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Posts

• Fighting Disease with Smell: “Disinfection” during the Civil War
• The Power of Place – How an Ordinary Space is Transformed with History
• Contrabands, the United States Colored Troops, and Medical Evacuation
• “Mature Deliberation and a Careful Consideration” – The Board to Retire Disabled Officers
• “Tell the General that My Men Are Cripples, and They Can’t Run”: The Field Service of the 18th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, May-June 1864
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the American Civil War
• Military Medicine in an Occupied City: Matamoros, 1846
• Dr. John Julian Chisolm: Rebel With A Cause
• The Left-Armed Corps: Left Handed Penmanship Contests of 1865-1867
• “[A]s he lived for others, so did he die:” The Life of Israel B. Richardson
• Saddle to Crutches: A Virginia Trooper’s Medical Journey
• Eat Your (Desiccated) Vegetables
• The Pry Family and the Battle of Antietam
• Fraud and Deception: Challenges for Enrollment Board Surgeons, 1863-1865
• Elisha Rice Reed: The Wounded Wisconsinite Who Witnessed Pickett’s Charge
• The Deadliest Ground of the Civil War – Medicine at Andersonville Prison
• A Silent Threat: Key West, Yellow Fever, and Union Volunteers, 1861-1862
• The Pry House Medicinal Garden – 2018 Expansion
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and the Aftermath of Antietam
• “Unspeakable Agony:” The Union Wounded Left Behind at Chancellorsville
• Saving Lives at the Cloud Springs Hospital after Chickamauga
• Artifact Spotlight: How a Kitchen Table Reveals the Horrors of War
• A Surgeon’s Role in Enlisting Civil War Soldiers
• More Than A Bag Of Bones: The Civil War Career of John Brinton
• From Antietam to D-Day – Medical Evacuation on the Battlefield
• How Parasites Changed the American Civil War
• “Unconditional Release”: Dr. Hunter McGuire’s Precedent in American Military Medicine
• “Beyond Consciousness and Pain” – Dr. Morton and Anesthesia at the Battle of Spotsylvania
• The Healing Powers of Deadly Nightshade – Pry House Medicinal Garden
• What Did Civil War Surgeons Feel?
• “Wanting in the Usual Necessaries” – Medical Care at Pea Ridge
• The Innovative Design of Civil War Pavilion Hospitals
• Foxglove Utilized to Treat Heart Disease During the Civil War
• “Necessary Hygienic Conditions” – Civil War Sewers
• The Unknown Dead
• Civil War Approaches to Medicinal Plants
• “Under the fascinating charm of the clear bugle notes” – Medicinal Civil War Music
• Celebrating Thanksgiving in a Civil War Hospital
• Reintroducing the Pry House Medicinal Garden
• A Better Man Never Lifted A Spade
• Too Old for the Trenches: The Post-War Years of Clara Jones Dye
• “Proper care and the exercise of a little patience” – The Medical Treatment of Private William McCarter
• “Every Man His Own Horse Doctor”
• “They Saw Red Currents Flow”: Death and Injury in Civil War Songs
• Back to the Battlefield: Clara Jones at Gettysburg
• Blazoned All Over The Country
• Summer Vacation: Clara Jones and Her Full-Time Hospital Work
• “Hospital Transports” – Saving Lives on the Virginia Peninsula
• Voices of the Wounded: The Battle of Gettysburg
• Clara Jones: A Forgotten Civil War Nurse
• How a Yellow Fever Outbreak Exacerbated the Civil War Refugee Crisis
• “I Am In Bad Shape Now” – The Wounding of Private Peleg Bradford
• The United States Sanitary and Christian Commissions and the Union War Effort
• Quackery and the Civil War
• All the President’s Medicine: Rutherford B. Hayes at the Battle of South Mountain
• Home from the War
• Frederick After Antietam
• Slaying! Civil War Medicine Style
• Proselytizing Prosthetics
• Good Mourning, America
• After the Amputation
• Mending the Broken Faces of War
• The Civil War and the Army Medical Museum
• A Brief History of American Anatomy Riots
• Gender Bender
• That Time of the Month in Victorian America
• “Don’t Be Afraid Boys”
• Mother’s Friend: Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century America
• Civil War Chaplains
• Military Medical Illustration: A Civil War Invention?
• From Slavery to Smallpox to Freedom
• Phrenology and the Civil War
• Silas Weir Mitchell
• Anesthesia in the Civil War
• Missed Connections, 1884
• “Ready for Mischief”
• “War Relics”
• Most Picturesque Battle of the War
• The Day of Battle
• Dorothea Dix
• Louisa May Alcott
• Walt Whitman in Washington
• The Real Hoopskirt Assassin: Phoebe Yates Pember
• An explosive Civil War plot in Downtown Frederick
• Embalming and the Civil War
• Breaking Barriers and Making [Up] Names
• Prostitutes!
• Civil War Slang
• Suicide and the Civil War
• Abortion in the 19th Century
• Irritable Heart and Coping with the Trauma of War
• African American Physicians in the Civil War Era
• Maryland in the Civil War: A Volatile Border State Experience
• What Would Florence Do?
• Jacob Mendes Da Costa
• A Tragic Reality
• The Color-Bearer
• Looking for Law in a Period of War
• Irritable Heart: Fictional Dr. Foster and Actual Dr. Jacob M. Da Costa
• Welcome to a Civil War Hospital
• Clara Barton
• Major Jonathan Letterman – Civil War Medical Innovator
• The History of this Historical Drama

