Tag: Gettysburg

  • Nation & World

    Harvard in blue and gray

    At the Battle of Gettysburg, Harvard men faced Harvard men, as 11 Union soldiers and three Confederates were killed.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Saga of a Civil War surgeon

    A lecture series on medicine in the Civil War continues at Harvard Medical School with a look at Zabdiel Boylston Adams, a descendant of an iconic American founding family who served heroically as both a doctor and an infantry officer.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Blue, gray, and Crimson

    Before the Civil War, Harvard was a microcosm of the complex loyalties and opinions that marked the United States. During the war, it lost more than 200 of its sons.

    16 minutes