Greetings, This video is about Kevin's initial research on his dissertation topic; Hospital ships of The Western Sanitary Commission used during the Battle of Pittsburg Landing April 6-7, 1862. How effective were they when compared to battlefield medicine? Did they...
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 Tangled Web Of Early Civil War Medicine An Inept Lincoln Cabinet During The Battle of First Manassas, 1861 and The Peninsula Campaign, 1862: Unnecessary Deaths of Savable Men By Kevin M. Bair History Ph.D. Student Liberty University Fall 2020 HIUS 820 Introduction...
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...
The American Civil War: Hygiene, Doctors, Diseases, Death, Thwarted Battles, Microscopes and Innovation: A Historiographical Survey Kevin Bair For decades, historians have written about the American Civil War’s (1861-1865) medical systems, doctors, diseases and...