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The American Civil War was the first "modern war" in terms of technology and lethality of weapons. [50] "It was a conflict that prefigured our own time in its unanticipated scale and scope, in its incorporation of rapidly advancing technologies of firepower, transportation, and communication."
The U.S. Ambulance Corps was a unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War.The Ambulance Corps was initially formed as a unit only within the Army of the Potomac, due to the effort of several Army officials, notably Dr. Jonathan Letterman, medical director of the Army of the Potomac, and William Hammond, the U.S. Surgeon-General.
Between 6 and 16 February 1862, Union Army troops advanced across the United States to capture Forts Henry and Donelson.In response to news reports of these combat engagements, members of the U.S. Sanitary Commission who were stationed in Cincinnati, Ohio, began to gather supplies and recruit volunteers to help distribute those supplies and render care to ailing and injured soldiers.
This category is for medical facilities and hospitals used during the American Civil War by the Confederate or Union armies. Pages in category "American Civil War hospitals" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total.
During the American Civil War, a department was a geographical command within the Union's military organization, usually reporting directly to the War Department.Many of the Union's departments were named after rivers or other bodies of water, such as the Department of the Potomac and the Department of the Tennessee.
Flannery, Michael A. Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy. (London: Pharmaceutical Press, 2004) Freemon, Frank R. Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care during the American Civil War. (1998) Green, Carol C. Chimborazo: The Confederacy's Largest Hospital. (2004)
Jarvis U.S. General Hospital was a military hospital founded in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1861, at the beginning of the American Civil War, for the care of wounded Federal soldiers. The hospital was built on the grounds of Maryland Square , the former residence of the Steuart family , which had been confiscated by the Federal government at the ...
Pages in category "American Civil War medicine" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Medical and Surgical History of the War of the ...