The clash, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, saw the Union forces led by Major General Ulysses S. Grant face off against the Confederate troops commanded by General Albert Sidney Johnston. The battle took place in southwestern Tennessee and was one of the war’s earliest large-scale engagements in the Western Theater.
The bloodiest battle up to that point in the war produced 23,000 casualties on both sides. The battlefield itself was a boggy, mud soaked hellhole. Medical services on both Confederate and Union sides were woefully unprepared for the scale of the slaughter, and many wounded were left to fend for themselves among the watery morass.
When help finally managed to reach those poor souls, their rescuers noticed something odd. Their wounds gave off a faint glow in the night.
Furthermore, the wounded whose injuries glowed had a better survival rate than their peers whose wounds did not. At a loss to explain what was happening, the flummoxed soldiers dubbed the strange phenomena “Angel’s Glow,” because it truly did seem to be the work of angels....<<<Read More>>>...
