We thank you for your interest in SPS Sterilization, Inc. The sterilization validations are a very crucial aspect of any re-sterilization or re-processing business. We along with the FDA take this aspect of the business to heart as patient safety is and should be the first and foremost concern of all hospitals and facilities. The development, validation, and routine control of a sterilization process is composed of a number of discrete but interrelated activities.
During the American Civil War, there were 20 states in the Union, including Illinois, California, Indiana, Connecticut, Iowa, Michigan, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Oregon, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Rhode Island.
Best Answer: http://www.culturalresources.com/images/... Kansas was admitted to the Union as the 34th state in January 1861, a few months before war broke out. West Virginia was admitted in 1863 and Nevada in 1864. So there were 34 states at the beginning of the war and 36 at the end. Technically... Any of the Confederate States were no longer States during the War. The Union had to fight to regain control of the Confederacy (Confederate States of America).