Civil War Medicine

Locate archival and manuscript holdings from across the United States

Locate finding aids from History of Medicine collections using this database developed by the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine

Locate manuscript and archival collections in Virginia and West Virginia

The Virginia General Assembly enacted legislation, effective in 1867 and ending in 1894, to provide artificial limbs and other disability benefits to Virginia veterans of the Civil War. This site includes a searchable database of the applications to the Board of Commissioners on Artificial Limbs from injured soldiers

Digital version of the Confederacy's sole medical journal published in 1864-65.

The OR--reprinted official records of the Union and Confederate armies. Search for medical, medicine, surgeons, and other relevant terms.

The journal can be searched for medically related topics. Use the search interface and try searching on the words "medical" or "surgeon."

Digital version of the published regulations for medical officers in the confederate army

Description of Confederate Medical Department records at the National Archives and Records Administration. They did not all burn in the Richmond evacuation fire!