Meet the first amputee of the Civil War: the man who will go on to create a prosthetic empire.

The historical conception of “the good death” spoke to the experience of those were dying, but also shaped the mourning traditions of the living. Read more.

Read about those in the Civil War that used prosthetics after amputation. Find everything you need to know from National Museum of Civil War Medicine.

Read about plastic surgery for wounded soldiers during the Civil War. The destructive weaponry of the Civil War wreaked havoc on soldiers' bodies.

Learn about the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and the Army Medical Museum here. Learn more about key figures like Jonathan Letterman & Clara Barton.

More than 400 women disguised themselves as men to serve as soldiers during the American Civil War. How did they pull it off?

During the US Army's chaotic retreat during the Second Battle of Bull Run in August 1862, the need for an organized ambulance corps became abundantly clear.

A Civil War chaplain’s work was harrowing, improvised, and all too often underappreciated.

Military medical illustration came of age during the early 1860s with the outbreak of the Civil War.