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“Gunshot wound…fracturing the jaw…” A Rebel Artillerist During the Fall of Petersburg

Kyle Nappi relates the story of his ancestor who was wounded in the jaw at the Fall of Petersburg.

Kyle Dalton explores the myth that recruits of the Civil War were only required to have two opposing teeth.

Kyle Dalton examines the history behind one of the museum’s artifacts–Tilden’s Extract of Cannabis indica

The U.S. Signal Corps was founded in the Civil War. Learn how it developed and how it is still in use in today’s Army.

Tolson’s Chapel is full of stories of perseverance and triumph, an inspiring beacon of light on the back street in Sharpsburg.

In part two of this blog post, Kyle Dalton examines the incidents of unanesthetized surgery in the Confederacy

Research by the Museum’s Kyle Dalton shows that unanesthetized surgery in the Civil War was extremely rare.

The letters of Joseph Welsh, a dying Civil War soldier, illustrate the cost of disease in the ranks. Welch died of typhoid fever.

Susan La Flesche Picotte broke intersectional barriers as a woman, as an American Indian, and as a medical doctor in the 19th century

Read about Surgeon William Child’s first experience of war at the Battle of Antietam – the bloodiest day in American history.