UTSA presents Nov. 6 lecture on how disease affected course of Civil War
Michael Flannery
Michael Flannery
Share this Story(Nov. 3, 2014) -- The UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts and the Department of History will host a Nov. 6 lecture by Michael Flannery, associate director for historical collections at Lister Hill Library of Health Sciences and professor of history and sociology at the University of Alabama. His talk, "Fighting the 'Third Army': Combating the Ailments and Injuries of the American Civil War," is free an open to the public.
The lecture will be at 10 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 6 in McKinney Building Room 3.03.08 on the UTSA Main Campus.
There is probably no aspect of American history more thoroughly examined than the Civil War (1861-1865). Literally tens of thousands of books and articles have treated various aspects of the Union and Confederate armies. But there was a "third army" during the conflict that both sides had to contend with: the traumas and illnesses that accompanied battlefield injuries and camp disease.
Flannery will address the composition of that third army and its power in directing the course of the war. As Virginia surgeon Benjamin W. Allen (1824-1886) recalled, "No one could imagine fully the labor required unless they had gone through with it – the constant, unremitting drudgery, the wear and tear of both mental and physical energies, both by day and night, the tainted atmosphere in spite of ventilation and disinfectants, the want of proper medicines, the lack of necessaries and comforts for the sick and wounded – moans of the dying..." In confronting that formidable foe, Union and Conferate became one.
Flannery holds an M.A. degree from California State University, Dominguez Hills and a M.L.S. degree from the University of Kentucky. The author of seven books, his "John Uri Lloyd: The Great American Eclectic" (Southern Illinois Press, 1998) received the Kremers Award in 2001 for outstanding scholarship by an American from the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy. He also is an elected lifetime member of the Academie international d'histoire del la pharmacie.
Outside the field of pharmacy, Flannery received in 2002 the Gottlieb Prize for outstanding scholarship by a librarian from the Medical Library Association and the Archivist & Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences Publications Award for 2006. Besides writing on a wide range of historical topics in science and medicine, Flannery also has published on the history of medical ethics.
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