Greetings to all, This dissertation started when I read a report by Dr. Phelps, United States Volunteers, on the medical care at the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, April 6-7, 1862. "The sufferer [wounded] had not the alternative of choosing between transportation North...
Greetings, Welcome to Kev’s introductory blog on the first steps taken towards researching and writing his dissertation. The research topic looks at the hospital ships used in the Western Theater of operations during the Civil War. Specifically, the hospital...
The Civil War, The Ice Trade, And the Rise of the Ice Machine. Kevin Bair Liberty University Summer 2020 Introduction This paper argues the origins of the artificial ice trade was triggered by the Union Naval blockade of the American Civil War (1861-1865), thus causing the slow death of the long-established natural ice trade […]
Greetings, This is my first attempt to make a graduate level lecture. Lecture 1 of 8 on Pre-Civil War: Religious thought on Death and Burial, Training of Doctors and Early Medicine. Two-thirds of the Civil War’s 600,000 plus deaths were...