Learn about Surgeon General William Hammond.
Hospitals
Learn about Camp Letterman, the largest military hospital built on the Gettysburg battlefield.
Learn about the effects of various types of artillery rounds during the Civil War
Kyle Nappi relates the story of his ancestor who was wounded in the jaw at the Fall of Petersburg.
In part two of this blog post, Kyle Dalton examines the incidents of unanesthetized surgery in the Confederacy
Research by the Museum’s Kyle Dalton shows that unanesthetized surgery in the Civil War was extremely rare.
The letters of Joseph Welsh, a dying Civil War soldier, illustrate the cost of disease in the ranks. Welch died of typhoid fever.
Susan La Flesche Picotte broke intersectional barriers as a woman, as an American Indian, and as a medical doctor in the 19th century
Read about Surgeon William Child’s first experience of war at the Battle of Antietam – the bloodiest day in American history.
