Throughout the final chapters of the book there were many points of interests that struck me hard. But the one point that stuck out to me the most was the section titled, coming home. In this section the author speaks about how the wounded and sick returned home after the war. The men returned to where they were used to being while sick or wounded. However not all men were able to feel the comforts of home one last time. There were over 200,000 women who were widowed and left to keep the house, land and family running on their own.
Also there was another section in the book that spoke of the prisoners of war. In todays modern time, when people think of prisoners of war they think in a 3rd world country or in the middle east. I don't think many people think about how during the civil war there were prisoners of war as well. When brother turned against brother, there was torturing and starvation that was occurring on American soil between the North and the South. Some of the pictures that are in the book show how gruesome and horrid life was for a prisoner of war during the civil war.
I have found this book very interesting because it educated me on subjects that I didn't even know occurred during the civil war. And also the book focused on issues that have been skimmed over by many historians that were important to the development of the medical world today.
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