Our 10th Release! NC Confederate Hospitals 1861-1863
Fox Run Publishing is proud to announce a milestone, our tenth book. We are even prouder that it is from one of the foremost experts on the Carolina’s Campaign, Wade Sokolosky.
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The Old North State’s Confederate hospitals receive scant attention from most historians. Wade Sokolosky rectifies this oversight with North Carolina’s Confederate Hospitals, Vol. I, 1861-1863. Sokolosky offers the first definitive study of this forgotten history, revealing the key players and how losses from disease, sickness, and the early military operations in both North Carolina and Virginia generated the requirement for military hospitals.
In chronological order, beginning in April 1861, the author discusses how the density of troop populations in certain regions of the state, and an ever-increasing number of sick and wounded, eventually transformed the state by December 1863 into a major hospital center for sick and wounded from Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
In volume one of North Carolina’s Confederate Hospitals, Sokolosky exposes the Confederate government’s total unpreparedness for the drawn-out war that unfolded, and how it failed to provide adequate care for thousands of sick and wounded. It was in the war’s early years that individual states and private organizations, independent of the fledgling Confederate Medical Department, provided the necessary support to their native sons.
Sokolosky also presents an in-depth portrait of the friction that existed between the Confederate and North Carolina medical departments, as well as, describing the diverse makeup of North Carolina’s hospital personnel. As the war dragged on, this became progressively dependent upon Confederate women, and even more so, African Americans, both enslaved and free, who carried out the day-to-day operations of these institutions.
North Carolina’s Confederate Hospitals is the result of years of careful research in a wide variety of archival sources. It relies upon individual service records, official reports, diaries, newspapers, and letter collections, all tied to a keen understanding of both military operations and the emerging significance of the railroad. Sokolosky, a career army officer, has used his expertise in military affairs to produce this definitive study of one of the most overlooked yet significant parts of North Carolina history. Outstanding original maps by George Skoch coupled with period photographs reinforce this account. Readers with an interest in Civil War hospitals, North Carolina history, or the Civil War, in general, will enjoy this book.
About the Author
Colonel Wade Sokolosky (Ret.), a native of Beaufort, North Carolina, is a graduate of East Carolina University and a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Army. He is one of North Carolina’s leading experts of the 1865 Carolinas Campaign. Wade has lectured throughout the country speaking to roundtables, various societies and organizations, and at historical sites. He is the recipient of the Raleigh Civil War Round Table’s 2017 T. Harry Gatton Award for his important efforts to study, preserve, and share the Civil War heritage of his native North Carolina. Wade is co-author (with Mark A. Smith) of “No Such Army Since the Days of Julius Caesar”: Sherman’s Carolinas Campaign from Fayetteville to Averasboro (revised edition 2016) and To Prepare for Sherman’s Coming: The Battle of Wise’s Forks, March 1865 (2015), and the compiler of Final Roll Call: Confederate Losses during the Carolinas Campaign (2013).