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Reynolds Historical Library |
Collection in Civil War Medicine
Holdings P-Z
Entries in the table are sorted alphabetically by author or, where no author is given, by title.
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| AUTHOR | TITLE | PUBLICATION INFO | NOTES |
| Packard, John Hooker | A manual of minor surgery | San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1990 | Part of Norman's published American Civil War Surgery Series (no.10). Originally published: Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1863 |
| Palfrey, Francis Winthrop | Have we the best possible ambulance system? | Boston: Walker, Wise, and Co., 1864 | Reprinted from the Christian Examiner, January 1864. |
| Palmer, Sarah A. | The story of Aunt Becky’s army-life | New York: John F. Trow & Co., 1868 | |
| Parrish, Edward | A treatise on pharmacy designed as a text-book for the student... | Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1864 | |
| Parrish, T. Michael and Robert M. Willingham, Jr. | Confederate imprints: a bibliography of Southern publications from secession to surrender | Austin, TX: Jenkins Publishing Co., 1985 | |
| Pate, James P., ed. | When this evil war is over: the correspondence of the Francis family, 1860-1865 | Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c2006 | |
| Patriot Daughters of Lancaster | Hospital scenes after the Battle of Gettysburg July 1863 by the Patriot Daughters of Lancaster | Gettysburg, PA: G. Craig Caba, 1993 | |
| Patterson, Gerard A. | Debris of battle: the wounded of Gettysburg | Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1997 | |
| Patton, William Weston and and R.N. Isham | Report on the condition of camps and hospitals: at Cairo and vicinity, Paducah and St. Louis | Chicago: Dunlop, Sewell & Spalding, 1861 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 38. |
| Pember, Phoebe Yates, 1823-1913 | A Southern woman’s story: life in Confederate Richmond… | Jackson, TN: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1959 | |
| [Perry, John Gardner, 1840-1926]; Perry, Martha Derby | Letters from a surgeon of the Civil War compiled by Martha Derby Perry ... | Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1906 | |
| Petrie, Stewart J. | Letters and journal of a Civil War surgeon | [Raleigh, NC]: Pentland Press, Inc., 1998 | |
| The pharmacopoeia of the United States of America | Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1863 | Issued by the National Convention for Revising the Pharmacopoeia. | |
| Pittsburgh Sanitary Committee | First report, address and proceedings of the Pittsburgh Sanitary Committee | Pittsburgh: W. S. Haven, 1863 | |
| Porcher, Francis Peyer, 1825-1895 | Resources of the southern fields and forests, medical, economical, and agricultural. Being also a medical botany of the Confederate States; with practical information on the useful properties of the trees, plants, and shrubs | Richmond, VA, Charleston, Steampower Press of Evans & Cogswell, 1863 | |
| Porter, Mary Harriet | Eliza Chappell Porter: a memoir | New York: Fleming H. Revell co., c1892 | |
| Powell, Ransom J., 1849-1899; Harold L. Scott, ed. | The Civil War memoirs of Little Red Cap: a drummer boy at Andersonville Prison | Cumberland, MD: Harold L. Scott, 1997 | |
| Power, John Hatch | Anatomy of the arteries of the human body descriptive and surgical with the descriptive anatomy of the heart | Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1862 | Library also has 1863 imprint. |
| Powers, Elvira J. | Hospital pencillings; being a diary while in Jefferson General Hospital, Jeffersonville, Ind., and others at Nashville Tennessee as matron and visitor | Boston: Edward L. Mitchell, 1866 | |
| Quintard, Charles Todd, 1824-1898 | Doctor Quintard, chaplain C. S. A. and second bishop of Tennessee: being his story of the war (1861-1865) | Harrisonburg, Va.: Sprinkle Publications, 1999. | Reprint of original edition, published in 1905 by University Press of Sewanee Tennessee. Edited and extended by Arthur Howard Noll. |
| Redpath, James, 1833-1891 | The public life of Capt. John Brown: with … | Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860 | |
| Reed, William Howell, 1837-1914 | Hospital life in the Army of the Potomac | Boston: William V. Spencer, 1866 | |
| Rhodes, James Ford, 1848-1927 | History of the United States: from the compromise of 1850 to the final restoration of home rule at the South in 1877 | New York; Macmillan, 1913-1919 | 8 volumes. Vol. 8 has title: History of the United States from Hayes to McKinley, 1877-1896. |
| Richard, J. Fraise | The Florence Nightingale of the Southern Army: experiences of Mrs. Ella K. Newsom, Confederate Nurse in the Great War of 1861-65 | New York: Broadway Publishing Co., 1914 | Mrs. Newsom's experiences were identified mainly with the Confederate Army of Tennessee, in the hospitals of Bowling Green, Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, Abingdon, Atlanta and Corinth. |
| Richmond Academy of Medicine | Confederate medicine, 1861-1865 / presented by the Medical Society of Virginia with the cooperation of the Richmond Academy of Medicine and the Virginia Civil War Commission |
Richmond, Va.: The Society, 1961
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Reprint of the Virginia Medical Monthly, vol.
