Unspeakably awful. It's wonder the country got back on its feet after such losses. At least modern medicine advanced given the ghastly cases and the sheer volume of casualties needing help. Were American nurses ever slandered as camp followers and whores as the ones before Florence Nightengale were said to have been? Shay - Did you publish for public reading the address you gave on battlefield medicine? Every one of those boys and men killed was the future security of a family, a huge loss at the time.
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I read someplace - and it doesn't surprise me - that more men were lost during the American Civil war than all of our other wars combined.
The sobering statistic is that only 1 in 4 was a battle casualty.
Unspeakably awful. It's wonder the country got back on its feet after such losses. At least modern medicine advanced given the ghastly cases and the sheer volume of casualties needing help. Were American nurses ever slandered as camp followers and whores as the ones before Florence Nightengale were said to have been?
Shay - Did you publish for public reading the address you gave on battlefield medicine?
Every one of those boys and men killed was the future security of a family, a huge loss at the time.
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