Read about Surgeon William Child’s first experience of war at the Battle of Antietam – the bloodiest day in American history.
by David Price
Nathan Marzoli
Read the story of the 16th New Hampshire, a unit ravaged by disease but almost no battlefield deaths and how they remembered their service.
John Lustrea talks with Historian Nathan Marzoli about challenges faced by Enrollment Board Surgeons from 1863 – 1865.
Not many of the Veteran Reserve Corps saw little active service during the Civil War. Read about the experience of the 18th Regiment who did.
After the North instituted a draft in 1863, enrollment board surgeons faced an incredibly tough task – determining real disabilities from fake ones.
Read about the experience of one wounded Union soldier after the battle of Chancellorsville. Rice Bull described the terrible scenes.
