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“I Cannot Leave Them”
Wounded soldiers at Armory Square Hospital, a hospital often visited by poet Walt Whitman Walt Whitman was 43 and already a well-known poet in 1862 when word reached his family that his brother George,...
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Civil War Surgeries: The Truth Behind the Myth
Wounded soldiers in Armory Square Hospital, Washington DC; man with amputated arm at left and man with amputated leg at center You may have seen it in a film or read it in a book: a bloody Civil War...
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Malingering On
A Civil War hospital—malingering was common in such places Malingering—faking or exaggerating illness or disability—was a relatively common problem in Civil War hospitals. In addition to the age-old...
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Malingering Again
Partial headline from a San Francisco Chronicle article on malingering Malingering, as we learned in a previous spotlight, was when a soldier faked or exaggerated an illness or disability in order to...
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Captain Sally
Sally Tompkins Sally Tompkins was no ordinary woman. Not only did she run a hospital with the lowest death rate of any in the Civil War, but she was also the only woman to be commissioned an officer in...
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