Title Practicing medicine in a black regiment : the Civil War diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts / edited by Richard M. Reid

Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map Summary "In early 1863, in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Massachusetts began recruiting black soldiers to serve in the Civil War. Burt Green Wilder, a Boston-born, Harvard educated doctor-in-training, was among the first white officers commissioned to staff the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. From the time he joined the unit in May 1863 until the regiment was discharged in September 1865, Wilder recorded his experiences and observations. He described the day-to-day activities of a Civil War surgeon, the indignities suffered by black enlisted men at the hands of a War Department that denied them the same treatment offered to white troops, and the role of the regiment in the campaign around Charleston and in Florida. Service in the Southern states also allowed Wilder to indulge a passion for natural science and comparative anatomy, including the collection of unusual species, one of which -- the spider known as Nephila wilderi -- still bears his name. After the war he completed his medical studies at Harvard and joined the faculty of Cornell University, where he became a distinguished professor of zoology as well as an outspoken advocate of racial equality. In his introduction to the volume, Richard M. Reid analyzes Burt Wilder's diary and places it within the context of the war, the experience of African American troops, and Wilder's life and career"--Jacket Notes OldControl:muse9781613760352 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-273) and index Notes Print version record Subject Wilder, Burt G. (Burt Green), 1841-1925 -- Diaries SUBJECT Wilder, Burt G. (Burt Green), 1841-1925 -- Diaries Wilder, Burt G. (Burt Green), 1841-1925 Wilder, Burt G. (Burt Green), 1841-1925 fast Subject United States. Army -- Surgeons -- Diaries United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 55th (1863-1865) SUBJECT United States Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 55th (1863-1865) United States. Army fast United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 55th (1863-1865) fast Subject Surgeons -- Massachusetts -- Diaries HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877) Armed Forces -- Surgeons Medical care Military participation -- African American Surgeons SUBJECT Massachusetts -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American Massachusetts -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140261 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140247 Subject Massachusetts United States Genre/Form diaries. Diaries History Personal narratives Diaries. Personal narratives. Récits personnels. Journaux intimes. Form Electronic book Author Reid, Richard M., 1943- LC no. 2009045171 ISBN 9781613760352 1613760353

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