Civil War Medicine Books

If you'd like to learn more about Civil War medicine,
try some of the following books:

Battlefield Medicine: A History of the Military Ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars through World War I

Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine

Blue, Gray and Red: Two Nurses’ Views of the Civil War

Civil War Nurse: The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes

Civil War Medicine

Civil War Medicine: Care and Comfort of the Wounded

Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs

Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War

Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care during the American Civil War

Hospital Days: Reminiscence of a Civil War Nurse

Images of Civil War Medicine: A Photographic History

In Hospital and Camp: The Civil War through the Eyes of its Doctors and Nurses

Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War

The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine

The Journal of a Civil War Surgeon

The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion

The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell: Sex in the Civil War

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America

Years of Change and Suffering: Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine