The following photos are of Civil War soldiers who were grievously injured and whose wounds and hasty operations left them in a bad way. We can only imagine how difficult life must have been for many of them after returning home.There are dozens of photographs, some very disturbing, all of them distressing, on the Flickr photostream of
Contributed Photograph 1331
CAMPBELL, ADOLPHUS D.
EXCISIONS OF BONES OF FOREARM. (VERSO)
LT Company F 45th PENNSYLVANIA
Battle of PETERSBURG, VA 30 JULY 1864
Contributed by HUDSON, DR. E.D. 1876
Photograph by T.G. DIMMERS
Credits: Licence for distribution
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