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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. NMCWM_181116_009.JPG: A Sampler of Civil War Care
2. NMCWM_181116_029.JPG: "Maryland, My Maryland" Potomac Crossing, June 25, 1863 Mort Kunstler
3. NMCWM_181116_043.JPG: Clara Barton
4. NMCWM_181116_046.JPG: Veterinary Medicine The Importance of Healthy Horses and Mules for Use During the Civil War
5. NMCWM_181116_067.JPG: The Autenrieth Wagon
6. NMCWM_181116_077.JPG: Temporary Grave Markers
7. NMCWM_181116_083.JPG: In His Own Words Union Private Peleg Bradford 1st Maine Heavy Artillery & 18th Maine Infantry
8. NMCWM_181116_086.JPG: Peleg's "Peg Leg" This crudely made artificial leg was worn by Bradford during the years following the amputation of his right leg in 1864. For unknown reasons, Bradford opted for this leg of homemade or local manufacture instead of the more advanced prosthetic legs available at the time.
9. NMCWM_181116_092.JPG: Peleg, his wife Cynthia, and their family
10. NMCWM_181116_093.JPG: Peleg Bradford at his winter logging camp. Notice the prosthetic device in place of his right leg.
11. NMCWM_181116_096.JPG: Peleg, seated on the log, oversees business at his sawmill
12. NMCWM_181116_125.JPG: Infectious Diseases and Vaccines
13. NMCWM_181116_128.JPG: Future
14. NMCWM_181116_134.JPG: Music and Medicine Reading and Well-Being
15. NMCWM_181116_137.JPG: Music and Medicine
16. NMCWM_181116_139.JPG: Reading and Well-Being
17. NMCWM_181116_143.JPG: The American Banjo
18. NMCWM_181116_145.JPG: Visit Our Newest Site in Washington DC The Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum (CBMSO)
19. NMCWM_181116_148.JPG: "Figuratively speaking, this city is one vast hospital, and yet hundreds of poor fellows continue to arrive who have their wounds attended to, and away they go, uncomplaining." -- Philadelphia Inquirer, September 25, 1862
20. NMCWM_181116_154.JPG: National Museum of Civil War Medicine Civil War Medicine, it's not what you think... come learn the truth!
21. NMCWM_181125_10.JPG: Hospitals in Frederick: Caring for the Wounded: In this building [the National Museum of Civil War Medicine], soldiers who die in one of the many area hospitals following the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Monocacy were embalmed and prepared for interment at nearby Mount Olivet Cemetery or for shipment home. James Whitehill, the owner of the building, was both a furniture maker and undertaker, as were many furniture makers then. Dr. Richard Burr, a contractor with the U.S. Army, embalmed the bodied of officers and soldiers in this building. He gave public demonstrations of the new embalming process here on Sunday afternoons. The Hessian Barracks at the south end of Frederick served as a U.S. general hospital throughout the entire Civil War. Following nearby battles, makeshift hospitals were established in virtually every large structure, from barns in the surrounding countryside to churches downtown. After the Battle of Antietam, some 8,000 wounded soldiers recuperated in Frederick at a time when the town's population was 8,000. Dr. Jonathan Letterman's revolutionary triage system for sorting the treating the wounded based on the severity of their wounds was first used here after the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. His system is still in use today. The stories of the care of the wounded, both Union and Confederate, and of the countless advances in medicine developed in time of need during the Civil War are told here today in the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. Frederick's Courthouse Square also contains a number of Civil War stories. Follow Patrick Street west of Court Street, then turn right and travel one block north.
22. NMCWM_181125_16.JPG: The Hessian Barracks
23. NMCWM_181125_18.JPG: Wounded soldiers being cared for in the Evangelical Lutheran Church
24. NMCWM_181125_23.JPG: Dr. Jonathan Letterman Blue dots indicate Civil War hospital sites.
25. NMCWM_181125_25.JPG: 1862 Antietam Campaign Lee Invades Maryland Fresh from victory at the Second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 4-6, 1862, to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac pursued Lee, who had detached Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's force to capture the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry. After the Federals pushed the remaining Confederates out of the South Mountain gaps, Lee awaited Jackson's return near Sharpsburg and Antietam Creek. On September 17, at the battle of Antietam, the two armies clashed in the bloodiest single day in American history and suffered some 23,000 casualties. Lee soon retreated across the Potomac, ending his first invasion of the north. Follow in the footsteps of Gens. Lee and McClellan along Maryland Civil War Trail's Antietam Campaign: Lee Invades Maryland, a 90 mile tour route that allows you to explore the stories of triumph and tragedy at more than 60 Civil War sites. Please travel carefully as you enjoy the beauty and history along the trail.
Wikipedia Description: National Museum of Civil War Medicine
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is a U.S. historic education institution located in Frederick, Maryland. Its focus involves the medical, surgical and nursing practices during the American Civil War (1861-1865).

History

The museum, which was originally proposed by Dr. Gordon E. Damman, a private collector of Civil War-era medical artifacts, was incorporated in 1990 and first opened to the public in 1996. The museum moved into its current location – a three-story 19th century brick building that was home to a furniture maker/undertaker operation during the Civil War – in October 2000.

Focus

The 7,000-square-foot (650 m2) museum consists of five immersion exhibits that recreate aspects of Civil War medical issues: life in an army camp, evacuation of the wounded from the battlefront, a field dressing station, a field hospital and a military hospital ward. The exhibits incorporate surviving tools and equipment from the war, including the only known surviving Civil War surgeon’s tent, surgical kits, and items pertaining to veterinary medicine.

In 2006, the museum, in cooperation with the U.S. National Park Service, began operating the Pry House Field Hospital Museum at the Antietam National Battlefield. The same year, the museum made its first foray into book publishing with the release of Robert G. Slawson’s Prologue to Change: African Americans in Medicine in the Civil War Era.

The museum has organized annual national conferences on Civil War-era medicine for more than twenty years.

In 2014, the museum opened the Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office at 347 Seventh Street, NW in Washington, D.C.
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