88, no. 10, pages 573-628
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| Russell, Mike | Collector's guide to Civil War period bottles and jars (with prices) | Herndon, VA: Russell Publications, 1998 | 3rd edition, with revised prices and text, and additional listings photographs. |
| Sargent, Fitzwilliam W., 1820-1889 | On bandaging, and other operations of minor surgery... | Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1859 | New edition, revised and enlarged. |
| Sargent, Fitzwilliam W., 1820-1889 | On bandaging and other operations of minor surgery | Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1862 [c1855] | "New edition, with an additional chapter on military surgery, by W. F. Atlee, M.D." |
| Savitt, Todd Lee | Medicine and slavery: diseases and health care of blacks in antebellum Virginia | Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978 | |
| Schaadt, Mark J. | Civil War medicine, an illustrated history | Quincy, IL: Cedarwood Publishing, 1998 | |
| Schildt, John W. | Antietam hospitals | Chewsville, MD: Antietam Publications, 1987 | |
| Schildt, John W. | Hunter Holmes McGuire: Doctor in gray | Chewsville, MD: John W. Schildt, 1986 | |
| Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R. | The encyclopedia of Civil War medicine. | Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2008. | |
| Schuppert, Moritz, 1817-1887 | A treatise on gun-shot wounds: written for and dedicated to the surgeons of the Confederate States Army | New Orleans: Bulletin Book and Job Office, 1861 | Library also has reprint (San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1990). |
| Scott, Harold L. | The Civil War hospitals at Cumberland & Clarysville, Maryland | Cumberland, MD: Harold L. Scott, 1995 | |
| Sherwood, Robert Emmet, 1896-1955 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois: a play in twelve scenes | New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1939. | With a foreword by Carl Sandburg. |
| Shura, Mary Francis | Gentle Annie: the true story of a Civil War nurse | New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1991 | |
| Shutes, Milton H. | Lincoln and the doctors: a medical narrative of the life of Abraham Lincoln | New York: The Pioneer Press, April 15, 1933 | Copy number 80 of a limited edition of 550 copies, signed by the author. |
| Sickles, Daniel Edgar | Trial of the Hon. Daniel Sickles for shooting Philip Barton Key, Esq., (U.S. District Attorney, of Washington, D.C.) February 27, 1859: preceded by an introduction giving sketches of the previous career of many of the principal personages engaged in the Washington tragedy. | New York: Robert M. De Witt, [between 1871 and 1876] | |
| Silliman, Justus M.; Edward Marcus, ed. | A New Canaan private in the Civil War: letters of Justus M. Silliman, 17th Connecticut Volunteers | New Canaan, CT: New Canaan Historical Society, 1984 | |
| Smith, Adelaide W. | Reminiscences of an army nurse during the Civil War | New York: Greaves Publishing Co., 1911 | |
| Smith, Edward Parmlee, 1827-1876 | Incidents of the United States Christian Commission | Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1869 | |
| Smith, George Winston | Medicines for the Union Army: the United States Army laboratories during the Civil War | New York: Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2001 | Originally published 1962 by the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy, Madison, WI. |
| Smith, Stephen | Hand-book of surgical operations | New York: Bailliere Brothers, 1862 | Library also has the 1990 reprint published by Norman Publishing (The American Civil War Surgery Series, no.8) |
| Smith, William Mervale, b. 1825 | Swamp doctor: the diary of a Union surgeon in the Virginia and North Carolina marshes / edited by Thomas P. Lowry | Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, c2001 | |
| Snow, John, 1813-1858 | On chloroform and other anaesthetics, their actions and administrations | Park Ridge, IL: Wood Library, 1989 | Facsimile of the 1858 (London: J. Churchill) edition. |
| Snowden and Brother | Catalogue of surgical and dental instruments, elastic trusses, medical saddle bags, abdominal supporters, shoulder braces and druggists sundries | San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1997 |
Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia, 1860. In: Surgical and dental instrument catalogues from the Civil War era: Snowden and Brother (1860) and John Weiss and Son (1863). |
| Snowden and Brother, and John Weiss and Son | Surgical and dental instruments catalogues from the Civil War era: Snowden and Brother (1860) and John Weiss and Son (1863) / with a new introduction by James M. Edmonson | San Francisco: Norman Pub. in association with the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1997. | First work originally published under title: Catalogue of surgical and dental instruments, elastic trusses, medical saddle bags, abdominal supporters, shoulder braces, and druggists' sundries; 2nd work originally published under title: A catalogue of surgical instruments, apparatus, appliances, etc. |
| Souder, Emily Bliss Thacher | Leaves from the battle-field of Gettysburg: a series of letters from a field hospital | Philadelphia: Caxton Press, 1864 | |
| Southern Historical Society | Southern Historical Society Papers | Richmond, VA: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1990 | Facsimile, 52 vols. with 3 vol. index. |
| Spencer, Ambrose |
A narrative of Andersonville: drawn from the
evidence elicited on the trial of Henry Wirz, the jailer; with the argument
of Col. N.P. Chipman, Judge Advocate
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. | |
| Stark, Richard B. and Janet C. Stark | Surgical care of the Confederate States Army | 1959 | [In]: United States Armed Forces medical journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, Jan. 1959, pp. 50-68. |
| Stearns, Amanda Akin | The lady nurse of Ward E | New York: Baker & Taylor Company, 1909 | Amanda Stearns worked at Armory Hospital in Washington DC April 1863 to July 1864. |
| Stearns, Amos Edward, 1833- | The Civil War diary of Amos E. Stearns, a prisoner at Andersonville / edited by Leon Basile | Rutherford [N.J.]: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, c1981 | |
