Riding to the Rescue: Railroads and Medicine in the Civil War

Name: Riding to the Rescue: Railroads and Medicine in the Civil War
Start: 2025-11-15T12:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-15T13:30:00-05:00
Location: 901 W Pratt St, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21223

Schedule

Sat Nov 15 2025 at 12:30 pm to 01:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

901 W Pratt St, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21223 | Baltimore, MD

Riding to the Rescue: Railroads and Medicine in the Civil War

Historian Jake Wynn will be at the B&O Railroad Museum in November to discuss the railroad’s impact on the development of emergency medicine during the Civil War.

This lecture will take place in the Bank of America Model Gallery.

To learn more about Jake Wynn and his work, click here:
https://wynninghistory.com/

About the Lecturer:

Jake Wynn is a public historian and tourism marketing professional. He currently serves as the Senior Marketing and Communications Manager for Visit Frederick, the Destination Marketing Organization for Frederick County, Maryland. He previously served as the Director of Interpretation at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum. He writes at wynninghistory.com and facebook.com/wynninghistory. He is also a founding contributor to the Pennsylvania in the Civil War blog. He is a native of Williamstown, Pennsylvania and currently resides in Frederick, Maryland.