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Author: Rebecca Calcutt
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In-depth study of medical care during the Civil War.
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Doctors attempting to deal with the carnage wrought by the Civil War faced more difficult challenges than the sheer number of the wounded. Fought at the very end of what is known as "the medical Middle Ages," the Civil War predated modern knowledge of bacteria and antiseptics. Doctors, who were then deemed fully trained after only a two-year course of study, had few diagnostic tools beyond their own reckoning at hand. Richmond's Wartime Hospitals covers the more than fifty hospitals located in Richmond during the Civil War period, including each facility's location, dates of operation, and surgeon in charge. Where archival information is available, Mrs. Calcutt, who is both an historian and a registered nurse, includes detailed descriptions of the buildings, first-person accounts of day-to-day operations, and other historical anecdotes. Rebecca Barbour Calcutt has completed extensive studies in colonial and Revolutionary-era history. She has undergraduate degrees in both history and nursing and a master's degree in antebellum Southern history from the University of Charleston. She has served as a docent for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and is a licensed tour guide for both the city of Charleston and Middleton Place Plantation. A resident of Charleston, South Carolina, she is also the author of South Carolina's Revolutionary War Battlefields: A Tour Guide.
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- Hardcover: 244 pages
- Publisher: Pelican Publishing (March 31, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1589802977
- ISBN-13: 978-1589802971
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I had the honor of meeting Mrs. Calcutt at the Museum of the Confederacy a couple of years ago. She is a fine author , and a nice lady, as well. Like her, I have a professional background in both Medicine and History. Further, one of my great grandfathers was a Confederate Surgeon, though he served to the west of Richmond.
This is a superbly researched, and presented, volume. The whole country was unprepared for the Civil War, and had to adapt in a BIG HURRY. Richmond was the center of the Confederate government, and was forced to become a center for providing medical care, as well. This is one area where the South actually had advantages; there was greater administrative stability [provided by Surgeon General Samuel Moore], and the Confederacy was willing to make societal innovations, such as placing women and Blacks in positions of high responsibility. The Hospitals were run by both the government and by private individuals, and ranged in size from tiny to gigantic.
Reading this book, you will get to meet two of the South's greatest heroines. Mrs. Phoebe Pember was a Matron at Chimborazo, the largest Civil War hospital, and Captain Sally Tompkins ran Robertson's Hospital as a project of the ladies at St. James Episcopal Church. Capt. Sally refused to play the "state's rights" game, and probably had the best hospital in town. [Her memorial window at St. James is sublimely beautiful].
Mrs. Calcutt takes us on a thoroughly inspiring, and educational, tour. Those familiar with Richmond will appreciate the updates, describing the current uses of the buildings and sites. Some of the buildings are still in use.
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