Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

Over 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with U.S. President ...

To so many soldiers who trained and served at the Army post, the name meant something well beyond its original namesake.

Cancer is a large part of the fatalities, per the surgeon general’s warning. Murthy’s attempt to wage a war on America’s historical drug of choice is a noble one. If this battle were fully ...

Although no Civil War battles took place in Rhode Island, a hospital in Portsmouth, Rhode Island played a large role in ...

says the author of the book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons. (Toronto Public Library - image credit) ...