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 ...

Knives were often held in the mouth and ... House Union Hospital major surgical procedures of the Civil War are performed. Amputations are emphasized, as it was the most common major operation.

Success against the rebels’ fortress, which had never been touched in four years of war, would be a knife ... amputation. For all that, New Market Heights is little more than a footnote in Civil ...

Silas Casey during the American Civil War, the methodology behind the all-American knife hand is simple ... a remarkable survival after a forelimb amputation during pre-antibiotic era,” the ...