Civil War Medicine

Park Event · Wilson's Creek National Battlefield · Sep 13, 2026 · 2:00 PM–3:00 PM

Join us at the visitor center for a program on Civil War medicine presented by one of our volunteer docents.

Experience some of the difficult choices faced by surgeons and soldiers when treating wounded comrades. Discover how medicine and people coped with the most violent conflict in our nation's history in the aftermath of battle.

Source: National Park Service (public domain).