| Steiner, Lewis Henry, 1827-1892 | Report of Lewis H. Steiner, M.D., inspector of the Sanitary Commission, containing a diary kept during the rebel occupation of Frederick, MD, and an account of the operations of the U.S. Sanitary Commission ... | New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1862 | |
| Sterkx, H. E. | Partners in rebellion: Alabama women in the Civil War | Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1970 | |
| Sterkx, H. E. | Some notable Alabama women during the Civil War | University, Alabama: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, 1962 | |
| Stevens, George T., 1832-1921 | Three years in the sixth corps: a concise narrative of events in the Army of the Potomac from 1861 to the close of the Rebellion, April 1865 | Time-Life Books Inc., 1984 | Reprint. Originally published: Albany, NY: S. R. Gray, 1866. The author served as surgeon with the 77th New York 1862-1864. |
| Stevenson, B. F. | Letters from the Army, 1862-1864 | Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1886 | First edition. The multitude of letters in this Civil War account were written by a surgeon of the Twenty-Second Kentucky Infantry. Much detailed information as to dates, places, events, and people are contained in this volume. One of the best primary sources of the daily activities of a regimental surgeon, both during and between battles. |
| Stevenson, William G. | Thirteen months in the Rebel Army: being a narrative of personal… | New York: A. S. Barnes & Burr, 1862 | First edition. |
| Stille, Charles Janeway, 1819-1899 | History of the United States Sanitary Commission: being the general report of its work during the War of the Rebellion | Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1866 | Limited edition of 125 copies printed (this copy is unnumbered). |
| Stimson, Lewis Atterbury, 1843-1924; Edward Lawrence Keyes, ed. | Civil War memories of Lewis A. Stimson, M.D. | New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1918 | In: Lewis Atterbury Stimson, M.D. [by E. L. Keyes] |
| Stout, Samuel Hollingsworth, 1822-1903 | Letter, written in ink by S. H. Stout, Medical Director of Hospitals, C. S. A., to Col. B.S. Ewell, protesting the draft of his carpenters into the army, leaving hospitals unfinished. | Dated Atlanta, March 9, 1863 | |
| Strait, Newton Allen | Roster of all regimental surgeons and assistant surgeons in the late war… | Washington: U.S. Pension Office, 1882 | |
| Stromeyer, Georg Friedrich Louis, 1804-1876 | Gunshot fractures | Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1862 | First American edition. Translated by S.F. Statham. Bound with Resection in gunshot injuries by Friedrich von Esmarch. |
| Strong, George Templeton, 1820-1875 |
A brief outline of what the U. S. Sanitary
Commission has done and is doing: and to submit to you the question, whether
the public can afford to let this work be abandoned for want of means to
carry it on
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[New York: s. n.], 1861 | United States Sanitary Commission. Circular letter. |
| Strong, George Templeton; Allan Nevins and Milton H. Thomas, eds. | The diary of George Templeton Strong 1835-1875 | New York: Macmillan Co., 1952 | 4 volumes. |
| Swinburne, John, 1820-1889 | Compound and comminuted gun-shot fractures of the thigh: and means for their transportations, etc. | Albany: Van Benthuysen's Steam Printing House, 1864 | Reprint from the Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York, 1864. |
| Taylor, Benjamin F., 1819-1887 | Pictures of life in camp and field | Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Company, 1875 | 2nd edition; first published in 1872 with title: Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain, with pictures of life in camp and field. |
| Taylor, Susie King; Patricia W. Romero, ed. |
A black
woman’s Civil War memoirs: reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd U. S.
Colored Troops, late 1st South Carolina Volunteers
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New York: M. Wiener Publishers, c1988 | Other title: "Reminiscences of my Life in Camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, Late 1st South Carolina Volunteers". |
| Taylor, William Henry, 1835-1917 | De quibus; discourses and essays | Richmond, VA: Bell Book and Stationary Co., 1908 | |
| Thomson, Anthony Todd | A conspectus of the pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians… | New York: Henry G. Langley, 1844 | |
| Toynbee, Joseph | The diseases of the ear: their nature, diagnosis, and treatment | Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1860 | |
| Tripler, Charles Stuart & George Curtis Blackman | Hand-book for the military surgeon: being a compendium of the duties of the medical officer in the field, the sanitary management of the camp, the preparation of the food, etc... | Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1861 | Library also has the 1989 reprint published by Norman Publishing (The American Civil War Surgery Series, no.7) |
| Tumblety, Francis | A few passages in the life of Dr. Francis Tumblety, the Indian herb doctor : including his experience in the old Capitol Prison... | Cincinnati: published by the author, 1866. | |
| U. S. A. War Department Prescription Book for Fort Preble | Portland, ME; March 5, 1862 - November 18, 1865 | ||
| Underhill, Joshua W.; Christopher Morss, ed. | Helena to Vicksburg: A Civil War odyssey. The personal diary of Joshua Whittington Underhill, Surgeon, 46th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 23 October 1862-21 July 1863. | Lincoln Center, MA: Heritage House, 2000 | |
| United Daughters of the Confederacy. South Carolina Division. | South Carolina women in the Confederacy | Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1903-1907 | 2 vols. |
| United States. 40th Congress. 3d Session, 1869-1870. Senate | Memorial of Clara Barton, praying the passage of an act for the purpose of remedying any defect in the existing laws in retaliation to the payment of bounties, back pay, and pensions | Mis. Doc. No. 57, 1869 | |
| United States. Army. Hospital Dept. | Invoice of medicines, instruments, hospital stores . . . contained in 1 package, marked U. S. A. Hospital Department, A. A. Surgeon Dickenson, mouth of Rio Grande | 1847 |
Invoice of medical supplies, with personal
addressee, signature, numbers, and a few names of supplies handwritten.
