Retired pharmacist Greg Susla spotlights the medical benefits of foxglove and how it was used during the American Civil War.
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Children
That happy hour to me is sweet
When thus I slept alone
And with that angel hope to meet
The dead who are unknown.
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.
Thousands of Confederate refugees fled war zones to the relative safety of the Southern interior.
Many of the rituals that we now understand to make up the American funerary tradition were developed and shaped in the 19th century
Many of us associate the Victorian era with an image of a delicate woman swooning on a couch, incapacitated by her monthly visitor. Where did this image originate? And how closely did it hew to the reality of women’s lives in Victorian America?
After emancipation, what came next? Overcrowded and unsanitary, health conditions in contraband camps made freedpeople increasingly susceptible to smallpox.
In the months after the Battle of Gettysburg, a Frederick resident made an explosive discovery along one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares.
