Tour Overview
Throughout history, there are many men and women who dedicated their lives to saving the lives of service members and improving medical care for all. On this walking tour, you’ll visit the gravesites of some of these innovators in the first part of the Military Medicine Tour. It will mainly focus on medical innovations that came from the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. If you would like to learn more about military medicine from the World War II and the Vietnam War, make sure to take the Military Medicine Part 2 tour.
Stops
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Tour Overview
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Introduction
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Stop 1: William A. Hammond
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Stop 2: Civil War Nurses
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Stop 3: Alexander Thomas Augusta
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Stop 4: Anita McGee
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Nursing in the Spanish-American War
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Stop 5: Corporal James Tanner
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Stop 6: George Sternburg
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Stop 7: William Crawford Gorgas
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Conclusion
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