This publication serves to highlight important medical innovations and improvements gained from the deadliest day in US history. The Battle of Antietam in the US Civil War was pivotal in shaping future combat medical readiness practices in the US Army. The medical aspects of the Battle of Antietam provide important lessons in battlefield tactics, leadership, command and control, communications, and unit training that improve our readiness to bring combat power to commanders in the field of battle. - Raymond S. Dingle, Lieutenant General, US Army.
CHAPTER 1 Direct Action on the Battlefield 21
CHAPTER 2 Direct Action and Battlefield Hospital 53
CHAPTER 3 Last Push 95
CHAPTER 4 Division-Level Field Hospitals 117
CHAPTER 5 Corps and Evacuation Hospitals 149
CHAPTER 6 Frederick General Hospitals and the National Museum of Civil War Medicine 157
Selected Antietam Medical Histories 193
Antietam Casualties 200
Medical Officers of the Army of the Potomac at Antietam 202
Index 203
The military medical community, through the application of practices provided by the Borden Institute.
