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- Me too! There's probably plenty of sources we can look at from the past!
- That lesson from class earlier today really has me interested in how medicine was during the Civil War!
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- Medicine was not as advanced back then compared to now, I wonder if any side had any strategic advantage because of it.
- Would almost guarantee it! I'd bet that the Union had a huge advantage!
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- Not sure, but after looking out that window, it looks like there is a battle going on between two sides!
- Oh no! Where are we? We suddenly got teleported to this house it seems!
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- How can that be though? Where would it have come from? This report seems a bit hard to read! Unless, we were really teleported back in time to the Civil War!
- Whats this document? It was in this box! It seems to be a medical report! It is from someone named D.L Huntington of Tennessee! This is a Union report!
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- From Huntington's report, the Union had their stuff together "From the commencement of the campaign to the investment of Savannah, a period of four weeks, the reports from thetwo corps, composing this army, give an average of only 19 men out of every 1000 as unfit for duty"
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- Seems really odd though that a report like that was just sitting in the middle of some old house in a box, maybe the house belonged to Huntington?
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- Maybe us talking about learning more about the Civil War? With that battle going on outside I really wanted to talk to a soldier but that may have been a bit too dangerous! I wonder if there are any interviews out there with any soldiers from the civil war, maybe even in video!
- Woah! We are suddenly back home! That was very strange, I wonder what caused us to go back in time!
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- He was only 16 when he joined the Confederate Army, that's just so crazy to think about!
- I found this video from a Civil War soldier talking about his time in the army, this video was recorded in 1947!
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- I wanted to go too with all the people I grew up with, but my father said "Now son, you're too long, maybe if the war goes on long enough you may have an opportunity." I was only 15 at this time, eventually I would join the cavalry company when I was 16 and a half years old.
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- He was from Petersburg, Virginia, he saw it as his duty to join the army to defend against the Union invading, but eventually he was captured and sent to a Union prison.
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- So I found this image, it seems to be some nurses and other soldiers attending to someone in a field!
- Hmm, this looks similar to a sight I saw outside of that window when we teleported back in time!
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- From this picture, it's possible that they were not in a battle but they were dealing with an illness, it has been said that a lot of medical care during the Civil War was dealing with illness, not surgical intervention.
- I really hope they got out of there alright! Hopefully it was nothing too serious!
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- This source here, by Michael Flannery, titled "Civil War Pharmacy and Medicine: Comparisons and Contexts", states that "Health and healing during this war—indeed in every war until World War I—was defined more by combating disease than by repairing injuries.”
- Guess that makes sense, medicine not being as advanced back then and they weren't as aware of certain things back then as we are now, but I wonder what was used to treat injuries
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- Chloroform was used widely in the Civil War, not for treating injuries per se, but it was used as an anesthetic, here in The Use of Anesthetics during the Civil War, by Maurice Albin, "The rapid action of chloroform in producing anesthesia and the fact that a small dose can be used to achieve an anesthetic effect was important to the Civil War field surgeon, especially when large numbers of casualties flooded the field hospitals."
- Wasn't ether also widely used during this time as well?
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- Yes that's right! Ether was what was originally used but a replacement was needed, and chloroform happened to be that replacement! This proved to be an amazing addition for the Union and Confederate armies!
- Oh nice, I did not know what! Chloroform's use was greatly expanded upon in the Civil War due to being better than ether, in the fact that it wasn't as much of a fire hazard.
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- Yeah, it was also cool going back in time, even just for a little bit!
- Today was quite a fun day! From what I saw it appeared that medicine didn't play an advantageous role for either side, but the discoveries that were made were valuable!
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