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Learn about Camp Letterman, the largest military hospital built on the Gettysburg battlefield.
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Learn about Union Civil War Surgeon Benjamin Howard’s life saving innovations in medical care which we still benefit from today.
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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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Find out how the Pry family recovered when so much of their property was destroyed during its use as a headquarters and hospital at the Battle of Antietam?
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The exhaustive planning that went into saving lives during D-Day stems from the organizational efforts of surgeon Jonathan Letterman during the Civil War.
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Scholars talk a lot about what Civil War surgeons did, but no one seems to have asked: what did Civil War surgeons feel?
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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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Jonathan Letterman changed the course of the Civil War and of American medicine.
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