It reports over 174,000 shot wounds of the extremities, 4,656 were treated by surgical excision and 29,980 by amputation. Of the approximately 30,000 amputations performed in the Civil War there ...

Camp Sumter, also known as Andersonville prison, housed 45,000 captured Union soldiers during the Civil War. Conditions at ...

The museum is dedicated to showcasing disease and injuries, and general medical abnormalities. There are over 20,000 strange items, ranging from specimens and photographs of Civil War injuries ...

Hamilton County had 2,400 men enlisted in the Federal Army during the American Civil War, with 13 surgeons from the county appointed to tend to the wounded, who suffered from battlefield wounds and ...

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

Four presidents faced a decision after we had gotten bin Laden whether to end our longest war in history in Afghanistan. I ...

Anthony Winfield with his service dog, Maizy, who helps him manage hardships from the injuries he sustained in the military. Originally published on U.S. Bank company blog When Anthony Winfield ...

His mother said, "Our life is just turned upside-down." It wasn't just Worley's grievous wounds; the cost of moving to Washington to be with him had drained the family savings. They didn't even ...

As such, flags were protected to the point of injury or death. Men in service took pride in what ... This section displays objects that were used as flags during the Civil War. National Museum of ...

The Yates County Historian’s Office and Veterans Services Agency, along with the Middlesex Heritage Group, will hold a ...

The war provided a vast resource of unusual wounds inspiring him to organize ... and autopsying hundreds of thousands in the Civil War provided a basis for the emerging sciences.