Medical Care at the Battle of Shiloh

[@nmcwm]

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[@brucesmith1392]

Incredibly helpful. Excellent presentation.❤

[@jankovarik9714]

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

[@queenbeedat8726]

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.

[@georgesakellaropoulos8162]

If you do make it there, be sure to budget at least 2 weeks. There are so many interesting places to visit within striking distance of Frederick. Gettysburg is about 40 minutes away, as are Winchester, VA, Washington, D.C., Baltimore MD, and Antietam battlefield is only about 20 minutes away, as is Harper's ferry.

[@maggiedaniels9562]

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.

[@nmcwm]

Awesome! Thanks for watching. Hope your day on the battlefield is a good one! We hope to make it to Shiloh sometime in the near future!

[@davidharris8192]

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! 👋🥰

[@nmcwm]

Thanks for watching and commenting! We appreciate your support!

[@kirkwilson10]

Grew up 4 miles across the river from Shiloh and have led Tn History students there overnight 27 times and I am very appreciative of your work and research on this subject. i am still mystified, however, why in all the tons of material I've read about the battle and yes the aftermath, I've never seen mention of the great evangelist D.L. Moody coming afterwards with a hospital ship and nurses to minister to the wounded. I posed this question to Dr. Timothy Smith, whose books on Shiloh are as good as it gets, and he concurred that he'd never seen anything either. Can you shed some light on this, and again, thank you!

[@The_PaleHorseman]

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.

[@michaeldouglas1243]

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

[@crl624]

It is more likely than not that the glow was some sort of animal - bug, insect, nematode. It possibly ate the bacteria that created infection. There are several instances of leeches, bugs, worms, etc. providing help in some way via biological interaction. Master Gardeners frequently recommend dealing with a gardening issue using beneficial insects, for example Ladybugs eating aphids off of roses. Also antibiotics initially started as bread mold. It's entirely possible that the nematodes were beneficial.

[@ancienttartan3509]

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.

[@nmcwm]

I hard to know exactly what happened without knowing more specifics, but the key reason the limb wasn't amputated was that the bone wasn't shattered. Civil War surgeons didn't have the ability to heal shattered bones like we can today. A clean break or fracture they could have dealt with. So it's like that it was either a soft tissue injury or the bullet may have just lodged itself in the bone as you suggest.

[@ancienttartan3509]

@@nmcwm Thank you!

[@carollee8823]

When you mention stimulants you mean alcoholic beverage. Right.

[@DavidPigbody]

Alcohol is a depressant.

[@maudey53]

Glowing wounds=maggots. April, flies would be out.