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The Civil War: Strange and Obscure Facts You Didn’t Know
Written on:November 16, 2011
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Some interesting facts from the Smithsonian that are indeed “obscure” and some “strange.” I was interested in this one, which caught be by surprise, it dealt with “glowing wounds” reported by soldiers during the Battle of Shiloh: Glowing wounds. After the Battle of Shiloh in 1862, soldiers reported a peculiar phenomenon: glow-in-the-dark wounds. More than 16,000 soldiers from both armies were wounded during the battle, and neither Union nor Confederate…
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