Lindsay Rae Smith Privette
Historian and author of The Surgeon's Battle (UNC Press, 2025), specializing in Civil War medical history and the Vicksburg campaign, drawing on professional and local ties to the region.
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Apr 4, 2026 • 51min
Lindsay Rae Smith Privette, "The Surgeon's Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)
Lindsay Rae Smith Privette, historian and author specializing in Civil War medical history and Vicksburg, discusses how medical organization shaped the 200-mile campaign and siege. She highlights reforms in army medicine, the toll of disease and sanitation, tensions between surgeons and commanders, and surprising research finds about burials and caregiver experiences.
Apr 4, 2026 • 51min
Lindsay Rae Smith Privette, "The Surgeon's Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)
Lindsay Rae Smith Privette, a historian from Vicksburg and author of The Surgeon's Battle, explores Civil War medicine during the Vicksburg campaign. She discusses 200-mile marches, medical logistics that kept troops fighting, siege-era disease and hospital systems, and how medical organization shaped the campaign’s outcome. The conversation also touches on sanitation disasters and the human cost of wartime care.