Printed place of origin New York scratched off and replaced with Camargo,
Mexico. This Camargo may be Camargo, Tamaulipas, on the Rio Grande. Signed:
"S. P. [or L.P.?] Moony, Asst. Surgeon, Med. Purveyor, 12th May 1847." |
| United States Army Medical Department | Regulations for the Medical Department of the Army | Washington: Bowman printers, 1860 | |
| United States Army Medical Department | Roster of regimental surgeons and assistant surgeons in the U.S. Army Medical Department during the Civil War | Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, Inc., [1989?] | Reprint. |
| United States Army Medical Museum | Catalogue of the United States Army Medical Museum | Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866-67 | [Pt. 1] Catalogue of the surgical section / by A. A. Woodhull, 1866 -- [Pt. 2] Catalogue of the medical section / by J. J. Woodward, 1867 -- [Pt. 3] Catalogue of the microscopical section / by Edward Curtis, 1867. |
| United States Christian Commission | Annual report / United States Christian Commission, for the army and navy | Philadelphia, Pa.: The Commission, 1863-1865 | 1st and 2nd Annual Reports. |
| United States Christian Commission | Facts, principles and progress: October, 1863 | [Davenport, IA: Amazon Drygoods, 19??] | Facsimile. Originally published: Philadelphia: C. Sherman, Son & Co., Printer, 1863. |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia | Report [of] the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the petition of Dr. William T. G. Morton, asking compensation for the discovery and gift to his country and mankind of the application of ethereal vapor as a safe and practical anaesthesia, or pain-subduing agent | Washington: Government Printing Office, 1863 |
United States. Congress. Senate. Report No. 89. Committee chairman was Henry Wilson. |
| United States Navy Department, Naval War Records Office | Official records of the Union and Confederate navies in the war of the rebellion | Harrisburg, PA: National Historical Society: Broadfoot Publishing, 1987 | Facsimile, 31 vols, including an index. |
| United States Provost Marshal General’s Bureau | Statistics, medical and anthropological, of the Provost Marshal-General’s Bureau, derived from the records of the examination for military service in the armies of the United States during the late War of the Rebellion... | Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1875 | Library owns 2 copies. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Appeal of the executive finance committee in the city of New York | New York: The Commission, 1861 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 16. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Associate members of the U. S. Sanitary Commission: December 7th, 1861 | Washington: The Commission, 1861 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 34 |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Associate members of the U. S. Sanitary Commission: June 29th, 1861 | Washington: The Commission, 1861 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 12 |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Associate members of the U. S. Sanitary Commission: March 15th, 1862 | New York: The Commission, 1862 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 33 |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Camp inspection return | Washington: The Commission, 1861 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 19a |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Camp inspection return ... [Form A-C] | New York?: The Commission, 1862 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 19, Form A |
| United States Sanitary Commission | A collection of the papers of the Sanitary Commission: September 1, 1861. | Washington: The Commission, 1861 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 25, Being a reprint of nos. 1-3, 5, 7, 10, 15-17, 20-22 |
| United States Sanitary Commission | The Committee to whom was referred the subjects of examinations of volunteers and other officers of the Army from civil life, and of reserves | New York: The Commission, 1862 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 30. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Documents of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Numbers 1-96. | New York: 1861-1866 | Includes reports and supplements. John Shaw Billings understood the significance of the ephemeral publications and chose to have them listed separately in the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army. They appear in the first series, volume 14, pp. 1011-1012. The Reynolds' collection includes all of the items listed in the Index-Catalogue with the exception of nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 15, 18, 58, 60, and 83. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | General instructions to sanitary inspectors | Washington: The Commission, 1861 |
Sanitary Commission Series No. 242. |
| United States Sanitary Commission
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Hospital transports: a memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded from the peninsula of Virginia in the summer of 1862 | Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. | First Edition. Library owns 2 copies. |
| United States Sanitary Commission
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Hygiene. | Washington, D.C.: The Commission, 1861 |
Sanitary Commission Series No. 9. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Instructions to general inspectors concerning certain campaign duties | Washington: The Commission, 1862 |
Sanitary Commission Series No. 52. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Letter from the acting Surgeon General to the Secretary of War, advising the institution of a commission, to be styled "A commission of inquiry and advice in respect of the sanitary interests of the United States forces"... | Washington: The Commission, 1861 |
Sanitary Commission Series No. 2. |
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United States Sanitary Commission
