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The Role of Civil War Nurses Any woman willing to help in Gettysburg joined the ranks of Civil War nurses. Almost every downtown building was used as a temporary Civil War hospital. Many homes took in wounded soldiers for a few months until they were nursed back to health. Civil War medicines were crude and […]

Civil War Money Facts Have you ever seen Civil War money? It’s very interesting. People started using paper money because of the war, whether Northern greenbacks or Southern bluebacks. There are also some special modern commemorative coins that relate to the Battle of Gettysburg and President Lincoln. Historical Money in the North The Civil War […]

Field Hospital Display by Amy (Maryland) Capt. Surgeon Robert Urban and Undertaker Tom Abbott This photo of members of the Pipe Creek Civil War Round Table was taken at the Carroll County Public Library’s Finksburg branch on April 24, 2010. This room featured a large display about field hospitals and how surgery and medicine improved […]

Share Your Favorite Gettysburg Visit My favorite Gettysburg visit is to have a picnic at the battlefield amphitheater area on a warm, sunny spring day when the trees are in bloom and birdsong fills the air. Then I’ll go shopping downtown until the sun is about to set, when I’ll head back to the battlefield […]

Farmer Cheese by Linda (Sheboygan, WI) This is a simple cheese that is easy to make and delicious to eat! I prefer to use goat milk for this cheese, but it can easily be crafted with cow, sheep, or any other raw farm fresh milk you have on hand. This recipe is adapted from one […]

Far From Home and Nowhere to Turn by Todd Jobson, II (Clinton Public School) In a land we all know Americans, even brothers fought side by side Some were foe.At the battlefields like Antiedam, the Confederate soldiers gallantly marched As the Union soldiers were extremely parched.All prisoner of a common enslavementThey thought of what their […]