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Learn about the debate over the choice to use the Caduceus or the Rod of Asclepius to represent Civil War medicine in the museum’s new logo.
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Learn about Union Civil War Surgeon Benjamin Howard’s life saving innovations in medical care which we still benefit from today.
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Read about Union veterinary surgeon Samuel M. Drew’s daring escape from his Confederate captors in Virginia.
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Read about the challenges of running a university and hosting a large hospital in this blog post about the University of Virginia’s Civil War hospital.
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Discover the ways in which Civil War Americans thought disease traveled by smells and how they worked to stop its spread with good odors.
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The history of an ordinary looking intersection in downtown Frederick highlights some of the most important legacies of the Civil War.
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The little told story of African Americans and the Ambulance Corps during the Civil War is one of bravery and trailblazing.
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Take a closer look as several cases from a Civil War medical examining board and see what it reveals about medicine during the period.
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Not many of the Veteran Reserve Corps saw little active service during the Civil War. Read about the experience of the 18th Regiment who did.
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Compare how soldiers suffering from PTSD have been treated and how they grappled with it from the Civil War into the twentieth century.
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