Medical advances
In many ways the Civil War set the stage for modern medicine, providing thousands of poorly schooled physicians with a vast training ground:
11. Modern hospital organization
12. Embalming techniques
13. Safer surgical techniques
14. Improved anesthesia
15. Organized ambulance and nurses' corps
Cultural legacy
The war influenced our holidays and play:
16. Juneteenth holiday, also known as Emancipation Day
17. Memorial Day
18. Thomas Nast popularizes image of Santa Claus
19. Some 65,000 books on the conflict
20. Films such as Gone With the Wind, Glory and Cold Mountain
21. More than 70 National Park Service Civil War sites
22. Centennial toys: Civil War trading cards and blue & gray toy soldiers
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