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Category: Medical

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Message from the CEO

Transcription Hello, my name is Rob Havers and as the new CEO and President of the American Civil War Museum, I look …

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Medical Mission in Action Women's History
March 22, 2021 Kelly Hancock A Ward in Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D.C. U.S. soliders are lying in beds against the walls and one soldier is in a wheelchair in the center of the image. Two women nurses are seated next to bedridden soliders on the right. The ward's ceiling is decorated with streamers and U.S. Flags.

Only the First Step Costs: The Pioneering Work of Phoebe Pember and Susie King Taylor

The American Civil War helped nursing become a profession for women in the United States. Although some training for nurses did exist …

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Annual Legacies Medical Women's History
May 13, 2020 Katie Lewis

Annual Legacies: Pheobe Yates Levy Pember

Born Phoebe Yates Levy on August 18, 1823, in Charleston, South Carolina, she was the fourth of seven children in a prominent …

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African American History Annual Legacies Medical
May 6, 2020

Annual Legacies: Susie Baker King Taylor

Susie Baker King Taylor was born into slavery on August 6, 1848 to Hagar and Raymond Baker on the Grest Farm in …

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Annual Legacies Medical Mission in Action
April 29, 2020 Kathryn Lewis

Annual Legacies: Annie Bell

Annie Bell was the central subject for one of the most popular photos used by the U.S. Sanitary Commission (USSC). The photo, …

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History is Present Medical Mission in Action
April 21, 2020 Chris Graham Three Civil War-Era Women doing civil tasks

Not Alone in History: Are You Doing Something?

Have you made masks yet? I haven’t, though it’s all the rage right now and one can find instructions all over the …

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Artifact of the Month Collections Medical
May 8, 2017

May 2017 Artifacts of the Month | Richmond Sharpshooters Medicine Chest

By Robert Hancock Senior Curator & Director of Collections This medicine case was presented to the Richmond Sharpshooters, Company H, 23rd Virginia …

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Artifact of the Month Collections Medical Women's History
February 2, 2016

February 2016 Artifact of the Month | Captain Sally Tompkins

By Jodi Frederiksen Collections Manager The PBS television show Mercy Street tells the story of Mansion House, a hotel appropriated by Federal …

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Medical Shared Info
June 11, 2015

The Force is Strong with Dr. Jonathan Letterman

Meg Thompson of the Emerging Civil War blog recently made an interesting connection between the American Civil War and the Intergalactic Civil …

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