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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 28 24 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 14 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 13 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 8 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 7 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 30, 1862., [Electronic resource] 7 7 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 7 3 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 6 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for Cowan or search for Cowan in all documents.

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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The honor roll of the University of Virginia, from the times-dispatch, December 3, 1905. (search)
. U, Va., Fredericksburg, Va., 1863. Coleman, T. G., Lt. Va., Manassas Va., 1862. Coleman, J. H., Maj. Ala., Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1861. Coleman, C. L., Capt., La., Spotsylvania, Va., 1864. Collins, W. G., Va., 186—. Cunrad, H. A., Va., Manassas, Va., 1862. Conrad, H. T., Va., Manassas, Va., 1863. Cooke, W. M, Va., 186—. Corbin, R., Va., Culpeper, Va., 1862. Cosnahan, J. B., Capt. S. C., Warren Co., N. C., 1863. Cossit, C. E., Capt. Tenn., Milton, Tenn., 1862. Cowan, C. S., Surg. Miss., 1862. Cowherd, C. S., Va., Orange Co., Va., 1863. Cowin, J. H., Ala., Chancellorsville, Va., 1861. Cox, J. E., Lt., Va., Chesterfield, Va., 1865. Cropp, J. T., Surg., Va., 1863. Cunliffe, W. E., Miss., Chancellorsville, Va., 1861. Davenport, N. J., La., 1863. Davidson, G., Capt., Va., Chancellorsville, Va., 1865. Davidson, A., Va., Lexington, Va., 1864. Davis, R. B., Capt., Va., Peeble's Farm, Va., 1864. Davis, R., Capt., Va., Woodstock, Va.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Some of the drug conditions during the war between the States, 1861-5. (search)
ystal, bright and clear, but disease and death lurked in their beautiful eddies, for bowel diseases were produced, unusually, among officers and men, and, in the abscence of any pharmaceutical attachment to the army, it was without remedy until Dr. Cowan, attached as a physician to a Tennessee regiment, adopted the use of what is now the famous tablespoon remedy, consisting of a tablespoon of Epsom salts, and equal quantities of bicarbonate soda and laudanum, this dissolved in water and taken a tablespoonful at a dose. This remedy acted magically, and being so widely adopted, attracted the notice of General Forrest, who, out of admiration and gratitude, promoted Dr. Cowan to his personal staff with rank of major. There was another doctor who ought to have been promoted for this same sort of service, for diseases of the bowels, during long encampments, became pestilential. The food, especially the bread, when prepared by the ordinary mess soldier, seemed to be especially invented f