One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the ... America’s hospital and medical system were not prepared for the devastation the new Minié ball bullet and the rifled cannon ...

Nor were bullets and shells the only or ... historian Eric Dean examined the records of 291 Civil War veterans admitted to the Indiana Hospital for the Insane and found cases like Elijah Bos ...

The National Museum of Health and Medicine is located in Washington, D.C. It was created at the start of the Civil War to further the ... labeled simply “The Bullet That Took the President ...

At the time of the Civil War, as a result of lax ... of the emerging role of women in the hospital. Other procedures such as trephination, probing for bullets, cauterizing wounds, along with ...