Join us at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in the Delaplaine Randall Conference Room on February 18 at 2:00 PM as author, lecturer, and retired physician Dr. Mick Bedard discusses Union naval medicine during the Civil War.

Dr. Bedard will compare and contrast the medical practices of the Navy and the Army and explore the role of African American women on board the USS Red Rover. His talk will feature the wonderful period sketches of Dr. Charles Ellery Stedman, USN and studies of the quarterly sick reports from Dr. R. Osgood Mason, USN.