Health Care Heores of the Civil War - National Museum of Civil War Medicine

Health Care Heores of the Civil War - National Museum of Civil War Medicine
Health Care Heroes of the Civil War
Health Care Heroes of the Civil War
Just as we’re indebted to and strive to honor our health care heroes today, there were many in the Civil War who worked to help those in need of care. From doctors to nurses and more, there were people providing excellent care on the front lines at field dressing stations and field hospitals as well as behind the lines in the more permanent general hospitals. Check out the short biographies of Civil War health care workers who laid the foundations for today’s health care heroes.
Edward Taylor
Image from the John W. Kuhl Collection
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Anderson Ruffin Abbott
Image courtesy of Wiki Commons
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Kate Cumming
Image from her book Gleanings from Southland
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Isabella Fogg
Image courtesy of the Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Riverside
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Sally Tompkins
Image courtesy of the Valentine Richmond History Center
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John Dudley
Image courtesy of F. Terry Hambrecht, M.D.
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Jacob Tomer Jr
Image courtesy of F. Terry Hambrecht, M.D.
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Robert Ware
Image courtesy of Gordon Dammann, D.D.S.
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George N. Holmes
Image courtesy of F. Terry Hambrecht, M.D.
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John Forney Zacharias
Image courtesy of Band of Brothers, Dan Hartzler
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Phoebe Pember
Image courtesy of A Southern Woman’s Story
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Samuel Henry Melcher
Image Courtesy of Tom Doherty
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