Debris of Battle: The Wounded of Gettysburg
by Gerard A. Patterson
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Author: Gerard A. PattersonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-06
ISBN: 081170498X
Number of pages: 244
Publisher: Stackpole Books
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Book Review: Excellent history.
Summary: 5 Stars
The battle at Gettysburg, whatever else may be said of it, was a medical disaster.The armies evacuated the field soon after the battle, leaving behind a 25-square-mile area covered with 7,000 dead and over 21,000 wounded of both armies, who lacked not only medical care but basic food and shelter. Most just lay where they fell, some for many days.
In traditional Army FUBAR fashion, the need for help was denied for some time, causing needless suffering and additional unnecessary deaths, but when word eventually got out, an unprecedented outpouring of civilian assistance took place. The participants included the Sisters of Charity, Frederick Law Olmsted (famous for his design of New York's Central Park), the engineer Haupt, and the formidable (if ineffectual) Dorothea Dix. Their contributions, as well as thousands of others', are well told here in this thoroughly researched, clearly written history. Your Civil War bookshelf is not complete without it.
The "score" rating is an ineradicable feature of the page. This reviewer does not "score" books.)
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