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United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865

Images

  • New York State Soldiers' Depot, New York City: the hospital. Colour lithograph, 1864.
  • Return of wounded Confederate prisoners, under a flag of truce, during the American Civil War. Wood engraving.
  • My story of the war : a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion / [Mary Ashton Livermore].
  • New York State Soldiers' Depot, New York City: wash and bath room. Colour lithograph, 1864.
  • The medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion, (1861-65) / Prepared, in accordance with the acts of Congress, under the direction of Surgeon General, Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Gentle Annie : the true story of a Civil War nurse / Mary Francis Shura.

    Shura, Mary Francis, 1923-1991. | Date: [1991], ©1991
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    Civil War prisons : a study in war psychology / William Best Hesseltine ; foreword by William Blair.

    Hesseltine, William B. (William Best), 1902-1963. | Date: [1998], ©1998
    • Books
    • Online

    Extracts from the reports of the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, for 1863 and 1864.

    | Date: [1865?]
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    • Online

    Report of a committee appointed by the Sanitary Commission to prepare a paper on the value of vaccination in armies.

    | Date: 1861
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    Bleeding Blue and Gray : Civil War surgery and the evolution of American medicine / Ira M. Rutkow.

    Rutkow, Ira, 1948- | Date: [2005], ©2005
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