Christopher E. Loperfido is a native of Weedsport, New York and graduated from Oswego State University with a bachelor’s degree in history and political science. Chris has worked for the National Park Service at the Gettysburg National Military Park in the summers of 2007 and 2008 as a park intern and National Park Service Ranger. He is currently employed by the Department of Homeland Security and lives with his wife, son, and pug in Washington State.
"Christopher Loperfido's excellent arrangement of Surgeon James D.
Benton's letters provide a compelling look at the life of a Union
doctor during a time when the practice of medicine was still
primitive and an understanding of health in general was scanty at
best. Death, Disease, and Life at War is another valuable piece to
the puzzle of understanding what it was like to serve in the Civil
War."--Meg Groeling, author of The Aftermath of Battle: The Burial
of the Civil War Dead
"Civil War history is replete with accounts of tactics and acts of
battlefield heroism, but daily life for army surgeons remains
something of a mystery. Christopher Loperfido offers us an
invaluable glimpse of that life by editing and publishing Dr.
Benton's letters in Death, Disease, and Life at War. The assistant
surgeon with the 111th New York Infantry writes about everything
from wounds, lice, exhaustion, and dysentery, to generalship,
money, loneliness, and the perennial desire for more frequent
letters from home. Extensive annotations provide context for the
events described in the letters, and help readers get a sense of
what it was like for one man to spend four years of his life
away from his family and at war."--Dennis A. Rasbach, author of
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign: His
Supposed Charge from Fort Hell, his Near-Mortal Wound, and a Civil
War Myth Reconsidered
"Useful on multiple levels, the historical value of the Benton
letters contained in Death, Disease, and Life at War significantly
exceeds that of the average set of Civil War correspondence edited
for publication. This expanded repackaged edition is well worth the
attention of new and seasoned readers alike."-- "Civil War Books
and Authors"
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