Gettysburg Surgeons: Facing a Common Enemy in the Civil War’s Deadliest Battle(Franco - GC) Section - Civilians in Gettysburg and inventive storytelling that make

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Gettysburg Surgeons: Facing a Common Enemy in the Civil War’s Deadliest Battle(Franco - GC) Section - Civilians in Gettysburg and inventive storytelling that makeby Barbara Franco In the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, a thousand surgeons faced an unprecedented medical catastrophe: 25,000 wounded soldiers needing immediate care with only primitive tools and their own determination to save lives. At Gettysburg's makeshift hospitalsset up in barns, churches, and blood soaked fieldsmilitary and civilian surgeons from both North and South worked around the clock performing life saving operations under fire.