Most Civil War histories evoke the bravura of 19th century military skill, of masses of men moving across open fields to face other orderly masses of men and commence killing each other. Few books ...

The Civil War might seem to today's physicians like a quaint anachronism, irrelevant to modern concerns, a blurred panorama of drunken surgeons wiping their scalpels on blood-soaked aprons and ...

The bloodiest war in American history was also one of the most influential in battlefield medicine. Civil War surgeons learned fast, and many of their MacGyver-like solutions have had a lasting impact ...

(THE REPORTER) — Nearly 2,400 men from Hamilton County were enlisted in the Federal Army during the American Civil War. One of the unique aspects of the war was the recruitment of companies of men ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The staff of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick regularly tells visitors of the war's many medical ...

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is honored to announce a significant new donation of rare and historically ...

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 ...

United States Army New York Infantry Regiment, 121st (1861-1865) SURGEONS CIVIL WAR : THE LETTERS AND DIARY OF DANIEL M HOLT MD EDITED BY JAMES M GREINER JANET L CORYELL JAMES R SMITHER ...

KENOSHA — The Civil War Museum, 5400 First Ave., will hold a Civil War Medical Weekend from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 16-17. There is no admission fee. This weekend will be full of ...