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Learn about Carrie Cutter, the first female nurse to die during the Civil War.
Read More »Learn about Surgeon General William Hammond.
Read More »Learn about Camp Letterman, the largest military hospital built on the Gettysburg battlefield.
Read More »Learn about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, an African American woman who recruited for the Union Army
Read More »Learn about the effects of various types of artillery rounds during the Civil War
Read More »Kyle Nappi relates the story of his ancestor who was wounded in the jaw at the Fall of Petersburg.
Read More »Kyle Dalton explores the myth that recruits of the Civil War were only required to have two opposing teeth.
Read More »Kyle Dalton examines the history behind one of the museum’s artifacts–Tilden’s Extract of Cannabis indica
Read More »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.
Read More »Tolson’s Chapel is full of stories of perseverance and triumph, an inspiring beacon of light on the back street in Sharpsburg.
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