Wounded soldiers in the Civil War- Read this paragraph and write a short summary. Remember that a summary should be in your own words and include a topic sentence.
Wounded soldiers in the Civil War received primitive medical treatment. This lead to many additional health issues. Because rifle rounds often shattered bones, doctors were usually forced to amputate a soldier’s arms or legs, often piling the limbs up on a cart outside the surgeon’s tent. Ignorant of hygienic science, surgeons frequently honed their scalpels on the soles of their boots; infections in the field hospitals ran rampant. There were, of course, no antibiotics – Alexander Fleming did not discover penicillin until 1928-so even minor wounds could, and often did prove deadly.
