MCCWRT October Meeting: Charlie Banks on Herman Haupt

The McHenry County (Illinois) Civil War Round Table (MCCWRT) met Tuesday, October 11 at the Woodstock Public Library.

Round Table News:

**  The MCCWRT attended the Civil War Show in Naperville last month and sold a whole lot of books (with the money going to out student scholarship).  We made $835 and $350 went to other vendors (we were selling them for a real good price).

**  Next month's meeting will not be on Tuesday, November 8 because of elections (voting will be at the library).  Instead, we will meet at 7 pm on Wednesday, November 9.

**  We will be providing Civil War speakers at McHenry County College for their continuing education retired program.  The programs will be on Thursdays at 1 pm.

**  There will be a Civil War living history program at Hainesville, Illinois, this weekend.  There will be Union and Confederate reenactors and the Battle of Shiloh will be recreated.  Lincoln, Grant will be speaking as well as others.  There will be a medical display and an embalmer.

--Old Seceh

Hainesville Civil War Encampment: A Mortal Wound and Embalming

The surgeon then began probing the wound and found... PUSS,  lots and lots of yellow puss.  He scooped it out and threw it down on the ground in front of the spectators drawing lots of yucks and  oooohhs and assorted groans.  Pretty gross.  He said that yellow puss was good as if it was black, that meant there was a gangrene problem.

Next he dug some and found a large sliver of a piece of wood which he also threw on the ground.

He also found that there were no broken bones or a shattered knee cap, which was also good as had he found those, amputation would have been necessary.

When he finished, they tried to bring the soldier back to being awake, but, unfortunately,he didn't revive.  He was dead.

He had died on the operating cot.

The undertaker was called in and the first thing he did was look to see if the soldier had paid for his services.  If he had (he did) then he would begin embalming.  If not, the body would be taken out back and buried in a shallow grave and hopefully a wooden marker put up.

Since this man had paid, he began draining the man's blood and putting in the embalming fluid.  Rather gross.

Just Don't Get Wounded.  --Old Secesh