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 ...

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 ...

For decades, the cremated remains on more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities ...

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, ...

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.