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Read about Surgeon William Child’s first experience of war at the Battle of Antietam – the bloodiest day in American history.
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Read about the US Christian Commission’s heroic response to the bloodiest day in American history – The Battle of Antieam
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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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Read about the life of Union General Israel B. Richardson, from his rise through the ranks to his medical treatment at the Pry House after Antietam.
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Discover the experience of a parent looking for their wounded child after a Civil War battle by following Oliver Wendell Holmes’ search for his son.
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“The bandaged head, the empty sleeve, and the stump of a leg, told a tale louder than words could speak.”
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The Union Army adapted Winchester Hall from a women’s school into a makeshift hospital. Twenty years later, construction workers made a gruesome discovery.
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“The Battle of Antietam was probably the most picturesque battle of the war…. The battle was a dramatic and most magnificent series of pictures.” Illustrator Edwin Forbes
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Discover the incredible events that occurred in the city of Frederick, Maryland on the bloodiest day in American history – September 17, 1862.
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Jonathan Letterman changed the course of the Civil War and of American medicine.
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