A Darkness Ablaze: The Civil War Medical Diary and Wartime Experiences of Dr. John Hendricks Kinyoun, Sixty-Sixth North Carolina Infantry Regiment

A Darkness Ablaze, The Civil War Medical Diary and Wartime Experiences of Dr. John Hendricks Kinyoun, Sixty-Sixth North Carolina Infantry Regiment presents a chilling, detailed account of American medicine during the Civil War. The basis of the book is the medical diary of the author's great-great-grandfather, Dr. John Hendricks Kinyoun, surgeon of the Sixty-Sixth North Carolina Infantry Regiment. Dr. Kinyoun served with this unit from September 1863 until April 1865, when his regiment surrendered at Durham Station, North Carolina, at the war's conclusion. "...provides important new insights into the traumas faced by those who served in the medical field during this great conflict which divided the nation." Dr. William E. Parrish, Professor Emeritus, Mississippi State University.Houts, Joseph Kinyoun, Jr. is the author of 'A Darkness Ablaze: The Civil War Medical Diary and Wartime Experiences of Dr. John Hendricks Kinyoun, Sixty-Sixth North Carolina Infantry Regiment', published 2005 under ISBN 9780972535366 and ISBN 0972535365.