At the time of the Civil War, battlefield medicine was still in its infancy. This led to many injuries becoming severely ...

However, the highlight of the trip was our final stop, two days in Gettysburg, the site of one of the most consequential ...

When soldiers of the South massed around Richmond at the beginning of the Civil War, the city needed more than drill fields and barracks. Richmond needed hospitals, lots of hospitals.

Archaeologists at Colonial Williamsburg recently announced the discovery of four Confederate soldier skeletons, revealing a makeshift hospital from the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg.

This Civil War-era tobacco warehouse was one of many in Lynchburg that found itself pressed into service as a hospital during the war, according to local historians.

His presentation was about the medical conditions of Chattanooga during the Civil War and the effect it had on the city, its residents, and the hundreds if not thousands of wounded and sick ...

In addition to being used as a Civil War-era hospital, the basement of the First Alliance Church in Mattoon doubled as a makeshift jail for 26 prisoners captured in Charleston after the famous ...

NEW MARKET — The historic Bushong Home on the grounds of the Virginia Museum of the Civil War is celebrating its bicentennial this year.

Drummer boy Willie Johnston was a few days shy of his 12th birthday during the Seven Days' Battle in Virginia and received the Medal of Honor a year later for his actions during that Civil War ...

The roots of Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. run deep in the city, starting as a seed planted during Lincoln's presidency and the Civil War.