Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet

In July 1862, Burt Green Wilder left Boston to join Dr. Francis Brown, a surgeon working at Judiciary Square Hospital, one of the new army pavilion hospitals in Washington, D.C. Forty five years after the war ended Wilder began to draft his recollections of an era that had transformed him personally and radically altered American medicine.

In iulie 1862, Burt Green Wilder a parasit Bostonul pentru a se alatura Dr. Francis Brown, chirurg care lucra la Spitalul Judiciary Square, unul dintre noile spitale din pavilionul armatei din Washington, DC.