The following accounts are a tiny sampling of the battlefield experiences of the wounded on three hellish July days: the Battle of Gettysburg.
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While removing a rock from his shoe on the picket line outside Petersburg, Virginia, a Confederate bullet tore through Private Peleg Bradford’s knee.
How Civil War Medicine saved the life of a future president.
Just as Joss Whedon challenged the society’s preconceived notion of the girl in a horror movie by creating Buffy, we challenge you to second-guess what you think of women in the past.
Meet the first amputee of the Civil War: the man who will go on to create a prosthetic empire.
Discover the stunning history of Civil War prosthetics and the men that wore them.
Forget nip/tuck, plastic surgery had a whole different meaning during the Civil War.
One of the greatest innovations of Civil War medicine was … a museum.
One of the first riots in the United States was fought not over the living, but the dead.
