Angel’s Glow: The glowing bacteria that saved soldier lives at Shiloh

Angel’s Glow: The glowing bacteria that saved soldier lives at Shiloh

Wounded soldiers glowing with a greenish-blue.Those soldiers inexplicably recovering more quickly than others.A Halloween tale for this time of year?No, it was a true episode from the Civil War - the Battle of Shiloh - and one that was only explained many years later, in 2001, in part by two high school students in a Maryland suburb outside Washington.The story begins on April 6, 1862.Dawn was beginning to break near a small Methodist meeting ho…