FREDERICK Md. (AP) — The National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick is highlighting African-Americans who served as doctors and nurses during the war.
The exhibit developed by the National Library of
Medicine opens Monday and runs through Jan. 28.
It features the achievements of medical workers
including John DeGrasse of Massachusetts, the only black surgeon to serve in
the field with his regiment.
Most black surgeons were assigned to military
hospitals or recruiting stations because many white surgeons refused to serve
alongside or beneath them on the battlefield.
The exhibit also features Georgia native Susie King
Taylor, who wrote the only known published memoirs of an African-American Civil
War nurse.
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