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Active and Efficient: The Stretcher Bearers and Ambulance Drivers

December 7, 2019 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST

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Learn more about the rank and file of the Ambulance Corps – people tasked with removed wounded soldiers from the battlefield.

Union soldiers training for the Ambulance Corps Courtesy of the Library of Congress

Union soldiers training for the Ambulance Corps. Courtesy of the Library of Congress

The surgeons, physicians, and doctors of the Civil War have received deserved attention in the study of the Civil War. But what about the common stretcher bearer?

On Saturday, December 7 at 2:30 PM, step into the NMCWM in downtown Frederick to hear the fascinating tale of common men in an uncommon world. Who were the stretcher bearers and ambulance drivers of the Civil War? What was their daily life like? How were they trained? Learn the answers to these questions and more with our Membership and Development Coordinator Kyle Dalton.

This event is included with admission and free for members. Members earn year-round free admission to all three of our locations, 10% off gift shop purchases, discounted admission to special events, and a free subscription to our journal, Surgeon’s Call.

Kyle Dalton is the Membership and Development Coordinator at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. He is also a summa cum laude graduate of the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where his paper Active and Efficient: Veterans and the Success of the United States Ambulance Corps was awarded the Zeender Prize for best history thesis. In his spare time Kyle writes and maintains a website on the lives of common sailors in the eighteenth-century: BritishTars.com.

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Date:
December 7, 2019
Time:
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Included with Admission; Museum members get in FREE
Event Categories:
National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Weekend Program
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Ambulance Corps, Ambulance drivers, Civil War Medicine, Kyle Dalton, National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Stretcher bearer

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John Lustrea
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301-695-1864

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National Museum of Civil War Medicine
48 East Patrick Street
Frederick, MD 21705
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