About this episode

Lindsay Rae Smith Privette discusses how medicine played a crucial role in the Vicksburg Campaign and its impact on the Civil War.

Lindsay Rae Smith Privette, The Surgeon's Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War.

People in this episode

Host: Gerry Prokopowicz

Guest: Lindsay Rae Smith Privette

Topics covered

• medicine
• Vicksburg Campaign
• Civil War
• military history
• surgery
• medical practices

Keywords

• Vicksburg Campaign
• Civil War
• medicine
• surgery
• military history
• Lindsay Rae Smith Privette
• The Surgeon's Battle

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Books & works: The Surgeon's Battle

Places: Civil War

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