On September 21, 2025, Historic Glenwood hosted author Christy Perry Tuohey for a program on “Mansions & Log Cabins: Stories of West Virginia’s Union Civil War Hospitals.” Tuohey described how, early in the Civil War, the US Army lacked a hospital system, and West Virginia became a proving ground for military doctors creating treatment spaces. Her stories of surgeons, staff, soldiers, and local Appalachians gave insight into this history, and her engaging presentation was well received by a full audience.

Born in Charleston, West Virginia, Tuohey graduated from Spencer High and Marshall University in broadcast journalism. She worked as a TV news reporter and anchor, published in many outlets, and taught journalism at Syracuse University. Her book, A Place of Rest for our Gallant Boys – The U.S. Army General Hospital at Gallipolis, Ohio, 1861 to 1865, explores Civil War hospital history. Her current project on Union hospitals in western Virginia/West Virginia is supported by a West Virginia Humanities

Council grant.