This essay series is written by Mercy Street's medical, historical and technical advisor, Stanley B. Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was ...

Essays on the Effects of the Civil War on the South in the Post Bellum Era. Some of the papers will prove primarily of interest to academic scholars, dealing with questions of influences on his ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This essay series is written by Mercy ... Of the 620,000 recorded military deaths in the Civil War about two-thirds died from disease. However, recent studies show the number ...