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Want to know what it was like to have your arm amputated during the Civil War? Watch this gruesome and painful procedure done through a real Civil War hospital reenactment! How’d they do it? A leg of lamb was put into the sleeve, and fake blood was squirted. A good fakery for the camera of a horrendous reality of the Civil War. This video is an “easter egg” on Finley-Holiday Films’ “Civil War: A Concise History DVD.”