Gettysburg Surgeons: Facing a Common Enemy in the Civil War’s Deadliest Battle(Franco - GC) book Lincoln and the American Founding

Lincoln and the American Founding (Concise Lincoln Library)

but altered the course of our nation's history

They document both the structure and the human side of Pinckney

care of the wounded

James and Joshua Speed kept him informed on both the political and the civilian affairs

Gettysburg Surgeons: Facing a Common Enemy in the Civil War’s Deadliest Battle(Franco - GC) book Lincoln and the American Foundingby Barbara Franco In the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, a thousand surgeons faced an unprecedented medical catastrophe: 25,000 wounded soldiers needing immediate care with only primitive tools and their own determination to save lives. At Gettysburg's makeshift hospitalsset up in barns, churches, and blood soaked fieldsmilitary and civilian surgeons from both North and South worked around the clock performing life saving operations under fire.