20th century writer F. Scott Fitzgerald was a Civil War buff. Discover what his short stories reveal about Civil War dentistry.
by David Price
Soldiers
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.
Discover the incredible parallels between the institution of triage during the Civil War and its modern equivalent.
Find out how soldiers, civilians, and nurses in the general hostpial at Harpers Ferry survived the 1862 battle.
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.
Learn about the debate over the choice to use the Caduceus or the Rod of Asclepius to represent Civil War medicine in the museum’s new logo.
Learn about Union Civil War Surgeon Benjamin Howard’s life saving innovations in medical care which we still benefit from today.
Read about Union veterinary surgeon Samuel M. Drew’s daring escape from his Confederate captors in Virginia.
