Antibiotics were not available during the Civil War. This meant that deep bullet wounds and other injuries often led to amputation to prevent death.
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Helping with the treatment and care of wounded soldiers.
Soldiers went home if they were injured. Other times they would go home for a break.
Germany had the highest number of injured soldiers by the end of the war but France had a higher percentage of their army injured they also had the highest percentage of death followed by Britain, Russia had the highest number of deaths.
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