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Monday, May 26, 2025

Nurse Anne Bell


While battlefield aid stations in the Civil War were widely described as horrors, if a soldier 
was lucky enough to survive them and get tranferred to a hospital far behind the front lines, 
he had about a 90% chance of recovery. Twice as many soldiers died of disease 
than from wounds.   Above we see Nurse Anne Bell attending to two patients.
Next up, the Confederates.

 

2 comments:

  1. Les anges de miséricorde.
    With all wars the images of nurses tending to soldiers are profound statements of human dignity.

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