Read about the role of Gettysburg College in the treatment of the wounded after the Battle of Gettysburg.
by David Price
Field Hospital
the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and the Gettysburg Foundation will lead a virtual tour of the George Spangler Farm & Field Hospital at Gettysburg.
Kyle Dalton and John Heckman, the Tattooed Historian, will talk about combat care during the Civil War using reproduction artifacts at the Pry House.
Read about medical care after the Battle of the Wilderness where medical personnel had to contend with fires and dense underbrush.
Director of Interpretation Jake Wynn will discuss field hospitals in the Civil War. Send us your questions in advance on Facebook or by email
Hear about Confederate cavalryman Thomas Wallace Colley’s journey from the saddle to the hospital as he dealt with three wounds during the Civil War.
Read how the Stickley family table went from family gathering place to Civil War operating table at the Battle of Cedar Creek.
Discover what we can learn about Civil War medicine through the first person accounts of the 17th Connecticut at Gettysburg.
The innovator who first utilized ether as an anesthetic more 15 years earlier, brought his techniques personally to wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
