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Feb 13

Civil War Medicine: The Civil War in Four Minutes

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Join Historian George Wunderlich as he highlights the complexities of Civil War medicine and discusses the innovations in medical practices throughout the Civil War. Watch now to find out what the most common wartime operation was and what hospitals in the Civil War were like.

This video is part of the American Battlefield Trust’s In4 video series, which presents short videos on basic Civil War topics.
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Nov 10

Disease and the Civil War – National Museum of Civil War Medicine

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More than two-thirds of those who perished during the Civil War succumbed to disease. Director of Interpretation Jake Wynn discusses the impact of three infamous diseases – dysentery, typhoid fever, and smallpox.

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