Tag Archives: Hospitals

Where is Aunt Becky?

Posted on July 27, 2018 by Chris Mackowski

As I was reading some old issues of the National Tribune the other day, I came across the following notice from the July 26, 1883. My mother’s name is Becky, so of course my cousins all call her “Aunt Becky,” … Continue reading →

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“An Especial Prize to the Boys:” Union Soldiers and the Illustrated News (Part 2)

Posted on September 14, 2016 by James Brookes

This is the second of two posts regarding the relationship between Union soldiers and the emerging illustrated press during the Civil War. Part 1 may be found here. Soldiers were evidently grateful to receive the illustrated weeklies. Albert O. Marshall of the … Continue reading →

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A Doctor’s Duty

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Chris Kolakowski

The photo to the right is the Union field hospital at Savage Station, Virginia, the day after the Battle of Gaines’s Mill on June 27, 1862. Hours after this photograph was taken, most of these men ended up as Confederate … Continue reading →

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Lincoln’s Last Day at the Front

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Edward S. Alexander

Abraham Lincoln fittingly spent the tail end of the Petersburg Campaign at the front, docked in the River Queen offshore from the Federal headquarters at City Point. He met with important generals to discuss strategy, reviewed Union troops and their Confederate … Continue reading →

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