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An Alphabetical list of the battles of the War of the Rebellion: with dates, from Ft. Sumter, S.C., April 12 and 13, 1861, to Kirby Smith's surrender, May 26, 1865. Compiled from the official records of the office of the Adjutant-General and the Surgeon-General, U.SA. by J. W. Wells and N. A. Strait, Revised by Newton A. Strait, with the addition of many incidents of the war, giving the number killed, wounded and missing in each of the important battles, Union troops engaged, names of the Generals killed and wounded in both armies; also the total number of enlistments, number discharged, number wounded, number missing, number of deaths, number killed in battle....And a roster of all the regimental surgeons and assistant surgeons of the late war and hospital service.
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Washington, DC: G. M. van Buren, Publisher, 1883 CE.
This was the most complete edition; prior editions were issued in 1875 and 1882. In 1990 Norman Publishing of San Francisco reprinted the 1883 edition with a new index to surgeons and an introduction by Ira M. Rutkow. Digital facsimile of the 1883 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
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| Entry Number | #7816 |
| Permanent Link | https://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/9988 |
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Publication place: Washington, DC
Mentioned in annotation: San Francisco, CA