Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Grayson, Ronald Ira
Author's Email Address	ronniegrayson@hotmail.com
URN	etd-04132004-163322
Title	Investigations Into Civil War Medicine Through Some Artifacts Recovered From The U.S. Army Transport Maple Leaf
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	Anthropology, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Dr. Cheryl Ward Committee Chair Dr. Clarence Gravlee Committee Member Dr. Michael Faught Committee Member
Keywords	sanitary commission shipwreck maple leaf civil war medicine
Date of Defense	2004-04-06
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This thesis examines an assemblage of artifacts recovered from the U.S. Army Transport Maple Leaf. This assemblage was part of a cargo of baggage from three regiments of Union Army troops sent to Florida in 1864. The U.S. Sanitary Commission, a civilian aid organization, likely distributed the assemblage studied to one or all of these regiments. It consists of non-military equipment likely used for medical practices. The assemblage is examined in context of the emergence of sanitary medical practices and the emergence of sanitation in the medical community during the Civil War. This thesis argues that newly introduced, more effective sanitary practices of the Civil War were not adopted after the war because the underlying cause of infection and disease was not understood. It was only after the advent of germ theory in the 1890’s that the medical community adopted sanitation practices first recommended in the early 1860’s.
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