Combatting The Invisible Enemy: Medicine During The Civil War

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For most of us, our mental snapshot of 19th-century battlefield medicine is captured when Union Major General Carl Schurz recorded a ghastly scene at Gettysburg: “There stood the surgeons, their sleeves rolled up to their elbows … [One] surgeon snatched his knife from between his teeth …, wiped it rapidly once or twice across his bloodstained apron, and the cutting began. The operation accomplished, the surgeon would look around with a deep sigh, and then – 'Next!'”

Relying on first-hand accounts, meticulous statistics and research, we share a side of the conflict that few who fought wanted to think about and, particularly, experience. For our 70th episode, we tell the story of Civil War Medicine.

Narrated by Fred Kiger
Produced by Dan Irving
Published by Third Wheel Media

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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
William A. Hammond
Jonathan Letterman
Samuel Preston Moore
Sally Tompki
Dorothea Dix
Clara Barton

Additional Resources:
The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy by Bell Irvin Wiley - https://www.amazon.com/Life-Johnny-Re...

The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union by Bell Irvin Wiley - https://www.amazon.com/Life-Billy-Yan...

Voices of the Civil War by Richard Wheeler - https://www.amazon.com/Voices-Meridia...

Civil War Medicine 1861-1865 by C. Keith Wilbur - https://www.amazon.com/Civil-Medicine...