The Legacy Of Jacob Bingman

At the age of nineteen, Ellis enlisted in the Civil War. He served in Company “A”, Forty-Ninth Indiana Volunteers, beginning on September 25, 1861. For two-and-a-half years, Ellis fought in many battles until harshly wounded at Champion Hill in mid-1863. Although he would suffer from these wounds for the rest of his life, Ellis readmitted himself to military service in early 1864. He fought until the conclusion of the war a year later. (History 759) As

I had always, always, always, always, wanted an little brother. If I could have one thing, anything, I would have wanted my mom to give me an little brother. One day my cousins adopted an cute little girl. I hate my cousins, by the way. They have way too many kids and they always smell like pee and baby puke. Once I saw Jonicia (The oldest, who is an judgmental bratt) hold a baby, the babby puked and she rubbed it into the carpet. EWW! Anyway,

As a child, Jacob Portman loved to listen to his grandfather Abraham’s stories about his life in wars, his performances in circuses, and his life in a supposedly peculiar children's home run by a wise old hawk who smoked a pipe. As he grew older, though, he began to doubt his grandfather’s stories, until one day he went to visit his grandfather, and instead found him dying in the woods near his home. His dying grandfather tells him to go to the old children’s home and to “‘Find the bird. In the loop. On the other side of the old man’s grave…’” (page 37). Jacob feels something watching him, and raises his flashlight to reveal a beast that seemed to have been translated directly from his childhood nightmares. After his grandfather’s death, no one seems to believe Jacob’s story and his parents decide to send him to a psychiatrist, named Dr. Golan. Dr. Golan believes it would be best for Jacob to do as his late grandfather said and to visit the old children's’ home. Jacob and his father decide to go to the island, but later Jacob finds the house long deserted, covered in vines and trees.

an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so I began

Having a big brother is every little boy's dream. To have someone to look up to and also just have a great time with is unbeatable. My brother

The Civil War was not only a time of regional tension, but of personal tension, especially for Confederate army leaders. The constant pressure from needing to defend and protect Southern independence contributed to the rise of anxiety and stress related medical disorders. Robert E. Lee, a brilliant Confederate general and skilled tactician, was such a case. General Lee 's health during his pre-Civil War years was without blemish. However, with the beginning of the Civil War, Lee 's health experienced noticeable decline. Later in his life, doctors diagnosed Lee with pericarditis, but more modern clinical evaluations of Robert E Lee 's symptoms conclude that his condition was more likely attributed to stress induced ischemic heart disease (Mainwaring-Tribble 244). Lee’s condition was accelerated by the wartime stress and contraction of malaria in 1863, leading to pains on the battlefield which impaired strategical judgment.

Jacob Jennings Brown was born on May 9th 1775 in Bucks County Pennsylvania. His parents Abi and Samuel Brown were Quakers, along with his nine siblings. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1790. After that he became a school teacher in 1795. When he quit being a teacher he moved up in New York where he was a successful farmer.

not have a sister. It was forbidden for girls to play with boys, even though they were my brothers and

The Civil War began on April 12, 1861 and ended on May 9, 1865, throughout those four years many men lost their lives. Operations during the war played a big role in the mortality rate of soldiers due to the fact that many physicians were not properly trained. “Of the approximately 30,000 amputations performed in the Civil War there was a 26.3-percent mortality rate” (Burns, n.d). At the time, becoming a doctor was no problem; one was expected to only take a few courses at a proprietary medical college and to have had some sort of training with a local physician (Burns, n.d). Many physicians had little to no surgical experience and had never performed a major operation, even dissections (Burns, n.d).

Amputation was very common in the field. On the article of “Civil War Battlefield Surgery” published by the Ohio State University, they stated that the slow-moving Minie bullet used during the American Civil War caused catastrophic injuries. The two minie bullets, for example, that struck John Bell Hood's leg at Chickamauga destroyed 5 inches of his upper thigh bone. This left surgeon's no choice but to amputate shattered limbs. Hood's leg was removed only four and one half inches away from his body. Hip amputations, like Hood's, had mortality rates of around 83 percent. The closer to the body the amputation was done, the more the increase in the wound being mortal. An upper arm amputation, as was done on Stonewall Jackson or General Oliver O. Howard (who lost his arm at Fair Oaks in 1862) had a mortality rate of about 24 percent. Once a soldier was wounded, medical personnel on the battlefield bandaged the soldier as fast they could, and gave him whiskey (to ease the shock) and morphine, if necessary, for pain. If his wounds demanded more attention, he was evacuated via Letterman’s ambulance and stretcher system to a nearby field hospitals. The new practices led the surgical foundation as to how it is known of

A. Plan of Investigation This investigation will assess the impact of amputations on the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865. The practice of amputations during the Civil War is perceived as a failure due to the high amount of casualties, uneducated practitioners, and attitudes towards medicine, but there were also limited successes in the practice of amputations. Primary documents and individuals directly involved in the conflict will be investigated to determine the impact of amputations during the conflict to analyze the arguments. Also, statistics and historians’ interpretations will be examined to analyze impact of amputations and different perspectives.

I grew up with five brothers – Peter, Chris, Sean, Kyle, and Riley. When I was younger, I always wanted to be like one of my brothers. I wanted to be like Peter who dropped everything to follow his dream

When I was eleven, my oldest brother David, fell off a roof, and was injured very badly and his condition

The day came when I would know for sure that I was getting a baby sister. My parents

“Then, a few years later, when I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only before and after.”