Blue, gray, and Crimson
Late on the afternoon of Sept. 4, 1861, the soldiers of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, fresh and eager for action after six weeks of training, boarded trains in Readville, Mass. They were...
View ArticleSaga of a Civil War surgeon
There are 2,000 plaques and other memorials on what was once the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pa. Only one is dedicated to a physician, Zabdiel Boylston Adams, an 1853 graduate of Harvard...
View ArticleHarvard in blue and gray
One was reading a Dickens novel. One stood up to look around. Another was running across a meadow. In the first three days of July 1863, in Gettysburg, Pa., death or a fatal wound could come at any...
View ArticleBlue, gray, and Crimson
Late on the afternoon of Sept. 4, 1861, the soldiers of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, fresh and eager for action after six weeks of training, boarded trains in Readville, Mass. They were...
View ArticleSaga of a Civil War surgeon
There are 2,000 plaques and other memorials on what was once the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pa. Only one is dedicated to a physician, Zabdiel Boylston Adams, an 1853 graduate of Harvard...
View ArticleHarvard in blue and gray
One was reading a Dickens novel. One stood up to look around. Another was running across a meadow. In the first three days of July 1863, in Gettysburg, Pa., death or a fatal wound could come at any...
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