Doctors in Blue

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The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War

by George Worthington Adams

288 pages / 5.50 x 8.50 inches / 16 halftones

History / United States - Civil War Period

Paperback / 9780807121054 / October 1996

Similar in scope to H. H. Cunningham’s Doctors in Gray, George Worthington Adams’ Doctors in Blue, originally published more than forty years ago and now available for the first time in a paperback edition, remains the definitive work on the medical history of the Union army. 

George Worthington Adams (1905–1981) was professor of history and chair of the history department at Southern Illinois University. His career also included positions at Harvard, Colorado College, and MacMurray College for Women. He was the editor of Reminiscences of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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