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 staff of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick regularly tells visitors of the war's many medical advancements. On Saturday, a guest lecturer explained that the knowledge gained ...

(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 ...

Anesthesia was in its infancy when the American Civil War began in 1861. The sheer number of casualties gave surgeons on both sides the opportunity to gain experience with the first two anesthetic ...

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 ...

Town of Oswego native Dr. Mary Walker, a Civil War era surgeon who was once captured by Confederate troops will be honored by the United States Mint with a quarter featuring her image. The public is ...

Anderson Ruffin Abbott lived in Hamilton’s Dundas community for about 10 years. Born in Toronto in 1837, he was the first Black Canadian licensed as a physician and served as a surgeon in the U.S.