The National Museum of Civil War Medicine (NMCWM) in Frederick, Md., is honored to announce a significant new donation of rare and historically important Civil War medical artifacts from author, ...

The staff of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine has grown very happy with telling its story about the development of modern medicine from the perspective of Jonathan Letterman, a Union Army ...

Today, the most interesting reminder of Daniel Sickles, a 19th-century Army general, might be his amputated leg bone, a cast ...

On the National Museum of Health and Medicine’s Flickr, portraits of these wounded soldiers show the grim resilience, military pride, and shocked resignation in their faces. Sometimes posed in their ...

FREDERICK, Md. — Long after the guns grew silent at Antietam, the earth yielded up gruesome reminders of the bloodiest day of the American Civil War: bodies, bones, buttons and entire severed limbs — ...

Explore Frederick's important role in the history of medicine. Frederick, Maryland, played a vital role during the Civil War, serving as a key medical hub for wounded soldiers from the battles of ...

KEEDYSVILLE, Md. (AP) – The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is recreating Mathew Brady’s famous 1862 photographic exhibition documenting the Civil War’s Battle of Antietam. The display of 21 ...