When you consider the history of the chainsaw you might imagine that it's only connection to medicine would be the average of approximately 28,000 chainsaw injuries reported in the US annually. But you would be wrong. The shocking history of the mechanically driven cutting tool with teeth set on a chain deserves to be remembered.
In August of 1918, as the armies of Europe neared exhaustion, American troops of the 28th “Keystone” division were thrown into a nearly forgotten battle that fully represented the horrors of the War to End All Wars.
Of the vaunted ironclad warships of the US Civil War perhaps the mightiest and most terrifying was the confederate ram Tennessee. On August 5, 1864, she would be put to the test in the largest naval engagement of the war, an engagement that defined the divided loyalties of the War of the Rebellion.