Both the North and South are acquiring different ways to treat their injured soldiers, but both are ill-prepared for removing and transporting the wounded men to hospitals. The consistency and work put into both region’s medical department’s very crucial in winning this war. So far, the Civil War has been bloody for both sides battling, and it is up to the medical care given to support the injured fighters. Many soldiers are either getting wounded from gunshots, obtaining infections or catching diseases. These multiple factors are ending the lives of the thousands of people who are fighting in this war. As a whole, our country is looking up to the courageous doctors, surgeons and nurses at the battlefield’s hospitals to treat the wounded men. …show more content…
Women in both the Union and Confederacy are standing up to a role of being a nurse for the harmed soldiers. One Confederate nurse of Tennessee named Kate Cumming described that many surgeons and doctors are putting so much effort in trying to help the wounded and have rarely gotten sleep. She writes in her diary about the soldiers brought in, saying that “They are in the hall, on the gallery, and crowded into very small rooms.” (Cumming, Kate). The wounded soldiers count keeps rising, and the demand of all of the essential care needs to be met. Scientists do not have advanced knowledge yet about germs and disease. In the camps, there is poor sanitation with unclean water and decomposed food, but some people wonder if this is unsafe for the men fighting in this