Chapter 1, circa 1977

File — Box: 1, Folder: 5

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: This small collection of Paul E. Steiner's writings contains his research on disease during the Civil War. In addition to a folder of correspondence, 1965, concerning an article, "A note on determining the correct medical diagnosis on historical personages", the collection includes the holograph manuscript and an incomplete typescript copy of "Common valor", Steiner's 1971 examination of four Civil War officers' reactions to wounds and disease.

The bulk of the collection is comprised of the holograph manuscript and typescript [carbon copy], [1977?], of Steiner's monograph, Medical history of a Civil War regiment: disease in the Sixty Fifth United States Colored Infantry. The manuscript describes the causes and effects of disease in the 65th U.S. Colored Infantry (1863-1867), a regiment notorious for its poor health. Steiner provides a history of the regiment, biographical information on its officers, a statistical account of disease and a consideration of the regiment's history by disease, and notes on general sanitary affairs. The manuscript was published by the Institute of Civil War Studies in 1977.