American Civil War Medicine

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Americas Bloodiest Day The Irish Brigade at
Antietam
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The Battle of Antietam, 17 September
1862 23,000 casualties
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Whose Father Was He?-- Philadelphia Inquirer ,
October 19, 1863
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Gettysburg July 1,1863
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Gettysburg July 2, 1863
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Gettysburg July 3,1863
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Sergeant Amos Humiston (above) Humiston children
in a carte de visite produced to promote their
story
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C.S.S. Hunley and Queenies Coin
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The Battle of Shiloh,6-7 April 1862
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• Queenie Bennett

Discovering Queenies Coin
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U.S. Civil War Medicine
Grape Shot wound (above) fragments of Minié
balls from wounded soldiers (right) from The
Medical and Surgical History of the War of the
Rebellion.
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Monument to the 42nd NY Tammany Regiment at
Gettysburg NMP (dedicated 1891)
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Irish Brigade (L) and Father Corby monuments at
Gettysburg NMP