781611458398
eBay Product ID (ePID)150542359
Product Key Features
Book TitleSurgeon in Blue : Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Medical, Military
Publication Year2013
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorScott Mcgaugh
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height6 in
Item Weight19.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsAs medical director of the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War, Jonathan Letterman made important innovations in the battlefield evacuation and treatment of wounded men that changed the history of military medicine. With sensitivity and insight, Scott McGaugh presents the story of this fascinating figure and his legacy, which has saved uncounted thousands of lives of soldiers wounded in many wars. , There was not a day during WWII that I did not thank God for Jonathan Letterman. He was truly a surgeon for the soldiers., In addition to being an incisive portrait of the great doctor and leader, McGaugh's history is a testament to the brave men to whom Letterman dedicated his life., A nicely crafted biography that also offers Civil War buffs an unusual ambulance-wagon view of the great conflict., Surgeon in Blue is a meticulously researched, totally fascinating narrative of Dr. Jonathan Letterman's pioneering of modern battlefield medicine in the midst of the nightmare carnage of the Civil War. Scott McGaugh's extraordinary work of military history documents a life-saving legacy that still echoes through Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dewey Decimal973.775092
SynopsisJonathan Letterman was an outpost medical officer serving in Indian country in the years before the Civil War, responsible for the care of just hundreds of men. But when he was appointed the chief medical officer for the Army of the Potomac, he revolutionized combat medicine over the course of four major battles--Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg--that produced unprecedented numbers of casualties. He made battlefield survival possible by creating the first organized ambulance corps and a more effective field hospital system. He imposed medical professionalism on a chaotic battlefield. Where before 20 percent of the men were unfit to fight because of disease, squalid conditions, and poor nutrition, he improved health and combat readiness by pioneering hygiene and diet standards. Based on original research, and with stirring accounts of battle and the struggle to invent and supply adequate care during impossible conditions, this new biography recounts Letterman's life from his small-town Pennsylvania beginnings to his trailblazing wartime years and his subsequent life as a wildcatter and the medical examiner of San Francisco. At last, here is the missing portrait of a key figure of Civil War history and military medicine. His principles of battlefield care continue to be taught to military commanders and first responders., The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war s bloodiest battles from Antietam to Gettysburg redefined military...
LC Classification NumberE621.M36 2013
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- May 17, 2016
Good subject if you are into history and war
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- May 04, 2021
Very good read
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