Civil War Medicine
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Background on the Valley of the Shadow:
The Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one
Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a
hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and
after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church
records, population census, agricultural census, and military records. Students
can explore every dimension of the conflict and write their own histories, reconstructing
the life stories of women, African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers,
and families. This particular lesson explores the topic of Civil War medicine
through the perspective of Northern and Southern soldiers by examining newspaper
articles, letters, and census records.