See larger SH11A061CIVILWAR150 Jan. 12, 2011 -- Wounded soldiers on stretchers and crutches outside a makeshift Union hospital attended by a volunteer nurse at Fredericksburg, Va. in May 1864. The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American history. Of some 4 million men who enlisted, at least 620,000 died -- two-thirds from illness rather than combat -- and several hundred thousand more were wounded, many with lost limbs. (SHNS photo courtesy Library of Congress) (civil war)

SH11A061CIVILWAR150 Jan. 12, 2011 -- Wounded soldiers on stretchers and crutches outside a makeshift Union hospital attended by a volunteer nurse at Fredericksburg, Va. in May 1864. The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American history. Of some 4 million men who enlisted, at least 620,000 died -- two-thirds from illness rather than combat -- and several hundred thousand more were wounded, many with lost limbs. (SHNS photo courtesy Library of Congress) (civil war)

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