Learn about Surgeon General William Hammond.
Soldiers
Learn about Camp Letterman, the largest military hospital built on the Gettysburg battlefield.
Learn about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, an African American woman who recruited for the Union Army
Learn about the effects of various types of artillery rounds during the Civil War
Kyle Nappi relates the story of his ancestor who was wounded in the jaw at the Fall of Petersburg.
Kyle Dalton explores the myth that recruits of the Civil War were only required to have two opposing teeth.
The U.S. Signal Corps was founded in the Civil War. Learn how it developed and how it is still in use in today’s Army.
In part two of this blog post, Kyle Dalton examines the incidents of unanesthetized surgery in the Confederacy
Research by the Museum’s Kyle Dalton shows that unanesthetized surgery in the Civil War was extremely rare.
