Rhode Island's Civil War Hospital

<p> During the Civil War thousands of wounded Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners convalesced in a general army hospital in rural Portsmouth Grove Rhode Island. Because of its location on the periphery of the action the hospital has remained a footnote to the dramatic sweep of Civil War literature. However its history and the experiences of the doctors nurses patients and guards that gave it life provide a new perspective on the interaction between the army and society in wartime and on life in Civil War America. This in-depth account also explores the barbarities of medicine daily routine in a general army hospital the role of citizens in providing aid the later adventures of former patients and staff and the final resting places of those who died on the grounds.</p>