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- “Gunshot wound…fracturing the jaw…” A Rebel Artillerist During the Fall of Petersburg
- The Myth of Two Teeth
- Artifact Spotlight: Tilden’s Extract of Cannabis indica
- The Flag That Talks – The U.S. Signal Corps in the Civil War
- Tolson’s Chapel in Sharpsburg: A Place of Perseverance and Triumph
- The Exception Not the Rule: Unanesthetized Surgery in the Civil War Part 2
- The Exception Not the Rule: Unanesthetized Surgery in the Civil War
- “Mother I wish I was out of this place . . . ” Letters from a dying Civil War Soldier
- Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte: The First Indian Doctor
- “When Will it End”: A Civil War Surgeon and His First Experiences with War at Antietam
- “Half the Time Unfit for Duty”: Alcoholism in the Civil War
- Valerian – Mother’s Little Helper During the Civil War
- Medical Care on the Gettysburg College Campus
- A Q&A with Dr. Guy Hasegawa About His Latest Book on the Confederate Medical Department
- Typhoid Fever – One of the Civil War’s Deadliest Diseases
- “There was nothing after me”: U.S. Navy and Marine Casualties of the Civil War, Part 2
- “There isn’t even danger enough to give us any glory”: U.S. Navy and Marine Casualties in the Civil War, Part 1
- “Supposed To Be Dead…” Retracing A Wounded Artillerist From The Battle Of Fredericksburg
- Senna – A Sensational Laxative and Purgative
- Civil War Medicinal Herb Garden – How Mint Was Used As A Remedy
- Triage of Allegiance: The Treatment of Enemy Wounded in the Civil War
- St. Elizabeths Hospital in the Civil War
- ‘Our Deaths on the Battle Field Were Not Many’: Disease in the 16th New Hampshire
- “The Direct and Logical Consequence” – Germ Theory and the Civil War
- General Hospital #1 – Frederick’s Largest Civil War Hospital
- The Hospital at Ellwood Manor
- Experiments on Joshua L. Chamberlain’s Petersburg Wounds Led to Modern Care
- Medical Care at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek
- Stretchers Used By the Union Army in the Civil War
- Germ Theory from Antiquity to the Antebellum Period
- Confederate Use of Anesthesia in the Civil War
- An Infinite Blessing: Anesthesia and the Civil War, Part 1
- Remembrance and Recovery: Maryland’s Civil War Veterans
- Mercy on the Mississippi: Diversity on the Red Rover Hospital Ship
- Mercy on the Mississippi: The USS Red Rover Hospital Ship
- “Swearing and Praying” – Medical Care After the Wilderness
- “A Scene Not Easily Forgotten”: The US Christian Commission at Antietam
- A Trip to the Civil War Dentist with F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The 20th Maine’s Quarantine Experience with Smallpox
- The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number: Triage in the Civil War and Today
- The Brown’s Island Explosion in Richmond and its Victims
- Harpers Ferry Hospital during 1862 Surrender
- “Here’s the Small but Sacred Token”: Dying Soldier Poems of the Civil War
- “It’s too damned hot here” – A medical history of the 45th Pennsylvania’s first battle
- The Caduceus versus the Rod of Asclepius
- The Innovative Career of Surgeon Benjamin Howard
- “Johnny Reb, you may catch me if you can” – A Civil War Veterinary Surgeon’s Experience as a Confederate Captive
- “Grounds While Occupied as a Military Hospital:” Charlottesville General Hospital at the University of Virginia
- Fighting Disease with Smell: “Disinfection” during the Civil War
- The Power of Place – How an Ordinary Space is Transformed with History
- Contrabands, the United States Colored Troops, and Medical Evacuation
- “Mature Deliberation and a Careful Consideration” – The Board to Retire Disabled Officers
- “Tell the General that My Men Are Cripples, and They Can’t Run”: The Field Service of the 18th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, May-June 1864
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the American Civil War
- Military Medicine in an Occupied City: Matamoros, 1846
- Dr. John Julian Chisolm: Rebel With A Cause
- The Left-Armed Corps: Left Handed Penmanship Contests of 1865-1867
- “[A]s he lived for others, so did he die:” The Life of Israel B. Richardson
- Saddle to Crutches: A Virginia Trooper’s Medical Journey
- Eat Your (Desiccated) Vegetables
- The Pry Family and the Battle of Antietam
- Fraud and Deception: Challenges for Enrollment Board Surgeons, 1863-1865
- Elisha Rice Reed: The Wounded Wisconsinite Who Witnessed Pickett’s Charge
- The Deadliest Ground of the Civil War – Medicine at Andersonville Prison
- A Silent Threat: Key West, Yellow Fever, and Union Volunteers, 1861-1862
- The Pry House Medicinal Garden – 2018 Expansion
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and the Aftermath of Antietam
- “Unspeakable Agony:” The Union Wounded Left Behind at Chancellorsville
- Saving Lives at the Cloud Springs Hospital after Chickamauga
- Artifact Spotlight: How a Kitchen Table Reveals the Horrors of War
- A Surgeon’s Role in Enlisting Civil War Soldiers
- More Than A Bag Of Bones: The Civil War Career of John Brinton
- From Antietam to D-Day – Medical Evacuation on the Battlefield
- How Parasites Changed the American Civil War
- “Unconditional Release”: Dr. Hunter McGuire’s Precedent in American Military Medicine
- “Beyond Consciousness and Pain” – Dr. Morton and Anesthesia at the Battle of Spotsylvania
- The Healing Powers of Deadly Nightshade – Pry House Medicinal Garden
- What Did Civil War Surgeons Feel?
