Disease, Wounds, Hospitals, and Hygiene: The Medical Side of the Civil War
This overview of the development of mass medical care during the American Civil War will focus on the establishment of hospitals, the roles of various kinds of caregivers, common diseases and wounds which plagued the soldiers, and sanitation issues of the era. Local Civil War medical matters will be included when possible. Join Glenna Schroeder-Lein as she discusses the medical side of the Civil War.
Glenna Schroeder-Lein received a PhD in History from the University of Georgia and is the author of Confederate Hospitals on the Move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee. She has taught at four colleges and universities, given six Civil War roundtable talks, and numerous presentations on the Civil War.
