Approximately 750,000 Americans whether Union or Confederate died in the Civil War. About 250,000 died of battle wounds. About 500,000 died of infectious diseases such as dysentery/intestinal diseases, malaria, continual fevers, measles, mumps, yellow fever, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, venereal diseases, and cholera. These staggering figures are more than the combined statistics of all major wars that Americans participated in through the Korean War.

At the dawn of the Civil War, New York Hospital was located at its first site on Broadway between Duane and Worth Streets. From April 1861-February 1862, New York Hospital had an agreement with the New York State Militia to accept sick or wounded officers and privates. From February 1862 until the end of the war, the hospital had an agreement with the U. S. Medical Department to accept non-commissioned officers and privates from the Union Army.

David B. Levine, M.D.

Emeritus Professor, Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery

Weill Cornell Medical College

Director, Alumni Association and Archives

Hospital for Special Surgery

will present the winter 2013 Heberden Society lecture.

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The Civil War and its Casualties


Wednesday, January 23, 2013. 4:30 p.m.

Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue

Uris Faculty Room (A-126)

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Two exhibits on the Civil War will be on displayed in the Medical College Library until the end of January. The first exhibit is an traveling display called Life and Limb: the Toll of the American Civil War. This exhibition was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.