Civil War Medical Advances

The Civil War has been described as one of the most important occurrences in the life of the United States. It was period in time when the United States was no longer united, but instead was split between the north and south due to the ongoing feud over of the legal standing of slavery nationwide. For four years, many people were subjected to horrific measures, especially the soldiers that participated in combat. Despite the brutality of battle, soldiers experienced a numerous amount of daily hardships that made their stint in the war almost intolerable. Being far away from their homes and loved ones, having access only to inadequate food and shelter, gaining an increased risk for diseases, barely living through harsh winters, enduring

The Civil War split the nation in half. It tore apart families, and Union soldiers against Confederate soldiers for four miserable years. From the first shots fired at Fort Sumter 1861, and ending with a unanimous Confederate victory in 1865. All in all 630,000 people died and many thousands wounded. The deaths in the Civil War totally surpassed the death totals from any other war (1). For those managed to survive the up hill battle just began, they faced many unknowns in a world moving in an uncertain direction. With the north beating the succeeded south in the war, politicians faced a hard task of reuniting the divided country. With reconstruction now in affect, both northern workers, and southern farmers now face many new obstacles and

In addition, an estimated 620,000 men were killed during important battle, such as Stones River, Gettysburg, and Shiloh. Here is a graph, which describes the number of death per battle, The Gettysburg one, was the most sanguinary. People were not really focused on the work, because of the fear of the war. Furthermore, a big percentage of men died during the war, and did not serve anymore in the economy: “We Use $150 (Current) as the average per man cost either for being drafter of for procuring a substitute. The cost resulting from Civil War deaths is taken as the expected wage rate of summed over all years (Goldin, Claudia D., and Frank D. Lewis, P303). The total amount was $55,600 the first year (1961). 1962 was 53,400. In 1963 the soldier costs was 924,300, and the approximate same number for the other years. The Civil war was one of the most expensive wars of the United States’

The Civil War is the deadliest war in American History. Between 1861 and 1865, over 600,000 brave souls lost their lives at nearly 10,500 battles. By the end of the war, there were nearly 200,000 African-Americans that fought on the side of the North, with 80 percent recruited from slave states (Half Slave and Half Free, 240). Wars are fought over irreconcilable differences. There may not be one specific cause. Directly or indirectly, slavery was intertwined in many of these differences and the physical conflicts that arose between the North and South. The moral versus practical issue of slavery evoked the passion necessary to unify the people to persevere through the great hardships that were to come.

During the Civil War, they had to have many medicines, operations, and surgeries done to themselves or others in order to survive (Jenny Goellnitz, Paragraph 1). Some of these medicines we still use today. Medical technology and scientific knowledge have changed dramatically since the Civil War, but the basic principles of military health care remain the same. The deadliest thing that faced the Civil War soldier was disease. For every soldier who died in battle, two died from disease.

The Civil War was fought with much carnage, and was one of America’s most ‘uncivilized’, wars with a soldier’s chance of survival about twenty-five per cent. While many were killed by other soldiers, usually through bullets, a large portion died as a result of disease such as: dysentery, mumps, pneumonia, typhoid fever, measles, and tuberculosis, diseases that are curable today. These diseases were spread through the horribly sanitized camps found on both sides of the war: Confederate and Union. And while many died from disease, some died from other soldiers’ bullets; these deaths may have been prevented if the technology, or overall techniques used by surgeons, during this time period were more up-to-date, as amputations were the main procedure

American Civil War Alec Rey February 14, 2018 The American Civil War No war in American history has devastated our entire economy, threatened our national existence and taken more human lives than the American Civil War. Around 620,000 people lost their lives due to combat, diseases, starvation, and accidents. Certainly the system of slavery was a shame, but it was an economic precondition for the prosperity of the South. Even though human chattel slavery was a defining problem, the central issue of the war was federal authority (power) on the states.

Picture a Civil war battlefield. You see explosions of gunfire and you hear the deafening roar of guns and artillery. The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places and was the bloodiest war in American history. Over 3 million Americans fought and more than 600,000 men, almost 2 percent of the population, died in it (About). This war could not have been fought without many different types of weapons and many advances in weapon technology.

     The Civil War was a four year armed conflict between northern and southern sections of the United States. The Civil War cost more American lives than any other war in history. There were bout 3 million people who fought in the beginning of the Civil War and about 600,000 people’s lives were lost at the end of the war. What began for many as a romantic adventure soon became a heartbreaking bitter struggle between the two parts of a divided country. This, however, was more than the industrial North fighting against the agricultural South. There were divided families with brother fighting brother. Some Northerners joined the Southern ranks and some Southerners were in the Union

The rights and idea of freedom were involved in the American Civil War. The Civil War (1861-1865) was fought in 10,000 places, more than 3 million Americans fought in the war, and over 600,000 men died fighting during the war. It was the worst and important event in the nation’s history. There were both positive and negative aspects of the Civil War. The negative was the deaths of thousands of civilians and soldiers.

The civil war was a very deadly war and one of the bloodiest in United States history. The civil war began on April 12, 1865 and came to an end on May 9, 1865. The most important men at the time were the brave men who served and fought for what they believed in. In other words, these men were the soldiers. Over the course of the war, around three million men served. Over 110,000 Union soldiers died during combat and deaths due to other complications totaled to over 250,000 men. The Confederate casualties in combat added up to over 95,000, and the amount that died from disease and other things added up to over 165,000 deaths. Overall, approximately 620,00 men had died by the end of the war.

If the Civil War could be described in only one word, that one word would be tragedy. Such a bloody time for everyone alive in what is now know as The United States of America. The Civil War took pace in the years of 1861-1865 there were multiple reasons as to why the Civil War broke out but the number one reason for the Civl War was, the diverse opinions on the issue of slavery. Slavery was such a horrific thing going on at this time in history, but not all people who owned slaves treated them terribly, some slave owners were very sympathetic and helpful to their slaves. The Southerners were known as the Confederacy and stood for pro slavery and the Northerners were known as the Union and were anti slavery which caused a rather large amount of strife and conflict. Roughly around 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War, in fact two times as many soldiers that fought in the Civil War died because of diseases taking over their body, the percentage of death from those killed actually fighting in combat was little compared to amount of deaths that were spurred on by several diseases. There were so many cases of wounded soldiers during the Civil War, “There were more than 6,000,000 reported cases of diseases and another 500,000 men who suffered from battle wounds, accidents, or injuries.” (Worthen & Higby, 12) Many people blamed the deaths on the lack of experience from doctors or surgeons, as they were called during the Civil War, but the diseases were the main reason for

Although most people would not object to the idea that diseases played some sort of role in the Civil War, few truly realize the extent of their influence. As it was stated previously, diseases affected the Northern soldiers and the Southern soldiers in different ways and to different extents. Those differences will be examined later in this paper. There are some issues relating to diseases, however, that affected soldiers in general, not particularly one side of the war. Those factors will be observed here.

The main part of the Civil war was to decide if there was slavery and the decision was that there is going to be no more slavery. So then people need to say that there is no more slavery and the war is over to about 700,000,000 slaves.

The costs of the Civil War were enormous. The total number of military causalities on both sides exceeded 1 million. More men died in the Civil War than in all other American wars combined until Vietnam. However, the Civil War impacted the United States well beyond just deaths. The Civil war brought fundamental alterations in the life of the nation, changing the economy, the political landscape, as well as ways of life.