War is brutal. War is just. The American Civil War (1861–1865) was no exception. For many men that bloody war meant giving a lib. Amputations were the order of the day:
![J. Gurney & Son | [Disabled Union Soldiers Posed in Aid of the U.S. Sanitary Commission at the New York Metropolitan Fair] | The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/00/63/47/00634721ca8b04876422ee96bcc04770.jpg)
