nd over the rest of his life, barnham every once in a while reduced the size of that cord. the injury drained out the cord of years, went from a thick cord down to just a small thread and you can see that, as i said, in this great photograph. all of the work of the army edical museum was eventually coalesced into the signature late 19th of the century, the work of the army medical museum became known as surgical history on the war and rebellion. his is an iconic effort to understand the nature of battlefield medicine at the time of the war, the lessons that were learned. it tabulated the types and natures of injuries, the efforts trauma and ir work e and documented the of those on the battlefield and years later after the war. of the the work battlefield history on display for all to see, and the effort that was made to understand military medicine at the time of the civil war, that effort was never capably duplicated in the followed, the spanish-american war, and the wars of the 20th century and t's an honor for us to be able to present and showcase the actual publication