Private William McCarter’s treatment after the battle of Fredericksburg is an excellent case study of Civil War medical care.
by David Price
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Learn how hundreds of Civil War veterinarians cared for millions of horses, mules, and camels.
“Ladies! If you’ve got here you’ll get anywhere.”
After the American Civil War, Clara Barton led the search for over 40,000 missing soldiers … including some who didn’t want to be found.
Schoolteacher Clara Jones engaged in full time hospital work in the summer of 1862.
Frederick Law Olmsted’s memoir “Hospital Transports” describes the efforts of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Peninsula Campaign in 1862.
“If I know I can be of service in tending the wounded…I’m bound to be on hand.”
Thousands of Confederate refugees fled war zones to the relative safety of the Southern interior.
While removing a rock from his shoe on the picket line outside Petersburg, Virginia, a Confederate bullet tore through Private Peleg Bradford’s knee.
