Seventy-Five Years In Old Virginia

by John Herbert Claiborne

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A very good copy of this important work. John Herbert Claiborne was a Virginia politician and a leading medical administrator commanding a series of hospitals serving wounded Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. REFERENCES: KRICK 80: "Although Dr. Claiborne was not an extraordinary prominent man, his memoir is among the best, if not at the very top, of the Virginia books published by Neale which are not exclusively military. The doctor was born in Brunswick County, Virginia, and attended school there and in Leasburg, North Carolina. He also went to Randolph-Macon and the University of Virginia. Claiborne's recollections of Petersburg in the 1850's are the sort of record of which local historians dream. They are intimate and detailed enough to virtually comprise a street directory. His war experience was as surgeon of the 12th Virginia Infantry and as director of a military hospital in Petersburg. Some excellent material on field medical services, supply shortages, and Confederate surgical efforts is recoded from this period. Claiborne was not at the Crater, but digress long enough to render an enthusiastic version of Mahone's work there. A chapter on the retreat to Appomattox contains such which is of interest." NEVINS II pg 215: "Revealing for this observant physician's reminiscences of life in wartime Petersburg, Va.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1223135

• Publisher: Neale
• Year: 1905
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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