A Darkness Ablaze: The Civil War Medical Diary and Wartime Experiences of Dr. John Hendricks Kinyoun, Sixty Sixth North Carolina Infantry Regiment By Joseph Kinyoun Houts, Jr. Published:St. Joseph Museums, 2005. FIRST EDITION.355 pp. Hardcover missing original dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page. Text is complete. Ex-Lib. A Darkness Ablaze presents a chilling, detailed account of American medicine during the Civil War. The basis of the book is the medical diary of the author’s great-great-grandfather, Dr. John Hendricks Kinyoun, surgeon of the Sixty-Sixth North Carolina Infantry Regiment. Dr. Kinyoun served with this unit from September 1863 until April 1865, when his regiment surrendered at Durham Station, North Carolina, at the war’s conclusion.