Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park
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When nurse Clara Barton listed the patients that she encountered at Chatham, she included three Confederate soldiers. Read what park researchers could learn about these soldiers who were captured and brought to Chatham for treatment during the Battle of Fredericksburg.
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Jonathan Letterman was Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac. His innovative reforms improved and standardized the care of soldiers on the battlefield. Today, Jonathan Letterman is known as the “Father of Modern Battlefield Medicine.”
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George Murray enlisted in the United States Army when he was 18 in August 1862. He fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg at the Slaughter Pen Farm and was wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville. As a part of the 114th Pennsylvania, Murray wore a colorful Zouave uniform, currently on display at…
