![A Union doctor in a straw hat, foreground, examines a soldier’s leg wound while other casualties sprawl on the ground at a field hospital following the Battle of Savage’s Station, Virginia, on June 29, 1862.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/M-CW-Medicine-LEAD-HT-Dec11-crop-760x427.jpg)
Battle of Wilson’s Creek
Healers or Horrors: Civil War Medicine
By Richard A. GabrielSafe behind its ocean barriers, the United States paid scant attention to the wars that raged abroad during the early 19th century, taking little notice of the lessons that might have been learned from the European experience with mass killing. Read more