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Posts
- “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
- A “Diabolical Plot” in 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
- Dr. Jonathan Letterman
- The History of this Historical Drama
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- Women at Gettysburg 1863 Revisited
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- Surgeon’s Call – Special Edition Vol. 1, 2016
- Civil War Ghost Trails
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- Mysteries and Lore of Western Maryland
- Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs
- Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield
- Civil War Hospital Sketches
- Elmira: Death Camp of the North
- More Civil War Leaders
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- The Civil War Experience
- Confederate Camp Cooking
- A Prototype of a Confederate Hospital Center
- Clara Barton, Courage Under Fire
- Field Surgeon at Gettysburg
- More Strange Tales of the Civil War
- Shadows of War
- Ghosts and Legends of Frederick County
- Lili’s Gift
- Here and Then
- Civil War Medicine 1861-1865
- A Confederate Nurse
- Dear Eagle
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- Ersatz in the Confederacy
- The Family Nurse
- Our Army Nurses
- The American Red Cross
- Dear Masters
- My Name is Mary Sutter
- Confederate Hospitals on the Move
- No Soap, No Pay, Diarrhea, Dysentery & Desertion
- Short Stories
- Calamity at Chancellorsville
- Civil War Women: They Made A Difference, Book 2
- Civil War Women: They Made A Difference, Book 1
- Civil War Nurse
- Civil War Maryland
- Civil War Camp Life
- Brothers At War
- Battle of West Frederick, July 7, 1864
- Battle Cry of Freedom
- Baltimore in the Civil War
- Baltimore During the Civil War
- Arnold’s Medical Companion
- Antietam Through the Years
- Antietam in 3D
- Answering the Call
- Andersonville: The Southern Perspective
- An Uncommon Soldier
- The American Cattle Doctor
- The Ambulance
- A Sanctuary for the Wounded
- A Woman of Honor: Dr. Mary E. Walker and the Civil War
- A Guide to Civil War Washington, D.C.
- A Black Woman’s Civil War Memoirs
- Gettysburg Tee Shirt
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- Images of Civil War Medicine
- What this Cruel War Was Over
- Struggle for a Vast Future
- Strange Tales of the Civil War
- To Die in Chicago
- Portals to Hell
- Last Words of the Civil War
- Richmond’s Wartime Hospitals
- Letters of a Civil War Nurse
- In Hospital and Camp
- Honoring the Civil War Dead
- Too Afraid to Cry
- Phantom Pain
- I Acted From Principle
- To Bind Up the Wounds
- They Fought Like Demons
- The Wounded River
- The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell
- Shook Over Hell
- Gangrene and Glory
- Memoranda During the War
- Faces of the Civil War
- No Place for Little Boys
- Brothers ’til Death
- Mr. Lincoln’s Camera Man
- Eyewitness to the Civil War
- Fresh Fish
- Confederate Women
- Busy Hands
- Bound for the Promised Land
- Wooden Bookmark – Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office
- Wooden Bookmark with Clara Barton Portrait and Quote – I Hope
- Wooden Bookmark with Clara Barton Quote – True Patriot
- Wooden Bookmark with Clara Barton Quote – Senate
- Clara Barton Portrait Keychain
- Clara Barton Wooden Bookmark – Disregard of Precedent Quote
- Clara Barton Ornament
- Missing Soldiers Office Ornament
- Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Keychain
- Wooden Clara Barton Portrait Magnet
- Embalming Surgeons of the Civil War
- Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee
- Doctors in Gray
- Doctors in Blue
- Antique Medical Instruments
- A Woman Doctor’s Civil War
- A Vast Army of Women
- A Southern Woman’s Story
- The 1865 Customs of Service for Officers of the Army
- Drums Along the Antietam
- The Domestic Physician
- Civil War Plants and Herbs
- Antietam: The Lost Order
- 1865 Customs of Service for Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers
- Andersonville: The Last Depot
- After the Glory
- 1862 Army Officer’s Pocket Companion
- 1861 Union Soldiers Prayer Book
- 1861 Confederate Soldiers Prayer Book
- The Mysterious Private Thompson
- Dearest of Captains
- Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Magnet
- NMCWM Shot Glass
- Primitive Candle Clips
- North Carolina South Mountain Commemorative Sculpture
- Confederate and Union Belt Buckles
- Medical Recollections of the Army of the Potomac
- Surgeon in Blue
- A Woman of Valor
- Prologue to Change
- Bad Doctors
- Death Is in the Breeze
- Caleb Dorsey Baer
- One Vast Hospital
- Clara Barton Mug
- Jonathan Letterman Mug
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- Civil War Fandex
- B is for Battle Cry
- Civil War Canteens
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Events
- Living History at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- SawBones – Historic Downtown Frederick Pub Crawl
- The Battle of Falling Waters 1863: The End of the Gettysburg Campaign
- Aftermath: Reconstruction in Downtown Frederick
- Hospital Stewards in the American Civil War
- Flowers to Pharmaceuticals – Civil War Medicinal Gardens
- “Not Respectable” – The Enterprising Women of Civil War Frederick
- Faces of the Wounded – Downtown Frederick Walking Tour
- Death and Destruction in Downtown Frederick – First Saturday Walking Tour
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Quick Facts
Surgeon’s Call
- 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