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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.
Read More »Read about the US Christian Commission’s heroic response to the bloodiest day in American history – The Battle of Antieam
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »“The bandaged head, the empty sleeve, and the stump of a leg, told a tale louder than words could speak.”
Read More »The Union Army adapted Winchester Hall from a women’s school into a makeshift hospital. Twenty years later, construction workers made a gruesome discovery.
Read More »“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
Read More »Discover the incredible events that occurred in the city of Frederick, Maryland on the bloodiest day in American history – September 17, 1862.
Read More »Jonathan Letterman changed the course of the Civil War and of American medicine.
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