Surgeon’s Call
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Kevin Bair Originally published in 2020 in the Surgeon’s Call, Volume 25, No.1 Museum members support scholarship like this. BECOME A MEMBER TODAY Introduction This study examines the unnecessary deaths at the First Battle of Manassas, July 21,…
Read More »Kyle Dalton Originally published in 2020 in the Surgeon’s Call, Volume 25, No.1 Museum members support scholarship like this. BECOME A MEMBER TODAY The Civil War created a massive humanitarian crisis by the sheer scale of wounding and…
Read More »Olivia Peterson Originally published in 2020 in the Surgeon’s Call, Volume 25, No.1 Museum members support scholarship like this. BECOME A MEMBER TODAY Quite recently, Greg Kelly, an intern from the Museum Studies Program at George Washington University,…
Read More »Duffy Neubauer [This article was originally published in The Artilleryman Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 2, Spring 2018. Republished in 2018 in the Surgeon’s Call, Volume 23, No.1 with permission.] The ambulance is probably not often thought of when Civil…
Read More »Mavis C. Slawson Originally published in 2018 in the Surgeon’s Call, Volume 23, No.1 Today a wheelchair is defined as a chair used by a person who has difficulty walking because of sickness, injury, or disability. Wheelchairs come in…
Read More »William T. Campbell, Ed.D, RN Originally published in 2018 in the Surgeon’s Call, Volume 23, No.1 Museum members support scholarship like this. BECOME A MEMBER TODAY The American Civil War created a huge demand for hospitals that neither the…
Read More »John Lustrea Originally published in 2018 in the Surgeon’s Call, Volume 23, No.1 War is an organized bore. When most people think of the Civil War, large battles understandably come to mind. In actuality most of a soldiers time…
Read More »By Crompton B. Burton Originally published in 2017 in the Surgeon’s Call, Volume 22, No.2 In the years following the American Civil War, a culture of commemoration grew from the economic and emotional depression of the nation’s bitter Reconstruction….
Read More »William T Campbell, Ed.D, RN Originally published in 2017 in the Surgeon’s Call, Volume 22, No.2 Recently an ad aired on TV for the Aleve® Direct Therapy Drug Free TENS Device. TENS is short for “transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation”…
Read More »Paula Tarnapol Whitacre Originally published in 2017 in the Surgeon’s Call, Volume 22, No.1 An 1869 traveler’s account of Washington, DC, did not have much good to say about the city’s boarding houses. “Boarding-house life is not pleasant anywhere,”…
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