Civil War 1864: A Virtual Reality Experience, The Union Hospital
2019 ж. 24 Қаз.
80 574 Рет қаралды
A wounded soldier on a stretcher is carried into a terrible field hospital. The young Confederate prisoner is with them. Amidst the terrible screams and cries emerging from the operating room in the nearby barn, nurses tend to and scurry about the wounded, men talk and banter as a wheelbarrow of arms and legs, and another dead soldier, move past. Our wounded solider gets bad news from the surgeon - his leg must be amputated - and he pleas for another option as he’s deliriously carried into the operating room.
Thanks for this video. Don’t be too judgmental of Civil War surgeons, I watch this video from a wheelchair after having two amputations on my right leg. The cause…antibiotic resistant bacteria. The fear you feel while lying on a stretcher/hospital bed is still the same as you wait for your amputation.
I regret to hear this.
Interesting how the Confederate soldier is included, and I like how the other guy objects at first but then realizes they are all in the same boat together rather than dwelling needlessly on their differences. My great-great grandfather was originally from the Vermont/New Hampshire border... a real hotbed of Abolitionist sentiment. He fought for the Union and was shot right through the body at Seven Pines but miraculously survived. According to a doctor's report I read, the bullet entered an inch or two below his left nipple, and exited lower down on his back, closer to the spine. After laying in a swamp for hours he was brought to a field hospital where they supposedly pulled a cloth soaked in turpentine right through his body. Aside from surviving such a wound in itself, the most interesting aspect of this story is that my ancestor somehow formed an unusual bond of friendship with a Confederate soldier... apparently while in the hospital. The exact circumstances of that can never be known. But after getting a medical discharge from one state, he crossed that Vermont/New Hampshire border and re-enlisted for the Union again! After the war he drifted around Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Upper Michigan, working in sawmills and starting a family along the way. Then sometime around 1889 the cold Northern winters got to bothering him, making him cough up blood sometimes, so he finally abandoned his wife and children (including my great grandfather) and went south to Louisiana and looked up that friend of his. He married the man's teenage daughter, and started a new family down there! You would not think that in 1890 Southerners would be particularly welcoming of some card-carrying Yankee coming down there and cozying up with a Southern girl way under half his age. Apparently the people actually involved in the war did not take things as personally or harbor resentment as tenaciously as some folks do nowadays. Or I guess maybe that bullet wound bought him some street creds. Anyway he spent the rest of his life down there, working in sawmills and raising another family. He did sort of leave our family up here in poverty, but I guess he had his reasons for what he did, and I don't dwell on the bad side of it. In fact I named my own son after the man.
Really cool story man! My GGG grandfather fought for the CSA out of North Carolina while one of his brothers joined up with the Union Cavalry out of east Tenn. It was literally brother against brother for my ancestors! I wish I knew more details of their service but proud of them all regardless
Wow that is so neat. What an amazing story and tribute to your heritage. God bless all of the men who served on both sides. What a time in our history that was!❤🇺🇸
He just completely abandoned his family? That's pretty brutal.
@@rogerhoke9725 Well one version is he took his son (my great grandfather) down south with him, but the kid wanted to return to his familiar home. Apparently the lung problems in cold air were pretty bad, as one time his adult step-son (whose father died in the Civil War) had to carry him out of the woods on his shoulders. Yet the wife refused to move South with him. As far as we know, he never actually divorced his wife up here, yet the family knew where he was and his daughter (& grandson) visited him once in the South, years later. But yes, he did leave the family in a tough situation, and my great-grandfather resented him for it.
@@rogerhoke9725 I should mention that by 1889 his wife up here had the adult son plus 3 adult daughters from her first husband who could help her survive. And my great grandfather was 17 and the daughter was 14, so it was not like abandoning a mother with several babies.
the fact that the confederate soldier actually gets along with the union soldier is a nice detail 🇺🇸 👍X
I have got the impression that on both sides, they generally did not really hate each other. Rather, they hated the war.
@@Cybernaut76 He's a teenage conscript, he doesn't have any hatred for union soldiers, and it's pretty clear that he just wants to go home.
@@Captan40000 Who in their right mind wants to kill a fellow human being and then die for some scummy politicians? Anyone is better off working for their farms, their businesses, their workplaces, their homes etc etc etc.
Thank you!! I just with the lettering was alittle bigger as I couldn't read most of it. This was like you are right there with them. I hope one day the world will learn to live in peace.
What a horrible sight to see for the family that owns that farm.
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Surprisingly modern day surgeons and doctors have said that if they faced 20,000 casualties with the extensive damage the minie ball produced amputation would be their choice to save lives as they'd simply not have time to repair shattered bone and the horrifying amount of dirt, clothing, (and even the lard used to grease bullets) would carry into the wound. Civil War surgeons and veteran soldiers understood perfectly well getting a wounded limb removed within 24 hours was critical before infection set in. One Union surgeon wrote about operating for 72 hours and feeling he couldn't possibly go on-but wounded soldiers were coming up to him begging to have an arm or leg removed before infection set in so he'd pick up his bloody instruments and continue. These surgeons just a mere 10 years later looked on their methods with a certain degree of horror when germ theory came to fruition. Still, they miraculously had a 70% survival rate for amputations.
Thank you and really great work! Incredible.
These 3d type videos of battle or hospital scenes are a way of forcing people to face the reality of war the acting is brilliant and yes medical technology has improved enormously since the 1860's at the end of the day thousands either die or are left permanently injured for life.
Not only do these videos force people to face the realities of war but they do it in a short period better than any movie taking about two hours or more.
And people today in sweat pants at Walmart are pissed off they can’t get a close parking spot. No wonder this world is screwed. God save us all.
That was amazing!
Superb.
Very interesting
It’s Schrute farms
i didn't realize i could move the screen until halfway into the video. -_-
Hard to see.
The slaughter pen
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