Lecture on aspect of Civil War medicine

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Civil War expert Betsy Estilow will give a free presentation titled “Overlooked and Undervalued: The Role of African-Americans in Civil War Medicine” at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Tyler History Center, 325 W. Federal St., downtown.

Estilow is a professor emeritus of biology at Hood College in Frederick, Md., where she also served as a lecturer in Civil War history and a health professions advisor.

The lecture is sponsored by the Mahoning Valley Historical Society in partnership with Youngstown State University’s Melnick Medical Museum. For information, contact the Mahoning Valley Historical Society at 330-743-2589.