The Surgeon's Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War Tots_Gift_Guide party-planner-to-the-stars Lyra Willton

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The Surgeon's Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War Tots_Gift_Guide party-planner-to-the-stars Lyra WilltonBetween May 1 and May 22, 1863, Union soldiers marched nearly 200 miles through the hot, humid countryside to assault and capture the fortified city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Upon its arrival, the army laid siege to the city for a grueling forty seven days. Disease and combat casualties threatened to undermine the armys fighting strength, leaving medical officers to grapple with the battlefield conditions necessary to sustain soldiers' bodies.