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I Acted from Principle: The Civil War Diary of Dr. William M. McPheeters, Confederate Surgeon in the Trans-Mississippi (The Civil War in the West)
I Acted from Principle The Civil War Diary of Dr William M McPheeters Confederate Surgeon in the TransMississippi - The Civil War in the West Author:Cynthia Dehaven Pitcock, Bill J. Gurley, William M. McPheeters As the first published daily account of the Trans-Mississippi war in Arkansas and Mississippi by a Confederate medical officer, this diary, now in paperback for the first time, offers a unique perspective and is a most valuable primary sourcebook. William McPheeters recorded details about the struggle to keep men alive, not only from battlefield... more » wounds but also from exposure, sickness, disease, and malnutrition. It also provides intimate looks at Confederate civilians and behind-the-scenes glimpses of the army's high command west of the river. From almost the moment of his departure for the war, the doctor kept a diary. It was a pocket-size notebook which he made by folding sheets of pale blue writing paper in half and in which he wrote in miniature with his steel pen. The journal appears in this book in its complete and original form, exactly as the doctor first wrote it.« less