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Four years of war provided the armies with many improvements. By the spring of 1865, the Medical Departments established efficient systems to deal with fallen soldiers. As a result, casualty survival improved during the last campaign. In this study, we have brought together numerous primary source accounts and documents of how both the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the James followed these improved practices during the final campaign of the war in Virginia. Confederate surgeon accounts are included as well when they could be found.
Important hospital locations of the final campaign include: City Point, Petersburg, Namozine Church, Wilson’s Station, Burkeville Junction, Sailor’s Creek, Farmville, Cumberland Church, Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House. These locations formed the backbone of a highly organized and effective network for the management of battle casualties. The well-documented, firsthand descriptions included herein not only demonstrate the extent of the carnage, but the determination of those in charge of the hospital system and their quest to develop and apply the most sophisticated approaches available for saving lives.
The fate of the soldiers killed, wounded and injured during the final fighting in Virginia, that resulted in Grant’s victory over Lee at Appomattox, has been a long-overlooked piece of the Appomattox Campaign. By scouring a myriad of letters, diaries and reports, we have compiled accounts not only from the various stark lists of casualties, but from the reports and stories told by those involved in the care of the soldiers, including ambulance drivers that brought them to make-shift hospitals, and the doctors themselves.
Sales of this book benefits battlefield Preservation through the Appomattox-Petersburg Preservation Society—A non-profit 501c3 organization dedicated to preserving battlefield land associated with the Appomattox Campaign and the Wilson-Kautz Raid. The book will be available in April 2026.
Four years of war provided the armies with many improvements. By the spring of 1865, the Medical Departments established efficient systems to deal with fallen soldiers. As a result, casualty survival improved during the last campaign. In this study, we have brought together numerous primary source accounts and documents of how both the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the James followed these improved practices during the final campaign of the war in Virginia. Confederate surgeon accounts are included as well when they could be found.
Important hospital locations of the final campaign include: City Point, Petersburg, Namozine Church, Wilson’s Station, Burkeville Junction, Sailor’s Creek, Farmville, Cumberland Church, Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House. These locations formed the backbone of a highly organized and effective network for the management of battle casualties. The well-documented, firsthand descriptions included herein not only demonstrate the extent of the carnage, but the determination of those in charge of the hospital system and their quest to develop and apply the most sophisticated approaches available for saving lives.
The fate of the soldiers killed, wounded and injured during the final fighting in Virginia, that resulted in Grant’s victory over Lee at Appomattox, has been a long-overlooked piece of the Appomattox Campaign. By scouring a myriad of letters, diaries and reports, we have compiled accounts not only from the various stark lists of casualties, but from the reports and stories told by those involved in the care of the soldiers, including ambulance drivers that brought them to make-shift hospitals, and the doctors themselves.
Sales of this book benefits battlefield Preservation through the Appomattox-Petersburg Preservation Society—A non-profit 501c3 organization dedicated to preserving battlefield land associated with the Appomattox Campaign and the Wilson-Kautz Raid. The book will be available in April 2026.