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Posts
- 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
- Christmas and the Civil War
- Christmas and the Civil War
- Behind-The-Scenes Tour of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- Women Soldiers in the Civil War
- Tasting and Tour at Tenth Ward Distilling Company
- Brinton’s Brandy Release Party at Tenth Ward Distilling Company
- Civil War Medicine in the Overland Campaign
- Civil War Medicine Origins – Dr. Benjamin Rush
- Historical Interpreters Workshop
- September Mourn: The Dunker Church of Antietam Battlefield
- Living History at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- Living History at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine
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- 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