Includes cartes de visite (CdV) photographs of Maine’s regimental officers as requested by Adjutant General John Hodsdon. A Civil War hospital steward was neither enlisted man nor commissioned officer, but rather an amalgam of corpsman, physicians assistant, pharmacist, supervising nurse, and medical supply officer. It is filed chronologically by State and then individually by city within the State. This material provides extremely useful economic information, containing evidence of who was manufacturing what and where.
#CIVIL WAR HOSPITAL STEWARD SERIES#
A very large series of letters comes from the numerous suppliers of every conceivable type of material from tin cups to silk flags. The material is arranged chronologically within each series or subheading. The study used a random sampling of Confederate and Union hospital stewards to evaluate the impact of their war time role as hospital steward on their future. As a hospital steward, Bonsall was part administrator, part pharmacist and part surgical assistant. War Department and from the Executive Department, and various commands of the U.S. The journal sheds little light on its author, but does give considerable insight into what it was like to be part of a medical unit during the Civil War, said UAB Historical Collections unit specialist Katie Oomens. At other times agents were sent as far afield as Florida to check on conditions among Maine troops.Īlso within this category is correspondence from the numerous branches of the U.S. Eventually, in Maine, agents were sent through each county to find these men, determine whether they were able to go back, and send them on their way. The civil war was 'on the job training' for everyone who worked in the medical field. None of the experience or formal education prepared the doctors of the 1850's for what was to besiege them in the Civil War. The Army had a dreadful time getting them back. By 1860 there were over 100 medical schools and the majority of the doctors had some formal education. These individuals were essentially pharmacists, a title the army adopted 40 years after the war. For instance, after Antietam, General McClellan granted wholesale furloughs to weary participants who took themselves home immediately. 'Overworked, Undermanned and Indispensable: Hospital Stewards in the Civil War' by William Cambell, Ed.D RN The final and often most valuable member of the medical staff was the hospital steward. Throughout the war, the Adjutant General and the Governors employed special agents to investigate and report on specific problems or conditions. September of 1862 found McWhorter tending sick and wounded soldiers. Often beset by regimental politics as well as civilian political interest, most of these units nevertheless matured into formidable fighting forces in the end. In September of 1861, on Sullivans Island, he would become a regimental hospital steward. While much of it deals with the mechanical routines of running a regiment, the material can give researchers a unique insight into how the volunteer regiments worked – or, in some cases, failed to work. This material primarily consists of incoming correspondence from officers of the various Maine units, addressed to either the Adjutant General of Maine or the three Governors who held office during the Civil War.
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