Naval Surgeon; Blockading the South 1862-1866; The Diary of Dr. Samuel Pellman Boyer

Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1963. (Hardcover) 390pp. Good to very good in very good dust jacket. Top edge stained dark blue. Illustrations, notes, index. Lightly worn, there is a previous owner's book plate on the front free endpaper, rusty stains to the front endpapers and a dampstain to the bottom edge of the back cover. "Naval Surgeon is the colorful private journal of Samuel Pellman Boyer who in 1862, at the age of twenty-three, entered the Navy as a volunteer officer shortly after his graduation from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. His story stands almost alone as a firsthand description of life in the fleet during the Civil War". Diaries of Samuel Pellman Boyer. Book about Naval History. Time Period 1862-1866. (American Civil War, American Civil War, Journal, Military History, Surgeons).