The Civil War saw the use of ships as hospitals and for patient transport.
Civil War Hospitals
Hear the stories of the hospital staff stationed at Point Lookout.
EVENT POSTPONED. Hermina Glass-Hill, award-winning historian, will reminisce about Susie King Taylor–Civil War nurse and teacher.
Living historians share their unique displays of doctor’s instruments, medicines, and personal items soldiers might have encountered during a stay at a general and/or a volunteer hospital.
Learn how the Lee-Fendall House played a role in Civil War medicine.
Join National Museum of Civil War Medicine staff members as they reveal some of the tragic stories of soldiers who were wounded at the September 1862 battles of South Mountain and Antietam.
Ice was considered a standard medical necessity and was supplied to Civil War hospitals in mass quantities.
Gangrene or hospital gangrene was one of the deadliest infections at the start of the Civil War.
Join NMCWM docents for a walking tour of Downtown Frederick focused on the city’s role as a makeshift hospital in the final months of 1862
