This is the rarest Civil War shell ever caught on camera—a Federal Union Sawyer shell, unearthed while metal detecting in April 2020. Valued at approximately $1,500, this historic relic is a find of a ...

Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. At the time of the Civil War, as a result of lax laws, obtaining a medical degree was very easy; one only had to apprentice with a local physician and take a few ...

Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment of an effective hospital system that threaded the wounded and diseased through a ...