Zoom in for virtual visits to eight hospitals at Antietam

On a one-hour Zoom call hosted by Jake Wynn, director of interpretation at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, I talked about Antietam hospitals. Among the topics were:  

• STEPHEN GROVE FARM | Shepherdstown Pike | Where Lincoln visited with wounded from both sides
• GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH | Main Street in Sharpsburg | Heart-rending stories about 16th Connecticut soldiers
• JOHN OTTO FARM | Burnside Bridge Road | "Why Did I Not Die?": Henry Adams' story
• CRYSTAL SPRING HOSPITAL | Geeting Road | Tragedy for Hiram Appelman
• HENRY ROHRBACH FARM | Beyond Burnside Bridge | Botched amputation of Richard Jobes
• WIDOW SUSAN HOFFMAN FARM | Keedyville Road | Where nurse inspired wounded
• SMOKETOWN HOSPITAL | Keedysville Road | Where Maria Hall earned praised for her nursing
• DR. OTHO J. SMITH FARM | Mansfield Road | "Hold my hand til I die."