pointed rifle bullets, the Minie ball that shattered flesh and bone, no antibiotics, etc., until later. Many young, healthy farm boys from Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and other places died in crowded training camps, without ever seeing combat duty, from measles, mumps, and other diseases that they had never been exposed to. While working at a CW Museum I learned much and helped set up an exhibit on Medical Care during the Civil War.
- Early Federal Ambulance Corps drill, post- Battle of Antietam, Md. March, 1864.
- Period painting of a US Civil War soldier, wounded by a Minié ball, lies in bed with a gangrenous amputated arm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_in_the_American_Civil_War
> The top source for US military medicine is the *National Museum of Health and Medicine* in Silver Spring, Md. They have material and artifacts from every era, a huge collection.
- National Museum of Health and Medicine, Silver Spring, Md. Historical Collections:
Historical Collections division includes artifacts documenting the material culture of medicine, with an emphasis on military medicine and federal government medicine. The collection contains approximately 15,000 objects ranging in size from a suture needle to a two-ton Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) magnet.
The earliest objects date from circa 1660 (Robert Hooke Microscope) to medical instruments and equipment presently in use. The collection continues to serve as a Department of Defense resource for the study of how technology influences the practice of medicine...https://www.medicalmuseum.mil/index.cfm