Chloroform Civil War

The procedures of a civil war surgeon vary, depending on what side you're on (union or the confederacy), or what knowledge you know such as techniques or an unknown discovery. One technique is putting soldiers asleep when doing an amputation. The surgeons would use chloroform though after the amputation the soldiers would remember everything but would not feel a bit of pain. Later in the war the confederates started to run out of chloroform, a new technique would put one or two drops of chloroform into a sponge and inhale it through a funnel or a tube. Another discovery that was not found out at the time was the germ theory. Neither the union or confederacy knew about germs, going from operation to operation not washing their hands and sticking