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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
What I find astonishing about the Civil War was the medical field in it's infancy. The wound care and pain suffered is unimaginable. Really, taking a swing of whiskey and biting a spoon as the doc amputated an appendage must have been absolutely painful.
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The tragic part was that the hospitals were not capable of handling the amount of casualties. For some of those wounds, even modern medicine could do no better. I was going to post of pictures of wounded soldiers, but they are too graphic.
