During the Civil War, countless injured Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners convalesced in a general army health center in rural Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island. Since of its location on the periphery of the action, the medical facility has actually stayed a footnote to the significant sweep of Civil War literature. However, its history and the experiences of the physicians, nurses, patients and guards that gave it life supply a new viewpoint on the interaction between the army and society in wartime and on life in Civil War America. This thorough account also explores the barbarities of medicine, daily regimen in a general army hospital, the function of citizens in providing help, the later adventures of former clients and personnel, and the final resting places of those who died on the grounds.
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