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The First Cut: A Railroad Accident, an Amputation, and a Firestorm in Congress

  • Saturday, August 2 at 3:00 PM

  • National Museum of Civil War Medicine

    48 E. Patrick Street
    Frederick, MD 21705

  • Website
    301-695-1864 x1009
    $

Saturday Speaker Series! Popular history tells us that young Confederate James Hanger endured the first amputation of the Civil War in June 1861. But Historian Jon-Erik Gilot will explain that history discounts the tragic story of William Parker, a conductor on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad who lost both legs several days prior to Hanger, and who struggled for decades for recognition and compensation.

Jon-Erik Gilot is the Curator at the Captain Thomas Espy Grand Army of the Republic Post, Carnegie, Pa., and a contributing historian at Emerging Civil War. He works as a corporate archivist in Wheeling, West Virginia.

This presentation is free with museum admission.