July 1 marked 150 years since the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg, a crucial victory for the Union and a turning point in the Civil War. But it came at an enormous cost to both sides — thousands ...

Editor's Note: Dr. Shauna Devine is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Schulich ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Side by side, in a shallow pit, two soldiers were hastily buried — and along with them, not flowers or mementos, but 11 arms and legs. The limbs belonged to the fallen soldiers’ comrades, ...

For women trying to break new ground in the 19th century, change didn’t come easily. The life of Dr. Mary Walker is a perfect example. “She was one of the first woman doctors in the country, she was a ...

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 ...

An Ira Civil War surgeon's letters detailing the carnage he saw and treated were so fascinating to Chris Loperfido that he decided to make a book out of them. The book, "Death and Disease in the Civil ...

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