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Title:
  • Rhode Island's Civil War hospital : life and death at Portsmouth Grove, 1862-1865 / Frank L. Grzyb ; foreword by Robert C. Rubel.
Call No:
  • E621
  • .G79 2012
Source of Acquisition:
  • Grzyb, Frank L.;
  • Gift;
  • 16 May 2012;
  • 2012.114.1
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Author:
Imprint Place:
  • Jefferson, N.C. :
Publisher/Printer:
  • McFarland & Company, Inc.,
Imprint Date:
  • c2012.
Physical Description:
  • xi, 196 p. :
  • ill., plan, ports. ;
  • 26 cm.
Accession No:
  • 2012.114.1
Provenance:
  • Grzyb, Frank L.;
Notes:
  • Includes bibliographical references, bibliography (p. 184-189) and index.
  • Present-day Portsmouth -- Nineteenth-century medicine -- Genesis : early 1862 -- A Shaky beginning -- The pen Is mightier than the sword -- Shelter and rations -- Hospital guards -- Liquor, trouble, and discipline -- Hospital volunteers and benefactors -- New arrivals : unanticipated problems -- Angels of mercy -- Late 1862 and 1863 -- 1864 -- War's end : glory, glory, halleluiah -- Appendix A: Hospital guards-Rhode Island Volunteers -- Appendix B: Roll of honor -- Appendix C: Map of Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
Location:
  • Closed Stacks
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