Events

• Special Exhibition – “War on Our Doorsteps”
• Guided Tour of the Pry House Field Hospital Museum
• Victorian America and The Golden Age of Magic and Spirits of the Dead
• Special Antietam Battlefield Guide Presentations at the Pry House
• Frederick’s Civil War Hospitals – Walking Tour
• Frederick’s Civil War Hospitals – Walking Tour
• Haunted History: The National Museum of Civil War Medicine
• Special Exhibition – “War on Our Doorsteps”
• The Signal Corps in the American Civil War – Living History Demonstration
• Guided Tour of the Pry House Field Hospital Museum
• Gettysburg: The Aftermath
• Special Exhibition – “War on Our Doorsteps”
• Guided Tour of the Pry House Field Hospital Museum
• Special Exhibition – “War on Our Doorsteps”
• Guided Tour of the Pry House Field Hospital Museum
• The History of Military Identification Tags
• Special Exhibition – “War on Our Doorsteps”
• Guided Tour of the Pry House Field Hospital Museum
• Special Exhibition – “War on Our Doorsteps”
• Guided Tour of the Pry House Field Hospital Museum
• Active and Efficient: The Stretcher Bearers and Ambulance Drivers
• Museums by Candlelight
• Christmas and the Civil War
• Invisible Wounds: A Perspective on Mental Health Issues During the Civil War
• Private Confederacies: The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers

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Quick Facts

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Surgeon’s Call

• The Ambulance: An Artillery Support Vehicle
• Wheelchairs through the Ages
• The Pavilion-Style Hospital of the American Civil War and Florence Nightingale
• Artifact Under Exam – Surgeon William Child Chess Set
• Down in Dixie: The Reverend George W. Bicknell, the “Tough Old Fifth,” and the Post-Civil War Lecture Circuit
• Civil War Artifact Across the Decades: Davis & Kidder’s Patent Magneto-Electric Machine
• Behind the Doors, Up the Stairs, on Seventh Street West
• The Story of the Pile of Limbs
• Eliza Potter: “[A] Noble, Patriotic Heart”
• Jules Golay
• Benjamin F. Butler
• Clara Barton’s Network
• Historical Implications of a Failing Heart Part 2
• A Newly Discovered Photograph
• The Development of Triage
• A Humanitarian Mission in 1896 and its Enduring Mark
• Historical Implications of a Failing Heart
• James Langstaff Dunn
• Frances Dana Barker Gage
• The Incredible Dorence Atwater Story
• Henry Wilson: Patriot and Politician
• William Hoffman’s Encounters with History
• Sally Barton Vassall
• Medical Improvements in the Civil War and Their Affect on Modern Military Medicine
• Blood Transfusion in the Civil War Era
• Private John Northrop Diary
• A Humanitarian Mission in 1896 and Its Enduring Mark
• Seven Hospital Stewards
• Meet the Hospital Steward
• I Wish You Abundant Reward
• “Unpleasant Recollections”
• Thomas Jefferson Payntar – Records of the Missing Soldiers Office
• Pry Family Artifacts
• The Development of Triage
• “My Hands and Heart Full”
• Civil War Eye Surgeon
• Wounds, Ammunition, and Amputation
• The Bonedust Files
• The Impact of the Battle of Antietam on the Civilians of Sharpsburg
• Smallpox and Vaccination in the Civil War
• Feigned Diseases
• Medical Uses of Ice
• Anesthesia in the Civil War
• Recruiting Exams and Disqualifications for Military Service