Medical Care at the Battle of Shiloh 

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John provides a perfect mix of battle history and medical history so that it all makes sense. Great use of illutrations!

I would love to visit the museum but I'm now living in Puerto Rico. I will add it to my wish list. Thank you for the videos. I love them.

Thanks for this; I live in the area and just spent the day doing ranger led walks and presentations, including one on civil war medicine. Nice presentation and happy to find your channel and website.

My great great grandfather Theodore C Altman served in 59th OVI (Ohio Volunteer Infantry) Company H and was wounded on the Second day in his hip. Shockingly he survived, he was 17 or 18 years old. His brother was Killed that day around the vicinity of the Bloody Pond, believe his name was Jacob and another brother Gregory was there as well. We have his diary of the entire war , he speaks later of the battle of Missonary Ridge, the Chattanooga campaign and the Atlanta Campaign, I remember he talked about the battle of Kennesaw mountain and the smell of the bodies. He was from Batavia Ohio.

I am really glad and even more grateful you posted this online. I am a teacher and really am excited abt having info posted on youtube! 👋🥰

I have heard the exact same glowing wound story being figured out by school kids but for battle of Fredericksburg instead of shiloh.

I HAVE A QUESTION! My ancestor fought in the Hornet's Nest, and it is documented that he suffered a wound through his right thigh from a confederate musket ball. He ended up very luckily evading capture in the Hornet's Nest, and he was eventually transported to Paducah, Kentucky to an Episcopal Church made into a hospital. There he stayed for 30 days. He never had his leg amputated, thank goodness. My question is: how on Earth did he not have his leg amputated? Is it possible to receive such a wound in the thigh, and the femoral artery doesn't get severed? Was that pure luck? All I know is that he survived the war, but he kept that musket ball in his leg for the rest of his life, I assume because it was so deep into the bone. Please give me some feedback on this. Nice video by the way.

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