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Little was known about what caused disease, how to stop it from spreading, or how to cure it during the Civil War. Surgical techniques ranged from the barbaric to the barely competent. Therefore, curing a patient was difficult.
Chloroform was used to as an anesthesia during the Civil War.
Drums were used in the American Civil war, to show that the war had begun.
Both sides in the US civil War used cannons.
Field hospitals. Similar to modern M.A.S.H. (mobile army surgical hospital) units now.