Anderson University Associate Professor of History Lindsay Rae Smith Privette published her first book, The Surgeon’s Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War. 

Privette’s book, published by UNC Press, offers a fresh perspective on the environmental threats, logistical challenges and interpersonal conflicts that shaped the campaign and siege. In doing so, Privette shines new light on the development of the army’s medical systems as officers learned to adapt to their circumstances and prove themselves responsible stewards of soldiers’ bodies.  

By centering soldiers’ health and medical care in the Union army’s fight to take Vicksburg, Lindsay Rae Smith Privette offers a fresh perspective on the environmental threats, logistical challenges, and interpersonal conflicts that shaped the campaign and siege. In doing so, Privette shines new light on the development of the army’s medical systems as officers learned to adapt to their circumstances and prove themselves responsible stewards of soldiers’ bodies.  

Dr. Privette is a faculty member in the Department of History and Political Science of the College of Arts and Sciences. 

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