The doctor had a serious problem ... the food one ate helped determine how one felt. When the Civil War commenced, he put on a blue uniform and served as an army surgeon. That was when the ...

Mercy Street Episode 3: The Uniform opens with Dr. Summers ... wanted to amputate Ezra’s leg. Did doctors amputate too readily during the Civil War? Foster immediately diagnoses gangrene ...

Pvt. Albert Cashier fought in the 95th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. A favorite of those he ...

castings and medication administration round out the daily work of a Civil War surgeon. The rivalry between the doctors, Byron Hale and Jedediah Foster, dramatically portrays the conflict of ...

Blanton said that military doctors would ... soldiers — crusty old Civil War veterans — stepped in to defend him. When he died, they made sure he was buried in uniform with military honors ...

The restored Civil War uniform belonged to John Montgomery Preston who was a Marion resident. Museum leaders spent 6 thousand dollars to restore the uniform but left some parts the same— like a ...

Albert Cashier, an Irish immigrant who came to America sometime before the Civil War ... troops in uniform, almost 3.25% of the Union population. But while both sides of the war needed bodies ...