Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark

 .....Some of the Shiloh soldiers sat in the mud for two rainy days and nights waiting for the medics to get around to them. As dusk fell the first night, some of them noticed something very strange: their wounds were glowing, casting a faint light into the darkness of the battlefield. Even stranger, when the troops were eventually moved to field hospitals, those whose wounds glowed had a better survival rate and had their wounds heal more quickly and cleanly than their unilluminated brothers in-arms.The seemingly protective effect of the mysterious light earned it the nickname “Angel’s Glow.”

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