About 750,000 men died in the last hour of May 9, 1865. This date ends the civil war, which was one of the deadliest war in American history. This battle was fought between the confederate, which is the south. The south fought for slavery, unlike the union (north) which fought for freedom, liberty, and equality. About 750,000 men died and about 400,000 were pronounced missing. These next three men that will be talked about being victims or participants in the civil war starting off with Lewis Addison Armistead.
There were three men i found an interest in because these men were wounded in three different ways all because of the same reason, War.
Lewis Addison Armistead, a brigadier general of the Confederacy who was wounded on the 3rd of July , 1863. and died on the 5th, from a fever and infection in the wounded areas of his lower leg and his left chest. He was rushed to the hospital where doctors and surgeons located the bullet fragments and extracted them. Doctors then began to believe that laudable pus was a significant healing, but they were wrong because that inevitably brought him to his death.…show more content… Chamberlain, one of the main generals in the book " the killer angels'' was shot twice in the foot, and in his hip. these were considered minor wounds, even though he still suffered great pain when it happened in Gettysburg. He was severely bleeding and a tourniquet was applied with extra bandage because it was that bloody. Just the same as Armistead the fragments of the bullets were extracted and the wounds were deeply cleansed. He still died later on the 14th do with an
