Dr. Mary E. Walker of New York embarked on a crusade to become a surgeon in the Union Army.
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Women
Discover the incredible events that occurred in the city of Frederick, Maryland on the bloodiest day in American history – September 17, 1862.
Discover the true history of the “Dragon Lady.”
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.
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?
