Read about one of the most famous examples of quarantine in the Civil War. The 20th Maine was kept out of Chancellorsville due to smallpox.
by David Price
Soldiers Life
Discover how mourning family members turned to poetry to glorify the death of their loved ones and reassure themselves they experienced a meaningful death.
Read about the 45th Pennsylvania’s first combat of the Civil War at South Mountain written by the unit’s hospital steward James A. Meyers.
Read about Union veterinary surgeon Samuel M. Drew’s daring escape from his Confederate captors in Virginia.
The history of an ordinary looking intersection in downtown Frederick highlights some of the most important legacies of the Civil War.
The little told story of African Americans and the Ambulance Corps during the Civil War is one of bravery and trailblazing.
Take a closer look as several cases from a Civil War medical examining board and see what it reveals about medicine during the period.
Not many of the Veteran Reserve Corps saw little active service during the Civil War. Read about the experience of the 18th Regiment who did.
Compare how soldiers suffering from PTSD have been treated and how they grappled with it from the Civil War into the twentieth century.
