This week’s blog will explore the bombing on Fort Sumter. 160 years ago, on April 12, this event marked the beginning of the American Civil War. With the booming of [...]

Rose Greenhow was a society woman in D.C. who became a spy ring leader and icon for the Confederacy during the Civil War. The first major Confederate victory on the [...]

To end our hospital blogs and turn our focus to Women’s History Month which is March, we are going to discuss Phoebe Pember. She was one of the many Civil [...]

“The limbs of soldiers are in as much danger from the ardor of young surgeons as from the missiles of the enemy." Surgeon Julian John Chisholm, 1864   Although the [...]

For our final blog honoring Black History Month, we are going to step away from the Civil War medical history and learn about the 44th United States Colored Troops (USCT). [...]

Today we will learn about Susie King Taylor. She like, Ann Bradford Stokes, overcame slavery and made her mark upon history. She was a teacher, nurse, and advocate for human [...]

Nursing was not a woman’s job before the Civil War, but by 1865, there were over 3,000 nurses serving the Union and Confederacy. In the North, most female nurses worked [...]

We know that nearly 300,000 black soldiers helped the Union cause during the U.S. Civil War. What is less well known is the role of a dedicated group of black [...]