Surgeon of the “Old Sixth” Author|James Priest " - Laurence Leamer Best-selling

" - Laurence Leamer Best-selling author

With advanced degrees in psychology and education her favorite questions are "Why

" - William Hageman Chicago Tribune

He is the director of Nonfiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago

Surgeon of the “Old Sixth” Author|James Priest " - Laurence Leamer Best-sellingAfter the fall of Fort Sumter to Confederate forces in April 1861 Dr. Norman Smith predicted ''that means war and I will go tomorrow morning if called upon.'' And so he did two days later as surgeon of the Massachusetts ''Old Sixth'' Regiment when it answered Lincoln's first call for troops. Best known for its fight through Baltimore when it was attacked by a secessionist mob and met with the first deaths of the Civil War this historic regiment