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November 27, 2023 by Tracey McIntire Leave a Comment

Food shortages in the South led to riotous women in the streets.

Filed Under: Civilians, Nutrition, Soldiers, Women Tagged With: Bread Riots, Civil War, Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia

November 9, 2022 by Tracey McIntire

Author M.A. Schaffner tells the little-known story of the convalescent camp in Arlington, Virginia

Filed Under: African American, Civilians, Hospitals, Soldiers, Soldiers Life, Technology Tagged With: Arlington, Civil War Hospitals, Convalescent Camp, Rendezvous of Distribution, Virginia

January 24, 2019 by David Price Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Hospitals, Medical Equipment, Medical Staff, Medicine And Drugs, Soldiers, Soldiers Life, Technology Tagged With: Battle of Second Manassas, Haw's Shop, JEB Stuart, Kelly's Ford, Michael Shaffer, Thomas Colley, Virginia

July 10, 2017 by David Price Leave a Comment

Clara Jones worked aboard the pictured hospital steamer, the State of Maine, in August of 1862. Courtesy of the National Archives

Schoolteacher Clara Jones engaged in full time hospital work in the summer of 1862.

Filed Under: African American, Hospitals, Medical Staff, Medicine And Drugs, Personal Hygiene, Soldiers, Women Tagged With: Alexandria, Civil War, Civil War Hospitals, Civil War Medicine, Clara Jones, Clarissa Fellows Jones Dye, Clarissa Jones, Dorothea Dix, John Lustrea, Libby Prison, Lyceum, Nurse, State of Maine, Virginia, Women's History

June 16, 2017 by David Price Leave a Comment

While removing a rock from his shoe on the picket line outside Petersburg, Virginia, a Confederate bullet tore through Private Peleg Bradford’s knee.

Filed Under: Hospitals, Medical Equipment, Medical Staff, Medicine And Drugs, Soldiers, Soldiers Life, Technology Tagged With: Civil War, Civil War Hospitals, Civil War Medicine, Jake Wynn, Peleg Bradford, Petersburg, Virginia

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