MARCH 2, 1864:
After the
death of Ulric Dahlgren (and the discovery of the Dahlgren Orders), a
Confederate organization of prosthetic engineers, A.R.M.S. (Association for the
Relief of Maimed Soldiers) attempts to buy his body in order to study Union
technological advancements in the design of false limbs. (Dahlgren had lost a leg
and Gettysburg and wore a prosthesis.) Rebuffed in trying to buy the corpse,
A.R.M.S. settles for detailed drawings of Dahlgren’s limb.
