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Dr. Hunter H. McGuire
Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire was born on October 11, 1835, in Winchester, Virginia. One of seven children, McGuire鈥檚 family was a prominent medical...
Dr. Isaac Israel Hayes
Isaac Israel Hayes was born on March 5, 1832, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. As a young man, Hayes attended the Westtown School, a Quaker...
Gettysburg: "While Lying Here Entirely Helpless"
Lieutenant Charles A. Fuller served in the 61st New York Infantry Regiment. On July 2, 1863, while fighting in The Wheatfield during the Battle of...
Walt Whitman and Civil War Hospitals
The following are excerpts from Walt Whitman鈥檚 Complete Prose Works.
Dr. James Brown McCaw
Dr. James Brown McCaw was born on July 12, 1823, in Richmond, Virginia. Born into a long line of doctors, McCaw continued in his father鈥檚 and...
Gettysburg: "The Number of Wounded was...Appalling"
Tillie Pierce lived in Gettysburg when the Battle of Gettysburg occurred in July 1863. She was fifteen at the time.
