Altars to Amputations: From Gettysburg Churches to Battlefield Hospitals: a History and Walking Tour

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Rea Andrew Redd

Altars to Amputations

From Gettysburg Churches to Battlefield Hospitals: a History and Walking Tour

Rea Andrew Redd

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Savas Beatie
01 August 2020

American Civil War

Gettysburg's houses of worship, college lecture rooms, and homes witnessed the agony of wounded and dying soldiers and the exhaustion of surgeons and nurses. Rea Andrew Redd's Altars to Amputations: From Gettysburg Churches to Battlefield Hospitals: A History and Walking Tour shares the story of young boys and girls, their parents, Catholic priests and nuns, and Protestant pastors and their congregations who united in one giant effort to save lives with their voluntary service in a public health disaster none could have been imagined before July 1863.

Redd's accessible study is the first of its kind and designed to invite you into a different slice of the Gettysburg story, introducing people and places few if any students know much if anything about. Walk with him through Gettysburg and visit 14 different churches and school buildings, each of which holds unique stories of the lives and experiences of the saviors and sufferers alike.

Meet, for example, the Huber family. Dr. Henry Huber, his wife Priscilla, and their children lived on Chambersburg Street. Their son Frederick, a Federal infantry sergeant, had been killed outside Richmond, Virginia at the Battle of Fair Oaks on May 31, 1862. Dr. Huber made the sad journey to Virginia, retrieved his son's body, and buried him in Gettysburg's Evergreen Cemetery, where a Confederate shell smashed his gravestone. Henry worked as a contract surgeon at the Lutheran Seminary hospital alongside his second son, John, who worked as a nurse.

The mini-tours in Altars to Amputations include street fighting during the Federal retreat through the borough, an examination of the lives of African Americans and their church and cemetery, and women such as Elizabeth Thorn, Virginia Wade, Sally Myers, and the Foster, McCreary, and Buehler families.

Redd, is an authority on the Civil War and the host of Civil War Librarian, a popular blog. This work includes 14 walking tour stops, 22 history notes about the buildings you walk past, and dozens of others about medicine, the battle, the troops, and much more. This is one Gettysburg book that is entertaining, enlightening, and easy to read.

AUTHOR: Rea Andrew Redd is a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania. He received a baccalaureate degree in history and English at Waynesburg University in 1970. He received a masters degree in history at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and a masters degree of library science from the University of Pittsburgh, 1993. His Pennsylvania certification for social studies education, grades 7-12 was earned from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1982. Currently he is the director of Eberly Library, Waynesburg University and serves as an instructor of American history there also. Since 1993 he has reenacted the American Civil War as a Federal infantryman, a Federal Medical Service captain, and as President Abraham Lincoln.

By: Rea Andrew Redd
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781611215083
ISBN 10: 1611215080
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 01 August 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Rea Andrew Redd serves on the faculty of Waynesburg University as director of Eberly Library and adjunct instructor of American History. He is the author of “The Point of No Return: Turning Points within the 1864 Presidential Election and the Doom of the Confederacy,” in Turning Points of the American Civil War (Southern Illinois University, 2018), as well as The Gettysburg Campaign Study Guide, Volumes One and Two (2012, 2014). Civil War Librarian, his weblog established in 2005, has received more than 1.25 million page views. Rea speaks regularly on topics related to Abraham Lincoln, Civil War medicine, and Pennsylvania’s Civil War. A member of the 9th Pennsylvania Reserves, a Civil War reenactment group since 1993, he has provided living history for the George Spangler Farm, and the Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg National Military Park.

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Altars to Amputations

From Gettysburg Churches to Battlefield Hospitals: a History and Walking Tour

Rea Andrew Redd

$46.99

Paperback

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