Undertakers in the 19th Century

[Laurie Verge]

If you have never been to the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, MD, you should plan on adding it to your itinerary if you visit the Washington area. Frederick is about an hour's drive from D.C., site of the Monocacy Battlefield, close to Gettysburg, etc. The museum is wonderful -- and I am very picky about museums.

It was interesting to read that charcoal was used in shipping bodies.