Comments by "" (@janetprice85) on "American Battlefield Trust" channel.

  1. My great grandfather suffered a horrific wound to his arm in an accident. The country doctor that sewed up his arm had been a doctor in that war and he used liquor as an antiseptic both in and out of Grandpa. He sewed up muscles and tendons and skin then put on a cast. My great grandfather had an awful scar but that arm worked perfectly. Gramps was a farmer used to hard work. Even he was amazed at the old doctor's skill. This tale was told me by my father obviously as Gramps and the doctor were long gone by the time I came along in 1950.
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  2. Amputations had to be fast and liquor had to be used when iodine ran out. Pity the poor soldier with a gut shot. They didn't make.
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  3. Even after the Civil War Democrat Rebels and their Klan affliates worked to overturn every civil rights law passed by the Republicans to improve the rights of emancipated slaves right up the the passasge of the 1964 Civil Rights Act sponsored by JFK and beyond.
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