Food shortages in the South led to riotous women in the streets.
Virginia
Author M.A. Schaffner tells the little-known story of the convalescent camp in Arlington, Virginia
Read about Confederate cavalryman Thomas Wallace Colley’s journey from the saddle to the hospital as he dealt with three wounds during the Civil War.
Schoolteacher Clara Jones engaged in full time hospital work in the summer of 1862.
While removing a rock from his shoe on the picket line outside Petersburg, Virginia, a Confederate bullet tore through Private Peleg Bradford’s knee.