Injuries do happen. In the Civil War many fatal injuries have occurred. Roughly 620‚000 people died in this war one even died while getting treated for an injury. The most common surgery procedure was an amputation. However due to the poor sanitation of the tools people died after the procedure. Many injuries could have occurred during the Civil War. One injury that happened was a bullet wound to the chest. This particular injury was suffered by General Lewis Armstead. Armstead notice
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The Civil War: A Change in Battlefield Medicine Have you ever thought about when battlefield medicine became so efficient? The answer to this question is very surprising as well as interesting. Most people think of the Civil War as the era where many died sue to the unavailability of modern-day medical strategies. This is an accurate assumption‚ but there is also a little more to the story. Little do people know‚ the Civil War started a whole new era of medical tactics on the battlefield. In April
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Walking through mud up to your waist was a recurring experience during the American Civil War. Well-known by Americans‚ the Civil War was a battle fought from 1861 to 1865 by the Union and the Confederacy. Weather had numerous impacts on the Civil War. Not only did it affect the lives of the soldiers‚ the constant change in weather could determine the outcome of battles. The ever-changing weather made living conditions extremely difficult for soldiers of both sides. Rain‚ snow‚ and the scorching
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The Civil War was one of the most important events that occurred in America. It shaped America to what it is today. Tension rising thing after thing and was one of the most debatable and deadly events in history. Without the Civil War‚ there would still be slavery and other horrible acts. Though it may be said that the War happened all because of one event‚ which is not true. There are several factors that led to the War‚ and it was not just one occasion. The biggest cause that led to the Civil War
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Was the failure of the political system to end slavery the cause of the civil war? I think yes. There were many events that led up to the civil war that I think sparked the start of it. For example‚ the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ the Fugitive Slave Act‚ and the famous book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was one of the sparks to the civil war. This Act allowed Kansas and Nebraska to become a territory in the United States. But there was a law called Popular Sovereignty. In these two new territories
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US Hist. to 1876 Was the Civil War worth it? I believe that the civil war was worth it. Even though a lot of negative consequences came out of it‚ the positive outweighed the negative. The largest cause of the war was slavery. The North and South had contained their differences over slavery for sixty years after the Constitutional Convention. Compromise in 1787 had resolved the questions of slave trade and how to count slaves for congressional representation. The Compromise of 1850 was the last
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TACTICS AND STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS IN WAR. The American civil war was one of the toughest and deadliest wars in American history. This was where the Confederate States of America fought for their independence. It took place from 1861 when the war broke out till April 9th 1865 when confederate commander Robert E. Lee surrendered at the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House. It was one of the earliest true industrial wars. Industrial knowledge was used to produce weapons in mass-production
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was an inventor before the Civil War and turned his attention weaponry when the Civil War broke out. At this time the Gatling Gun is the only available rapid fire weapon (The Gatling Gun). The Gatling Gun almost didn’t see any action during the Civil War. A few Union army commanders bought Gatling Guns for their soldiers (Gatling Gun) The Gatling Gun was developed and used in the Civil War. The main arguments are how the Gatling Gun works and was used in the Civil War‚ why Gatling invented the Gatling
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The Causes of the Civil War Through the antebellum period‚ The United States was not at war‚ but tensions continued to dominate the country. The north and the south relentlessly pressured each other over the issue of slavery. In 1860‚ South Carolina succeeded from the United states and the Civil War had begun. Although states right indirectly led to the succession of the Confederate States of America‚ slavery was the largest cause of the war as it was the greatest contributor to sectionalism‚ followed
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1861: The Civil War Awakening: Book Review Among the events of world history‚ the Civil War in the USA is one of the central places. Due to this sombre and mourning event‚ the current population know the names of Abraham Lincoln‚ John Brown‚ Ulysses S. Grant‚ who stood at the head of armies of the northerners; know the names of General Robert E. Lee‚ who led the armed forces of the slave owners‚ fanatic Lincoln’s assassin named John Wilkes Booth. It is known‚ how the war ended and who won it. This
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