A lifelong resident of Illinois, Gordon Dammann is a member of the Chicago Round Table and the Illinois Historical Society and has been involved with numerous others. Educated at the Loyola School of Dentistry, he has served as a U.S. Army Dental Corps Captain as well as a combat medic in Vietnam in 1970. He lives in Lena, Illinois with his wife Karen and operates a private dental practice there. He also has two sons, Greg and Doug who are both military aficionados.

Gordon was a recipient of the Nevins-Freeman Award of the Chicago Civil War Round Table and the Iron Brigade Award of the Milwaukee Civil War Round Table. He is also a chairman and founder of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and serves on the editorial staff of North and South Magazine.

Civil War and History Programs and Publications

• Author Volumes I, II, and III Pictorial Encyclopedia of Civil War Medical Instruments and Equipment
• Editor – Reprint of Memoirs of Jonathan Letterman, MD Surgeon of U.S. Army 1861-1864
• Co-author Images of Civil War Medicine – A Photographic History
• Instructor of Civil War History – Highland Community College

Civil War Lectures and Displays

• State Historical Society of West Virginia
• Philadelphia (Old Baldy) CWRT
• Mid-West Conference of CWRT
• Civil War Conference – Civil War Society
• Symposium on Civil War Medicine – East Carolina University
• National Park Service – Gettysburg
• Iowa Historical Society
• Lincoln Memorial University Museum

• Nashville Civil War Show
• Save Historic Antietam Foundation – Board Member

• United States Military Academy – West Point – visiting lecturer
• Smithsonian Institution – Symposium on Civil War Medicine
• National Museum of Civil War Medicine Symposium 3 times
• Lincoln Museum of Fort Wayne, Indiana
• Civil War Institute – Gettysburg College, keynote speaker
• Blue and gray Educational Society