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Scott McGaugh, "Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care"
English | ISBN: 162872529X | 2015 | 384 pages | MOBI | 2 MB
A New York Times Best Seller!
When Jonathan Letterman was appointed the chief medical officer of the Army of the Potomac, he revolutionized combat medicine over the course of four major battlesAntietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. He made battlefield survival possible by creating the first organized ambulance corps and a more effective field hospital system. Confronting conditions of squalor, poor nutrition, and rampant disease that left 20 percent of the men unfit to fight, Letterman improved health and combat readiness by pioneering hygiene and diet standards.
With stirring accounts of battles and the struggle to invent and supply adequate care during impossible conditions,
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