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July 1 marked 150 years since the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg, a crucial victory for the Union and a turning point in the Civil War. But it came at an enormous cost to both sides — thousands ...

No, wounded Civil War soldiers weren’t awake and they didn’t bite bullets as they endured surgery, says Clarence R. Hickey Jr. Hickey, an interpretive docent and re-enactor with the Montgomery County ...

At a cocktail reception to open "Civil War Medicine," a new exhibit at the ever-so-curious William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History, located in the Baltimore burbs, onlookers quietly groan as a ...

For women trying to break new ground in the 19th century, change didn’t come easily. The life of Dr. Mary Walker is a perfect example. “She was one of the first woman doctors in the country, she was a ...

JANESVILLE – “There are few citizens of Janesville that would be more generally missed,” Colonel J.A. Watrous, a Civil War veteran, wrote in the June 22, 1895 Janesville Gazette, reflecting on the ...

An Ira Civil War surgeon's letters detailing the carnage he saw and treated were so fascinating to Chris Loperfido that he decided to make a book out of them. The book, "Death and Disease in the Civil ...

"This catalogue was prepared by the Borden Institute (Office of the Surgeon General, US Army) in support of the exhibit ... at the National Museum of Health and Medicine of the Armed Forces Institute ...

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- It was like the days when there was no King in Israel! -- People of this state have been bled long enough -- It is a good big work I have in mind -- He is our man -- ...