Medical Treatments And Casualties in the Civil War

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weary of allowing volunteers to help tend to the hundreds and thousands of fallen soldiers, but they quickly learned that no help could be ignored. At least three thousand women volunteered their services at some point during the war. Union women who volunteered could become a nurse one of three ways. The easiest way was to join a local regiment. Women also had a chance to join The Women�s Central Relief Association in New York City run by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, where women there would receive professional training before they went to help out on the battlefield. Women could also have joined a federally run organization that was headed by Dorthea Dix. Even though both the Union and Confederacy were in dire need of help from volunteers to tend to the wounded, many officers still doubted that women could handle the rigors and horrors they would have to face. They would be working long hours in difficult working conditions. There would be the constant smell of festering wounds ...

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bandages, and other supplies were collected and shipped off to the troops. The U.S. Sanitary Commission would also raise money for the war effort and organize medical care for the sick and wounded. (Zeinert, Favor)
As the war went on, both the Union and Confederacy were quickly running out of the little supplies they had. After Bull Run, the first major battle, Richmond was in dire need of any help they could get. Even though there were only one thousand and six hundred casualties, Richmonders were scrambling to find accommodations for the wounded. Many people were asked to care for the wounded in their homes. Volunteers went door-to-door asking for anything that could be used ...

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