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A Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac
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Lured across the border by promises of opportunity and adventure, Francis M. Wafer - a young student from Queen's Medical College in Kingston - joined the Union's army of the Potomac as an assistan...
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15 July 2009

Cheryl Wells provides an edited and fully annotated collection of Wafer's diary entries during the war, his letters home, and the memoirs he wrote after returning to Canada. Wafer's writings are a fascinating and deeply personal account of the actions, duties, feelings, and perceptions of a noncombatant who experienced the thick of battle and its grave consequences.
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Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Series: McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
Publication Date:
15 July 2009
ISBN: 9780773577282
Format: eBook
BISACs:
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / General
Cheryl A. Wells is associate professor, history, University of Wyoming, and the author of Civil War Time: Identity and Experience in America, 1861-1865.