1865 WOODWARD, Joseph Janvier (1833 – 1884); OTIS, George Alexander (1830 – 1881); BARNES, Joseph K. (1817 – 1883)
Reports on the extent and nature of the materials available for the preparation of a medical and surgical history of the Rebellion.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9529 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11715
1866 STILLÉ, Charles Janeway (1819 – 1899)
History of the United States Sanitary Commission: being the general report of its work during the War of the Rebellion.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9971
1870 –1888 WOODWARD, Joseph Janvier (1833 – 1884); OTIS, George Alexander (1830 – 1881); HUNTINGTON, David Low (1834 – 1899); BARNES, Joseph K. (1817 – 1883); SMART, Charles (1830 – 1881); LETTERMAN, Jonathan (1824 – 1872)
The medical and surgical history of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65. 6 vols.
UNITED STATES. War Dept. Surgeon General
Written by Woodward, Smart, Otis, and Huntington under the direction of Joseph K. Barnes, Surgeon General of the Army. This massive, graphically illustrated set has been called the “first comprehensive American medica…
GMN 2171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1174
1876 STEVENSON, R. Randolph (1834 – 1891)
The southern side: Or, Andersonville Prison. Complied from official documents. Together with an examination of the Wirz Trial: A comparison of the mortality in Northern and Southern prisons; remarks on the exchange bureau, etc. An appendix, showing the number of prisoners that died at Andersonville, and the causes of death; classified lists of all that died in stockade and hospital, etc., etc.
Stevenson was chief surgeon at the Confederate States Military Prison Hospitals in Andersonville, Georgia. The appendix lists the causes of death of 12,912 men. "Andersonville Prison, established in Georgia early in 1…
GMN 10795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12991
1895 HOLLAND, Mary A. Gardner
Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11180
c. 1911 –c. 1916 DUNCAN, Louis Casper (1869 – 1940)
The Medical Department of the United States Army in the Civil War.
"The chapters comprising the volume appeared originally as separate articles in the 'Military surgeon.' Upon their compilation a limited number of copies of reprints were obtained by this office and bound together for…
GMN 11552 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13751
1952 ADAMS, George Worthington (1905 – 1981)
Doctors in blue. The medical history of the Union Army in the [United States] civil war.
GMN 2187.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1359
1956 MAXWELL, William Quentin
Lincoln's fifth wheel: the political history of the U. S. Sanitary Commission.
GMN 7418 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9590
1958 CUNNINGHAM, Horace Herndon (1913 – 1969)
Doctors in gray: the Confederate Medical Service.
GMN 2188.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1364
1962 SMITH, George Winston
Medicines for the Union Army: the United States Army Laboratories during the Civil War.
GMN 7417 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9589
1968 STEINER, Paul Eby (1902 – 1978)
Disease in the Civil War: Natural biological warfare in 1861-1865.
GMN 10802 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12998
1968 STEINER, Paul Eby (1902 – 1978)
Medical-military portraits of Union and Confederate generals.
GMN 10804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13000
1977 STEINER, Paul Eby (1902 – 1978)
Medical history of a Civil War regiment: Disease in the sixty-fifth United States Colored Infantry.
GMN 10803 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12999
1983 –1998 DAMMANN, Gordon
Pictorial encyclopedia of Civil War medical instruments and equipment. 3 vols.
GMN 10797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12993
1987 GILLETT, Mary Caperton (1929 – )
The Army Medical Department, 1818-1865.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 2188.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1375
1988 COCO, Gregory Ashton (1946 – 2009)
A vast sea of misery: A history and guide to the Union and Confederate field hospitals at Gettysburg, July 1-November 20, 1863.
GMN 9794 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11982
1993 FREEMON, Frank R.
Microbes and minie balls: An annotated bibliography of Civil War medicine.
GMN 8649 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10826
1994 DENNEY, Robert E. ( – 2002)
Civil War medicine: care and comfort of the wounded.
GMN 7421 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9593
1996 BENGSTON, Bradley P.; KUZ, Julian E.
Photographic atlas of Civil War injuries. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens. Otis Historical Archives.
GMN 9426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11609
1996 BENGSTON, Bradley P.; KUZ, Julian E.
Orthopaedic injuries of the Civil War: An atlas of orthopaedic injuries and treatments during the Civil War.
GMN 9427 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11610
1996 STOUT, Samuel Hollingsworth (1822 – 1903); SCHROEDER-LEIN, Glenna R. (1951 – )
Confederate hospitals on the move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee.
GMN 10288 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12479
1998 FREEMON, Frank R.
Gangrene and glory: Medical care during the American Civil War.
GMN 8648 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10825
2004 FLANNERY, Michael A.
Civil War pharmacy: A history of drugs, drug supply and provision, and therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy.
GMN 9766 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11954
2005 RUTKOW, Ira Michael (1948 – 2026)
Bleeding blue and gray: Civil War surgery and the evolution of American medicine.
GMN 7416 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9588
2007 SCHULTZ, Jane E.
Women at the front: Hospital workers in Civil War America.
"As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses,…
GMN 9003 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11182
2008 FAUST, Catharine Drew Gilpin (1947 – )
This republic of suffering: Death and the American Civil War.
GMN 7929 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10102
2008 SCHROEDER-LEIN, Glenna R. (1951 – )
The encyclopedia of Civil War medicine.
GMN 10289 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12480
2008 HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.
GMN 10798 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12994
2012 SCHROEDER-LEIN, Glenna R. (1951 – )
Lincoln and medicine.
GMN 10290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12481
2013 HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.
GMN 10801 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12997
2014 BUTTS, Heather
African American medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the capital during the Civil War Era.
Concerns the role of African American nurses, doctors and surgeons during the American Civil War.
GMN 7754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9926
2014 DEVINE, Shauna
Learning from the wounded: The Civil War and the rise of American medical science.
How medical knowledge and experience gained during the U.S. Civil War advanced the development of American medicine after the war ended.
GMN 10125 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12314
2015 WARDROP, Daneen
Civil War nurse narratives 1863-1870.
Examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, including Louisa May Alcott, Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hos…
GMN 9000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11179