| The Wounded River: The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D. Subjects: Lauderdale John Vance -- Correspondence; United States -- History -- Civil War 1861-1865 -- Medical care; United States -- History -- Civil War 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives; Physicians -- United States -- Correspondence; The Wounded River takes the reader back more than 130 years to reveal a marvelous, first-hand account of nineteenth-century warfare. In the process, the work cuts the legends and mythology that have come to frame and define accounts of America's bloodiest war. Of equal significance, Peter Josyph's editorial work on this superb collection of letters from the Western Americana Division of Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library enhances and clarifies Lauderdale's experinces as a surgeon aboard the U.S. Army hospital ship D. A. January. John Vance Lauderdale was a New York civilian contract surgeon who served with the Army during the Civil War as Major and Surgeon, at many battlefields, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Peter Josyph is a bestselling author, editor, painter, and photographer. |