There were many groups present in the Civil War. Of these many groups, there were three I found most interesting. The three I found most interesting are; medical staff, leaders and African Americans. The first group that I will be discussing is the medical staff. Most of the Civil War medical staff were inexperienced. Only 500 of the 11,000 Union surgeons had actually performed surgery prior to the war and the most popular surgery was amputation. This is why surgeons during this time were referred to as butchers. It was 1865 before they used antiseptic during surgery and most of the surgeons did not wash their hands before performing surgery. It is estimated that more soldiers died from infection from surgery, than the wounds they
