BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Civil War

MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Civil War:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NMHMCW_110930_05.JPG: To Bind Up The Nation's Wounds Medicine During the Civil War The years 2011-2015 represent the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, the bloodiest war the United States has ever fought, with deaths on both sides totaling over 600,000. The United States at the time had thirty-three states, fifteen of which allowed human slavery. The war was brought on when seven of the slave-holding states, on the election of Abraham Lincoln and the anti-slavery Republican party in 1860, seceded from the United States and instituted a new government. Called the Confederate States of America, its constitution was virtually identical to the Constitution of the United States, except specifically condoning and protecting slavery in perpetuity. The United States did not officially recognize the secession of the slave-states, treating them rather as areas in rebellion against the legitimate government. When troops of South Carolina bombarded a United States fort in April 1861, the war began. Four years later, after 200,000 battle deaths, 400,000 deaths from camp diseases and other causes, and another 600,000 non-lethal cases of wounds and disease, the Confederate forces were defeated, the United States as a nation was preserved, and slavery in all parts of the country was abolished.
2. NMHMCW_110930_07.JPG: To Bind Up The Nation's Wounds Medicine During the Civil War The National Museum of Health and Medicine was established during the Civil War. As a means of centralizing and preserving medical knowledge gained during the war and fostering medical education as the war still raged, Surgeon General William Hammond instituted the Army Medical Museum in May 1862. He required forwarding from the battlefields and hospitals "all specimens... surgical and medical, which may be considered valuable" in achieving these goals. To recognize its continuing and expanded mission, the name of the museum was later changed to the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
3. NMHMCW_110930_24.JPG: Joseph K. Barnes, MD (1817-1883), Surgeon General: Joseph K. Barnes assumed the duties of Surgeon Genearl in 1864, after William Hammond was removed from the position. Enjoying the strong support of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, Barnes completed the reforms begun by his predecessor. He oversaw the postwar demobilization of the Medical Department and its transition to providing care for veterans. He hired staff at the Army Medical Museum to produce illustrations for the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. He also secured funding for the Surgeon General's Library, now the National Library of Medicine.
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