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No, wounded Civil War soldiers weren’t awake and they didn’t bite bullets as they endured surgery, says Clarence R. Hickey Jr. Hickey, an interpretive docent and re-enactor with the Montgomery County ...
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JANESVILLE – “There are few citizens of Janesville that would be more generally missed,” Colonel J.A. Watrous, a Civil War veteran, wrote in the June 22, 1895 Janesville Gazette, reflecting on the ...
Town of Oswego native Dr. Mary Walker, a Civil War era surgeon who was once captured by Confederate troops will be honored by the United States Mint with a quarter featuring her image. The public is ...
For women trying to break new ground in the 19th century, change didn’t come easily. The life of Dr. Mary Walker is a perfect example. “She was one of the first woman doctors in the country, she was a ...
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Fact vs. fiction: Unmasking the myths about the Civil War
The American Civil War remains one of the most studied and debated periods in U.S. history, as well as our […] ...
In 1917, an Army review board rescinded the Medal of Honor that had been awarded to Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, an Army surgeon and former prisoner of war, more than half a century earlier. Walker ...
July 1 marked 150 years since the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg, a crucial victory for the Union and a turning point in the Civil War. But it came at an enormous cost to both sides — thousands ...
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