Frederick's Civil War medicine museum tells story of death of James Garfield

The staff of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick regularly tells visitors of the war's many medical advancements. On Saturday, a guest lecturer explained that the knowledge gained ...
Standard-Journal

Civil War museum receives medical artifacts

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine (NMCWM) in Frederick, Md., is honored to announce a significant new donation of rare and historically important Civil War medical artifacts from author, ...
WGAL

National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg expands Women at War exhibit

The National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg has expanded its Women at War exhibit.The display highlights the essential contributions of women during the war, both on and off the battlefield. Women ...
The Washington Post

Civil War Reenactor Doctor Goes Back to a Painful Time

Jason Grabill stood in the parlor of his Frederick County house, demonstrating how he would amputate an arm. Gripping a reporter's left elbow, he was transformed from a Brunswick police officer to a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Civil War Artifacts in the Smithsonian

A survey of Civil War artifacts in the Smithsonian’s collections would not be complete without one of the most cherished pieces at the National Museum of American History—a top hat worn by Abraham ...
Medscape

Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs

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 ...