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By Ira M. Rutkow. 394 pp., illustrated. New York, Random House, 2005. $27.95. ISBN 0-375-50315-3.

For the curious uninitiated, or for people like me who grew up in a household in which the battles of the Civil War and the prominent figures who commanded the vast armies during it were topics of constant conversation and interest, Bleeding Blue and Gray provides rare insight into an era in which surgery and medicine were in considerable flux in the United States. The book recounts this history in large part from the perspective of the northern states and the Union Army. The opening vignette is based on an 1859 newspaper article describing the willing transfer of 250 medical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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