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Disease killed two-thirds of the soldiers who died during the Civil War. And of the various maladies that plagued both armies, few were more pervasive than malaria—a mosquito-borne illness which afflicted over 1.1 million soldiers serving in the Union ranks. Yellow fever, another disease transmitted by mosquitoes, struck fear into the hearts of military planners who knew that "yellow jack" could wipe out an entire army in a matter of weeks. Bell examines the physiological and psychological effects of these two diseases and their impact on military operations and strategy in 1862, the first full year of the war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors discuss the role of drummer boys during the U.S. Civil War. They mention the number of boys who enlisted in the Union army as drummers, the state of medical care to soldiers during the war, and the role of drummer boys as medical assistants carrying stretchers, bringing equipment and supplies, and on occasion assisting in surgery.

Focuses on Contract Surgeons in the United States Army during the Civil War in the 19th century. Papers and articles on U.S. Army medicine in the frontier West; Importance of the service of Contract surgeons in 1869 to 1874; Technical position and social status; Names of some Contract Surgeons.

Focuses on medical services offered by the Union Army in 1861, highlighting the nursing care offered by Helen L. Gilson a twenty-five-year-old citizen of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Background information on Gilson; Information on Gilson's association with Frank Ball Fay, an overseer of the poor; Information on Gilson's marriage to E. Hamilton Osgood.

Profiles Rebeccas Usher, a nurse during the Civil War. Family background; Description of the regular activities of nurses; Relationship of Usher with soldiers under her care; Issue of what the war, and the work of Civil War nursing meant to women such as Usher.

Profiles Samuel Preston Moore, the highest-ranking Southern medical officer in the Confederate Army. Family background; Career history; Job responsibilities; Reputation.

A reprint of the article "Commentary on Medicine, Army of the Confederate States of America" by Jack E. Butterworth that appeared in the 2014 issue of Society of Independent Southern Historians web site is presented. The article outlines about General Lee in the Richmond area who was short on food and supplies with an approaching Northern Army. It mentions about reforming mediocre medical corps by raising recruiting standards and improving treatment protocols and by placing capable surgeons.

A reprint of the article "Commentary on Medicine, the CSA Hospital in Bristol, Tennessee" by Jack E. Butterworth that appeared in the 2014 issue of Society of Independent Southern Historians web site is presented. The article outlines the Confederate Hospital located in Bristol, Tennessee. It mentions that slavery was not a significant issue to the rural populace and they saw no rationale for separating from nation their grandfathers had carved from mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee.

Several photographs are presented depicting the U.S. Civil War medicine including a conract surgeon in his tent, New Hampshire Cavalry Field Hospital personnel at the Millis CW event, and the 17th Corps Field Hospital personnel in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

The article focuses on several U.S. medical personnel during the Civil War in 1861-1865 including Edwin Samuel Gaillard, Alice Cary Risley and Andrew Taylor Still. Gaillard was appointed assistant surgeon of the First Maryland Infantry in June 1861. Risley was a volunteer nurse for the Union army in New Orleans during the war and was active in the National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War. Still was enlisted as a hospital steward in the 9th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry.

The article presents a reprint of the article "Experiencing the War: The Soldier's View," which appeared on the June 1, 2015 issue of Civil Discourse: A Blog of the Civil War Era. Topics include the psychological evolution of soldiers from civilian to volunteer to soldier as they coped with the challenges of war, forced marches by soldiers from place to place, and their adaptation of changed lives at different rates.

The article presents a reprint of the article "Insensibility During Surgical Operations Produced by Inhalation" by Henry Jacob Bigelow, which appeared in the November 18, 1864 issue of "The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal." Particular focus is given on the insensibility during surgical operations produced by inhalation.

Several photographs are presented depicting the U.S. civil war medicine in 1861-1865 which include Private Columbus Rush who had his legs amputated due to a gunshot wound on March 28, 1865, nurses in Fredericksburg, Virginia on May 20, 1864, and Mason Lumpkins discussing civil war medicine.

The article focuses on several U.S. Civil War medical personnel including surgeon Ashbel Woodward, acting assistant surgeon Augustus Purdy Williams, and chief surgeon Whiteside Godfrey Hunter. Woodward was enlisted as surgeon in 1862 and was commissioned into the field and staff of the 26th Connecticut Infantry. Williams served on the USS Monticello and charged the Saint Aloysius Hospital for the Union Army. Hunter was enlisted as a private in 1861 in the 45th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.

The article discusses the vindication of U.S. Army surgeons during the Civil War in 1861 to 1865. Topics discussed include the transition from civil to military medicine practice, motives of humanity and patriotism among surgeons, and frequent deeds of self-sacrifice and heroism among Army surgeons.

