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A bioluminescent-bacteria theory for Civil War ‘Angel’s Glow’

A post recounts glowing wounds at the Battle of Shiloh and says doctors thought those soldiers seemed to fare better.

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A post says soldiers who lay in rainy mud at the Battle of Shiloh developed glowing wounds and appeared to fare better than soldiers whose wounds did not glow. It credits students Bill Martin and Jonathan Curtis with a 2001 explanation: cold conditions may have allowed bioluminescent bacteria to grow and kill harmful bacteria.

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Fascinating@fasc1nateOne of the enduring mysteries of the American Civil War was a little-known phenomenon referred to at the time as Angel’s Glow. The soldiers who lay in the mud for two rainy days during the Battle of Shiloh had wounds that began to glow in the dark. Doctors at the time noted that soldiers with this strange emission of light seemed to fare much better than soldiers whose wounds did not. It would take nearly 140 years to figure out why. In 2001, 17-year-old high school student Bill Martin and his friend, Jonathan Curtis, won an international science fair by discovering that the soldiers had been so cold that their bodies created the perfect conditions for growing a bioluminescent bacteria, Photorhabdus luminescens, which ultimately destroyed the bad bacteria that could have killed them.366d
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    Fascinating@fasc1nateOne of the enduring mysteries of the American Civil War was a little-known phenomenon referred to at the time as Angel’s Glow. The soldiers who lay in the mud for two rainy days during the Battle of Shiloh had wounds that began to glow in the dark. Doctors at the time noted that soldiers with this strange emission of light seemed to fare much better than soldiers whose wounds did not. It would take nearly 140 years to figure out why. In 2001, 17-year-old high school student Bill Martin and his friend, Jonathan Curtis, won an international science fair by discovering that the soldiers had been so cold that their bodies created the perfect conditions for growing a bioluminescent bacteria, Photorhabdus luminescens, which ultimately destroyed the bad bacteria that could have killed them.366d
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