Richmond's Wartime Hospitals (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781589802971)

Rebecca Barbour Calcutt has devoted a great deal of her time and energy to the study of American history. In pursuit of history, she moved to Charleston, South Carolina, and became a licensed tour guide for both the city of Charleston and Middleton Place Plantation. Mrs. Calcutt can be found at Middleton Place Plantation giving tours of the house and gardens. In following her keen interest in American history, Mrs. Calcutt has completed extensive studies in colonial and Revolutionary-era history. She has a bachelor of arts, with honors in history, from the University of Maryland and a masterís degree in antebellum southern history from the University of Charleston. She has served as a docent for the Smithsonian Institutionís National Museum of American History and has also given tours of Washington, D.C., Arlington Cemetery, and Mount Vernon. As a result of being unable to find an adequate guidebook on South Carolina's battlefields, and since Mrs. Calcutt believes that history is best learned in a 'hands-on' environment, she decided to write her own easy-to-use tour guide for South Carolina, the state that saw the most battles during the Revolutionary War. South Carolina's Revolutionary War Battlefields: A Tour Guide is her realization of a battlefield tour guide specifically designed for South Carolina. Mrs. Calcutt chose to include each battle site based on three criteria: accessibility, something to see, and an interesting story. Her book is compact enough to fit in a glove compartment and lightweight enough for the reader to carry around the battlefield. Richmond's Wartime Hospitals also covers military history, but from behind the front lines of battle. While medical science enjoyed several advances during the Civil War, the doctors and hospitals in the s outhern states faced overwhelming casualties with few supplies and inadequate personnel. By focusing on facilities in Virginiaís capitol, Mrs. Calcutt, who is also a registered nurse, illustrates how exhausted resources rapidly defeated southern doctors' heroic efforts.