Angel’s Glow — The Blessing That Caused Civil War Soldiers To Glow In The Dark
Fact, fiction, or supernatural?
The Battle of Shiloh resulted in 23,746 casualties from both sides over a brief two day engagement. Those numbers include 3,482 dead split almost evenly between the Union and the Confederacy. Shiloh would briefly be the bloodiest battle in United States history before being surpassed by other bloody affairs later in the war. It remains one of the worst days in US combat history.
After the battle, when thousands were lying wounded along the roads and in the camps of southern Tennessee something remarkable happened. When the sun went down some soldier’s wounds began to glow in the dark. Even more remarkable than that, the soldiers whose wounds were glowing were faring better than their counterparts. Something strange was happening.
At first, some people scoffed and called it superstition but the sheer number of wounded soldiers and the apparent glow quickly overrode that. The wounds were glowing but no one could figure out why.
Since the affected soldiers were surviving in greater numbers than those whose wounds did not glow the witnesses named the phenomenon Angel’s Glow. Surely this was something divine, a sign from God, that was touching the wounded.
