Gettysburg Surgeons: Facing a Common Enemy in the Civil War’s Deadliest Battle(Franco - GC) honey January 2013

January 2013

and with McClellan’s troops having abandoned the Peninsula

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but the operation remains one of the most complex and difficult to understand

Gettysburg Surgeons: Facing a Common Enemy in the Civil War’s Deadliest Battle(Franco - GC) honey January 2013by Barbara Franco In the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, a thousand surgeons faced an unprecedented medical catastrophe: 25,000 wounded soldiers needing immediate care with only primitive tools and their own determination to save lives. At Gettysburg's makeshift hospitalsset up in barns, churches, and blood soaked fieldsmilitary and civilian surgeons from both North and South worked around the clock performing life saving operations under fire.