Civil War Medicine Resource Guide
Getting Started
Alabama
Louisiana
Virginia
Washington, D.C.
- Civil War Nursing
- Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott
- Nurse and spy in the Union Army : comprising the adventures and experiences of a woman in hospitals, camps and battle-fields by S. Emma E. Edmonds.
- Sisters of Charity and the Civil War
- Women in the Civil War: Five Nurses from St. Lawrence County
- Women of the war; their heroism and self-sacrifice. By Frank Moore
By and About Civil War Nurses
- Barton, Clara
- Bickerdyke, Mary Ann 1817-1901
- Mother Bickerdyke Heroine of the Civil War
- Mother Bickerdyke: Civil War Nurse by Christina Lewis
- Dix, Dorothea
- Gibbons, Abigail Hopper, 1801-1893
- Hopkins, Juliet Ann Opie
- Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice
- Pallmer, Ella 1829-1909
- Pember, Phoebe Yates
- Sampson, Sarah
- Tompkins, Sally Louisa
Lists of Surgeons
- North Carolina Physicians in the Civil War
- South Carolina Physicians in the Civil War
- Tennessee Confederate Physicians
- Virginia--Surgeons in Richmond
By and About Civil War Surgeons
Arranged alphabetically by last name.
- Atkinson, Archibald
- Bacon, Cyrus
- Baguley, David
- Barnes, Joseph 1817-1883
- Billings, John Shaw
- Bobbs, John
- Brooks, Nathaniel Grout
- Brackett, Charles
- Butterworth, William Webster
- Casselberry, Isaac
- Coleman, Clayton Glanville
- Daniel, Richard Potts
- Davis, Benjamin Franklin
- Deleon, David Camden
- Dixon, John D
- Finley, Clement Alexander 1797-1879
- Guild, Lafayette
- Hammond, William A.
- Huebschmann, Franz
- Hutchinson, David
- Johnson, Jarvis J.
- Kittoe, Edward Dominicus
- LeMoyne, Frank
- McGuire, Hunter Holmes
- Peel, Robert Hunter
- Randal, John Leonard
- Rea, John
- Ritter, John Alexander
- Tompkins, Hartwell Carver
- Townsend, Ryan
- VonBeust, Bernhardt
- Walker, Mary Edwards
- Warman, David
- West, Theophilus
- White, Isaac
- Wyeth, John A.
Bibliography •
Books •
Records •
Articles •
Images and Photographs •
Publications, Broadsides and Circulars
Bibliography
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Civil War Medicine Bibliography
A bibliography of resources compiled by the Reynolds Historical Library at the University of Alabama Birmingham related to Civil War medicine and surgery -
Resources in Civil War Medicine
Books, manuscripts and journals relating to Civil War medcine at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Books
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The Army Medical Department 1818-1865
by Mary C. Gillett Center of Military History, Washington, D.C., 1987 -
Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and HospitalBy Edward Warren
Full-text version of Warren's important included in the University of North Carolina's Documenting the American South project -
Leaves from the diary of an army surgeon; or, Incidents of field, camp, and hospital life.
By Thomas T. Ellis. 1863 -
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural.
By Francis Peyre Porcher, Charleston, SC: Evans & Cogswell, 1863. Full-text version of Porcher's classic from the University of North Carolina's Documenting the American South project -
With Sabre and Scalpel; the Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon.
by John A. Wyeth, New York; London: Harper & Brothers, 1914.
Records
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Confederate Disability Appiclations and Receipts (Artifical Limbs)
The Virginia General Assembly enacted legislation, effective in 1867 and ending in 1894, to provide artificial limbs and other disability benefits to Virginia veterans of the Civil War. This site includes a searchable database of the applications. -
Official records of the Union and Confederate armies. The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
The OR full-text online from the Making of America project, Cornell University -
Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865
The journal can be searched for medically related topics. Use the search interface and try searching on the words "medical" or "surgeon." -
Records of the Medical Department, Confederate War Department
Decription of Confederate Medical Department records at the National Archives and Records Administration
Articles
- Anesthetics in Field and General Hospitals of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War 1861-1865: the Use of Indigenous Botanical Substitutes versus the Availability by Michael Koznarsky
- The Civil War Arm Surgeon and his Work By Edward L. Musnson, M.D.
- "Confederate Medical Department" By Deering J. Roberts, M.D.
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"Medicine in the Bloodiest War"By Thomas Sweeney, M.D. OzarksWatch Vol. IV, No. 4, Spring 1991 / Vol. V, No. 1, Summer 1991
Article on medicine in Arkansas during the war - Surgeons at Gettysburg by Joel Rubenstein, M.D.
Photographs and Images
- Images of the Civil War--Medical
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Picture Search
Search for images from a variety of sources including Miller's Photographic History -
Selected Civil War Photographs
Searchable file of images at the Library of Congress which includes photographs of surgeons and other images related to Civil War medicine.
Publications, Broadsides and Circulars
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An Appeal for the Sick and Wounded Soldiers
Salisbury Way-Side Hospital (N.C.) -
Circular Seeking Information About the Use of Chloroform and the Effects of Shock in Surgery
Association of Army and Navy Surgeons - Circular Seeking Information on Aneurysms, Hemorrhages, and Gunshot Wounds
- General Directions for Collecting and Drying Medicinal Substances of the Vegetable Kingdom: List and Description of Indigenous Plants, etc., Their Medicinal Properties, Forms of Administration, and Doses, 1862
- General Military Hospital for the North Carolina Troops in Petersburg, Virginia.
- Guide for Inspection of Hospitals and for Inspector's Report
- Letter Regarding Medical Property
- Regulations for the Medical Department of the C.S. Army
- Regulations for the Medical Department of the Military Forces of South Carolina. By R.W. Gibbes, M.D. Columbia: South Carolinian Steam Printing office, 1861.
- Rowan Way-Side Hospital
- Surgeon-General's Office Circular No. 17. [Richmond: Surgeon General's Office, 1864]
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Surgeon-General's Office Standard Supply Table of the Indigenous Remedies for Field Service and the Sick in General Hospitals.
[Richmond?]: s.n., 1863.
Dentistry
Organizations and Associations
- National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- Society of Civil War Surgeons
- United States Sanitary Commission