And bizarrely, it was tried and kind of worked. Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon Corps. Thank Union desperation and ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... Hospitals routinely took both Union and Confederate wounded. In the larger battles of the war the casualties were ...

At Mercy Street’s Mansion House Union Hospital major surgical procedures of the Civil War are performed. Amputations are emphasized, as it was the most common major operation. The step-by-step ...