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Resuscitation and Surgery for Soldiers of the American Civil War (1861–1865)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

James R. Watson
James R. Watson
Affiliation:
Dept. of Surgery, Presbyterian-University Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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On June 2, 1862, William A. Hammond, Surgeon General of the United States Army, announced the intention of his office to collect material for the publication of a “Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861–1865)” (1), usually called the Civil War of the United States of America, or the War Between the Union (the North; the Federal Government) and the Confederacy of the Southern States. Forms for the monthly “Returns of Sick and Wounded” were reviewed, corrected and useful data compiled from these “Returns” and from statistics of the offices of the Adjutant General (payroll) and Quartermaster General (burial of decreased soldiers).

Type
Section Five—History
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , Issue 1: Military and Disaster Medicine , Spring 1985 , pp. 76 - 85
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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