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

Dr. Guy Hasegawa does a Q&A about his latest book “Matchless Organization: The Confederate Medical Department.”

20th century writer F. Scott Fitzgerald was a Civil War buff. Discover what his short stories reveal about Civil War dentistry.

Read about Union veterinary surgeon Samuel M. Drew’s daring escape from his Confederate captors in Virginia.

Discover the ways in which Civil War Americans thought disease traveled by smells and how they worked to stop its spread with good odors.

The history of an ordinary looking intersection in downtown Frederick highlights some of the most important legacies of the Civil War.

The little told story of African Americans and the Ambulance Corps during the Civil War is one of bravery and trailblazing.

Take a closer look as several cases from a Civil War medical examining board and see what it reveals about medicine during the period.

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.

Compare how soldiers suffering from PTSD have been treated and how they grappled with it from the Civil War into the twentieth century.