New Exhibit at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine “The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman-The Yellow Wall-Paper”          In the late nineteenth century, at a time when women were challenging traditional ideas about gender that excluded them from political and intellectual life, medical and scientific experts drew on notions of female weakness to [...]

We are happy to announce that the Pry House Field Hospital Museum will be holding a special event; a Pry House Christmas.  On December 15th, from 11 AM to 4 PM, come and experience what Christmas was like during the time of the Civil War.  We will have speakers and handouts.  There will also be [...]

“Bringing the Story of War to Our Doorsteps: Rediscovering Alexander Gardner’s Antietam Photographs”A special exhibit at theNational Museum of Civil War Medicine For the first time since the Civil War, Mathew Brady’s famous 1862 photographic exhibition “The Dead of Antietam,” will be exhibited at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, in Frederick, MD. A [...]

Visit the Pry House on your way to Antietam Battlefield’s annual Illumination. 23,000 candles light the battlefield, each representing a casualty at the battle, the bloodiest day in American History. Before experiencing Antietam Battlefield’s annual Grand Illumination, visit the exhibits at Pry House and Thrashing Barn.  Walk the same halls as General McClellan and President [...]