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