Civil War Books and Authors, a leading provider of reviews and information on new releases of Civil War books has reviewed Wade Sokolosky’s North Carolina’s Confederate Hospitals 1864-1865, Volume 2. Click on the teaser paragraph below to read the rull review.
By now the vast majority of significant Civil War campaigns, raids, and battles fought in the state of North Carolina, beginning with the Union captures of Forts Hatteras and Clark in August 1861 and concluding with the Confederate surrender at Bennett Place in April 1865, have received noteworthy treatment in the military history literature. However, the Confederate medical service’s tall task of dealing with the human cost of those conflicts, from serious illness and disease acquired in camp or on the march to wounds received on the battlefield, has not been followed in like depth and fashion. Making enormous inroads into bridging that gap is Wade Sokolosky, who has not only contributed immensely to the documentation of the late-war campaigns in North Carolina but is now in the middle of producing a multi-volume history of the military hospital system in North Carolina. The newest installment in that project, North Carolina’s Confederate Hospitals 1864-1865, Volume II, represents the middle volume of a planned trilogy…
