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1. NMHMCW_140117_005.JPG: Private Enoch H. Woods, Co G, 6th Maine Volunteers showing an excision of head and five inches of shaft of humerus with apparatus.
2. NMHMCW_140117_032.JPG: Shell wound, removing body of lower jaw, twelve years after injury. Private Rowland Ward, Co E, 4th New York Heavy Artillery. Wounded on August 25, 1864 at Ream's Station, Virginia.
3. NMHMCW_140117_040.JPG: Amputation of right thing. Private William H. Jenkins, Co C, 39th Illinois Volunteers. Wounded on October 13, 1864 at Darbytown Road, Virginia.
4. NMHMCW_140117_048.JPG: 1864 The third year of the Civil War saw the advance of Union arms and the gradual retreat of Confederate forces on all fronts. To modern eyes, 150 years later, the eventual defeat of the Confederacy seemed all but assured. At the time, however, the final outcome remained unclear, and 1864 would prove to be the bloodiest year of the war. By mid-summer, President Lincoln admitted that the North was nearly exhausted and began to doubt his re-election. The capture of Atlanta in September and overwhelming support among the soldier vote in November ensured Lincoln's re-election and the continuation of the war.
5. NMHMCW_140117_052.JPG: "We go into a real fight every six days. Have been in one the 6th, 12th, 18th, and 24th. Next time will be the 30th. I shall be lucky if I get through without being killed. Everyone is being killed that I know." -- Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Minot Weld, 56th Massachusetts Volunteers, to his sister, May 25, 1864
6. NMHMCW_140117_079.JPG: Edward Staunch ... frequently visited the hospitals with me, especiially to make pictures and sketches... the point of injury [ ... was ] carefully painted... Next a pencil outline sketch... This work he did with great rapidity, and then when he reached Washington again, the beautiful pictures you will see in the Surgical History were elaborated. -- Surgeon John Hill Brinton, 1891, "Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton: Civil War Surgeon, 1861-1865"
7. NMHMCW_140117_082.JPG: Medical and Surgical History of the War of Rebellion, Surgical Volume, Part III.
8. NMHMCW_140117_111.JPG: George Lemon of Maryland: During the Civil War, surgeons performed only nine secondary amputations at the hip joint and only two of those patients survived. One of these men, a shoemaker from Bird Hill, Md., was Private George Lemon of Co. C, 6th Maryland Volunteers. Lemon's femur had been fractured at the battle of the Wilderness on May 5, 1864. He remained on the battlefield in a temporary shelter tent, but was captured by Confederate troops. Lemon's detection was short-lived, as he was rescued just eight days later. However, he did not arrive at an Alexandria, Va., hospital until June 14. The month had taken a terrible toll on Lemon's body: he was emaciated, suffering from diarrhea and severe bedsores, and the wound itself had had become dangerously infected. Surgeons chose not to amputate, even though upper fragments of his femur protruded thorough the thigh. They treated Lemon's other illnesses and he remained stronger than expected, but his would still put him in danger, causing swelling and abscesses. More than a year after Lemon's injury, surgeons determined that amputation was necessary to prevent death by blood infection. On October 12, 1865, Army Surgeon Edwin Bentley, using chloroform as an anesthetic, successfully amputated Lemon's leg at the hip joint. Lemon steadily improved and he was transferred to Harewood Hospital in Washington DC where he began using crutches. Upon his release, Lemon returned home and resumed his trade. Lemon never used a prosthetic for his injury, as "it only serves to irritate the stump, and makes it so raw and sore that I cannot bear to touch anything for days afterwards." He later reported that his health was excellent and he was "able to walk to the village of Westminster, a distance of seven miles, without fatigue."
9. NMHMCW_140117_134.JPG: Wywadzoff's Embalming Pump Kit
10. NMHMCW_140117_140.JPG: Civilians and the War: Military medical services became overwhelmed by the vast numbers of sick and wounded soldiers who needed prolonged care and treatment during the conflict. Civilian volunteers provided much of this care. Nurses and contract doctors tended to patients recuperating in hospitals, while national aid societies such as the US Sanitary Commission helped transport and treat the ill and injured. Women organized fundraising fairs and bazaars, gathering money for clothing, bed linens, medical supplies, writing materials, and food. "The Sanitary Commission is doing a work of great humanity, and of direct practical value to the nation in this time of its trial.... There is no agency through which voluntary offering of patriotism can be more effectively made." -- Abraham Lincoln, September 30, 1861
11. NMHMCW_140117_148.JPG: Skull with Artillery Wound
12. NMHMCW_140117_160.JPG: A Fallen Soldier This skull belonged to a soldier of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers, as African-American unit that took part in a Julu 1863 assault on Fort Wagner in Charleston Harbor. The regiments sustained 272 killed, wounded, and missing during the attack. By examining the skull, researchers determined how this soldier died. The size of the wound and the remains of the projectile indicate that he was killed by an iron canister ball from one of the fort's two 12-pound field howitzers. The ball entered behind his left ear and traveled upwards through the lower part of the brain.
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