Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

Of the almost thirty thousand amputations recorded in the Union Army, the mortality rate was 26.3 percent. Were Civil War physicians “butchers” then? This question is perhaps best answered by ...

Of the approximately 30,000 amputations performed in the Civil War there was a 26.3-percent mortality rate. In the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, despite the lessons learned in the Civil War and the ...