Surgeon Charles Tripler: A Re-Examination of an Overlooked Civil War Medical Pioneer

Join the National Museum of Civil War Medicine for a special Sunday Speaker Event! Drawing on extensive original research, Jack Dempsey traces Charles S. Tripler’s distinguished career from the Seminole and Mexican-American Wars to his service as a Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac. Dempsey demonstrates how Tripler’s innovations in military medicine and battlefield care saved countless lives, and also how politics undermined and obscured his achievements. The talk is based on the book, “His Sword A Scalpel,” a publication by the Michigan Civil War Association, and copies will be available for signing.