After emancipation, what came next? Freedpeople, or "contrabands," faced an uncertain future and very certain health threats.
Read about phrenology & the civil war from National Museum of Civil War Medicine. Get insight on key figures including Jonathan Letterman & Clara Barton.
Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell used the opportunities presented by the Civil War to transform the treatment of nerve injuries in America.
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.
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