Doctor To The Front: Confederate Surgeon Thomas Fanning Wood

The Civil War was a conflict that destroyed many lives, but for those trying to save lives the tragedy was often compounded. Military doctors labored through the battle where impossible conditions and fear of infection often forced them to resort to amputation. Thomas Fanning Wood recorded his experiences as a Confederate Army surgeon, and his recollections of those events allow us to hear a distinct voice of the Civil War. As a soldier recovering from fever at a Richmond hospital, Wood dev...