NEW! A Feeling of Honorable Pride: A Surgeon’s Experience of the Civil War

$39.00

In the summer of 1862, young Chester County native James Fulton MD left his pregnant wife to join the Union army. Through spring 1864, Fulton kept a diary to chronicle his service as a wartime assistant surgeon, evocatively describing campaigns in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, and his nightmarish experience running makeshift hospitals at Gettysburg as a Confederate prisoner. Based on the instructor’s book, Civil War Medicine: A Surgeon’s Experience, we’ll explore the Civil War as a doctor experienced it.

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Additional information

Class Code

17

Teacher

ROBERT D. HICKS, Ph. D.

Teacher Bio

Ph.D: Senior consulting scholar for the College of Physicians Philadelphia, Former Director of the Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library at the College

Day of the Week

Thursday

Start Date

Thursday, 3/6

Time

7 to 8:30 p.m.

Location

Room 104, Cheltenham High School

Description

In the summer of 1862, young Chester County native James Fulton MD left his pregnant wife to join the Union army. Through spring 1864, Fulton kept a diary to chronicle his service as a wartime assistant surgeon, evocatively describing campaigns in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, and his nightmarish experience running makeshift hospitals at Gettysburg as a Confederate prisoner. Based on the instructor’s book, Civil War Medicine: A Surgeon’s Experience, we’ll explore the Civil War as a doctor experienced it.