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 Post subject: Glowing Wounds at Shiloh
PostPosted: Sat Sep 28, 2024 11:17 pm 
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Found out this piece of trivia scanning the internet.

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 medical personnel were prepared for the carnage. Soldiers lay in the mud for two rainy days, and many of them noticed that their wounds glowed in the dark. In fact, the injured whose wounds glowed seemed to heal better than the others. In 2001, two Maryland teenagers solved the mystery (and won a top prize at an international science fair). The wounded became hypothermic, and their lowered body temperatures made ideal conditions for a bioluminescent bacterium called Photorhabdus luminescens, which inhibits pathogens.

I did some more snooping around and found this article sharing more about the "glowing wounds."

https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/civil-war-soldiers-had-wounds-that-glowed/

Just when you think you know it all....

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Wow, who would have thought?

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