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  1. Captain Sally Tompkins Defends Top Civil War Hospital
    date June 9, 1864map HENRICO, Virginiatags Medicine/Health, Health/Death, Science/Technology, Civil War, Women

    Filling a pressing need for medical services, Sally Tompkins established a hospital after the First Battle of Bull Run that became the best hospital during the Civil War.  Running the hospital was not always easy; Tompkins faced pressure from many people to close down the hospital.  In June of 1864, Dr. Carrington, an inspector of hospitals for the South, filed an order to have the Robertson Hospital...

  2. Study Shows Rates of Syphilis Higher for Poor Individuals
    date October 11, 1937map Kanawha, West Virginiatags Health/Death, Minority, poverty, Investigation, Study, Syphilis

    The Charleston Gazette reported that poor individuals have higher instances of acquiring syphilis. The author Westbrook Pegler states the syphilis death rate for unskilled workers is double that of professional people. The writer of the article expresses that the greatest single cause of death is poverty. The article conveys the results of a survey of 700,000 families made up of 3,500,000 individuals....

  3. Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Examined by HEW
    date July 26, 1972map Madison, Illinoistags African-Americans, Health/Death, Medicine, Tuskegee, Syphilis, Study

    On July 26, 1972 The Alton Evening Telegraph, a newspaper in Alton, Illinois, released an article discussing The Department of Health Education and Welfare's investigation of the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment. Although the experiment was conducted in Alabama, the news was a national story. Jean Heller, the author of the article, found this study so disturbing that she decided to report on it. The experiment’s...

  4. Pennsylvania Quaker William Still Fought Against the Evils of Slavery
    date November 25, 1857map PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvaniatags African-Americans, Race-Relations, Law, Politics, Church/Religious-Activity, Crime/Violence, Health/Death

    On November 25, 1857, William Still recorded a story that told of the horrors of slavery in the South.  Still assisted a group of slaves on the journey to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad.  He was among the abolitionists during this time that believed that blacks should be afforded equal rights and opportunities that would allow them to earn a living.  Still did not feel that blacks were...

  5. A Soldier Complains of the Army Life
    date February 16, 1863map STAFFORD, Virginiatags Health/Death, Government, Politics, War, Crime/Violence

    On February 16, 1863, a Union soldier from Huntingdon County Pennsylvania wrote home to describe the war as he saw it.  “Here we are yet stuck in the mud, crushing the rebellion, over the left, and enjoying our hard tack as usual.”  The soldier described the boring life that the Army of the Potomac went through as they were in camp.  The man known as “TIMBER DOODLE” in his writings was going...

  6. Rebel General Gantt Tells Arkansas to Return to the Union
    date November 8, 1863 to November 9, 1863map PULASKI, Arkansastags Health/Death, African-Americans, Race-Relations, Government, Politics

    Confederate Brigadier General E.W. Gantt spoke to his fellow citizens of Arkansas, but also to all of the citizens of the South in his 1863 address.  The message in this address is that the Confederacy was fighting a war that they could never win and that the southern states would have more power and property if they would just return to the Union.  The General blamed several of the problems in the...

  7. Forty years later, James Johnson still copes with PTSD
    date 1967 to 1968map Asia, Outside UStags War, Health/Death

    James Johnson served as chaplain in Vietnam with the 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division during 1967. Johnson never carried a weapon, but he was still exposed to the horrors that the soldiers and other men in his division experienced. “I was determined to go on combat missions,” stated Johnson, “I couldn’t stay in base camp knowing the guys were going to be faced with terror.”...

  8. Jacqueline Rhoads copes with ethics as a nurse in Vietnam
    date 1970 to 1971map Asia, Outside UStags War, Health/Death, Ethics

    Jacqueline Rhoads landed in Vietnam in 1970 at the age of twenty-two. On the day she arrived, Rhoads started her work as an emergency room nurse. She recalls the mass-casualty events the most. For her small unit, mass-casualty was anything more than ten wounded at a time. Mass-casualty situations often taxed supplies such that not enough supplies remained to save everyone. It was the code of the medical...

  9. The Legacy of Andersonville Prison; Who is to Blame?
    date February 27, 1864 to April 9, 1865map SUMTER, Georgiatags prison, Health/Death, Military, Civil War

    The concept of enemy prisoner of war camps was a new idea at the time of the American Civil War. Previously soldiers that surrendered on the battlefield were often paroled. These soldiers were expected to return home and lay down their arms. However, often these men would return home then reenlist and fight the enemy again. Armies recognizing this problem placed punishments on soldiers who were captured...

  10. Iowan Earns Medal of Honor for Capturing General
    date October 25, 1864map OSAGE, Kansastags Politics, Civil War, Health/Death

    James  Dunlavy received the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest US military honor, on October 25, 1864 for his single-handed capture of Confederate Major General John S. Marmaduke.  He is one of five Medal of Honor recipients buried in Oklahoma, in Dunlavy’s case in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Cemetery in Maramec, Oklahoma. During the capture of Marmaduke, Dunlavy performed...

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