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Peninsular Campaign, 1862. --- United States --- History --- Campaigns. --- Peninsula Campaign, Va., 1862 --- Peninsular Campaign, 1862 --- Peninsular Campaign, Va., 1862.
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In the Peninsula Campaign of spring 1862, Union general George B. McClellan failed in his plan to capture the Confederate capital and bring a quick end to the conflict. But the campaign saw something new in the war--the participation of African Americans in ways that were critical to the Union offensive. Ultimately, that participation influenced Lincoln's decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation at the end of that year. Glenn David Brasher's unique narrative history delves into African American involvement in this pivotal military event, demonstrating that blacks contributed essential m
Slaves --- Peninsular Campaign, 1862. --- Slavery --- Emancipation --- United States --- History --- Participation, African American. --- Enslaved persons --- Peninsula Campaign, Va., 1862 --- Peninsular Campaign, 1862 --- Peninsular Campaign, Va., 1862.
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Hospital ships --- Transports --- Medical personnel --- Peninsular Campaign, 1862. --- History --- United States Sanitary Commission. --- United States --- Hospitals. --- Medical care.
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The care of the sick, wounded, and dying during the American Civil War was a complex endeavor that brought ordinary men and women into contact with the terror of the battlefield. Hospital Transports is a compilation of letters and other papers written by physicians and nurses serving aboard the Union hospital steamboat Daniel Webster in the summer of 1862. The text details sleeping arrangements, cooking and feeding schedules, medical practices, and the incorporation of liberated slaves from the Lee plantation into the daily work of the ship. Clearly described are the emotional, visceral reactions of the corps of medical personnel who, as their ship makes its way along the Potomac picking up casualties, question the philosophies at the root of war, and the metaphysical questions concerning the definitions of life and death.
Hospital ships --- Transports --- Medical personnel --- Peninsular Campaign, 1862. --- History --- United States Sanitary Commission. --- United States --- Hospitals. --- Medical care. --- Health care personnel --- Health care professionals --- Health manpower --- Health personnel --- Health professions --- Health sciences personnel --- Health services personnel --- Healthcare professionals --- Medical manpower --- Troopships --- Floating hospitals --- U.S. Sanitary Commission --- Sanitary Commission (U.S.) --- Sanitary Commission of the United States Army --- Sanitary Committee (U.S.) --- Sanitation Commission (U.S.) --- Professional employees --- Transportation, Military --- Hospitals, Naval and marine --- Mobile hospitals --- Ships --- Civilian relief --- Medical care --- Peninsula Campaign, Va., 1862 --- Peninsular Campaign, 1862 --- Peninsular Campaign, Va., 1862.
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Native Americans and the Environment brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars whose works continue and complicate the conversations that Shepard Krech started in The Ecological Indian . Hailed as a masterful synthesis and yet assailed as a problematic political tract, Shepard Krech's work prompted significant discussions in scholarly communities and among Native Americans.
Historic sites --- Battlefields --- Seven Days' Battles, Va., 1862. --- Peninsular Campaign, 1862. --- Seven Days' Battles, 1862 --- Battlegrounds --- Battles --- Military parks --- Virginia --- Commonwealth of Virginia --- Old Dominion --- Sodruzhestvo Virdzhiniĭ --- Virdzhinii︠a︡ --- Colony and Dominion of Virginia --- Colony of Virginia --- Virginia Colony --- West Virginia --- Northwest Territory --- Kentucky --- Virginia (Reorganized government : 1861-1863) --- History, Local. --- Peninsula Campaign, Va., 1862 --- Peninsular Campaign, 1862 --- Human-animal relationships --- Philosophy of nature --- Indian philosophy --- Ethnoecology --- Indigenous peoples --- Human ecology --- Traditional ecological knowledge --- Indians of North America --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Animal-human relationships --- Animal-man relationships --- Animals and humans --- Human beings and animals --- Man-animal relationships --- Relationships, Human-animal --- Animals --- Ecology --- Philosophy --- Peninsular Campaign, Va., 1862.
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