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By Thomas S. Hawley M.D.,Thomas S., M.D. Hawley,Dennis W. Belcher

This publication bargains a unprecedented perception into the background of the Civil conflict within the western theatre in the course of the eyes of a regimental health care provider. The newly graduated Dr. Thomas S. Hawley served in a single of the ultimate struggling with regiments of the Union military. This selection of letters is critical for 2 purposes: They element his 4 and a part 12 months occupation within the military via firsthand debts of a few of the campaigns and his various tasks, they usually chronicle his interactions with captured accomplice infantrymen, his encounters with pro–Southern and pro–Northern civilians in parts occupied via the Union military, his reviews with freed slaves and various different day-by-day occasions within the struggle. impressive one of the letters is his list of the early Civil conflict in Missouri, the Vicksburg crusade, the conflict of Tupelo and the conflict of Nashville.

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