Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Civil War Voices and Views
- MEDICAL AND SURGICAL MEMOIRS
- ACCOUNTS OF NURSING
- MEDICAL FACILITIES AND PATHOLOGY
- Jonathan Letterman on the Medical Corps: Medical Recollections of the Army of the Potomac
- The Confederate Military Prison Hospital at Andersonville, Georgia: Contributions Relating to the Causes and Prevention of Disease
- Field Hospitals: A Glimpse: Hardtack and Coffee
- Field Hospitals: The Need: A Manual of Military Surgery
- Plea for an Ambulance Service: A Brief Plea for an Ambulance System
- Hospital Broadside: North Carolina Hospital Broadside, 1863
- Hospitals in Richmond, Virginia: A Diary from Dixie
- Malingering: ‘Surgical Reminiscences of the Civil War’ and A Rebel's Recollections
- Roberts Bartholomew on Nostalgia: Contributions Relating to the Causes and Prevention of Disease
- Medical Welfare Begins: ‘Debut and Prospectus (The Crutch) and ‘Wounded’ (poem by ‘Sanatosia’)
- (Dis)embodied Identities: Civil War Soldiers, Surgeons, and the Medical Memories of Combat
- PHOTOGRAPHY
- AMPUTATIONS AND PROSTHETIC LIMBS
- IN THE FIELD OF BATTLE
- POST-WAR NARRATIVES
- Contributors
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
Medical Welfare Begins: ‘Debut and Prospectus (The Crutch) and ‘Wounded’ (poem by ‘Sanatosia’)
from MEDICAL FACILITIES AND PATHOLOGY
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Civil War Voices and Views
- MEDICAL AND SURGICAL MEMOIRS
- ACCOUNTS OF NURSING
- MEDICAL FACILITIES AND PATHOLOGY
- Jonathan Letterman on the Medical Corps: Medical Recollections of the Army of the Potomac
- The Confederate Military Prison Hospital at Andersonville, Georgia: Contributions Relating to the Causes and Prevention of Disease
- Field Hospitals: A Glimpse: Hardtack and Coffee
- Field Hospitals: The Need: A Manual of Military Surgery
- Plea for an Ambulance Service: A Brief Plea for an Ambulance System
- Hospital Broadside: North Carolina Hospital Broadside, 1863
- Hospitals in Richmond, Virginia: A Diary from Dixie
- Malingering: ‘Surgical Reminiscences of the Civil War’ and A Rebel's Recollections
- Roberts Bartholomew on Nostalgia: Contributions Relating to the Causes and Prevention of Disease
- Medical Welfare Begins: ‘Debut and Prospectus (The Crutch) and ‘Wounded’ (poem by ‘Sanatosia’)
- (Dis)embodied Identities: Civil War Soldiers, Surgeons, and the Medical Memories of Combat
- PHOTOGRAPHY
- AMPUTATIONS AND PROSTHETIC LIMBS
- IN THE FIELD OF BATTLE
- POST-WAR NARRATIVES
- Contributors
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
Summary
The following is ‘Debut and Prospectus,’ from the first issue of The Crutch (‘A Weekly News and Literary Paper Devoted to the Interest of the Soldier’), which was published weekly by the Annapolis General Hospital, January 1864 to May 1865. From Maryland State Archives. The Knapsack was a paper edited by a corps of nurses directed by the surgeon B.A. Vanderkieft, who gave the editors of The Crutch a free hand in selecting and reprinting articles of interest. In addition to articles, the paper published news announcements, hospital visiting hours, advertisements for medical products, and correspondence.
In making our first appearance among the great throng of the public journals of the day, it is incumbent upon us to say why we appear, and so give some idea of what we have in view in so appearing – in other words, it is expected of us to display our prospectus, and give the course we purpose pursuing, and then we may have the privilege of asking of a discerning and generous public, a support equal to what it may deem commensurate with the merit of our effort.
In the first place therefore, it is our intention to make the Crutch a general directory of all the Hospitals of the Medical Department of Annapolis; to give a general outline of the offices, and officers connected with the post; the commander, officers in charge of the different Hospitals, and the different boards that may be in session at the time of publications, or in prospect of convention.
We purpose it shall contain a complete register of all officers and men, admitted to the Hospital for treatment; of all who return to duty; of all who are discharged from services; of all who leave on furloughs; of all deaths. It will contain also, all circulars, and orders, in relation to furloughs, and leaves of absence; and other circulars, and orders, of general interest, either emanating from this Hospital or this department. In a word, it is our intention to make it a complete HOSPITAL GUIDE for residents or strangers visiting the Hospital, as well as for persons who have friends in, or business with the Hospitals of this district, to enable them to see at a glance, what course will be necessary, in furtherance, either of the object of their visit or communication.
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- Life and LimbPerspectives on the American Civil War, pp. 76 - 79Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2015