Medicine

Jake Wynn

"The Veteran" - A moving poem from 1867 about the struggle of disabled Civil War veterans

Harper's Weekly published "The Veteran" in January 1867. It documented the struggle of disabled Union veterans after the Civil War.

Jake Wynn

"A painful duty" - A letter to the father of a Pennsylvania soldier killed by typhoid fever

Private Rolandus Lytle succumbed to typhoid fever in Virginia on August 14, 1862. An officer wrote to Lytle's father with the sad news.