Dr. Mary E. Walker of New York embarked on a crusade to become a surgeon in the Union Army.
by David Price
Real Characters of Civil War Medicine
As the Civil War raged, poet Walt Whitman set up shop in the Union capital and volunteered in the city’s war-time hospitals.
Discover the story behind the real hoop skirt assassin.
The American Civil War changed what women were allowed to do. For the first time in our history, women were going to the fields of battle and contributing in countless ways.
Learn more about the doctor that diagnosed “irritable heart.”
Incredibly enough, the color-bearer in the first episode of Mercy Street PBS, was a true story.
Clara Barton was thirty-nine and on her second career when the Civil War started. That didn’t stop her from getting involved, making a difference, and ultimately changing the world.
