If The South Won The Civil War Essay

In the war, Ernest was an ambulance driver. If the South had won the American Civil War, all Northern innovations would have been repressed and shut down. One important system of the North was the transportation of the injured on trains and eventually in large vehicles. If this system was restrained, it would not have been so widespread and it would not have traveled to other countries or they would have developed the system much later. Even if the two nations, the North and the South, partook in the war, but the ambulance system was stifled, Ernest Hemingway would have no place because he failed his sight test. Hemingway would have never gained his valuable experience because officials could not place him in the ambulance unit since it would be nonexistent.
All medical advancement from the North would have been muffled if the South won the war, simply because the winners in history write the history.
???? Since medical expansion would reach other countries much later with methods such as sterilization and ventilation, the medical movement around the world would be drastically slowed down. We would not be as advanced as we are today. This delay of information could have effected the turn ?? out of other wars as well. There could have been a higher mortality rate in wars like World War I and II, changing history. This also could have effected regular lives if there was less medical attention for civilians of America, and other countries.
On the medical aspect of the Civil War, the Union and the Confederacy's medical units both struggled in the beginning years of the war. No one believed that this war would have exceeded a few months of battles and no one believed that it would as bloody and deadly as it was. Therefore militaries and medical units were unprepared for and overwhelmed by the amounts of the
wounded.
Often after battles in the Civil War were over, men who were badly injured would lay on the field for days. They would receive no help from medics and were left to die. In the Battle of Gettysburg, approximately forty-five thousand, five-hundred twenty men died, and about half of those men died on the field, wounded by gunshot, canon, or even hand to hand combat. The Confederate and Union armies, after a few years into the war, began to create systems that would save these men. The generals realized that the more men that they can get off the field and into treatment, the more men they could have ready to fight again in the next battle.
If the South had won the Civil War, medical treatment would have buffered and ambulances along with other important medical advances would not had been around as long as they are today. The first ambulance system stationed at a hospital for regular civilians was created in the North, and many states and countries used that hospital as a model for their own networks of medical aid. If the South had won, the road to modern day medical care would have been slow and took years to develop.
Another medical development that would not have been so widespread was anesthetics. Without other countries knowing about anesthetics, medical advancements would have been slowed down because patients would not be able to go through surgeries without it. Doctors would not have been able to figure out life saving surgeries without it. Many more people would have died in hospitals and on the field because doctors would not have made medical discoveries pertaining to saving lives. Anesthetics were critical in World War I and II for operating on severely injuries soldiers and saving their lives