Green, Carol C.

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Green, Carol C.

(Carol Cranmer Green)

PERSONAL:

Married; husband's name Robert; children: three daughters. Education: Texas Tech University, Ph.D. Hobbies and other interests: Cooking, exploring the outdoors with her family, and reading good books.

ADDRESSES:

Office—School of Professional Studies, George Fox University, 414 N. Meridian St., Newberg, OR 97132. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Writer, educator. Teaching assistant at Texas Tech University and Oklahoma State University; Wayland Baptist University, Clovis, NM, dean and associate professor of history, nine years; George Fox University, Newberg, OR, dean of School of Professional Studies and associate professor of history, 2005—.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Jefferson Davis Book Award nomination, 2005, for Chimborazo: The Confederacy's Largest Hospital.

WRITINGS:

Chimborazo: The Confederacy's Largest Hospital, University of Tennessee Press (Knoxville, TN), 2004.

SIDELIGHTS:

Carol C. Green is dean of the School of Professional Studies and an associate professor of history at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. Her research interests are nineteenth- century American history and leadership. She published her first book, Chimborazo: The Confederacy's Largest Hospital, in 2004.

The American Civil War saw an exponential growth in the number of hospitals in the United States. Prior to the war, large hospital facilities had often been failures. But with the many dead and injured from battle during the Civil War, hospitals became necessary for both the North and the South. On both sides, hospital construction became a priority. Their success at treating the wounded and restoring them to health helped to popularize hospital development. Doctors treating a number of patients with a range of conditions were also able to develop a wider experience than they otherwise would have. In the South, the largest hospital was Chimborazo in Richmond, Virginia. Some 8,000 patients could be housed in the facility, which consisted of a series of one-story buildings at the top of a hill near the town's railroad line. Dr. James McCaw was the hospital administrator and responsible for many of the hospital's innovations. For morale reasons, patients from the same part of the country, for example, were housed in the same area of the hospital. Green's Chimborazo details the three-and-a-half-year history of the hospital, which she argues was the model for hospitals constructed throughout the South. "The work is extensively researched, engagingly written, and calls needed attention to the importance of the Civil War general hospital and its role in the advancement of medicine," wrote James O. Breeden in the Journal of Southern History. "It is a significant contribution to Civil War history and the history of medicine." Writing in History: Review of New Books, Robert D. Sawrey found that "this volume certainly adds to our knowledge of Civil War-era medical care…. This is a solid piece of scholarship that will reward its readers."