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The Confederate Hospitals And Their Patients.


The Confederate Hospitals And Their Patients

Jack D. Welsh

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The Confederate Hospitals And Their Patients: Atlanta To Opelika is a remarkable primary source of information concerning the medical care of the Confederacy Confederacy, name commonly given to the Confederate States of America (1861–65), the government established by the Southern states of the United States after their secession from the Union.  during the American Civil War American Civil War
 or Civil War or War Between the States

(1861–65) Conflict between the U.S. federal government and 11 Southern states that fought to secede from the Union.
. The bulk of The Confederate Hospitals And Their Patients presents individual patient records of two hospitals, both of which originated in Atlanta in 1862 and moved to Vineville, Georgia before Atlanta fell, eventually closing in Opelika, Alabama Opelika is a city in Lee County in east central Alabama. It is the county seat of Lee County and is a principal city, along with Auburn, Alabama, in the Auburn-Opelika, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). . Since the gathered data is from various primary sources and some incomplete records, the precise methods of data collection and collation COLLATION, descents. A term used in the laws of Louisiana. Collation -of goods is the supposed or real return to the mass of the succession, which an heir makes of the property he received in advance of his share or otherwise, in order that such property may be divided, together with the  are described. The Confederate Hospitals And Their Patients largely focuses on the data itself, with minimal exposition, though some clarification and conclusions are included. An enthusiastically recommended reference and resource for college libraries and anyone researching Civil War medical care.
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