Confederate Hospitals on the Move - Samuel Stout and the Army of Tennessee

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Confederate Hospitals on the Move
Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee
By Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein
Published by University of South Carolina Press, 1996
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Condition : Paperback : Near Fine.
Unread, has small black "remainder" mark on one edge.
226 pages, with portraits, illustrations, maps.   Indexed.
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From The University of South Carolina Webpage
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Confederate Hospitals on the Move : Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee
by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein
A rare look at medical care behind the western theater's transient battle lines
Confederate Hospitals on the Move tells the story of one innovative Confederate doctor and his successful administration of more than sixty mobile military hospitals scattered throughout the western theater. Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein describes how Samuel Hollingsworth Stout, medical director of the Army of Tennessee, established and oversaw some of the Confederacy's most adaptable, efficient, and well-administered hospitals.
Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein is assistant editor of The Papers of Andrew Johnson at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
"Thoroughly researched, impressively documented, forcefully argued, and convincingly written. Schroeder-Lein is to be commended for rescuing Stout from relative anonymity and for shedding important light on Confederate medicine in the less well known western theater."—Journal of American History
"An appreciative assessment of how southern doctors orchestrated soldier care, often despite recalcitrant quartermasters, railroad officials, Union Army raids, and unappreciative wounded."—Choice
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Samuel Stout performed a herculean task - managing the Confederate Hospital System supporting the Army of Tennessee
as it struggled to oppose Union General William T. Sherman's advancing forces.
He found little help from the Confederate Military.  His appeals for wagons and logistical support were
most often ignored or declined.  Undeterred, he used whatever means he could to get the job done.
Also included in the book are observations of other hardships of doctors trying to aid the vast number
of wounded soldiers from massive battles like Chickamauga and the Siege of Atlanta.
Stout's post-war story is one of struggle, impoverishment, and disappointment.
He saved 1500 pounds of hospital records, and sought time and again to find someone
willing to help him publish them - to no avail.  On his death, the records were given to his wife and
children.  His wife did not survive him by long, and his two daughters sold the collection off here and
there - much of it going to the University of Texas, but many of his personal letters being sold to
various collectors by his last surviving daughter, Kate.  Due to the scattered nature of much of his
collection, the history of Stout's efforts did not garner the attention that it is truly due.
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