Field Medical Services At the Battle of Manassas

Informationen zum Autor HORACE H. CUNNINGHAM was a professor in the history department at the University of Georgia. He is also the author of Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service . Klappentext The opening months of the Civil War went on in the midst of confusion and improvisation. This was especially true of the field medical services of both armies which were disorganized and understaffed-and hence not in position to cope with the vast number of wounded soldiers nor treat them properly. Moreover! the ambulance services were woefully inadequate! and the wounded men had to find their way back to the hospitals where overworked surgeons operated around the clock under extraordinarily trying conditions.After the first battle of Bull Run both sides made attempts to reorganize their medical staffs! and after the second battle at Manassas it was obvious that further improvements were necessary. The Union army set about creating a medical service which could cope with a long war! but the Confederacy failed to foresee a similar need! having just won a major victory.In comparing the efforts of both armies to establish efficient medical services! Horace C. Cunningham brings to light an important aspect of this war of attrition. Zusammenfassung The field medical services of both armies during the Civil War were disorganized and understaffed. Vast numbers of soldiers were not treated properly. In comparing the efforts of both armies to establish efficient medical services! Cunningham brings to light an important aspect of this war of attrition.

Product details

• Authors: Horace Cunningham, Horace H Cunningham, Horace H. Cunningham, Horace Herndon Cunningham
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2009
• EAN: 9780820333557
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3355-7
• No. of pages: 132
• Series: University of Georgia Monograp; University of Georgia Monograp
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous