This story is built from original materials preserved for more than a century—field diaries, private letters, and photographs taken on the edge of war.
Many of these materials have never been published.

Camp Alger, Virginia, July 1898. A training ground for troops preparing for war—and where Crile first observed the psychological strain that would shape his understanding of shock.
Photograph taken by George W. Crile.
Source: Cleveland Clinic Archives

Grace kept a scrapbook from 1897-1915 covering her courting relationship and early marriage years with George Crile. She saved letters, photographs, and diary notes over this period.
Source: Cleveland Clinic Archives

George Crile kept a regular diary. Grace Crile transcribed and archived most of it. Diaries, letters, notes, and working papers are scattered in archives across Cleveland.
Source: Cleveland Clinic Archives