![]() To obtain a copy of Clarence’s biography: Send for the Doctor: The Life and Times of Dr. See Clarence’s episode-by-episode accounts about the historical accuracy of “Mercy Street” here: The fact is, Civil War medical care of the mass casualties created by the war was the beginning of emergency medicine in America. The Civil War saw the nearly universal use of general anesthesia (ether and chloroform) during surgery, so soldiers were not awake and biting on bullets. It also is helping to bust some very old and tenacious myths. ![]() Stonestreet for the public at our Stonestreet Museum of 19th Century Medicine in Rockville and at other venues around the region, closely watched the “Mercy Street” series and has written his observations about the historical accuracy of the show’s depiction of Civil War-era medical care.Īccording to Clarence, “Mercy Street” has offered reasonably accurate portrayals of the subject, and the people involved. Stonestreet’s medical education and his Civil War service are described in his biography Send for the Doctor, written by Clarence Hickey and published by Montgomery History in 2009.Ĭlarence, who portrays Dr. Foster were educated at the University of Maryland’s School of Medicine in Baltimore, which was a very good and progressive medical school that modeled itself after the better medical schools in Europe at that time.ĭr. Hospital, The Young and the Soldiers, etc.). Stonestreet (Class of 1852) and “Mercy Street’s” Dr. shocking, interesting, and drama-filled aspects of the Civil War. ![]() They would have been considered the “living wounded” who had very good chances of survival, since they had been treated near the battlefield and in temporary hospitals in Frederick before being sent to DC for long term care in the new hospitals. The Courthouse hospital in Rockville probably was a layover offering follow-up medical care for those soldiers who needed it. It appears that these wounded were en route from the Army field hospitals in Frederick City to the new Army general hospitals in and around Washington, DC. The wounded were transported to Rockville via the Union Army Ambulance Corps. The Courthouse hospital received wounded from the Battle of Antietam in September, 1862. Stonestreet was the surgeon in charge during that time. The US Army converted the Montgomery County Courthouse, the predecessor of the still-standing Red Brick Courthouse, and its grounds into a temporary hospital from September 1862 till January 1863. He was assigned to an Army Hospital in Rockville. Edward Stonestreet served as a Civil War contract surgeon with the US Army during the end of 1862 and into mid-1863. In real life, Montgomery County’s very own Dr. A contract surgeon was a local civilian doctor hired by the Army to assist the commissioned surgeons who were not able to singlehandedly manage the enormous needs of thousands of wounded soldiers. The main medical character in the Mercy Street Hospital is a young contract surgeon named Dr. The setting was in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1862 during the height of the Civil War. Stonestreet, and Civil War MedicineĪs many Montgomery History members surely know, PBS aired the six-part Civil War series “Mercy Street” during January and February 2016.
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