An accurate number may not exist, because many soldiers later died from infection, but it is known three out of four operations in field hospitals were amputations.
Weapons of war had progressed to the point that injuries to the bone would fracture it into many little pieces, seldom a clean break. Doctors did not have either the skill or the time to reconstruct...
Actually that answer is unknown. But I will tell you that At the beginning of the war Abraham Lincoln asked for 75,000 volunteers. There also have been 54 massaschusetts organizations. And the total...