There was no penicillin. No oxygen tanks. No sterile surgical field. No intravenous lines. Little or no sanitation.
The hospital and other medical care of the Civil War era offered none of these medical treatments and procedures that we now take for granted as necessities. Is it any wonder, then, that [...]

People are often astounded by the numbers of men who died as casualties of the Civil War. The bloodiest war to ever take place on American soil, over 600,000 men perished during the Civil War.
What many people do not realize is that nearly 60,000 of these casualties did not happen in battle – they happened [...]

Veterans of the Civil War returned to lives either very similar or completely different from the world they left behind to fight for their cause. For veterans of the U.S. Army, life went on, as victors, much as it had before the war. They returned as celebrated, often decorated heroes who’d brought a [...]