Thomas Ledford began by observing that despite his love for American history “the medical aspects influencing our major wars were entirely new to me.” Ledford described the heroic behavior of two nursing “icons” Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton. He then discussed the nurses who served in WWII who were trained at Lynchburg General, and Central Virginia’s highly skilled doctors who made the “ultimate sacrifice.” Ledford highlights the major advancements in medicine and in the "chain of evacuation" used in WWII.
Digital images Jones Memorial Library Manuscript 2074, the Calista Rosser Cralle Long Journal. Includes a hand drawn map.
The journal is a typescript entitled Journal of a Journey from Virginia to Kentucky, which is transcribed and prepared by Anne Lilliott Long from an original journal kept by Calista Rosser Cralle Long. The journal details a migration from Campbell County, Virginia to Union County, Kentucky in December 1836 and January 1837.
The typescript is held in printed format at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.
James A. Huston traces the progress made in a little over 100 years in caring for wounded soldiers and other patients. People were suffering from dysentery, typhoid fever, typhus, small pox, autumnal remittance, and other serious conditions. George Washington was concerned. Huston traces the challenges, failures and successes in improving medical treatment. His presentation concludes by highlighting ten people “to whom we owe a special debt of gratitude for our health."
