On May 11 celebrate National Nurses Week and Florence Nightingale’s birthday by discovering how she influenced medical care in the US before the Civil War.
by David Price
Civil War Medicine
Join NMCWM presenters to discover the historic origins of modern emergency medicine at this special presentation at Salisbury University.
Dr. Allison Johnson shows how Union soldiers who had a right arm amputated used their left arm to relate their wartime experiences in unexpected ways.
This presentation will examine the unique challenges the 1864 Overland Campaign created for the Army of the Potomac’s Medical Department.
After the North instituted a draft in 1863, enrollment board surgeons faced an incredibly tough task – determining real disabilities from fake ones.
Read the astonishing story of Private Elisha Rice Reed at the Battle of Gettysburg. His wounding and treatment provide a window into Civil War medical care.
Discover the terrible medical conditions in Andersonville prison through the eyes of one Southern surgeon – Dr. John M. Howell
See Artist in Residence Michael Benevenia show his current works in progress, and hear him speak about how Civil War medicine inspired his art.
Disease killed more soldiers in the Civil War than battle injuries. This blog post examines specific outbreaks of one disease, yellow fever, in Key West.
