Medicine In an attempt to manage the unprecedented number of sick and wounded, the Confederacy established a Medical Department. Surgeons were commissioned to serve in military hospitals and with individual units. They were assisted by nurses, stewards, matrons, and other medical personnel. The Library of Virginia's collections include a variety of different types of records that pertain to those who were involved with this system, including the papers of surgeons and other medical personnel, hospital registers, personal papers of soldiers who were hospitalized or of their family and friends, and unit records that include medical information on individual soldiers. Selected Published Resources Apperson, John Samuel. Repairing the 'March of Mars': The Civil War Diaries of John Samuel Apperson, Hospital Steward in the Stonewall Brigade, 1861–1865.
Get this from a library! History of the Confederate General Hospital located at Farmville, Va., 1862-65. [James Lowery White; United Daughters of the Confederacy. Over 600 Southern Soldiers, were treated at Farmville Hospitals, those who died were buried in the Confederate Soldiers Cemetery situated on the north side of town.
Edited by John Herbert Roper; transcribed by Jason Clayman, Peter Gretz, and John Herbert Roper. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001.
Blanton, Wyndham Bolling. Medicine in Virginia in the Nineteenth Century. Richmond: Garrett & Massie, Inc., 1933. Calcutt, Rebecca Barbour.
Richmond 's Wartime Hospitals. Gretna, La.: Penguin Publishing Co., 2005. 1735-4lx Manual. Chisolm, John Julian. A Manual of Military Surgery for the Use of Surgeons in the Confederate Army with an Appendix of the Rules and Regulations of the Medical Department of the Confederate Army. Charleston, S.C.: Evans & Cogswell, 1861. Cunningham, Horace Herndon.
Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service. Bilichek Respironics User Manual. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, [1958]. Green, Carol Cranmer. Chimborazo: The Confederacy’s Largest Hospital. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.