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Read about the conclusion of the USS Red Rover’s hospital ship service as well as the diverse crew members that cared for the wounded throughout the war.
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Read about the extensive service on the Mississippi River of one of the most famous hospital ships of the Civil War – the USS Red Rover.
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Read about one of the most famous examples of quarantine in the Civil War. The 20th Maine was kept out of Chancellorsville due to smallpox.
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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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Frederick Law Olmsted’s memoir “Hospital Transports” describes the efforts of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Peninsula Campaign in 1862.
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The following accounts are a tiny sampling of the battlefield experiences of the wounded on three hellish July days: the Battle of Gettysburg.
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While removing a rock from his shoe on the picket line outside Petersburg, Virginia, a Confederate bullet tore through Private Peleg Bradford’s knee.
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How Civil War Medicine saved the life of a future president.
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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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Discover how the US Army instituted a revolutionary new form of trauma care on Civil War battlefields.
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