| Description |
1 online resource (157 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Spencer Bonsall's Life and Times to 1863; Peninsula Campaign: May 6 through June 22, 1862; Editors' Note on the Interlude of June to December 1862; Fredericksburg: December 5 to December 16, 1862; Windmill Point and Falmouth: January 6 to March 26, 1863; Editors' Postscript on March 1863 through War's End; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Author Bios; Back Cover |
| Summary |
Well Satisfied with My Position offers a first-person account of army life during the Civil War' s Peninsula Campaign and Battle of Fredericksburg. Spencer Bonsall, who joined the 81st Pennsylvania Infantry as a hospital steward, kept a journal from March 1862 until March 1863, when he abruptly ceased writing. Editors Michael A. Flannery and Katherine H. Oomens place his experiences in the context of the field of Civil War medicine and continue his story in an epilogue. Trained as a druggist when he was in his early twenties, Bonsall traveled t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Bonsall, Spencer, 1816-1888 -- Diaries
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Bonsall, Spencer, 1816-1888 fast |
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United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century
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United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 81st (1861-1865)
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United States. Army fast |
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United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 81st (1861-1865) fast |
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Hospitals -- United States -- Employees -- Diaries
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Soldiers -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY.
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Hospitals
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Hospitals -- Employees
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Regimental histories
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Armed Forces -- Military life
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Soldiers -- Health and hygiene
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140239
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Pennsylvania -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140261
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Pennsylvania -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140267
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Pennsylvania
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Diaries
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History
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Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oomens, Katherine H
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| LC no. |
2007003963 |
| ISBN |
9780809387694 |
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0809387697 |
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0809327708 |
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9780809327706 |
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1435663470 |
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9781435663473 |
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