Books by James O. Breeden

Of the many books written over the past century about the Old South and the American Civil War, a very few explore the scientific history of the South or the medical history of the war itself.

?What was not written about in the advice literature, may tell one almost as much as what was. There is, in short, much to be extracted from these sources, providing they are used critically and imaginatively.?-The North Carolina Historical Review