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Civil War Nurse and a Soldier’s Civil War Nurse and a Soldier’s FriendFriend

Ancestral Home, Hancock’s Bridge, NJ

Alloway’s Creek, Hancock’s Bridge, NJ

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Wounded Union Soldiers waiting to be captured by the South, July 1862

Union View of Pickett’s Charge, Gettysburg, PA

20,000 soldiers of both armies lay wounded.

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Group of Surgeons

Surgeons preferred Catholic nuns to secular nurses.

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Gettysburg, A Harvest of Death

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Crew demonstrates removal of wounded soldiers from the field.

Fallen Artillery Man, LA Monument, Gettysburg, PA

Field Ambulances, Park of Army Wagons

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Open-air surgery

National Archives, Camp Letterman www.nps.gov/archive/gett

Field Tourniquet

Total Civil War Casualties (killed, missing and wounded)

702,000 Union

621,000 ConfederateSelf-Made in America Exhibit

Photo from Gettysburg Museum

Surgery Tools from the Gettysburg, PA Museum

Hardtack biscuitCourtesy of the Self-Made in America Exhibit

A Group of Contrabands

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February – April 1864, Brandy Station, VA

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According to a researcher and this Library of Congress photograph, Cornelia Hancock stands on the right in front of tent.

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Group of provost guards at headquarters, Army of the Potomac

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Fredericksburg, VA, Nurses and Officers of the U.S. Sanitary Commission

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's staff at City Point, VA

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General Grant June, 1864, Cold Harbor, VA

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Federal troops occupying line of breastworks North Anna River, VA

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Cornelia Hancocklate in life wearing her medals.

Photo Courtesy of the

Salem County, NJHistorical Society