Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...

Upon return to the United States, many doctors became leaders of their profession. These better trained physicians often headed medical schools, and in the Civil War were in the Sanitary ...

Due to the scale of medical need at the battlefields ... As a result of the American Civil War (1861-1865), American companies were better equipped to meet the demands Britain faced.