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The home front could be deadly at times. Read about the tragic story of an ammunition factory explosion on Brown’s Island in Richmond.
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Find out how soldiers, civilians, and nurses in the general hostpial at Harpers Ferry survived the 1862 battle.
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Discover how mourning family members turned to poetry to glorify the death of their loved ones and reassure themselves they experienced a meaningful death.
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Read about the 45th Pennsylvania’s first combat of the Civil War at South Mountain written by the unit’s hospital steward James A. Meyers.
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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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