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[Letter to] Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. | New York: The Commission, 1862 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 47. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | [Letter] to all loyal citizens of the United States. | New York: The Commission, 1862 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 442. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Letter to the President of the United States, concerning the removal of Surgeon-General W. A. Hammond | New York: The Commission, 1866 |
Sanitary Commission Series No. 73. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | [Letter] to the President of the United States [from the Executive Committee of the Sanitary Commission, July 21st, 1862.] | New York: The Commission, 1862 |
Letter to the President on the measures
necessary to protect the lives of the new levee of troops to be called into
the field. Sanitary Commission Series No. 43. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Narrative of privations and sufferings of the United States officers and soldiers while prisoners of war in the hands of the rebel authorities … | Philadelphia: King & Baird, printers, 1864 | Has four woodcut prints, based on photographs of emaciated Union soldiers who were imprisoned at Belle Isle, and an appendix containing the testimony. The library also has an edition of this work published, Boston: Office of "Littell's Living Age", [1864?]. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | [Notification of election as an associate member.] | Washington: The Commission, 1861 |
Sanitary Commission Series No. 10. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Origin and objects of the Sanitary Commission, August 13th, 1861. | New York: The Commission, 1861 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 22. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Plan of organization: for "the commission of inquiry and advice in respect of the sanitary interests of the United States forces." | Washington: The Commission, 1861 |
Sanitary Commission Series No. 3. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Provision for the soldiers disabled in the war. | New York: The Commission, 1862 |
Sanitary Commission Series No. 49. Letter of Henry W. Bellows, president, to Stephen G. Perkins, requesting him to study the military pension systems of the principal European nations. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | A record of certain resolutions of the Sanitary Commission, passed in the second, third, and fourth sessions. | Washington: The Commission, 1861? | Sanitary Commission Series No. 21. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Report concerning the Woman's Central Association of Relief at New York: to the U.S. Sanitary Commission at Washington | New York: Wm. C. Bryant, printers, 1861 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 32. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Report of a committee appointed by resolution of the Sanitary Commission, to prepare a paper on the use of quinine as a prophylactic against malarious diseases | New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co., 1861 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 31. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | [Report of] the Committee appointed on the 29th inst.: to visit the military general hospitals in and around Washington, and to ascertain their condition and the wants of the sick and wounded volunteers | Washington: The Commission, 1861 |
Sanitary Commission Series No. 23. Signed: Wm. H. Van Buren, M.D., C.R. Agnew, M.D. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Report of a committee of the associate members of the Sanitary Commission on dysentery | Philadelphia: Collins, 1862 | Sanitary Commission Series; M. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Report of a committee of the associate medical members of the Sanitary Commission, on the subject of continued fevers | Boston: J. E. Farwell, 1862 | |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Report of a committee of the associate medical members of the Sanitary Commission on the subject of scurvy with special reference to practice in the Army and Navy | Washington: Government Printing Office, 1862 |
Signed: William A. Hammond, Chairman. Library has another edition published: Washington, M'Gill & Witherow, Printers, 1863. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Report of a preliminary survey of the camps of a portion of the volunteer forces near Washington | Washington: The Commission, 1861. |
Sanitary Commission Series No. 16.
By the Resident Secretary, Fred. Law Olmsted. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Reports on the operations of the inspectors and relief agents of the Sanitary Commission: after the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862 | New York: Wm. C. Bryant, 1863 |
Sanitary Commission Series No. 57. By J. H. Douglas and C. W. Brink. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | A report to the secretary of war of the operations of the Sanitary Commission, and upon the sanitary conditions of the volunteer army, its medical staff, hospitals, and hospital supplies | Washington: McGill & Witherow, 1861 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 40. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Resolutions passed by Sanitary Committee in session, Monday, July 29, and ordered to be sent to the President, heads of the departments, and to both houses of Congress | Washington: The Commission, 1861 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 20. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Revised general instructions for camp inspections | Washington: The Commission, 1862 |
Sanitary Commission Series No. 51. Signed: Fred. Law Olmsted, general secretary. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Rules of the central office | Washington: The Commission, 1862 |
Sanitary Commission Series No. 53. Signed: Fred. Law Olmsted, general secretary |
