There were about 55,000 physicians in the United States at the start of the Civil War ... MD overhauled the American military medical system. The war provided a vast resource of unusual wounds ...

And the National Museum of American Illustration has one of the largest collections of illustrated works in the country, from the Civil War era through the 1950s. Norman Rockwell is perhaps the ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... In the decade before the war, American military action consisted of Native American skirmishes and the few wounded ...