Comments on: Surgeon Simon Baruch

By: Dick Stanley

Dick Stanley — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:39:04 +0000

I found it somewhere on the Web, after an extensive search on his name and honorific. Don’t remember exactly where. Sorry. You’re welcome to download a copy of it if you like. Just right click on it and save it to your location. Thanks for the comment.

By: Debra Smith

Debra Smith — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:40:00 +0000

Please tell me where you found the photo of Dr. Simon Baruch.

By: Jews in the 13th | 13TH MISSISSIPPI INFANTRY REGIMENT

Jews in the 13th | 13TH MISSISSIPPI INFANTRY REGIMENT — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 05:17:43 +0000

[...] there had always been some Jews. And, so, Dr. Simon Baruch, the South Carolina surgeon of post-war fame who was assigned to the 13th for a few months in [...]

By: “Under Divine blessing we must rely upon the bayonet” « Dead Confederates

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:47:04 +0000

[...] Dr. Simon Baruch, and his wartime-published case study on bayonet wounds. Previous posts on Baruch here and [...]

By: Simon Baruch on bayonet wounds | 13TH MISSISSIPPI INFANTRY REGIMENT

Simon Baruch on bayonet wounds | 13TH MISSISSIPPI INFANTRY REGIMENT — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:17:45 +0000

[...] 4, 2010 by Dick Stanley It’s questionable how much influence he had, but the 13th’s surgeon of post-war fame did his best in 1864 to dispel the notion common among soldiers that bayonet [...]

By: The Incredible Dr. Simon Baruch | 13TH MISSISSIPPI INFANTRY REGIMENT

The Incredible Dr. Simon Baruch | 13TH MISSISSIPPI INFANTRY REGIMENT — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:01:12 +0000

[...] by Dick Stanley That’s part of the title of a talk on the 13th Mississippi’s onetime surgeon to be given in October at the 18th Annual Conference on Civil War Medicine in Towson, MD. Dr. B. is [...]

By: Dick Stanley

Dick Stanley — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:05:46 +0000

Great, thanks. Nothing like the primary source. I was planning to do more posts on SB, anyhow, and these links will help.

By: Andy Hall

Andy Hall — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:02:12 +0000

Try this, p. 102, lower left column.

By: Andy Hall

Andy Hall — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:17 +0000

Full cite: Simon Baruch, "Two Cases of Penetrating Bayonet Wounds of the Chest," Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal I, (1864), 133-34. Baruch is mentioned several times in Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the American Civil War by Frank R. Freemon. See also: Simon Baruch, "A Surgeon's Story of Battle and Capture," Confederate Veteran 22 (1914), 5454-48.

By: Dick Stanley

Dick Stanley — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:55:56 +0000

Thanks, Andy. But I can’t get your link to work.

Ward says SB only wrote about the Minie bullet, and only in passing, though I suppose its shape and the rifling of the barrel, which makes it whirl in flight and on impact, makes it almost modern.