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  • 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
  • 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: A Civil War Invention?
  • From Slavery to Smallpox to Freedom
  • Phrenology and the Civil War
  • Silas Weir Mitchell
  • Anesthesia in the Civil War
  • An amputee’s search for the nurses that cared for him during the Civil War
  • “Ready for Mischief”
  • “War Relics”
  • Most Picturesque Battle of the War
  • The Day of Battle
  • Dorothea Dix
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Walt Whitman in Washington
  • The Real Hoopskirt Assassin: Phoebe Yates Pember
  • An explosive Civil War plot in Downtown Frederick
  • Embalming and the Civil War
  • Breaking Barriers and Making [Up] Names
  • Prostitutes!
  • Civil War Slang
  • 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
  • Welcome to a Civil War Hospital
  • Clara Barton
  • Major Jonathan Letterman – Civil War Medical Innovator
  • The History of this Historical Drama

Events

  • Dorothea Dix and the Memory of Civil War Medicine with Dr. Thomas J. Brown
  • Chimborazo Hospital Digitization Project with Robert Dunkerly
  • Virtual History Happy Hour – Brinton’s Brandy and Tenth Ward Distilling Company
  • History Lovers Sale at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine
  • Facebook Live: How Civil War Medicine Killed President James Garfield
  • Medical Care at the Battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
  • Condolence Letters from the United States Colored Troops with Dr. Kelly Mezurek
  • Double Canister IPA: A Taste of History at Antietam Brewery
  • How Civil War Soldiers Sang About Wounds with Dr. Catherine Bateson
  • USCTs at the Battle of New Market Heights with Tim Talbot of Pamplin Park
  • Facebook Live – Medical Care at the Battle of Pea Ridge
  • Live Stream with Becky Sawyer of Fort Fisher State Historic Site
  • Virtual Tour of the George Spangler Farm Field Hospital at Gettysburg
  • The First Year: Frederick in 1861 – First Saturday Walking Tour
  • Facebook Live – Medical Care at the Battle of Shiloh
  • Surgeon Samuel W. Crawford and the Fight for Fort Sumter

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Quick Facts

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Surgeon’s Call

  • 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
  • Meet the Hospital Steward
  • 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
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