After emancipation, what came next? Overcrowded and unsanitary, health conditions in contraband camps made freedpeople increasingly susceptible to smallpox.
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Devotees of this controversial science believed that the shape of one’s skull reflected the form of the brain and therefore revealed inner character.
Meet Silas Weir Mitchell, the father of neurology in America.
Over 95% of Civil War surgeries occurred under anesthesia.
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.
