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A Union Army hospital tent is shown on the battlefield of Gettysburg--based in Pennsylvania, America. An emergency amputation is seen being performed, the outcome of the procedure was never publicly released.

Photograph shows Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879-1966), an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse with a child. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Wounded soldiers are shown under trees at Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg. The aftermath depicted was a consequence of the battle of Spotsylvania during 1864.

Battery in action at Fredericksburg, VA. Captured in 1863, location unknown.

Confederate dead behind stone wall. The 6th. Maine Inf. penetrated the Confederate lines at this point. Fredericksburg, VA, 1863.

Official Title: The Statutes at Large and Proclamations, of the United States of America, from March 1871 to March 1873, and Treaties and Postal Conventions Arranged in Chronological Order and carefully collated with the Originals at Washington. With…