Symposium cocoordinators. The hard work has made todays event possible, and also thank you to our friends at cspan for sharing American History. A very important task in these days. Our final speaker for the day is Paige Gibbons backus. We have been talking about the war in the east, but we cant forget about the aftermath of battle as well. One of the most compelling portions about Civil War History and the civil war story. Page is a public historian with Prince William county, virginia. She is here today to talk about the carnage in the medical field of the civil war. Thank you, chris, for having me and thank you all for listening in and watching these videos and joining us for the virtual ssymposium. So im going to talk to you about the fight for life and death in the aftermath of these battles. We have heard a lot of talks today about the battles, the prison camps, and the raids. And the aftermath of the battle and in the years and days and months following was a war in itself. It w
There is scope for doing new things out,fleshing so it is great to have new ideas. I appreciate carolines presentation and the audiences questions, so thank you fremont. Next, Historic Site manager Paige Gibbons backus talks about the state of medical knowledge at the beginning of the civil war, including surgical practices and diseases common among the soldiers. She also describes advances later in the war such as sterilization and Reconstructive Surgery that drastically improved a soldiers chance of survival. This talk was part of a symposium on the war in the east hosted by the emerging civil war blog. To the emerging civil war virtual symposium and thank you for joining us online for this years event. I want to give one more shout out to our technical director, chris white, for his help behind the camera today. Ecw cofounder. Thank you, chris. Also thank you to our cocoordinators Kevin Pollock and dan welch, his hard work made todays event possible turn also thank you to our friend
Page givens bacchus. Weve been talking about the war in means, but we cannot forget about the aftermath as well. Is a public historian with Prince William county, virginia. About here today to talk the medical field in the civil war. Thank you for having me and thank you for listening and watching these videos. What i will be talking to you about, i will be talking about the fight for life and death in the aftermath of these battles in the american civil war. We have heard a lot of talk about different battles, prison camps, and the aftermath of the in the years and months and days following was, in a sense, a whole other battle. It was a war against disease. Wrote thattorian heroes ofe the unsung and they were treating the dying and wounded after these heroes horrific battles. So it cost over 700,000 casualties. Ultimately we will talk about the good that came out of this battle for life and death. So, i could be talking to you all day about anything and everything with civil war medi
Average high San Francisco 70. Today our numbers are going down. 67 in San Francisco. Slightly below average in concord. Temperatures across the peninsula today in the 70s. A refreshing day with great air quality. 67 degrees in stinson beach. 80 in napa. The weekend forecast is coming up. New this morning, fire crews are keeping an eye on hot spots after a home in redwood city went up in flames. Kpix 5s jackie ward is live at the scene with the very latest. Jackie. Reporter kenny, this was a big one. Just check out behind me how charred the house is. Its pretty much destroyed the roof burned off and some police and fire crews are on scene because they are worried this fire may flare up. The flames from this fire were quite something despite only being a onealarm fire. The call came in about 10 30 here on crompton road. Fortunately no one was home at the time. To add to the firefighters challenge a live wire came down in the back of the house. They got the fire under control in just ove
Overnight. 17 arrests were made. At least one officer was sent to the hospital after a rock was smashed through his patrol. Another person was hurt after being shot. The protests started on saturday after a milwaukee officer shot and killed a 23yearold man. Officers say Slyville Smith was armed during a traffic he took off from the car on foot. And when officers ordered him to drop his weapon, he didnt comply. Thats when an African American officer opened fire on smith, killing him. Officers were wearing body cameras, but that footage hasnt been released. Sot police . The gun at the scene that we are recovering was stolen in a burglary i believe in waukesha along with 500 rounds of ammunition. The National Guard is in the city, monitoring the situation. A total of 5 officers have been well continue monitoring the situation in milwaukee throughout the morning. And bring you live pictures and updates as they come in. The time now is. Lets switch gears and get to 13 first alert meteorolog