Discover the experience of a parent looking for their wounded child after a Civil War battle by following Oliver Wendell Holmes’ search for his son.
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Soldiers Life
Read about the experience of one wounded Union soldier after the battle of Chancellorsville. Rice Bull described the terrible scenes.
Discover how Union surgeons of Cloud Springs Hospital cared for patients even after they were captured by Confederate cavalry.
Read how the Stickley family table went from family gathering place to Civil War operating table at the Battle of Cedar Creek.
Union surgeon John Brinton’s medical service during the Civil War influenced the study of medicine in the United States for years to come.
The exhaustive planning that went into saving lives during D-Day stems from the organizational efforts of surgeon Jonathan Letterman during the Civil War.
Discover the unique and crucial role parasites played in the life and death of Civil War soldiers.
The innovator who first utilized ether as an anesthetic more 15 years earlier, brought his techniques personally to wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
Scholars talk a lot about what Civil War surgeons did, but no one seems to have asked: what did Civil War surgeons feel?
