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The Union Army adapted Winchester Hall from a women's school into a makeshift hospital. Twenty years later, construction workers made a gruesome discovery.

"Antietam was probably the most picturesque battle of the war.... The battle was a dramatic and most magnificent series of pictures." -Edwin Forbes

Discover the incredible events that occurred in the city of Frederick, Maryland on the bloodiest day in American history - September 17, 1862.

Learn about Dorothea Dix and her part during the Civil War as we know it. Visit The National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick MD.

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 remarkable work of Confederate nurse Phoebe Yates Pember. She worked diligently to care for the sick and wounded at Chimbarazo Hospital.

In the months after the Battle of Gettysburg, a Frederick resident made an explosive discovery along one of the city's busiest thoroughfares.

Embalming the dead of the Civil War provided closure for grieving families... and opportunity for unscrupulous businessmen.

Learn the effects prostitutes had on soldiers during the Civil War time. The National Museum of Civil War Medicine has inside scoops on Clara Barton & more.