| United States Sanitary Commission | The Sanitary Commission is daily answering the requirements of eighty general military hospitals | New York: The Commission, 1862 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 48. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Sanitary memoirs of the War of the Rebellion collected and published by the United States Sanitary commission | New York: 1867-69 | |
| United States Sanitary Commission | Statement from Rev. Dr. Bellows as to the labor and wants of the Commission, October 22, 1862 | New York: s. n., 1862 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 54. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | To his Excellency the governor of the state of: sir, the Commission of Inquiry and Advice, in respect of the sanitary condition of the United States forces ... | Washington: The Commission, 1861 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 8. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | To the Secretary of War | Washington? : The Commission?, 1861? |
Sanitary Commission Series No. 1. Address from representatives of the Woman's Central Association for the Sick and Wounded of the Army, the Advisory Committee of the Boards of Physicans and Surgeons of the Hospitals of New York, and the New York Medical Association for furnishing Hospital Supplies in aid of the Army to the Secretary of War requesting that a commission on sanitary matters be established. |
| United States Sanitary Commission | The U.S. sanitary commission in the valley of the Mississippi during the war of the rebellion, 1861-1866. Final report of Dr. J. Newberry, secretary | Cleveland: Fairbanks, Benedict & Co., printers, 1871 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 96. |
| The United States Sanitary Commission: a sketch of its purposes and its work compiled from documents and private papers | Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1863 | First edition. "...this Book does not originate with the United States Sanitary Commission...But...by one who has served with the Commission from the first..."--probably by Katharine Prescott Wormeley | |
| United States Sanitary Commission. Boston Branch | Report concerning the Special Relief Service of the U.S. Sanitary Commission in Boston, Mass. for the year ending March 31, 1864 | Boston: Prentiss and Deland, 1864 | At head of title: U.S. Sanitary Commission. (Executive Committee of Boston Associates.) No. 1. |
| United States Sanitary Commission. Chicago Branch | Report on the condition of camps and hospitals: at Cairo and vicinity, Paducah and St. Louis | Chicago: Dunlop, Sewell & Spalding, 1861 |
Sanitary Commission Series No. 38. By W.W. Patton and R.N. Isham. |
| United States Sanitary Commission. Cincinnati Branch | Report of the Cincinnati Branch, U.S. Sanitary Commission: from December 1, 1861 to December 1, 1864, three years | Cincinnati: s. n., 1865 | |
| United States Sanitary Commission. Cincinnati Branch | Report of the operations of the Cincinnati Branch of the United States Sanitary Commission: to March 1, 1862 | Cincinnati: The Commission, 1862 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 44. |
| United States Sanitary Commission. Cleveland Branch | First annual report of the Soldiers' Aid Society, of Northern Ohio . . . to the U.S. Sanitary Commission, July 1, 1862 | Cleveland: Fairbanks, Benedict, printers, 1862 | |
| United States Sanitary Commission. Cleveland Branch | Report of the Soldiers' Aid Society, of Cleveland, Ohio, and its auxiliaries: to the U.S. Sanitary Commission, at Washington, November 30, 1861 | Cleveland, Ohio: Fairbanks, Benedict Co., printers, 1861 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 37. |
| United States Sanitary Commission. New York Branch | Regulations of the New York Agency of the Commission, and for its transport service on the Atlantic Coast | New York: s. n., 1862 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 45. |
| United States Sanitary Commission. Philadelphia Branch | Report of the general superintendent of the Philadelphia branch of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, to the Executive Committee, January 1st, 1866 | Philadelphia: King & Baird, printers, 1866 | |
| United States Sanitary Commission. Western Department | Reports from the Western Department | Louisville: The Commission, 1862 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 55. |
| United States Surgeon General's Office | Directions concerning the duties of medical purveyors and medical storekeepers, and the manner of obtaining and accounting for medical and hospital supplies for the army... | Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1863 | Revised edition of Circular No. 12. |
| United States Surgeon General's Office | The medical and surgical history of the Civil War | Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot Pub. Co., 1990-91 |
12 volumes. Reprint of: The Medical and
surgical history of the war of the rebellion (1861-65). Library also has the 3 volume index to this set. |
| United States Surgeon General's Office | The medical and surgical history of the War of the Rebellion (1861-65) | Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1875-88 | 2 volumes in 6 parts. |
| United States Surgeon General's Office | The medical department of the United States army: from 1775 to 1873 | Washington, D.C.: Surgeon General's Office, 1873 | Compiled under the direction of the surgeon general by Harvey E. Brown. |
| United States Surgeon General's Office | Reflex paralysis | Washington: Surgeon General’s Office, March 10, 1864 | Circular No. 6. |
| United States Surgeon General's Office | A report on amputations at the hip-joint in military surgery | Washington: Govt. Printing Off., 1867 |
Circular No. 7; Written by George A. Otis.
Library's copy 2 bound with spine title: Hip-joint amputations. |
| United States Surgeon General's Office | A report on barracks and hospitals: with descriptions of military posts | Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1870 | Circular No. 4
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| United States Surgeon General's Office | A report on excisions of the head of the femur for gunshot injury | Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1869 | Circular No. 2.
