Every july for 25 years, the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee has hosted a civil war reenactment and living history village depicting camp life. We visit a union army surgeon and and ballmer and talk to and embalmer. During the very beginning of the store, the war, there was a lot of quack surgeons in the union army. When a general took over the medical corps, he devised the whole thing around. He created an ambulance corps so we could get men off the battle quicker. He had the surgeons do tests to be army qualified. Thats where it got better. 3 million fought, 600,000 died. 700,000 wounds on that battlefield. What i was dealing with at that time was the musket. It went in like a finger and came out like a fist. It shattered the bone so bad, there was no way i could repair it. Even today, they would have to amputate because you blew that bone apart survival rate was great. 78 survived amputations, but it decreased to 60 due to disease. It there was nothing wrong with one of them, had n
We begin on the role of middle east oil on american policy since the end of world war ii, American History tv, this weekend, every weekend, on cspan 3. Good morning. I name is al kose, im one of the volunteers here. Were going to talk about the american m4 medium tank. Probably one of the most prolific tanks of the Second World War. This particular example was one of the earlier versions. This is the m4a3 tank. This is armed with a 75 millimeter main gun. If we move to the commanders weapons station here, it also has the caliber 50 machine gun up top where the commander is. And it also has two m19, 1930 caliber machine guns. One is mounted with the main gun and the other is mounted here up in the front of the tank. And this one is manned by the battle gun. If you look at the battle gun, he can move it up and down. He can show you the way the ball turret works. This has the workings of the guns, his ammunition back there and a catch bag to catch the shell casings as they come out. If yo
Life. Next we talk about medical practices during the war. Every july for the past 25 years the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee has hosted a civil war battle reenactment and living history village depicting camp life. Next we visit a unit army surgeon and embalmer and talk about medical practices during the war. During the very beginning of the war, like i says, maybe around 1861 there was a lot of quack surgeons in the union army. Dr. Letterman in 1862 took over the medical corps. When he took it over, he devised the whole thing, now he created an ambulance corps. He also gave tests to surgeons to be army qualified surgeons. Thats where it got better and better. 3 million fought in it, 600,000 died in it, 700,000 carried wounds off that battlefield. I was dealing with at this time, was the musket, it went in like a finger and came out like a fist and shattered that bone so bad, there was no way i could repair it whatsoever. Even if you got shot with one of them in modern medicine, th
Years, the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee hosts a civil war battle reenactment and living history village depicting camp life. Next, we visit a union army soldier, an enbalmer and talk to medical students about practices during the war. Every july for the past 25 years, the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee has hosted a living history village depicting calf life. Next we visit a union army surgeon and enbalmer and talk to reenactors about medical practices during the war. During the very beginning of the war, like i say, maybe around 1860, there were a lot of quack surgeons in the union army. Well, dr. Letterman took over the medical corps. When he took over the medical core, he devised the whole thing around. Now he created an ambulance core where we could get the men off the battle field quicker and faster. He also had to test the surgeons to be army qualified surgeons. Thats where it got better and better 3 million fought in it, 600,000 died in it. 700,000 carry wounds off of that
My name is al kose, and im one of the volunteers here. Were going to talk about the american m4 medium tank. Probably one of the most prolific tanks of the Second World War. This particular example was one of the earlier versions. This is the m4a3 tank. This is armed with a 75 millimeter main gun. If we move to the commanders weapons station here, it also has the caliber 50 machine gun up top where the commander is. And it also has two m19 1930 caliber machine guns. One is mounted with the main gun and the other is mounted here up in the front of the tank. And this one is manned by the battle gunner. If you look at the battle gun, he can move it up and down. He can show you the way the ball turret works. That machine gun is protruding through this ball mount here and beyond that has the workings of the gun. He has his ammunition back there in a catch bag to catch the shell casings as they come out. If you look at the top of the hatch right over his right shoulder there, theres a perisc