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Civil War Project_ _ Amanda: Hello everybody As you know I'm Oprah Wifney And This is the Oprah Wifney show. Well today I think we should start with the most imporatnat topic THE CIVIL WAR! We will be discussing who died more the south or north? Millions of people have died in devasting event when american diecied to kill american. But how did they die? OHKAY today we have a special guest she is an excpert on the civil war will help us out today. Here is Jona J. Kristen: Heeeeeello Its so great to meet to you Oprah. So I'm a time traveler and Went I went back in time and I went across the battle fields to experience a life threatning event. Disease. Civil War disease were horrible and heart wreching. Some of the Civil war disease consisted of intestinal disorders, typhoid fever, pneumonia and tuberculosis. And While I was back in time I took my video camera with me to capture all of the sarrowful moments. Amanda: While Jona was time travelin to capture a poor solider with Typhoid fever. Here is folks:

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Amanda: How sad. (sips tea) Kristen: Unfortunalty, many young soliders from the south have never been exposed to such a large variety of diseases which caused an outbreak of measles, chickenpox, mumps, and whooping cough. A 16 year old boy from tennese was recently brought into a hospital with an pniemina Amanda: YOUNG MEN ARE JOINING THE WAR BUT ALSO THE OLDER MEN ARE TOO. Some of them are tested too hard and end up falling to their death "what do you think is going to happen when your 90 years old running across a battle feild" Kristen: Very true. There is another disease spreading threw the camps. Called smallpox Amanda: Here is Robert E. Lee from the South to talk about his camp and how more than half of them have smallpox.

FLASH BACK //Amanda: Hello Robert I heard most of your camp has smallpox. Robert: Yes, our camp has been really suffering these last few days Amanda: Is this disease really serious? Robert: Yes it is a horrible disease. It can stay on clothing and other objects for more than 18 months. Amanda: Oh my lord. Is there a vaccine? Robert: Yes we were suppose to get the vaccine next week, but its to late. Actualy the vaccine was made from human scabs. Amanda: (disgusting face) Robert: Some of our camp vaccinated them selfs by using a dirty pocket knive and scabs from there fellow soliders. Amanda: (Oh face) What are some of the symptoms? Robert: Well the chills, high fever, and headache. Skin eruptions would ocur in a few days. Our camp is just starting to experince this. Amanda: Thank you for your time.//

Kristen: I hope they all get better. Amanda: Me 2. Anyways Fredd, a witness from alambam described a surgeon's tent this way,: "Tables about breast high had been erected upon which the screaming victims were having legs and arms cut off. The surgeons and their assistants, stripped to the waist and bespattered with blood, stood around, some holding the poor fellows while others, armed with long, bloody knives and saws, cut and sawed away with frightful rapidity, throwing the mangled limbs on a pile nearby as soon as removed." Kristen: Its horrible that the people have to go threw that and its unfortunate that we can't help. Well here is a doctor from the north & the south that are trying to help.

//FLASH BACK - of north surgeon. Doctor: Hi Kristen and Amanda Doctor: I'm a doctor from New York and we manufacture most of the medicines. Doctor: We basicly live the life. There was approxmaly i dont know about ehh 13,000 union doctors since May 13 way more than the confederacy. We still lose men to disease, but no as much as the confederates. Doctor: We have many home-made remidies like putting whisky on wounds and cuts. Last week a camp came to me and most of them had came fever I told them to exterminate the bugs from there bodys.//

//FLASH BACK - of the south surgeon. Doctor: Hello Kristen and Amanda, I'm a doctor from Virgina. Doctor: We, the confederates, don't understand why bacteria and germs lead to disease that kill so many of our soliders. Doctor: We know that lack of shoes and clothing made the diease worse explacally for us. Doctor: We try to smuggle medicine from the north. MOst of our medicine comes from the NOrth. Most of the time We try to use herbal remidies Doctor: We really had nothing so we had no choice but to steal and thats why most of our men died. Though we had about 4,000 doctors not nearly as much as the south. One night I remeber, "It was a cheerless view looking out in the night through the driving storm over the mass of soldiers hovering under their blankets. Such nights are the devastation of armies. They will lose us more men than a battle."//

Amanda: for more information about each doctor check out our website www.doctors.com Kristen: we'll be right back after this short break.

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