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| United States Surgeon General's Office | A report on the hygiene of the United States Army with descriptions of military posts | Washington: Govt. Printing Off., 1875 | Circular No. 8. |
| United States Surgeon General's Office | Report on hygiene of the United States Army with descriptions of military posts / by John S. Billings and Report to the Surgeon General on the transport of sick and wounded by pack animals / by George A. Otis; with an introduction by Herbert M. Hart. | New York: Lewis, 1974. | Reprint of War Department Surgeon General's Office Circular no. 8, and 9, issued 1875 and 1877, respectively. |
| United States Surgeon-General's Office | Reports on the extent and nature of the materials available for the preparation of a medical and surgical history of the Rebellion | Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1865 | |
| United States Surgeon General's Office | Sickness and mortality of the army during the first year of the war | Washington: [s. n.], 1863 | Circular No. 15. |
| United States Surgeon-General's Office | Standard supply table of the medical department of the United States Army | Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1867 | |
| United States Surgeon General's Office | Statistical report on the sickness and mortality in the Army of the United States compiled from the records of the Surgeon General's office; embracing a period of sixteen years, from January, 1839, to January, 1855. Prepared under the direction of Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Lawson... | Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1856 |
Library lacks vol. 1. |
| United States War Department | Report of a board of officers to decide upon a pattern of ambulance wagon for army use | Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878 | |
| United States War Department | The war of the rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies | [Pasadena, CA]: Historical Times: Distributed by Broadfoot Pub. Co., 1985 | Facsimile, 128 vols. |
| Van Buren, William Holme, 1819-1883 | Rules for preserving the health of the soldier | Washington: The Commission, 1861 | Sanitary Commission Series No. 172. |
| Van Dusen, Conrad, 1801-1878 | The prodigy: a brief account of the bright career of a youthful genius, Dr. G. E. A. Winans... | Toronto: A. Dredge & Co., 1870 | This rare volume includes George E. A. Winans' (1843-1865) description of his service as a military surgeon in the American Civil War. He served on staff at Harewood Hospital near Washington, D.C. |
| Venable, Abraham Watkins | Scrapbook containing domestic and medical receipts | 1851-1865? | |
| Vermont. Surgeon-General | Annual report of the Surgeon General of the state of Vermont, to his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief | Burlington: Free Press Print, 1865 | Pamphlet |
| Vining, Charles | Catalogue of Herbs, Roots, Barks, Powdered Articles, &c. | Portland: B. Thurston, Printer, 1864 | Reprinted 1972, Hands to Work Series No. 2. |
| Virginia Civil War Commission | Confederate medicine, 1861-1865 / presented by the Medical Society of Virginia with the cooperation of the Richmond Academy of Medicine and the Virginia Civil War Commission | Richmond, Va.: The Society, 1961 | Reprint of the Virginia Medical Monthly, vol. 88, no. 10, pages 573-628 |
| Warner, Oliver, 1818-1885 | Twenty-second report to the legislature of Massachusetts, relating to the registry and return of births, marriages, and deaths, in the Commonwealth, for the year ending December 31, 1863 | Boston: Wright & Potter, 1865 | Public document (Massachusetts) 1. |
| Warren, Edward, 1828-1893 | A doctor's experiences in three continents | Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey, 1885 | First edition. Warren served as medical inspector of the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War and is best remembered for his classic book on surgery for the field and hospital issued for the CSA in 1863. |
| Warren, Edward, 1828-1893 | An epitome of practical surgery for field and hospital | Richmond, VA: West & Johnston, 1863 | Library also has the 1989 reprint published by Norman Publishing (The American Civil War Surgery Series, no.4) |
| Warren, Jonathan Mason, 1811-1867 | Surgical observations, with cases and operations | Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867 | |
| Wash, W. A. | Camp, field and prison life; containing sketches of service in the South, and the experience, incidents and observations connected with almost two years' imprisonment at Johnson's island, Ohio, where 3,000 Confederate officers were confined | Saint Louis, Southwestern Book and Publishing Co., 1870 | Includes a medical history of Johnson's
Island by Col. I. G. W. Steedman, M.D. (Col. 1st Reg't, Alabama Volunteers, C.S.A.), was one of the Confederate acting surgeon's at the prison
hospital at Johnson's Island POW camp. [Captain W. A. Wash (60th TN, C. S. A.).] |
| Webster, Warren | Army Medical Staff. An Address Delivered at the Inauguration of the Dale General Hospital | Boston: Wright & Potter, Printers, 1865 | |
| Welch, Spencer Glasgow | A Confederate surgeon's letters to his wife | Marietta, GA: Continental Book Co., 1954 | Spencer Welch was a surgeon in the 13th South Carolina Volunteers, McGowan's Brigade. |
| Wells, John W. and Newton A. Strait | An alphabetical list of the battles of the War of the Rebellion, compiled from the official records of the office of the Adjutant-General and the Surgeon-General, U.S.A. and a roster of all the regimental surgeons and assistant surgeons in the late war and hospital service | San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1990 | Reprint (American Civil War Surgery Series, no. 11). Originally published: Revised edition, Washington D.C.: G. M. Van Buren, 1883. |
| Western Sanitary Commission | Final report of the Western Sanitary commission from May 9th, 1864, to December 31st, 1865 | St. Louis: R. P. Studley, 1866 | |
| Western Sanitary Commission | Report of the Western Sanitary Commission for the year ending June 1st, 1863 | St. Louis: Western Sanitary Commission Rooms, 1863 | |
| Western Sanitary Commission | Report of the Western Sanitary Commission, on their white Union refugees of the South, their persecutions, sufferings, destitute condition, and the necessity of giving aid and relief on their coming to our military posts | St. Louis: R. P. Studley, 1864 | |
| Western Sanitary Commission | Report to the Western Sanitary Commission on the general military hospitals of St. Louis, Mo | St. Louis: R.P. Studley and Co., Printers, 1862 | Submitted by Simon Pollak. |
