Over 95% of Civil War surgeries occurred under anesthesia.
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Medical Staff
L.H. Roth searches for the women who nursed him back to health.
Dr. Mary E. Walker of New York embarked on a crusade to become a surgeon in the Union Army.
The Union Army adapted Winchester Hall from a women’s school into a makeshift hospital. Twenty years later, construction workers made a gruesome discovery.
“The Battle of Antietam was probably the most picturesque battle of the war…. The battle was a dramatic and most magnificent series of pictures.” Illustrator Edwin Forbes
Discover the incredible events that occurred in the city of Frederick, Maryland on the bloodiest day in American history – September 17, 1862.
Discover the true history of the “Dragon Lady.”
Did you know Louisa May Alcott, famous for writing Little Women, was a Civil War nurse?
As the Civil War raged, poet Walt Whitman set up shop in the Union capital and volunteered in the city’s war-time hospitals.