The article focuses on U.S. Civil War soldiers and the injuries they sustained during the war in 1861-1865.

The authors discuss the lasting effect of medical innovation, surgical techniques and tools improvement during the American Civil War era of the 1860s. The authors agree that the appointment of William Hammond as Army surgeon general in 1862 paved the way for higher standards in the medical profession beyond the end of the war. Also discussed are works of Hammond in emphasizing public health hygiene, the Army Medical Museum and removal of tartar emetic and calomel from prescribed medicines.

The article presents a profile of several medical personnel of the U.S. Civil War. These include Navy assistant surgeon Agrippa Nelson Bell, surgeon David J. Griffiths of the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry and Kentucky Infantry, and assistant surgeon John Moore Hayes of 26th Alabama Confederate States Army (CSA). Other medical personnel highlighted is surgeon Francis A. Stanford of 15th Alabama CSA.

A reprint of an article that originally appeared web site Civil War Interactive is presented on the subject of the experience of Union and Confederate military surgeons during the July 1863 U.S. Civil War engagement the Battle of Gettysburg. The article discusses medical innovations utilized during the battle, treating of the wounded, and the organization of the the Army of the Potomac (AOP) led by AOP medical director Jonathan Letterman, and the organization of the medical corps of the Army of Northern Virginia (ANV).

Several photographs depicting the U.S. Civil War and events of the organization the Society of Civil War Surgeons are presented.

A reprint of the article "The Organization of the Surgical Personnel of an Army Division (Twelve Thousand Men), and Its Duties in Time of War" by physician Paul Richard Brown is presented that compares the organization of surgeons in the U.S. Army during the U.S. Civil War and the 1890s. It discusses the U.S. Army regulations of 1895, casualties during the Civil War, and the functions of surgical personnel in the U.S. Army.

The article presents information concerning records held by the U.S. agency the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that may contain information concerning the medical records of U.S. Civil War soldiers. It discusses the records of the U.S. agency the Department of Veterans Affairs, disapproved pension applications of U.S. Army and U.S. Navy veterans of the Civil War, and carded medical records of several wars including the Civil War.

Biographies of several U.S. military medical personnel that served in the U.S. Civil War are presented including Union Army vivandière Kady Brownell, U.S. military surgeon Thomas Howard Ridgely, and Irish American brigade surgeon Thomas Antisell, Jr. A biography of inventor and U.S. soldier Darwin DeForrest Douglas is also presented.

An excerpt from an account of his services in the U.S. Army medical staff during the U.S. Civil War by U.S. surgeon Thomas Antisell is presented.

The impact of the American Civil War on medical modernisation is increasingly being recognised, yet the ways in which the Civil War challenged and changed doctors' understanding of their professional role during the war remains underappreciated. By juxtaposing Union doctors' personal and professional responses to the Civil War with the wider public reaction to Union medical care, this paper explores the tensions that arose between the public and the professional perceptions of medicine as these developed on the battlefields of the nation's internecine conflict. It argues that the intersection between the positive and negative narratives of Union medical provision, specifically surgery, established an important discursive space within which Union doctors could negotiate their public and professional status. It finds that the negative narrative, far from a hindrance, was instrumental to the process of medical modernisation by enabling Union physicians to define, defend and develop a more modern medical role. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Several photographs are presented which depict the 10th annual Gettysburg medical living history weekend event which was held in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as well as various medicine and surgery-related images from the U.S. Civil War, and a letter from Washington, D.C. hospital patient M.S. Austin.

The article presents the author's personal edited research notes on U.S. Civil War "contract" surgeons and the confusion that surrounds the various types of surgeons who provided services during the country's Civil War. Surgical sets are mentioned, along with many local civilian physicians who served as surgeons during the war and were paid on a daily basis. It states that "contract" surgeons purchased and used their own surgical sets in the field. Medical hospitals are also mentioned.

The article presents several letters which were written by then-U.S. Union Army Private John W. Deer to his family members while he was being treated at various hospitals in 1862 for the wounds he sustained in the U.S. Civil War, as well as his correspondence from a camp in Maryland in 1864.

The article presents photographs related to the activities of the Society of Civil War Surgeons depicting subjects such as historical re-enactments, conferences, and historical military uniforms.

The article offers brief profiles of medical personnel who served in the U.S. Civil War such as William David McWhorter, Samuel Wylie Crawford, and John Frazier Head. Topics discussed include details of medical training and enlistment, command of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, and postwar private medical practice.

The article presents photographs and illustrations related to the U.S. Civil War and depicts subjects such as historical re-enactors, the frock coat of a surgeon, and hospital tents.

