McGaugh, Scott. <br/><br/>
Surgeon in blue :  Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War doctor who pioneered battlefield care / 
Scott McGaugh. 
 - xxi, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-325) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: "We are almost worked to death" -- Not a learned profession: "Open-hearted frankness" -- Outpost medicine: "We had no bandages" -- The Hammond alliance: "Their wounds, as yet, undressed" -- Taking medical command: "I found it in a deplorable condition" -- Antietam: "I pray God may stop such infernal work" -- Fredericksburg: "A huge serpent of blue and steel" -- Chancellorsville: "What will the country say?" -- Gettysburg: "I turned away and cried" -- Validation: "Little more remained to be done" -- Wildcatter: "A good kind husband" -- Compassionate coroner: "I have done my duty faithfully" -- Enduring legacy: "War is a terrible thing at best" -- Epilogue: "Today I am used up." 
<br/><br/> Recounts the life of the Civil War surgeon and how he made battlefield survival possible by creating the first organized ambulance corps and a more effective field hospital system. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781611458398 1611458390 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013010329 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Letterman, Jonathan, 1824-1872. <br/>Letterman, Jonathan, 1824-1872. <br/>Letterman, Jonathan, 1824-1872 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Army --Surgeons--Biography.<br/>United States. Army of the Potomac --Biography.<br/>United States Army. <br/>United States Army of the Potomac. <br/>United States. Army. <br/>United States. Army of the Potomac. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Meeting Names: </label><br/>American Civil War (1861-1865) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1800 - 1899 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Surgeons--United States--Biography.<br/>Medicine, Military--History--United States--19th century.<br/>General Surgery.<br/>American Civil War.<br/>History, 19th Century.<br/>Military Medicine--history.<br/>Armed Forces--Surgeons.<br/>Medical care.<br/>Medicine, Military.<br/>Surgeons.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Medical care.--Civil War, 1861-1865<br/>United States.<br/>United States.<br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Biographies.<br/>Biography.<br/>Biography.<br/>History.<br/>Biographies.<br/>NonFiction.<br/>Historical.<br/>Medical.<br/>War.<br/>Biographies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E621  / .M36 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.7/75092  B 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WZ 100  / L651m 2013