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Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...
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.
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.
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 ...
The US Army said Tuesday it will restore the names of seven Army bases that previously honored Confederate leaders.
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.
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 ...
As a surgeon in the Union Army, Salisbury believed that the most prevalent ailment among the troops wasn't acute bullet wounds; it was diarrhea and dysentery. He was right.
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.
But for a flight surgeon who gave him a pass when he came up an eighth of an inch short during an exam, Michael J. Novosel Sr. likely would never have become a military aviator.