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Army of the Tennessee
Author_Lindsay Rae Smith Privette
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emotional toll of war on soldiers and surgeons
environment of the Lower Mississippi River Valley
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foraging during the American Civil War
Grant's Canal
heat and sunstroke
Louisiana
malaria during the American Civil War
medical detachment
Milliken's Bend
Mississippi
sickness and disease in the American Civil War
Siege of Vicksburg
straggling during the American Civil War
The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou
The Vicksburg Campaign
thirst and dehydration
Ulysses S. Grant
Union Army medical care
United States Medical Corps
United States Medical Department
United States Sanitary Commission
Vicksburg
Western Sanitary Commission
William T. Sherman
Young's Point
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- ISBN 9781469690278
- Dimensions: 25 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 02 Sep 2025
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Between May and May 22, 8 3, Union soldiers marched nearly 2 miles through the hot, humid countryside to assault and capture the fortified city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Upon its arrival, the army laid siege to the city for a grueling forty-seven days. Disease and combat casualties threatened to undermine the army's fighting strength, leaving medical officers to grapple with the battlefield conditions necessary to sustain soldiers' bodies. Medical innovations were vital to the Union victory. When Vicksburg fell on July 4, triumph would have been fleeting if not for the US Army Medical Department and its personnel.
By centering soldiers' health and medical care in the Union army's fight to take Vicksburg, Lindsay Rae Smith Privette offers a fresh perspective on the environmental threats, logistical challenges, and interpersonal conflicts that shaped the campaign and siege. In doing so, Privette shines new light on the development of the army's medical systems as officers learned to adapt to their circumstances and prove themselves responsible stewards of soldiers' bodies.
By centering soldiers' health and medical care in the Union army's fight to take Vicksburg, Lindsay Rae Smith Privette offers a fresh perspective on the environmental threats, logistical challenges, and interpersonal conflicts that shaped the campaign and siege. In doing so, Privette shines new light on the development of the army's medical systems as officers learned to adapt to their circumstances and prove themselves responsible stewards of soldiers' bodies.
Lindsay Rae Smith Privette is associate professor of history at Anderson University.
