There are a few options for treatment of fractures of the hook of the hamate. Use of a cast to immobilize the broken bone can sometimes be effective, but the results are not reliable. Healing of the fracture may not occur, and patients are likely to need further treatment. Repair of the fracture is generally avoiding.
In early September 1861, less than five months after Fort Sumter, and little more than six weeks after the battle itself, the Confederate soldiers of the 8th Georgia Infantry erected the first Civil War battlefield monument, at the site of their victory at Manassas.
Construction on the Lincoln Memorial began on February 12, 1914. The building stands at the far western end of the National Mall. The 19th foot tall statue of Lincoln gazes out from a solemn chamber in a building surrounded by 36 columns, each representing a state in the union at the time of the Lincoln's death.