The Wounded River: The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D

East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1993. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x0x9. 2nd printing. Top page ridge foxed. 1993 Hard Cover. 241 pp. The Wounded River takes the reader back more than 130 years to reveal a marvelous, first-hand account of nineteenth-century warfare. In the process, the work cuts the legends and mythology that have come to frame and define accounts of America's bloodiest war. Of equal significance, Peter Josyph's editorial work on this superb collection of letters from the Western Americana Division of Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library enhances and clarifies Lauderdale's experinces (truncated) as a surgeon aboard the U.S. Army hospital ship D. A. January. (Inventory #: 2331281)