Learn about the debate over the choice to use the Caduceus or the Rod of Asclepius to represent Civil War medicine in the museum’s new logo.
by David Price
Civilians
Read about Union veterinary surgeon Samuel M. Drew’s daring escape from his Confederate captors in Virginia.
Read about the challenges of running a university and hosting a large hospital in this blog post about the University of Virginia’s Civil War hospital.
Discover the ways in which Civil War Americans thought disease traveled by smells and how they worked to stop its spread with good odors.
The history of an ordinary looking intersection in downtown Frederick highlights some of the most important legacies of the Civil War.
Take a closer look as several cases from a Civil War medical examining board and see what it reveals about medicine during the period.
Compare how soldiers suffering from PTSD have been treated and how they grappled with it from the Civil War into the twentieth century.
Historian Michelle Herbelin explains how medical practice changed from the United States War with Mexico in 1846 to the Civil War in 1861.
Find out how a poor diet contributed to one of the most deadly diseases of the Civil War – diarrhea.