- “Wanting in the Usual Necessaries” – Medical Care at the Battle of Pea Ridge
- The Innovative Design of Civil War Pavilion Hospitals
- Foxglove Utilized to Treat Heart Disease During the Civil War
- “Necessary Hygienic Conditions” – Civil War Sewers
- The Unknown Dead
- Civil War Approaches to Medicinal Plants
- “Under the fascinating charm of the clear bugle notes” – Medicinal Civil War Music
- Celebrating Thanksgiving in a Civil War Hospital
- Reintroducing the Pry House Medicinal Garden
- A Better Man Never Lifted A Spade
- Too Old for the Trenches: The Post-War Years of Clara Jones Dye
- “Proper care and the exercise of a little patience” – The Medical Treatment of Private William McCarter
- “Every Man His Own Horse Doctor”
- “They Saw Red Currents Flow”: Death and Injury in Civil War Songs
- Back to the Battlefield: Clara Jones at Gettysburg
- Blazoned All Over The Country
- Summer Vacation: Clara Jones and Her Full-Time Hospital Work
- “Hospital Transports” – Saving Lives on the Virginia Peninsula
- Voices of the Wounded: The Battle of Gettysburg
- Clara Jones: A Forgotten Civil War Nurse
- How a Yellow Fever Outbreak Exacerbated the Civil War Refugee Crisis
- “I Am In Bad Shape Now” – The Wounding of Private Peleg Bradford
- The United States Sanitary and Christian Commissions and the Union War Effort
- Quackery and the Civil War
- All the President’s Medicine: Rutherford B. Hayes at the Battle of South Mountain
- Home from the War
- Frederick After Antietam
- Slaying! Civil War Medicine Style
- Proselytizing Prosthetics – J.E. Hanger and the Growth of an Industry
- Good Mourning, America
- After the Amputation
- Mending the Broken Faces of War
- The Civil War and the Army Medical Museum
- A Brief History of American Anatomy Riots
- Gender Bender
- Period Drama: That Time of the Month in Victorian America
- “Don’t Be Afraid Boys”
- Mother’s Friend: Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century America
- Civil War Chaplains
- Military Medical Illustration and the Civil War
- From Slavery to Smallpox to Freedom
- Phrenology and the Civil War
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- Anesthesia in the Civil War
- An amputee’s search for the nurses that cared for him during the Civil War
- “Ready for Mischief”
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- Embalming and the Civil War
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- Suicide and the Civil War
- Abortion in the 19th Century
- Irritable Heart and Coping with the Trauma of War
- African American Physicians in the Civil War Era
- Maryland in the Civil War: A Volatile Border State Experience
- What Would Florence Do?
- Jacob Mendes Da Costa
- A Tragic Reality
- The Color-Bearer
- Looking for Law in a Period of War
- Irritable Heart: Fictional Dr. Foster and Actual Dr. Jacob M. Da Costa
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- The History of this Historical Drama
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- One Vast Hospital – Civil War Walking Tour in Downtown Frederick
- One Vast Hospital – Civil War Walking Tour in Downtown Frederick
- U.S. Medical Care at the Battle of Seven Pines
- “Not Respectable” – The Enterprising Women of Civil War Frederick Walking Tour
- “The Brigades of Antietam” Speaker Series in the Pry Barn
- One Vast Hospital – Civil War Walking Tour in Downtown Frederick
- Greet Greg the Gardener
- The Road to Gettysburg – Saturday Walking Tour
- Just Passing Through: A Travelers Guide to Civil War Frederick
- Living History Event at the Pry House
- Faces of the Wounded – Downtown Frederick Walking Tour
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- Strange Tales of Civil War Medicine at the Pry House
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- First Battle of Manassas: Unwarranted Deaths of Savable Men
- “They Did Not Seem to Respect It Much”: Insignia and Medical Evacuation
- Artifact Under Exam – Riding on the Coattails of History
- The Ambulance: An Artillery Support Vehicle
- Wheelchairs through the Ages
- The Pavilion-Style Hospital of the American Civil War and Florence Nightingale
- Artifact Under Exam – Surgeon William Child Chess Set
- Down in Dixie: The Reverend George W. Bicknell, the “Tough Old Fifth,” and the Post-Civil War Lecture Circuit
- Civil War Artifact Across the Decades: Davis & Kidder’s Patent Magneto-Electric Machine
- Behind the Doors, Up the Stairs, on Seventh Street West
- The Story of the Pile of Limbs
- Eliza Potter: “[A] Noble, Patriotic Heart”
- Jules Golay
- Benjamin F. Butler
- Clara Barton’s Network
- Historical Implications of a Failing Heart Part 2
- A Newly Discovered Photograph
- The Development of Triage
- A Humanitarian Mission in 1896 and its Enduring Mark
- Historical Implications of a Failing Heart
- James Langstaff Dunn
- Frances Dana Barker Gage
- The Incredible Dorence Atwater Story
- Henry Wilson: Patriot and Politician
- William Hoffman’s Encounters with History
- Sally Barton Vassall
- Medical Improvements in the Civil War and Their Affect on Modern Military Medicine
- Blood Transfusion in the Civil War Era
- Private John Northrop Diary
- A Humanitarian Mission in 1896 and Its Enduring Mark
- Seven Hospital Stewards
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- I Wish You Abundant Reward
- “Unpleasant Recollections”
- Thomas Jefferson Payntar – Records of the Missing Soldiers Office
- Pry Family Artifacts
- The Development of Triage
- “My Hands and Heart Full”
- Civil War Eye Surgeon
- Wounds, Ammunition, and Amputation
- The Bonedust Files
- The Impact of the Battle of Antietam on the Civilians of Sharpsburg
- Smallpox and Vaccination in the Civil War
- Feigned Diseases
- Medical Uses of Ice
- Anesthesia in the Civil War
- Recruiting Exams and Disqualifications for Military Service