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Civil War Medicine

Drug Conditions during the War Between the States
A speech given by an Atlanta pharmacist after the war.

National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- located in Frederick, Maryland.

Walter Reed - UVA alumnus (1869) who linked yellow fever to mosquitoes. Namesake of Army Medical Center in Washington, DC.

Civil War Photos

Library of Congress - Includes all the famous Matthew Brady pictures and more. The definitive archive of Civil War photography.

Virginia History

The Valley of the Shadow - Award-winning electronic archive edited by Edward Ayers at the University of Virginia.

Letter from UVA student in 1826 - John A. Tazewell was a student in UVA's second class (same as Edgar Allan Poe). In this letter he writes home for money and offers excuses about why he hasn't written sooner.

Hearts at Home - UVA Special Collections exhibit on the experience of Southern women during the Civil War.