CLASS: Civil War Battlefield Medical Practices

An overview of these poor medical practices and how they impacted the life of the Civil War soldier.

It has been said that the American Civil was the first “modern war” in terms of the advancement of weapons, but it was being fought at the same time that the “medical Middle Ages” was coming to an end. During the American Civil War period, very little was known about the spread of germs and diseases, there were no antibiotics so infection was the enemy of soldiers of both the blue and gray.