While removing a rock from his shoe on the picket line outside Petersburg, Virginia, a Confederate bullet tore through Private Peleg Bradford’s knee.
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Amputations were the most common surgical operation performed during the American Civil War. Join us for a discussion and demonstration and find out why.
How Civil War Medicine saved the life of a future president.
“The bandaged head, the empty sleeve, and the stump of a leg, told a tale louder than words could speak.”
Discover how the US Army instituted a revolutionary new form of trauma care on Civil War battlefields.
L.H. Roth searches for the women who nursed him back to health.
See Mercy Street before it airs … with members of the cast and crew.
The Union Army adapted Winchester Hall from a women’s school into a makeshift hospital. Twenty years later, construction workers made a gruesome discovery.
“The Battle of Antietam was probably the most picturesque battle of the war…. The battle was a dramatic and most magnificent series of pictures.” Illustrator Edwin Forbes
