Learn how hundreds of Civil War veterinarians cared for millions of horses, mules, and camels.
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The battle was over, the dead lay in heaps,
Pat Murphy lay bleeding and gory,
A hole through his head, from rifleman’s shot,
Had finished his passion for glory.
“Ladies! If you’ve got here you’ll get anywhere.”
After the American Civil War, Clara Barton led the search for over 40,000 missing soldiers … including some who didn’t want to be found.
Schoolteacher Clara Jones engaged in full time hospital work in the summer of 1862.
Frederick Law Olmsted’s memoir “Hospital Transports” describes the efforts of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Peninsula Campaign in 1862.
The following accounts are a tiny sampling of the battlefield experiences of the wounded on three hellish July days: the Battle of Gettysburg.
“If I know I can be of service in tending the wounded…I’m bound to be on hand.”
Thousands of Confederate refugees fled war zones to the relative safety of the Southern interior.
