Join professional illusionist Michael Cantori for a lecture and performance covering Spiritualism and its’ link with theatrical magic in Victorian America.
Come to the Pry House to hear Antietam Battlefield Guides discuss understudied topics from the 1862 Maryland Campaign and the Battle of Antietam.
Find out how messages were sent on Civil War battlefields in the Signal Corps at this special living history weekend at the Pry House
Discover the crisis faced by the 23,000 wounded soldiers and the 200 surgeons tasked to treat them after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Discover the twists and turns that defined the invention of personal military identification tags Lists of missing soldiers like Clara Barton's demonstrated the need for ID tags On Saturday November 16 at 2:30 PM at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine join researcher and docent Mavis Slawson as she presents her research on the […]
The physicians and doctors of the Civil War have received deserved attention in the study of the Civil War. But what about the common stretcher bearer?
Explore the National Museum of Civil War Medicine with museum volunteers and living historians from the Blue and Gray Hospital Association on December 14.
Visitors to the Museum will be treated to a special temporary exhibit about US Navy and Marine medical care and evolving technology during the Civil War.
Taste history with “USS Constellation Rum,” and other Navy inspired spirits from Tobacco Barn Distillery at this exclusive NMCWM after hours program.
Discover how Confederate soldiers came to understand themselves, other men, and their families differently because of their military service.
