Angel's Glow

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🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In the aftermath of the Civil War's Battle of Shiloh in 1862, something strange happened. Some soldiers' wounds started to glow. Stranger still, those with glowing wounds seemed to have better rates of survival. In 2001, a teenage Civil War buff embarked on a science project to explain this so-called "Angel's Glow."

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0:00.0	Produced by the island at WBUR Boston.
0:07.0	All sorts of legends start on the battlefield.
0:14.0	Stories of fighting prowess, of cunning, of heroics.
0:18.0	But it's rare that a legend from the battlefield
0:21.0	that comes from what happened in the battles aftermath.
0:25.0	This legend comes from the aftermath of a battle in the Civil War.
0:29.0	The Battle of Shiloh, in Tennessee, April of 1862.
0:35.0	Yeah, this is one of these great stories of the Civil War
0:39.0	that have kind of passed down through folklore.
0:43.0	Shiloh didn't quite fit the Civil War Battle stereotype,
0:47.0	not according to the experts, like historian Jake Wynn.
0:52.0	Now, you think about the Eastern Theater of the Civil War.
0:55.0	If you think about Gettysburg or Antietam,
0:57.0	many of the major battles in the Eastern Theater of the Conflict
1:00.0	and the vicinity of Washington and Richmond are fought on farmland
1:04.0	in open ground.
1:06.0	In many cases in the Western Theater is not going to be the case.
1:09.0	Many of those battles are going to be fought in woods.
1:12.0	They're going to be fought in dense thickets.
1:14.0	They're going to be fought in swamps.
1:16.0	And Shiloh is going to be one of those cases.
1:19.0	This is about a year into the war.
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