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No Host-Let's Meetup for a Civil War Medical Lecture at Historic Home

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No Host-Let's Meetup for a Civil War Medical Lecture at Historic Home

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This lecture is called St. Elizabeths Asylum: Civil War Care at the Government Hospital for the Insane. "Founded in 1852, St. Elizabeths was the nation’s first federally funded psychiatric facility. It was transformed into a trauma center for wounded soldiers." This institution dealt with & treated soldiers afflicted with the modern diagnosis of PTSD.

The lecturer, Madeline Feierstein, is a "VA historian specializing in the American Civil War’s hospitals and prisons." $12.51 per ticket.

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Lee-Fendall House
614 Oronoco Street · Alexandria, VA