Discusses how bacteria and viruses killed many more Civil War soldiers than wounds from weaponry. Presents some of the medical instruments used by military doctors, and an artificial leg invented by the first amputee of the war, James E. Hanger. He went on to patent his leg, after the war and developed his ideas into a huge manufacturing enterprise that still operates today.

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civil war amputee, civil war doctor, civil war medicine, first civil war amputee, medicine in the civil war

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)