There wasn't much anyone could do at that time and with the available knowledge.
Today we know that cleanliness is absolutely necessary.
doctors during the civil war did not have a lot to work with what would you have done to change battlefield hospitals to make them better
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Make them cleaner?
Read about it in one or more of these pieces, then think about how it could have been better, given what they knew at that time.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=civil+war+battlefield+medicine&form=EDGTCT&qs=PF&cvid=237b215b69284bce9a14050c545f438c&pq=civil+war+battlefield+medicine&cc=US&setlang=en-US
Read about it in one or more of these pieces, then think about how it could have been better, given what they knew at that time.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=civil+war+battlefield+medicine&form=EDGTCT&qs=PF&cvid=237b215b69284bce9a14050c545f438c&pq=civil+war+battlefield+medicine&cc=US&setlang=en-US