Discover the true history of the “Dragon Lady.”
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Did you know Louisa May Alcott, famous for writing Little Women, was a Civil War nurse?
As the Civil War raged, poet Walt Whitman set up shop in the Union capital and volunteered in the city’s war-time hospitals.
Discover the story behind the real hoop skirt assassin.
In the months after the Battle of Gettysburg, a Frederick resident made an explosive discovery along one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares.
A sea-change in embalming came with the Civil War, during which there was an outcry for fallen soldiers to be returned to their families for burial.
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.
When we think of Civil War medicine, we often think of gore, like amputated limbs and bloody gunshot wounds. But these traumatic injuries did not make up the majority of a Civil War surgeon’s daily work. Instead, it was the camp diseases like dysentery and typhoid, infectious disease like smallpox, and – as we saw in this week’s episode of Mercy Street – venereal diseases.
This week’s episode was full of Civil War slang. We’ve put together a list of some of our favorites. What do you think they mean?
