Why Some Wounded Civil War Soldiers Actually Glowed In The Dark – And Lived Because Of It
“Angel’s Glow” was a phenomenon of the Civil War in which soldiers' wounds seemed to glow in the dark. It took 139 years to figure out why. Wikimedia One of the enduring mysteries of the American Civil War was a little - known phenomenon referred to at the clock time as Angel ’s Glow — the glow seen on some soldiers ’ wounds after the Battle of Shiloh . Doctors at the time noted that soldier whose wounds had this strange emission of light seemed to fare much better than soldier whose combat injury did not ....