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Civil War Medical Weekend
February 18 @ 10:00 am - February 19 @ 4:00 pm

Explore the medical care provided to soldiers during the Civil War. Members of the 17th Corps Field Hospital, the largest Civil War Medical unit in the Midwest, will have interactive displays highlighting surgery, nursing care, pharmaceuticals and embalming. Activities include:
- Watch surgical demonstrations
- View hundreds of original surgical instruments up close
- Hear about the different diseases that affected soldiers
- Learn how women nursed the wounded and sick
- “Make pills” with Doctor Milam using an 1800s pill roller