Discover how the US Army instituted a revolutionary new form of trauma care on Civil War battlefields.
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Soldiers Life
Military medical illustration came of age during the early 1860s with the outbreak of the Civil War.
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 story behind the real hoop skirt assassin.
The American Civil War changed what women were allowed to do. For the first time in our history, women were going to the fields of battle and contributing in countless ways.
