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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 7,000-square-foot (650 m 2) museum consists of five immersion exhibits that recreate aspects of Civil War medical issues: life in an army camp, evacuation of the wounded from the battlefront, a field dressing station, a field hospital and a military hospital ward. The exhibits incorporate surviving tools and equipment from the war ...
Captain James Cuthbert 'Cuddy' Dinwiddie, [1] known also as "Doctor Dinwiddie," was a Confederate military surgeon who inadvertently advanced the treatment against microorganisms and infections during his service as a battlefield surgeon during the American Civil War. During this period, the army doctors on both sides were greatly handicapped ...
This category refers to articles about people who served as military surgeons or physicians during the American Civil War. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
At the start of the Civil War, Letterman was Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac. He was named medical director of the Department of West Virginia in May 1862. A month later William A. Hammond, Surgeon General of the U.S. Army appointed him, with the rank of major, as the medical director of the Army of the Potomac itself.
Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919), commonly referred to as Dr. Mary Walker, was an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war in the American Civil War, and surgeon. [1]
When the Civil War broke out he was made surgeon of the First Illinois Light Artillery, but after a year was obliged to resign by reason of illness incurred in the service. He was the first to make and keep complete medical records of the sick and wounded in war, and his records were accepted by the surgeon general and formed the basis on which ...
Samuel Wylie Crawford (November 8, 1829 – November 3, 1892) was a United States Army surgeon and a Union general in the American Civil War.. He served as a surgeon at Fort Sumter, South Carolina during the confederate bombardment in 1861.