More than 95% of Civil War surgeries occurred under anesthesia - chloroform and ether were both widely in use by the time of the Civil War.

L.H. Roth searches for the women who nursed him back to health after his wounding at the Battle of South Mountain.

Dr. Mary E. Walker of New York embarked on a crusade to become a surgeon in the Union Army.

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.

Louisa May Alcott experienced the horrors of the Civil War firsthand. Explore how Alcott's short nursing career impacted her life.

As the Civil War raged, poet Walt Whitman set up shop in the Union capital and volunteered in the city's war-time hospitals.