Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...

Fort Walker, named in 2023 after Civil War Union surgeon Mary Walker, will revert back to Fort A.P. Hill. For her family, the retraction feels familiar.

U.S Army surgeon J.D. Irwin led the first Medal of Honor action on this day in history, Feb. 13, 1861. He helped rescue 60 trapped soldiers and a kidnapped boy from Apaches.

The US Army said Tuesday it will restore the names of seven Army bases that previously honored Confederate leaders.

Tubman earned a distinction for her field prowess before the Civil War began. After a June 1858 meeting in Niagara Falls, Ontario, abolitionist John Brown nicknamed her “General” Tubman ...

Finally, Fort Anderson-Pinn-Hill, formerly Fort Walker, will now bear the names of three Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: Lt. Col. Edward Hill, 1st Sgt. Robert A. Pinn, and Pvt. Bruce Anderson.

Civil War surgeons learned fast. ... Because the new Army Medical Museum in Washington, D.C., had requested battlefield ... Stonewall Jackson’s surgeon recommended the removal of his left ...

Stanley B. Burns, MD, the Mercy Street on-set Medical, Historical and Technical Advisor, shares photos from The Burns Archive and an essay about surgery during the Civil War.

A student of natural sciences and chemistry in the mid-1800s, he became a doctor in 1852 and offered his service to the Union cause during the Civil War. As a surgeon in the Union Army, Salisbury ...

Fort Walker, named in 2023 after Civil War Union surgeon Mary Walker, will revert back to Fort A.P. Hill. For her family, the retraction feels familiar.