It reports over 174,000 shot wounds of the extremities, 4,656 were treated by surgical excision and 29,980 by amputation. Of the approximately 30,000 amputations performed in the Civil War there ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast, and many of their MacGyver-like solutions have had a lasting impact. Here are five medical ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact. With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname ...

The Union's armed forces engaged some 12,000 surgeons during the Civil War. Of these, just fourteen were men of color. In this truly ground-breaking study, Newmark, independent historian and former ...

It reports over 174,000 shot wounds of the extremities, 4,656 were treated by surgical excision and 29,980 by amputation. Of the approximately 30,000 amputations performed in the Civil War there ...