Join Historian George Wunderlich as he highlights the complexities of Civil War medicine and discusses the innovations in medical practices throughout the Civil War. Watch now to find out what the most common wartime operation was and what hospitals in the Civil War were like.
This video is part of the American Battlefield Trust’s In4 video series, which presents short videos on basic Civil War topics. Video Rating: / 5
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More than two-thirds of those who perished during the Civil War succumbed to disease. Director of Interpretation Jake Wynn discusses the impact of three infamous diseases – dysentery, typhoid fever, and smallpox.
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Jim Downs, author of Sick From Freedom, explains how a mobile population, unsanitary conditions, inadequate medicine, and war combined to spread illness and sickness among soldiers and refugee slaves.
Jim Downs is Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at Connecticut College and the author of Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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