The article offers brief profiles of medical personnel who participated in the U.S. Civil War such as John Malone, James Theodore Calhoun, and John Thomas Read. Topics discussed include the transcript of a court-martial, medical procedures such as amputations, and details of enlistment and life after military service.

A reprint is presented of the article "Suffering in Silence: Psychological Disorders and Soldiers in the American Civil War," by Sarah A. M. Ford, originally published in the April 2013 issue of the "Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History. It discusses the occurrence of post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological afflictions experienced by U.S. soldiers during the U.S. Civil War.

A reprint is presented of the article "Treatment of Venereal Disease during the Civil War," by Michael Echols. It discusses topics such as rates of venereal disease among soldiers participating in the U.S. Civil War, the treatment of gonorrhea, the use of glass syringes in treatment, and care for lesions.

A biography of military surgeon Bernard Vanderfieft is presented. He was born in Utrecht, Netherlands, on October 9, 1829, and attended the Utrecht Training School for Military Medicine. He was appointed a medical officer in the Royal Dutch Navy in 1850 and resigned in 1856, and he studied medicine and surgery at the University of Louvain. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1861 and volunteered for the New York Infantry in the U.S. Civil War and was appointed surgeon of the 102d New York Infantry Regiment in 1862. He managed the General Hospital of Antietam in Sharpsburg, Maryland. He died on September 8, 1866.

The article presents biographies of medical personnel who served in the U.S. Civil War, including Hospital Steward Thomas Harman Barton of the 4th West Virginia Infantry, Assistant Surgeon Francis W. Bird of the 51st New York Volunteer Infantry (NYVI), and Colonel Nelson Reuben Derby of the U.S. Volunteers (USV). Details on their careers, marriages, and families are presented.

It is commonly accepted that Louis Pasteur is the father of microbiology and Joseph Lister is the father of antisepsis. Middleton Goldsmith, a surgeon in the Union Army during the American Civil War, meticulously studied hospital gangrene and developed a revolutionary treatment regimen. The cumulative Civil War hospital gangrene mortality was 45 per cent. Goldsmith’s method, which he applied to over 330 cases, yielded a mortality under 3 per cent. His innovative work predated Pasteur and Lister, making his success truly remarkable and worthy of historical and surgical note. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents reprints of reports authored by the medical directors of the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia following the 1863 battle of Gettysburg. Topics discussed include the transportation of supplies and wounded soldiers, casualties among medical officers and staff, and military hospitals.

The article provides biographical information on several military medical personnel during the U.S. Civil War including surgeons Charles H. Bacon, Francis J. D'Avignon, and Major George Walker. Other topics include Bacon's role as a Captain in the 100th Illinois Infantry, D'avignon's capture by Confederates as a prisoner of war, and Walker's role as a Confederate surgeon working with an artillery battery.

The article presents a reprint of the article "Looking for Limbs in all the Right Places: Retrieving the Civil War's Broken Bodies" by Megan Kate Nelson, which appeared in the October 2011 issue of the online journal "Common-Place." The article discusses the author's experience researching the destruction caused by the U.S. Civil War, focusing on the amputation of soldiers' body parts. Other topics include the use of archival materials for research, prosthetics programs, and conditions faced by amputees.

The article discusses the author's personal experiences working as a surgeon during the U.S. Civil War, focusing on the medical care given to wounded soldiers, as well as the efforts of the Medical Department to improve battlefield medicine.

The article presents the second part of a reprint of the article "The Confederate Medical Officer in the Field," by H. H. Cunningham, which originally appeared in the periodical the "Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine" in the July 1958 issue. It examines Confederate medical care during the U.S. Civil War, commenting on problems of coordination, medical treatment of Union captives, and the exchange of surgeons taken captive in battle.

The article presents the second part of a reprint of the article "Medicine in the Confederacy," by Mary Louise Marshall, originally published in the "Bulletin of the Medical Library Association" in July of 1942 and first presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association in New Orleans, Louisiana from May 7-9, 1942. It examines medical supplies and equipment in the Confederate States Army during the U.S. Civil War. Confederate surgeons examined include Samuel Preston Moore.

The article presents a reprint of the article "Field and Temporary Hospitals," by Deering J. Roberts, which originally appeared in the journal "The Photographic History of the Civil War," Volume IV, in 1911. It focuses on Confederate field hospitals and the author's experiences as a surgeon in the Confederate States Army during the U.S. Civil War. Topics include his experiences providing medical care in Franklin, Tennessee, wounds from rifled muskets, and the Dalton-Atlanta campaign of 1864.