TY  - BOOK
AU  - McGaugh,Scott
TI  - Surgeon in blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War doctor who pioneered battlefield care 
SN  - 9781611458398
AV  - E621 .M36 2013
U1  - 973.7/75092B 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Arcade Publishing
KW  - Letterman, Jonathan,
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Surgeons
KW  - Biography
KW  - Army of the Potomac
KW  - fast
KW  - American Civil War
KW  - (1861-1865)
KW  - Medicine, Military
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - General Surgery
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - Military Medicine
KW  - history
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Biographies
KW  - rbgenr
KW  - NonFiction
KW  - ssi
KW  - Historical
KW  - Medical
KW  - War
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-325) and index; 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."
N2  - 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
ER  -