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Civil War Journal
Season 2 · Episode 5
Battlefield Medicine
0.01h 0mMarch 16, 1994
The Civil War soldier's deadliest foe--disease. Typhoid and dysentery claimed more lives than battlefield wounds, and poor diet, unsanitary conditions, and emotional strain took a deadly toll.
Episodes
- Episode 1Robert E. Lee
- Episode 2Sherman and the March to the Sea
- Episode 3General Joshua L. Chamberlain
- Episode 4Lincoln & Gettysburg
- Episode 5Battlefield Medicine
- Episode 6The Battle of Fredericksburg
- Episode 7Frederick Douglass
- Episode 8Reporting the War
- Episode 9The Battle of Chattanooga
- Episode 10Women at War
- Episode 11Nathan Bedford Forrest
- Episode 12The Battles of Franklin & Nashville
- Episode 13Zouaves!
- Episode 14Shadows of Lightning: J.E.B. Stuart & the CSA Cavalry
- Episode 15Terrible Swift Sword: The Union Cavalry
- Episode 16The Secret War: Civil War Spies
- Episode 17War Crimes: The Death Camps
- Episode 18The Traitor President: Jefferson Davis
- Episode 19General James Longstreet: Lee’s Prodigal Son
- Episode 20Garden of the Dead: Arlington Cemetery
- Episode 21The Battle of Charleston
- Episode 22The Battle and Siege of Vicksburg
- Episode 23Caught in the Maelstrom: Civilians in the War
- Episode 24The Taking of New Orleans
- Episode 25The Superb General Hancock
- Episode 26Iron Jaws: Killing Power of Civil War Artillery