| Wheelock, Julia S. 1833-1900 | The boys in white; the experience of a hospital agent in and around Washington | New York: Lange & Hillman, 1870 | Inscribed "Miss Clara F. Jones from Julia S. Wheelock" |
| Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 | The wound dresser: a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion | Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1898 [c1897] | 1st edition. Whitman worked in a Washington DC hospital as a volunteer (Harewood Hospital and Armory Square Hospital). |
| Wilbur, C. Keith | Civil War medicine, 1861-1865 | Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1995 |
Illustrated Living History Series. |
| Wiley, Bell Irvin, 1906- | The life of Billy Yank: the common soldier of the Union | Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978, c1971 | |
| Wiley, Bell Irvin, 1906- | The life of Johnny Reb: the common soldier of the Confederacy | Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978 | |
| Willard, Sylvester David, 1825-1865 | Conservative surgery, with a list of the medical and surgical force of New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-62. To which is added a brief notice of the hospitals at Fortress Monroe and White House, Virginia | Albany: Charles Van Benthuysen, 1862 | |
Williams, George Forrester, 1837-1920 |
Bullet and shell: war as the soldier saw it: camp, march, and picket; battlefield and bivouac; prison and hospital | New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1882 | First edition. |
| Williams, Henry W. | Practical guide to the study of the diseases of the eye: their medical and surgical treatment | Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862 | 1st edition. Civil War era physicians would have used this book for information about diseases of the eye. |
| Williams, William G. | Days of darkness: the Gettysburg civilians, an historical novel | Shippensburg, PA.: White Mane Publishing, 1986 | |
| Willis, James | Arkansas Confederates in the western theater | Dayton, OH: Morningside Press, 1998 | Appendices contain a casualty list of Reynolds' Arkansas Brigade, other casualty lists, and an annotated roll for the 9th Arkansas regiment volunteer infantry. |
| Wilson, Joseph, 1816-1887 | Naval hygiene | Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1870 | First edition. Appended is the paper by Albert C. Gorgas, Moving wounded men on shipboard, describing a newly invented litter for moving the wounded. |
| Wilson, Joseph Thomas, 1836-1891 | The black phalanx: African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812 and the Civil War | New York: Da Capo Press, 1994 | |
| Wilson, LeGrand James, 1791-1871 | The Confederate soldier | Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1973 | New ed. / edited by James W. Silver; foreword by Bell I. Wiley. |
| Wilson, Sadye Tune | Letters to Laura: a Confederate surgeon’s impressions of four years of war | Nashville: Tunstede Press, 1996 | |
| Wilson, Sadye Tune | Letters to Laura : supplement genealogic charts | Nashville, Tenn.: Tunstede, [1996?] | Accompanies Letters to Laura: a Confederate surgeon's impressions of four years of war. Nashville, Tenn.: Tunstede, c1996. |
| Wing, Samuel B. | The Soldier's story. A personal narrative of the life, army experiences and marvelous sufferings since the war | Phillips, ME: Phonograph Steam and Job Print, 1898 | First edition. In this scarce narrative, Wing describes his experiences in the Civil War where, while serving with General Meade's forces, he was wounded in the shoulder and hospitalized in Fredericksburg. The book includes a photographic reproduction of an early x-ray machine and an x-ray image of the bullet lodged in Wing's chest. |
| Wistar, Isaac Jones | Autobriography of Isaac Jones Wistar 1827-1905: Half a century in war and peace | Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1937 | |
| Wittenmyer, Annie | Under the guns: a woman's reminiscences of the Civil War | Boston: E. B. Stillings & Co., 1895 | |
| Woman's Central Association of Relief | A manual of directions, prepared for the use of the nurses in the army hospitals, by a committee of hospital physicians of the city of New York | New Market, Va.: John M. Bracken and the New Market Battlefield Military Museum, 1994 | Originally published: New York: Woman's Central Association of Relief To the Army, 1861 (Baker & Godwin, printers). |
| Wood, Thomas Fanning, 1841-1892 | Doctor to the front: the recollections of Confederate surgeon Thomas Fanning Wood, 1861-1865 | Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2000. | |
| Woods, J. T. | Services of the ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteers | Toledo, Ohio: Blade Printing and Paper Co., 1874 | Contains short bios of unit soldiers and officers; accounts of marches and battles from Kentucky to Alabama, where the unit was present for the surrender of Mobile. |
| Woodhull, Alfred Alexander, 1837-1921 | Catalogue of the surgical section of the United States Army Medical Museum | Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1866 | Library owns 2 copies ( The second copy includes the Catalogue of the microscopical section of the United States Army Medical Museum). "Thirty chapters of descriptions of surgical specimens graphically detail the wounds suffered by thousands of soldiers during the Civil War. The attending physician's name is listed with each case." |
| Woodward, Joseph Janvier, 1833-1884 | The hospital steward’s manual: for the instruction of hospital stewards... | Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1862 | |
| Woodward, Joseph Janvier, 1833-1884 | Outlines of the chief camp diseases of the United States armies as observed during the present war... | Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1863 | Library also owns a reprint with a biographical introduction by Ira M. Rutkow (San Francisco : Norman Pub., 1992). |
| Woolsey, Jane Stuart | Hospital days | New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1870 | |
| Wormeley, Katharine Prescott, 1830-1908 | The cruel side of war: with the Army of the Potomac: letters from the headquarters of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia in 1862 | Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1898 | |
| Worsham, John H. | One of Jackson's foot cavalry: his experience and what he saw during the war 1861-1865: including a history of "F Company," Richmond, Va., 21st Regiment Virginia Infantry, Second Brigade, Jackson's Division, Second Corps, A. N. Va. | Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1982 | Reprint. Originally published: New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1912. Many interesting medical details contained within this work. |