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  • Brown Bag Lunch Speaker Series: Dr. Charles Leale and the Medical Treatment of Abraham Lincoln

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    Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United States

    Please bring your lunch and enjoy a 30 minute lecture at the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum! Dr. Charles Leale and the Medical Treatment of Abraham Lincoln Surgeon General Joseph Barnes witnessed Abraham Lincoln's autopsy on April 15th, 1865, recalling, "There it lay upon the white china, a little black mass […]

    $5

  • Battle-Tempered: The Physical and Psychological Consequences of War

    Monocacy National Battlefield Visitor's Center 5201 Urbana Pike, Frederick, MD, United States

    Battle-Tempered: The Physical and Psychological Consequences of War Join the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and partner organizations for a unique one-day conference. 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Monocacy National Battlefield “Character, Warrior Identity, and Moral Leadership: Union Colonel Charles Gilpin at Monocacy and in Peace” Stephen A. Goldman, MD 9:30 […]

    Free

  • Civil War Nurses at Arlington: Women Who Healed a Nation

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    Arlington National Cemetery Meigs Ave, Fort Myer, VA, United States

    Join us for a members-only walking tour at Arlington National Cemetery, visiting the final resting places of the women who served as Civil War nurses. Meet Dorothea Dix's recruits and the volunteers of the Sanitary and Christian Commissions through the true stories of the women who lie here: a nurse who survived […]

    Members Only - Free