Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162) and index.

Letters from a surgeon of the Civil War / John G. Perry, as compiled by Martha Darby Perry -- Thirteen months in the Rebel Army / William G. Stevenson -- Army of the Potomac : behind the scenes / Alfred L. Castleman -- Confederate surgeon's letters to his wife / Spencer Glasgow Welch -- United States Sanitary Commission memoirs / John A. Lidell -- In hospital and camp / Sophronia E. Bucklin -- Hospital sketches / Louisa May Alcott -- Reminiscences of an Army Nurse during the Civil War / Adelaide W. Smith -- Hospital transports / Frederick Law Olmstead -- Specimen days / Walt Whitman.

Contains primary source material.

This anthology tells the fascinating story of how medicine was practiced in military hospitals and in the field during the Civil War. Includes first-person accounts by Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman.