“My Hands and Heart Full” - National Museum of Civil War Medicine

How did Civil War surgeons cope with the unbelievable amount of suffering they experienced on a daily basis? There is a familiar figure in Civil War literature: that of the surgeon operating in the immediate aftermath of battle. General Carl Schurz described a familiar nightmarish scene at Gettysburg:
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